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New sounds for your synths
Kling Klong (for Hive 2) New
Highly unorthodox percussion loops and hits, with limitless variations via the XY pads. Create complex rhythms or dramatic repeating whooshes by stacking notes played at different times.
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Kinesis (for Hive 2) New
This 128-patch set by Bryan Lake (a.k.a. Sound Author) focusses on timbral movement: Organic grooves, snappy generative arpeggios, evolving sequences and lush ambient pads.
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Bricks (for Repro)
A modern soundset for u-he Repro based on Underground Hip-Hop and Dark Trap aesthetics. The 132 presets demonstrate Repro's ability to create characterful aggressive sounds and deep vintage tones.
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Featured news
November 15th, 2022: Zebra Legacy Day!
November 15, 2022
Zebra Legacy is Zebra2 with all our Zebra soundsets for free – including The Dark Zebra with its ZebraHZ – at the extraordinarily generous price of 99 €, allowing us to continue maintaining Zebra2 for many years to come while we focus on Zebra3 development... and beyond.
Zebra Legacy is now available on our web store, replacing all individual products.

Kling Klong percussion for Hive 2
November 1, 2022
Howie's latest: 170+ weird and wonderful synth percussion loops and hits, with countless variants via Hive's XY pads. Special "Poly Loops" let you create complex rhythms and whooshes by stacking notes played at different times.

November 15th, 2022: Zebra Legacy Day!
November 1, 2022
Zebra Legacy is Zebra2 with all our Zebra soundsets for free – including The Dark Zebra with its ZebraHZ – at the extraordinarily generous price of 99€, allowing us to continue maintaining Zebra2 for many years to come while we focus on Zebra3 development... and beyond.
Zebra Legacy will be available on our web store, replacing all individual products.

A major MFM2 update, and a new soundset for Hive 2
September 6, 2022
Our heavenly delay MFM2 not only has a brand new GUI and lots of exciting new features, but is our very first product to support the new CLAP format . More to follow!
Kinesis for Hive 2 is a new soundset focussing on timbral movement, expertly demonstrating the latest features. Organic grooves, evolving sequences, lush ambient pads.

Zebra2 Legacy announcement
September 6, 2022
Although we are putting more and more of our energy into Z3 development, we will NOT be abandoning Zebra2! At some point it will be joined by ZebraHZ/The Dark Zebra plus ALL our Zebra soundsets to become Zebra Legacy, which we will offer at a very attractive price.
If you already own a Zebra2 license before the cutoff date, you can simply download and install Zebra Legacy, and will also have an upgrade path to Zebra3. If you already own Zebra2 AND The Dark Zebra, you will be eligible for a free Zebra3 license.
Details to be announced – but please remember that we cannot quote an ETA for Zebra3!

CLAP - an invitation to explore & collaborate
June 15, 2022
After more than a year of tireless work together with developers from around the globe, Bitwig and u-he are happy to announce CLAP 1.0, the "CLever Audio Plug-in" standard. Read our joint statement, find links to existing hosts, plug-ins and projects, and check out who has already expressed support for our plan to make the audio software industry a more open, innovative and collaborative space!

Bricks for Repro 1.1.2 released
April 26, 2022
A modern soundset based on Underground Hip-Hop and Dark Trap aesthetics, but suitable for a wide variety of genres. The 132 presets demonstrate Repro's ability to create characterful, aggressive 'building blocks' for your music.

Metaphorium for Hive 2.1 released
December 22, 2021
Over two years in the making and heavily featured in The Matrix Resurrections score, Metaphorium for Hive 2 is now available! 220+ presets programmed in-house by Howard Scarr, Viktor Weimer and Urs Heckmann himself.

The Performance Update
August 10, 2021
Here in the northern hemisphere the summer is high, and we have some hot news for you: Native support for Apple Silicon (M1 and beyond), improved browsers, an even more efficient Hive, MTS microtuning wherever relevant, sleek new designs for Triple Cheese and ZebraCM…

Hive updated to version 2.1
March 10, 2021
A brand new version of Hive is now available! This latest release includes comb and sideband filter types, support for the latest Apple soft- and hardware, new browser features, easier soundset installation, 100 new factory presets, a new alternative skin by Plugmon, and various other goodies described in the updated user guide.

From the Community
A few tidbits pulled from our vibrant community section.
Feature: Alexander Hacke
From the seminal German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, to numerous collaborations and solo projects, Alexander Hacke has lived a life surrounded by art and music. We visited him in his Berlin studio to learn more about him, his music and his new soundset…
New in the PatchLib
In the spotlight: Mun Mtshams 2 from Kyhon. Mun Mtshams 2 is his second collection of weird and wonderful sounds for ACE. Kyhon has a unique and unusual aesthetic full of experimentation and boundary pushing ideas.