UVI Mission 6 €79 PC MAC
Inspired by a lesser known, but respected analogue classic, UVI’s latest Mission visits the limits of Andromeda
As analogue classics go, the Alesis Andromeda A6 is not the model that most cite as a favourite. Part of the reason for this could be that many original Andromedas have suffered component failure, placing them out of operative reach. But find one that works and you’ll hear a huge-sounding analogue from the year 2000, when analogue wasn’t really the flavour of the millennium!
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Thankfully, while the price-tag of an original secondhand Andromeda remains high, UVI can help you with another one of their superb re-enactments, providing the very spirit of the original analogue machine, through a vast number of samples.
Mission 6 resides within the usual UVI ecosphere, being operational through their freely available Workstation plugin, or for extended use via their Falcon synthesiser suite. For our money, the Workstation plugin presents the information in an incredibly concise manner, while being highly stable as a plugin. You certainly will not be missing out on the party by not using it through the Falcon software, although you can take the editing capabilities far further, if that’s an interest for you. You’ll need a spare 12GB of disk space, which not only confirms the sampled nature of this library, but also underscores the 400 beautifully curated presets, to get you going.