Yuli Yolo a.k.a. Nicolas Jaussaud hits the spot here with a specialist soundset. Almost all of the included sounds are about hitting, scraping or plucking things, with a strong sense of material throughout.

The 190 percussion instruments include many pitched mallets (realistic as well as fantasy), complex 'smashes' and several unique special effects. If synth percussion is missing from your palette of sounds, this is the one for you.

Objects for Hive 2 is NKS-ready, including audio previews.

Objects for Hive 2

Oddvar - Sunrise

This walkthrough showcases some of Objects' melodic and percussive presets.

Objects Preset Walkthrough

Created by Yuli Yolo, this short arrangement highlights the naturalistic tones of the soundset.

Yuli Yolo - Objects

Founded in 2001 by industrial designer and synthesizer fan Urs Heckmann as a one-man show, the Berlin-based audio software company u-he has since evolved into a tightly knit team of employees, active associates and 3rd-party contractors – with ambitious plans.

Known primarily for Zebra2 and Diva, u-he has released several other successful products over the years, and has contributed freeware plug-ins to popular music technology magazines. Despite their underlying complexity, u-he synths and effects are widely acclaimed for their ease of use.

The u-he team has been exploring new technologies for vastly improved analogue synth and delay emulation, as well as various "physical modelling" approaches to acoustic instruments and effects. All valuable groundwork for the Zebra3 project and other spin-off products - watch this space!
Especially well known for the Zebra2 and Diva software synthesizers, u-he has developed several other successful products over the last decade, and regularly contributes freeware to popular magazines (available as download or on cover discs).

Despite their underlying complexity, u-he synths and effects are widely acclaimed for their ease of use. This is often attributed to Urs Heckmann's background as industrial designer. Heckmann sees the seemingly unconventional decision to start an audio software company as a direct result of his equal love for industrial design and for synthesizers.

Most recently, u-he has been exploring concepts for analogue synthesizers, and the first results can be heard in the software synths ACE / Bazille (audio-rate modulation paths) as well as Diva, Presswerk and Satin (accurate simulation of electronic circuitry). Hive is u-he's first foray into the world of low CPU dance-oriented synths.