Diva is NKS-ready.

We are happy to announce that Diva v1.4.1 is now compatible with Native Instruments' new Native Kontrol Standard (NKS). The NKS format allows Diva to be integrated with Maschine and Komplete Kontrol S-Series keyboards.

For this update we carefully tagged and categorised all of Diva's factory patches. This means all of Diva's presets are available while browsing in Maschine or Komplete Kontrol. And you can easily save your own patches in NKS format from within Diva.

We also defined custom control knob mappings for Diva's entire factory patch library. With Maschine and S-Series keyboards, each patch loads a custom performance page with the most important parameters immediately available. And if you need more control, each Diva module has its own page where more parameters are accessible. Adjust the oscillators, filter, envelopes and effects. No setup required.

This is a free update for Diva owners and can be installed over existing versions.

Read more about the NKS format at the Native Instruments website.

Protoverb plugin and contest.

U-he is returning to the lab to do some research ... and we'd like your help. Protoverb is a free experimental plug-in created to help us learn more about reverb. It is the first of our "research-ware" plug-ins designed for experimentation and study. With your input, we can discover improvements for future products.

How to help (and win).

To help, we are asking you to experiment with Protoverb and send us your best (or worst) sounding reverbs.

After downloading and installing Protoverb, test it with audio examples: synths, vocals, drums … anything and everything. There are a limited number of controls and two randomise buttons which modify Protoverb's hidden settings. Every parameter setting is identified by unique code, displayed in the interface. The codes can be edited, copied and pasted.

Experiment and explore different settings, and when your hear something worth sharing (anything from the wonderful to the awful), share it with us by pressing the Send Code button.

As a reward for helping out we will create a contest and award some prizes for the best submissions. To enter the contest include your email address when you sumbit your code. We will announce the full details of the contest and prizes in January.

If identical codes are submitted only the first will be entered into the contest - so experiment quickly, then feel free to share once you have sent your code in to us.

Visit our website to download Protoverb for free and read more details.

Happy Holidays and see you in 2016
-- u-he team