Bios is a preset expansion pack for u-he's Hive 2. 

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Bios is a very versatile library. The majority of the presets are initially very chilled & understated, making them suitable for underscoring, ambient or downtempo work. Start to use the mapped controls (modwheel, breath, expression & aftertouch) and they can become very nasty in nature! This makes them perfect for genres such as cyberpunk, darkwave & trailer...maybe a load more electronic genres!  

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Bios comes with 136 presets (with extra variations).

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Melodic/bass/drums

• 10 arps

• 17 basses

• 2 hats

• 2 hat sequences

• 10 keys

• 1 kick

• 11 leads

• 20 pads

• 1 percussion

• 12 plucks

• 16 pulses

• 6 sequences

• 3 snares

• 2 sub basses

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FX

• 7 braams

• 5 bass drops (each with 4 length variations)

• 4 risers (each with 7 length variations)

• 5 impacts

• 1 strange

 

Bios also comes with 21 custom wavetables - these are required to be installed so that the presets function as expected.

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The vast majority of the presets have the modwheel, breath & expression mapped. Quite a few also have aftertouch mapped. Using the controls gives a great amount of flexibility and variation in the presets.

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I endeavoured to keep the maximum volume of each preset around -5dBFS true peak.

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The presets were created in Hive 2 version 2.0.1 (revision 9709) so I cannot guarantee them working in an earlier version. You can get the most up to date version of Hive 2 from u-he’s website.

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