Ujam Plugins

[Bonny Battaglino]

This is why I use a dedicated Scaler just for the instruments that rely on chords in a specific area of the keyboard and a specific chord structure. Makes it easier to just do that except when chords change as you get other ideas. Because of the structure if the chords. Worth it though.

I was sad thinking that Strum GS-2 has so few patterns, but UJAM are way less SOB
with the further drawback that UJAM has no MIDI, refills or expansions to add, differently from Strum GS-2 developers that have many Sound Packs, and are working on a Jazz pack

It was a coincidence that a few days ago I was also testing Sparkle and I recorded a song, watching this post I produce this simple video. I use MIDI Polysher at +12 and Grouping C3-B4, and all run fine that way.

BTW, the trick of increasing octaves to feed UJAM has a further drawback: I use Broomstick Bass before Toontrack EzBass because BB follows the guitar automatically and its metronome sound as a basic drums

To sum it up UJAM drawbacks:
it has too few patterns, way less than Strum GS-2, and zero chances to add
the tricks I must use to feed them, kills a significant part of my fun
being sample-based they cripple my old weak office PC

As for Ujam, I think they move at the marketing level with the concept of making music quickly and easy , within reach of those who even do not play anything, and for me they achieve it very well. But yes, if I have noticed the UJAM guitar limitations that you mention, for example, getting an arpeggio is truly hard! Except in the VG Silk (Nylon Acoustic Guitar).

I use some tricks when I need more types of chords from tools like Ujam and similar, which apart from the disminished chord, has no altered seventh or more complex chords than Majors, Minor, Sus, 7ma, etc. .

the funny thing with BB (apart having the same initials of Brigitte Bardot) is that you can add articulation manually during the automatic functioning using the Modulation reel
It is quite a hidden information in the manual

I use Reaper, the native bridge is a blessing! I remember a lot to tweaking and getting fun with BB (the plugin and Groove Agent, good nostalgic times for VST incipient world.
BTW, Sven is a genious!

Using midiForceToRange from the free Piz MIDI Utilities works perfect for this purpose. No need to transpose anything in Scaler, or use groupings. You can use midiForceToRange to force all midi notes into the C4 to E6 range required by UJAM. Three note and four note chords work great with a minimum of fuss.

Thanks for information @courtjestr and @yorkeman but as I said before, the severe shortage of patterns in UAJM, coupled with no chances to find any pattern bank/refills, pushed me to uninstall it with no regret

@ClaudioPorcellana It may be that you are finished with UJAM, but others may be interested in an easy way to use Scaler with UJAM without doing any modification within Scaler itself like transposition. Note that midiForceToRange would work with other guitar plugins as well that do chord recognition outside the range that Scaler normally provides. Things can also get interesting if you feed UJAM or Strum GS-2 with Scaler rhythms or even Scaler performances.

I am a bit confused why you think the pattern database is very very poor for UJAM guitars. There are 50 different styles in Amber, and each style has 12 patterns so that is 600 different patterns. The pattern speed can be changed from half time to double time. Plus there are an additional 23 common phrases available no matter what style you choose. It is true that there are no expansion packs but 600 patterns is nothing to sneeze at.

Ujam plugin 'Silk' vanishes after installing another Ujam trial. I've tried uninstalling all my Ujam plugins, deleting the au cache to force Logic to rescan, reinstalling the owned plugins, but Silk is still missing. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a solution?

Dig deeper into the issue with Ujam and make sure ALL the products and installers you have FULLY support Big Sur. There are lots of issues with legacy code. If a new install overwrites an extension or some other code that Silk needs that will cause it to fail. Since it is the install of another Ujam plugin causes the issue it is most likely Ujams issue. The move to Catalina and Big Sur has been painful for many legacy products. Double check and make sure the Silk installer latest. Ujam only resolved all its Catalina issues three months ago and Big Sur installs 2 months ago!

As for the security matter. Some installers will require you to manually approve the installation within 30 minutes. System Preferences : Security and Privacy and permit the application to run. Below is an example.

Next: With Big Sur when you install a new plugin you often need to make sure you go into the System Preferences : Security and Privacy and permit the application to run. This must be done withing 30 minutes of the install. Check with the vendor for installation.

Thanks for stepping up, Don. The plugin, Ujam Silk which I have purchased, has worked fine under Big Sur for months. It only fails as a curious side effect when I install another Ujam plugin on a trial basis. Silk works fine under Sibelius, but drops off on Logic when I install another Ujam plugin as a trial. This has happened before. The solution was to uninstall the trial, then uninstall my three fully licenced plugins, and then reinstall them. Regrettably, this time, that solution did not work. Last time, Ujam blamed Logic, but didn't contact them. I solved the problem myself that time. This time I've called Apple, but they blamed Ujam. Everyone points the finger at everyone else but nobody fixes the issue.

UJAM Plugins is a company that was born from the success of the Steinberg Virtual Guitarist, which was a landmark release in 2002. The team behind this revolutionary product reunited to create UJAM with a vision to develop high-quality audio plug-ins that are easy to use and produce great sounds.

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