Dark Arts Essentials Bundle

Unleash the Power of Darkness

UJAM are no certainly strangers to the dark art of sound design, and it shows in the quality of their instruments. The Dark Arts Essentials Bundle combines three fearsome instruments from their much-celebrated Beatmaker, Usynth, and Finisher series, each with its own approach to audio generation, yet also with the signature quality and ease-of-use we've come to expect from the UJAM camp.

Pick up the Dark Arts Essentials Bundle today, and unlock the secret ingredient to top-tier production value.

Also available: Dark Arts Pro Bundle.

Included Plugins

• NEMESIS
• Usynth STRANGER
• Finisher VOODOO

NEMESIS

Cyberpunk Beats

Broken, Dark and Intense

Put on your exoskeleton and gear up for dystopian adventures with Beatmaker NEMESIS. The action-packed drum machine has everything you need for creating powerful, dark and complex music.

Raise a Fury

The heavy-hitting drum sounds in NEMESIS have been designed to be aggressive and futuristic. The Mix presets provide different types of distortion and compression for beats so tough and punchy, they’ll cut through any mix. NEMESIS really shines in any situation that requires heavily processed, broken aesthetics.

Dark & Atmospheric

Inspired by contemporary film and game scores, NEMESIS brings the rhythms of dystopian cyberpunk scenes and epic space battles: A range of sounds from mysterious, dark and cold to explosive and intense.

Made by Rusher

Veteran Drum and Bass producer and DJ Rusher is the Musical Director and sound designer behind NEMESIS. Rusher’s mastery for dystopian soundscapes and staccato beats is at the red-hot pulsing heart of this Beatmaker.

For Sci-Fi Soundtracks

Beatmaker NEMESIS is already being used in game development. Rusher is working on the soundtrack for the upcoming title Kato by Imagine Dreams.

Features at a Glance

Take a look at the NEMESIS inventory for producing the most intense broken beats.

Mix Presets

Create your music without overthinking! Select and adjust one out of 12 custom mix templates. Each is a complete multi-bus mixing desk under the hood with multiple effect chains per channel.

Special Control

Push sounds in different directions: Hypercharge uses multi-band distortion for a more aggressive, electrified sound. It can really be driven over the top, especially in combination with the Mix Presets. Pressurize uses multi-band compression to condense the signal, and cut through the mix.

Let’s Go to Space!

Grab the Beatmaker equivalent of an intergalactic battleship and start producing today!

Features

• 60 Plug-in Presets
• 10 Drum kits
• 30 Styles
• 12 Mix Presets

Learn more about NEMESIS.

STRANGER

Dark Mystical Soundscapes

Straight from the underworld

Stranger Synths

Usynth STRANGER puts a sonic toolbox of otherworldly, strange, dark synthesizer textures into your hands. Created by analog synthesizer collector and world-class sound designer Alessandro Cardinale, STRANGER draws heavily from his collection of vintage synthesizers.

What's in it

• A sonic universe inspired by groundbreaking sci-fi series of the last decade
• Arps, Atmos, Basses, Brass, Keys, Leads, Pads, Picked, Poly, Sequences and Strings
• Revolutionary interface: Create your own sounds without synthesizer knowledge
• Powerful synthesizer engine with virtual analog, FM, wavetable and multisampler

Everything you need

While STRANGER’s aesthetic is focussed on warm, retro, saturated, it offers a wide range of categories from Arps to Basses, from Leads to Pads, from Poly to Strings. Add a beat (or not) and effects you’re done. Perfect (not only) for ambient, electronic, film scores and game soundtracks.

The Usynth series - why it is made for you

Usynth is made for people who want to program their own synth sounds without programming synths - like most musicians. It features a powerful synthesizer engine that combines Virtual Analog, Wavetable, FM, and Multi Sampler, with dozens of filter modes, modulation matrices, envelopes, LFOs, and hundreds of parameters.

At A Glance

Unleash effortless inspiration with Usynth and its powerful Synthesizer Engine, game-changing Finishers, flexible built-in delay and reverb units, intuitive browser, and a user-friendly interface.

Learn more about Usynth STRANGER.

VOODOO

Black Magic Soundscapes

Creative guitar effects like no other

The Finisher effect series is designed to combine the power and flexibility of a full rack of audio processors with the instant gratification that UJAM products are famous for. VOODOO is custom-designed for all sorts of guitar sounds, real or virtual, electric or acoustic, direct or amped.

It also works phenomenally well with keyboards, synths, even vocals and other signals. Add VOODOO to anything for organic warmth, magical textures or just a dash of inspiration.

What’s in There?

• 50 Modes configuring up to 40 effect modules.
• Finisher knob and 4 Variation knobs – each macro-programmed into the effect configuration.
• From multiband compression and distortion, convolution, modulation effects, Filters, EQs to envelope following and granular Effects – all combined and meticulously sound-designed into 50 complex Modes that you can easily tweak.
• Automation and MIDI Learn to connect pedals and add extra articulation to your performances.
• More than 150 signature sound designer presets.

A Magical Mystery Tour

VOODOO creates a world of organic, distorted, spicy, colourful, often magical and dark textures, often with an element of surprise, adding limitless possibilities to your guitar. From High gain lead to strummed acoustic or bluesy crunch tone – there are plenty of sound designs to enhance every style. Your source for inspiration for live guitar playing, virtual instruments like the Virtual Guitarist series – or whatever you dare to try. Make your sound float, rumble, glow and scream. With just a sprinkle of magic.

Pinch the Doll

If you’re already using guitar tools like amplifiers and stompbox emulations, VOODOO is a perfect companion. Instant inspiration dialled in and customized within seconds. You focus on your music. VOODOO takes care of the magic.

Virtual Guitarist’s Best Friend

Do you own a Virtual Guitarist? Add VOODOO to the family and you won’t believe your ears – promised. Whether AMBERs acoustic strumming, IRONs power chords, SILKs silky arpeggios, SPARKLEs electric riffs and even CARBONs high-gain chugs – it’s a different world with VOODOO.

Features at a Glance

Finisher VOODOO features 50 carefully sound-designed effect configurations and more than 150 presets combining 40 distinct algorithms – everything from convolution and modulation to dynamics, distortion and EQs – even multiband – to granular and twisted effects. Five macro knobs give you full sonic control. Direct, live and intuitive. Play with pedals or knobs and automate to your heart’s content. Create musically stunning dynamic shifts and make every effect your own.

Variety

With VOODOO’s Variation controls you adjust musically useful changes to the current Mode – switch delay times, set EQ characteristics, change distortion curves and much more, often at the same time.

Highlighter

All VOODOO Modes come with UJAM's proprietary Highlighter. A combination of low and high pass filters to place your track exactly where it belongs in the mix.

Can You Cope With Magic?

Potions, spells and spices… if terms like that describe what you like for a guitar sound, now is the time to play with VOODOO. The magic is in the sound, not in the words. Cast a spell on your guitars today.

Learn more about Finisher VOODOO.

System Requirements

Operating Systems

• macOS 10.14 - macOS 12 (64-bit only)
• Windows 10 or later (64-bit only)
• You may run them on earlier versions but UJAM doesn’t support them.

For up-to-date info on UJAM products support for VST3, AAX, and Apple Silicon, please refer to the UJAM website.

Minimum Requirements

• 4 GB of RAM
• 0.06 GB of Disk Space
• 1280x768px Display
• Internet Connection required for download and authorisation.

Plugin Formats

• VST, AU 2
• AU 2 version is only compatible with Logic Pro X and newer.

Supported Standards

• MIDI

Additional Information

• Comes as downloadable installer files.
• Authorize by email address and password for ujam.com within the plugin.
• If you want to move your .blob files to an external drive, UJAM recommend the use of an SSD to prevent dropouts.