Eventide recently announced the availability of UltraTap — inaugurating its H9 Plug-in
Series as a unique multi-tap effects plug-in capable of rhythmic delays, glitchy
reverbs, huge pad-like volume swells, and extraordinary modulation derived from its
TEC Award-winning H9 Harmonizer® Effects Processor.
UltraTap is the perfect tool for creating drum fills, vocal choruses, swelling guitar
chords, and other evolving effects — everything from reversed reverbs to a massed
church choir singing Gregorian chants in Notre-Dame Cathedral! Creatively, it is also
optimised for live use; UltraTap’s unique HotSwitch and The Ribbon features facilitate
programming any combination of the controls and seamlessly morphing from sound to
sound.

Says Eventide director of marketing communications, Nalia Sanchez: “We’re finding
that, increasingly, audio engineers have an H9 stompbox sitting on the console to take
advantage of the nearly 50 algorithms that we’ve crammed into that box. In response
to requests for plug-in versions of many of our H9 effects, we’ve decided to develop a
new family of plug-ins — the H9 Plug-In Series. UltraTap comes bundled with 150
presets tailored to the needs of audio professionals and a novel feature for DJs — The
Ribbon.’

Think of UltraTap as the mother of all Echoplexes and you won’t be too far off. That’s
basically how it operates, but with the flexibility to add as many “tape-heads’ as you
want and expressively control their positions and levels. Ultimately, UltraTap’s unique
story stretches way back to 1982 when a flexible 64-tap delay debuted as part of the
Factory Programme suite within Eventide’s SP 2016, the world’s first rack-mount
programmable audio effects processor. By the late eighties, the UltraTap algorithm
had migrated to the infamous H3000 Ultra-Harmonizer, then to the DSP4000 Ultra-
Harmonizer® and H8000 Ultra-Harmonizer® high-end studio rack processors.

Thanks to advances in technology, Eventide was able to include UltraTap in a compact
form factor — the H9 Harmonizer® Effects Processor stompbox. Now the DAW-
residing UltraTap has come full circle – bringing all that creative inspiration and superb
audio quality back to the studio where it all began 35 years ago.

Features include:

• Over 150 presets designed to inspire, including artist presets by Chris Carter,
Colin Newman, Sasha

• Manipulate effects in realtime using The Ribbon to morph seamlessly between
two settings of any combination of controls

• Create drastic changes in effect and sound by assigning the HotSwitch to an
alternate version of the current settings

• Smear taps together or modulates them into unheard reverbs by using the
innovative Slurm parameter

• Use up to 64 taps to create simple repeats or morph delays into chorus and
reverb.

• Speed up or slow down the rhythmic space between taps by altering the Spread
knob

• Use the onboard LFOs and envelopes to Chop up the sound source into tremolo’d
rhythms

• Modify the stereo image of taps to alternating from hard-panned to mono

• Sync the Length and/or Chop LFO Speed to the DAW session

• Use Mix Lock to scroll through presets while keeping the wet-dry mix constant

• Optimised for live use with MIDI control of The Ribbon and Tap Tempo for quick
meta control on the fly