Electric Violin Channel Strip
EVIE is THE channel strip for Logic Pro, enabling electric violinists to find their style and true sound. EVIE offers Simple mode for stage performance and Advanced for recording.
Nine styles
Pick your style on the Simple page and EVIE lines up sounds made for it. Rock, for example: Smooth Lead, Bright Crunch, Fuzz Violin and Kernel Punch.
Rock
- Smooth Lead
- Bright Crunch
- Fuzz Violin
- Kernel Punch
Fiddle
- Bluegrass Fiddle
- Western Swing
- Clean Stage
Irish
- Celtic Session
- Celtic Air
- Doubled Folk
Jazz
- Jazz Lead
- Gypsy Jazz
- Fusion Lead
Blues
- Blues Violin
- Iron Warm
- Tape Warmth
Metal
- Metal Lead
- Kernel Punch
- Fuzz Violin
Pop
- Electro Pop
- Glass Lead
- Fold Synth
Worship
- Ambient Swell
- Warm Studio
- Doubled Folk
Classical
- Classical Electric
- Cremona Voice
- Warm Studio
Inside EVIE
Walnut, brushed steel and amber glass. The Simple page is a style, its sounds and seven Nudge It controls named for what they fix. The rack groups the chain into three fields; click one to open its modules below.
Signal chain
Drag to reorderThis is the order it starts in. Drag any stage between Input and Output to a new place on the chain bar, or by its title plate; the order saves with your Logic project and presets can set it.
Soul
- Instrument
- Electric, acoustic with a piezo or acoustic with a mic, and the string count, set the body IR, tame, balance, compressor timing, low cut and low-string lift.
- Body IR
- A real instrument body on the pickup. EVIE picks one for your instrument, and on a 5-string or more puts a cello under the low strings; load your own WAV to change it. IR Blend sets how much you hear.
- Body
- A body model on top: Classic, or Formant, a voicing built from published formant measurements of old Italian violins.
- Sections
- String sections built from your pickup: up to five, from violins to upright bass, each playing its own interval through its own body. Off until you turn it on.
Control
- Tame
- Pick what you play and it picks how to tame it. Electric: De-honk (around 1.35 kHz) and De-fizz (around 4.8 kHz), two cuts that dig in only while their zone sticks out. Acoustic with a mic: a tracker that cuts any single frequency ringing above its neighbours, only while it rings. Acoustic with a piezo: both.
- EQ
- Mud, low string, air and clarity.
- Bow compressor
- A compressor with its own bow detector. A 6 second scope shows detector level, output, gain reduction and a tick at each bow change. Auto makeup gives back the level it takes, on average.
Projection
- Drive
- Nine shapes, 4x oversampled: Silk (tape), Glass, Iron (transformer), Valve (triode), Pentode, Fold, Diode, Kernel and Hard, with a filter before the bend and a tone filter after.
- Cab
- Your own cab IR, or one of eight built-in voicings, from an open 1x12 to a full-range cab.
- Chorus
- Chorus or doubler, into stereo.
- Delay
- Digital, Tape, Tape Echo or Analog BBD, mono or ping-pong, synced to Logic's tempo or free.
- Reverb
- Eight rooms, from a studio booth to a cathedral, plus a string-hall style. The tail dips while you play and blooms back when you lift the bow; tail drive saturates only the reverb.
- Vocal Duck
- Makes room for a singer: each of eight bands of the violin, from 250 Hz to 6.3 kHz, dips while the same band of the vocal on the sidechain input is singing.
Join the Beta
EVIE is in beta. We are looking for a few great players who want to shape the future of e-violin.
REQUIREMENTS: a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later), macOS 26.6 or later, and Logic Pro.
Activating EVIE
The beta needs no key: open EVIE in Logic and play. After release, click the licence badge in the top bar and paste the key from your email. No account or internet needed.
What you need
| Host | Logic Pro |
|---|---|
| Mac | Apple Silicon |
| macOS | 26.6 or later |
Price
- One licence, on up to two of your computers.
- All 27 factory presets.
- Free to try in the beta first.