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Howard - Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:59 am

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There are 48 (!) Zebra2 tutorials and 11 ACE tutorials on our YouTube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/uheplugins (should automatically open in Playlist view)

Watch in HD and read the blurb...
...then do your homework!

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Bronto Scorpio - Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:03 am

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Awesome! Thanks Howard! I'll start watching now

Edit: Tea-Bee

Cheers
Dennis

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risome - Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:12 am

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Nice work guys

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3ee - Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:47 am

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Yes, Sir!
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arbee - Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:58 am

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wow, that is great. this synth is so deep that you always have something to learn. those tutorials will probably be a great way to learn stuff from the masters !! too bad I am 14837% busy today, but I'll have some time at late night to listen to those.

thanks for the good work !

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opus_diaboli - Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:11 am

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Finally!! Thanks Howard.

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dsp music - Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:05 am

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Very nice! Thanks.

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boimb - Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:26 am

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this is veeery useful stuff!

thanks!

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alphadelphi - Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:14 am

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thank you!!!

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critza - Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:05 pm

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OH MY GOD!
This is awesome!!!!
Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

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bh9090 - Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:48 pm

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bravo and thanks for these.

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octopod - Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:26 pm

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Wow! I don't know what impresses me more. The depth of Zebra or the sound design talent of Howard!

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mcnoone - Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:45 pm

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Wish there was a way to get your videos on a how to site like this one.
http://www.ehow.com/videos.html
No youtube here, and I believe many work places or colleges block it too, but not the how to sites.

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CandeFan - Sun Jul 31, 2011 2:58 pm

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Great!!! Thanks!

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bmrzycki - Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:56 am

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I see in Video 6 someone has been playing with a new lower pane layout...

Also, is HS Precinct 14 in any of your public soundsets? I couldn't find it...

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Howard - Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:04 pm

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1) Ah yes - well spotted, Brian
2) Precinct 14 isn't public

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bmrzycki - Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:21 pm

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Regarding (1) I definitely liked the organization you had, I think it reminded me of the skin mockup you did some time ago, it's a nice organized layout IMO.

Regarding (2), fully understand. I wanted to play at home and dissect the same preset you did and quickly realized it wasn't going to happen. BTW, very accurate sound - exactly what I think of when I imagine of gritty NY cop drama soundtrack filler.

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Thanks very much for these videos Howard; just watching your workflow and methodology is as useful as the sounds and Zebra's tools. Often the tiny and quick adjustments tell me more than the original intended topic for the Act. I felt like I had a bird's eye view of you busy in the studio. I am graciously (and patiently) looking forward to the remaining tutorials.

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Esgalachoir - Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:22 pm

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Wow, these are great!
I like the nice and simple format.
Thanks Howard!

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tech44 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:43 pm

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Agreed! I think people can really learn some new stuff very quickly with these.

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mabian - Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:25 am

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Ehm just posted a new thread on purpose, sorry: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=325750

- Mario

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Howard - Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:49 am

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Zebra2 tutorials 31 to 35 now up.
http://www.youtube.com/user/uheplugins

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Bronto Scorpio - Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:59 am

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Thanks Howard!
Here is the link to the playlist by the way: http://www.youtube.com/user/uheplugins#g/c/8B3F7A60F7CF76BA

Cheers
Dennis

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dsp music - Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:57 am

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mabian - Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:28 am

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And here is what I'm using to download all of them in a single operation - mods if you think this is inappropriate feel free to delete this post.

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/it/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm

- Mario

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Howard - Thu Aug 11, 2011 6:55 am

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If you do that, you should also copy/paste the tutorial texts (YouTube "descriptions")...

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mabian - Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:03 am

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... that's why it would be cool if you could host somewhere the offline versions complete with descriptions and whatever (readme.txt or so)

Thanks!

- Mario

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Howard - Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:59 am

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I don't want to make it TOO easy

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pdxindy - Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:32 am

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Thanks for these...

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Burkuagh - Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:09 pm

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Yes... Thank you so much for these. I thought I had a decent understanding of the basics of Zebra but I now know otherwise. Thank you.

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psycox - Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:17 pm

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thanks for this tutorials.
this is how i wanna learn synthesis.

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bmrzycki - Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:10 pm

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BTW, in case you hadn't noticed -- Howard has released 5 more vids from the corral. Saddle up!

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3ee - Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:28 pm

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Yep, had noticed them! But taking my time to focus + do all the homework.
I watched till about vid # 20 atm.. pretty cool stuff, enjoy watching these!
Thanks again Howard!

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bmrzycki - Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:39 pm

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I've re-watched them 3 times now. It's time to do my homework as well...

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3ee - Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:35 am

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I was at vid # 29 actually!...
OK, finished watching all the vids! ... but...
I want MOAAARR!!!

..these vids can get pretty addictive!

Very interesting "deci-bell" tutorial

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bmrzycki - Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:37 am

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I agree. When Howard added the decimate I thought it sounded very harsh and dissonant...and then he added th 12dB LP and the magic came out. It's made me re-think preset building to a degree...Don't throw out that patch because it sounds harsh, maybe a little filtering/eq can make it magical.

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pdxindy - Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:38 pm

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I love the LP12 filter as a final module... it can tame some harshness, add shimmer and lovely timbres

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iamyourfather - Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:52 pm

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just wanted to congratulate/thank you Urs for these great tuts, very concise, very informative, even the ones where you know how to get the sound on another synth are useful as the show you some aspect of zebra in better detail. I really like the one using the env loop decay.... I had no idea zebra could do that... very useful

edit Oh and thx Howard too...

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Howard - Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:16 am

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videos 36 - 40 are now available.

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Bronto Scorpio - Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:38 am

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Thanks Howard
I'll watch 'em immediatelly!

Cheers
Dennis

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bmrzycki - Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:03 am

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Thanks again Howard!

Regarding your question to #36, wave tools, only others I know of are the following:

billstei's Zebra Octave fun pack: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3617811#3617811
(requires the open source Octave language)

Wave2Zebra2 - both the JUCE and java versions:
https://sites.google.com/site/wav2zebra2/

I've been toying with making that into an interactive webpage with html5. Still have a lot of work to go before it's remotely usable.

You also probably want to change the link to blueberry thing to the following:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blueberrything/files/blueberrything-0.0.8.0/

This will allow both windows and mac and linux users choose the package that's right for them.

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Howard - Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:24 pm

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Changed both links - thanks Brian!

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chardin - Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:38 am

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Would some kind soul please post the Act II "Straight Delay" patch for Mini-Tutorial #29 - Everything Swings?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGXqvSKxT1Y

The sound I'm interested in begins at around 1:10. I tried recreating the sound but I'm not very good at starting from scratch. I tend to do better from opening an existing patch and trying different options.

Many thanks to the u-he team for these tutorials.

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bmrzycki - Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:37 am

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Here's my try at the sound. I created it when working through the tutorials. There's a lot of guesswork here: I can't see the arp settings, the osc wave, most knobs are eyeballed to their approximate values and I have no idea about matrix modulation settings if any. It might be close enough to get what you're after though.
http://www.box.net/shared/1sbfjt7aokt19fhx7hfk
(Howard, if you don't want this shared please let me know and I'll pull it -- I did use the visible settings in the video to set some of the modules).

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Howard - Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:31 pm

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I'm pretty sure that "Delay Slow Arp" patch was just done on the fly - and deleted afterward. Do it yourself...

OSC1 is most likely to be the standard waveset back slap in the middle of the pulse waves (modulated to the extremes by LFO2). There won't be anything in the matrix, but getting the envelope and compressor settings "right" might be tricky.

You really want more homework?

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bmrzycki - Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:44 pm

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Believe it or not I enjoy your lessons, even the homework. I've learned a bunch from it.

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Howard - Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:17 pm

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Tutorials 41-45 now up. That's all for now - I haven't made any more YET.

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Bronto Scorpio - Mon Sep 05, 2011 2:27 pm

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Thanks again

Cheers
Dennis

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bmrzycki - Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:03 pm

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Uhm, when I hope we have Christmas break to finish our homework for tutorial #43, "Experiment with all other 2000+ [XMF] combinations!".

Thanks again for these Howard! It makes perfect sense now why Zebra was chosen for the Inception soundtrack. It truly is a synth within a synth within a...

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Howard - Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:42 pm

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pdxindy - Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:46 pm

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Great work... I think these tutorials help people to realize how elegant Zebra is.

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chardin - Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:18 pm

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Thank you, thank you, thank you bmrzycki! Very helpful.

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dwise - Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:29 am

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Is the orange waveform viewer / scope part of Zebra2?

If so - how do i view it / activate it

Else, could you tell me what it is as it would be very useful.

great videos by the way - incredibly useful thank you.

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bmrzycki - Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:06 am

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It's s(M)exoscope: http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=4

Not a part of Zebra, just clever editing of the videos.

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dwise - Sat Sep 10, 2011 2:06 pm

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Thanks bmrzycki

That does the trick. So much easier to edit when you can see visual confirmation of your endeavors.

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WHITEHALL - Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:34 pm

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[quote="Howard"]There are 40 (!) Zebra2 mini-tutorials on our YouTube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/uheplugins and go to Playlist view.

Watch in HD and read the blurb...
...then do your assigned homework! [/quote]


Thanks Howard...luvin' the presets in Zebra demo 2.5...purchasing full version soon...also luvin' the adjustable viewing size , as I have had to get glasses just for the PC, due to eyestrain...

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ryandfl - Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:00 pm

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I've been more in learn mode than create mode recently, so yesterday I say down for a while and watch almost all of the videos. They are fantastic. Just enough information to wrap your head around at once and the sounds made in most of them are very inspiring.

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Howard - Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:05 pm

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That's precisely what I was going for

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Howard - Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:34 am

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I don't usually bump threads, especially not ones I started, but here goes...
BUMP!
http://www.youtube.com/user/uheplugins

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n0rd - Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:27 pm

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Awesome...

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Howard - Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:56 pm

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Zebra2 tuts 46 (more PWM) and 47 (more comb filters) are up. We might even reach 50 by christmas

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Bronto Scorpio - Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:58 pm

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Thanks! I'll watch 'em now

Cheers
Dennis

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bmrzycki - Thu Oct 13, 2011 6:25 am

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I've learned so much from Howard's Zebra tutorials. You can think of buying Zebra as the price of getting an ongoing master class in synth internals. Plus you get a noisemaker too!

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joeyxl - Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:26 pm

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Thank you for these Howard. I am really enjoying them and they are perfect in size. I tried to give a thumbs up on each one on Youtube but it says that service is not available for some reason . So I logged in here (which I never do) to thank you. Much appreciated.

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Howard - Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:17 am

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You're welcome, Joey!

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Bronto Scorpio - Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:17 am

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I just started to download all the videos (I hope that's ok?)
I can really recommend to download them! They are much more fun without all the nasty youtube artifacts!

Cheers
Dennis

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joelcorriveau - Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:56 pm

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Whoa. Hold on. These are available to download? Where?

My laptop HATES youtube. (She's approaching 4 years old.) Can do all kinds of wonderful things, but can't stream a freaking video.

I would love if these tutorials were available some other way. Would seed. Or pay!

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DocAtlas - Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:05 pm

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If you have RealPlayer installed, just hold your mouse over the video. A little popup will appear that says 'dowload to RealPlayer'. RealPlayer also comes with a converter to get the videos into whatever format you need. I put them on my phone so I can watch them anywhere when I have some free time.

One caveat: just because you CAN download a particular video doesn't mean you SHOULD. Respect the owner's copyright. I would guess it's okay to download these tutorials for personal use, unless Howard minds.

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Bronto Scorpio - Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:08 am

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I used this thingy here: http://www.chip.de/downloads/Free-YouTube-Download_34334309.html (I can't find an english page. The download process should be pretty straight forward though).
Just install it, paste this URL: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8B3F7A60F7CF76BA&feature=plcp into it, wait until it's ready (can take some minutes) and click download.
It will automatically download all vids from that playlist
It's the best solution I've found.

But as DocAtlas already pointed out you shouldn't really use it to download all your favorite videos. I only installed it do download these tutorials for example (Since I'm pretty sure that Howard and Urs are ok with that).

Cheers
Dennis

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grandmasterbird - Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:00 am

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I know it's early days but some Diva tutorial vids would be excellent!

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Urs - Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:07 am

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But of course - once Howie is back, and once we have a proper product page

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grandmasterbird - Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:23 am

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Great stuff, look forward to it!

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BlackT - Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:46 pm

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Are these tutorials a good way to get started?

I bought Zebra2 today, it's my first synthesizer and I have absolutely zero knowledge about what things like LFO1 or XMF1 do, for example. I have read the manual and although it says how to use Zebra it is difficult to read if you are a beginner, like me.

I'm trying to figure out what is the best way for me to get started.
Trial-and-error, load patches, try to see what the effects do while also using the manual and maybe the tutorials on YT?

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xh3rv - Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:07 pm

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All of the above

If you've read the manual, the videos should make some sense, I'd check them out. Figuring out how some presets work might be a good step after that. I remember learning a lot by just copying a couple patches exactly, knob by knob. You will probably want to reference the manual often. It won't come all at once, but all the u-he stuff really rewards the effort to keep digging deeper!

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Howard - Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:46 pm

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BTW reference: At the bottom of each page in the manual is a row of quick links - perhaps a bit cryptic at first, but you should soon get used to the abbreviations. I hope...

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BlackT - Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:04 am

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Thanks guys, I'll do that.

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Clemson - Mon Jul 30, 2012 6:18 am

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I think this feeling is really common around here and across the net really. There are so many people getting into synthesis these days and there really is a dearth of resources for the true newbies. It won't take you long to figure out the common synth components. Google around do a little reading and you will have it down with negligible time invested. Synth programming is another story however...

Howard's tutorials are great, don't get me wrong, but to me they usually cover the more esoteric features of the synth or other very specific techniques. In other words, they seem to cater more towards intermediate and advanced users and not really towards beginners. Some elements of the manual read this way as well. Also, narration of synth programming tutorials is underrated. Seeing the sound crafted from the beginning and actually hearing why certain tweaks are being made is so much easier than reverse engineering a preset or reading textual explanations. Sorry to sound like a whiner--I don't mean to sound like a complete critic. Howard's presets, tutorial and the revised manual are absolutely fantastic and I think these resources are a big reason why users choose to support U-he products.

Perhaps selfishly, I would love to see narrated tutorials dealing with how to make classic, ubiquitous EDM and/or VA 80s sounds. I would do this myself but I simply lack the skills. I'm getting better by the day but it's a slow process.

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snigelx - Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:21 am

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Hi there are already a plethora of subtractive synthesis (etc) tutorials, articles and techniques dispersed all over the web in various places for the synth novice. It is the technique and TRICKS that Howard is so kind to supply that one hardly ever..or even NEVER sees mentioned and I think that is Fantastic. Also this thing about NARRATED tutorials is OVERRATED. Why? Because that adds more time to the tutorial polishing process and I think I would rather have more tutorials than I would to wait forever for U-he to have time to set aside to produce some kind of narrated What Do Envelopes Do. - I do agree however that SOME of those mini-tutorials move at a fairly brisk pace and have great potential to lose the viewer but anytime I've fallen off-track I can go back and hit pause a few times to get a better understanding. We have to remember as well that these are FREE lessons and that means that TIME is donated to the general public for Howard divulging his techniques with absolutely nothing in compensation but perhaps a few YouTube comments saying Thank you and then a few more saying..please talk during your tutorials. I say this to people who need narration. #1 Consider what I said above about time vs quantity of lessons. #2 READ. #3 Make good use of the YouTube pause button (I know I have) and window expanding button. #4 No other developer is doing this AFAIK so be happy with what U-he are kind enough to provide after-market. And with that THANK YOU U-he very very much for the Mini-Tutorials you've made thus far.

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Howard - Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:47 am

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Thanks for those heartening words, snigelx! I was starting to think I was on the wrong track doing such short, non-narrated videos, and should leave it up to the pros e.g. Dan Worrall. BTW the main reason I don't narrate is that I'm not a good speaker

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snigelx - Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:53 am

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Very thankful for the valuable time already on offer. Keep up the GREAT work.
The thing about you not being a good speaker is NOT limited to you or even a few folk, I feel ya for one. I would be quite nervous and I would need some kind of paper to tell me keep me on track and I am quite certain there would be a need for editing afterward. Time does not grow on trees (And besides, I'm convinced Dan is not human ;P)... And he doesn't have a giant volume of tutorial on offer for free mind you

Also: It's really nice with the extra Tips and Homework section of each tutorial I've been through so far. Most guys just put a short descrip down in the video info space but you're offering MORE than what is on-screen. I've got a Word doc that I have copied everything into up till now and saved as Mini-Tutorial notes. So keep that trend up!

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joelcorriveau - Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:57 pm

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I just found this Youtube shortcut: once the video has buffered a bit, the number keys across your keyboard will jump to 10%, 20%, 30%, etc. This is SUCH a speedy way to zip forward and backward through a video.

This works in Firefox on Mac. Haven't tested it anywhere else.

Keep up the good work, Howard!

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snigelx - Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:59 am

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Nice one, Joel! I had no idea about that. Works wonderfully in Chrome on PC as well, I see. Cheers

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ErikH - Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:53 am

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Howard's mini tutorials are great, and they were one of the final pushes to finally get that Zebra synth, but for an absolute starter some things have to be explained.

If I'm allowed to share this personal route:

1/ I started with Zircon's four tutorials on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyoA7WvF7c (link to the first)

2/ Meanwile I printed out the manual (only one side printed and at the back side space for notes and remarks) and read it from start to finish, not caring about details I forgot on the way.

3/ Then I loaded several patches and observed how the were constructed.

4/ Now Howard's mini tutorials have many added dimensions I hadn't grasped before.

This now is a period of experimenting and playing. Afterwards I'll read the manual again, and then I'll be ready for intermediate level.
Which does not mean that I don't already save some exciting constructions.

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2ZrgE - Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:27 am

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Never heard of those tuts.

Gonna download all 70 clips for later offline watch.

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Urs - Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:48 am

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Actually, did we ever mention the growing number of Diva tuts?

There's more, where this is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZziIp9FGA

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KBSoundSmith - Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:11 am

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As always, thanks for the tuts! Once or twice a week, I sit down and go through some of Howard's videos, they're very helpful.

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