Thanks! I'll watch 'em now

Cheers
Dennis

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!

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.

You're welcome, Joey!

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

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!

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.

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&feat ure=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

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

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

Great stuff, look forward to it!

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?

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!

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...

Thanks guys, I'll do that.