Dune 3 vs. Hive 2

[Urs]

@Urs I hope The Cat will be released soon though and I would love some cpu improvements for diva/repro

Sorry, but Repro-5 ate the Cat. The time we sat aside for the Cat was pretty much consumed by "we don't want mono synths, we want Repro to be polyphonic".

[EvilDragon]

And there's absolutely no way to reconsider that after Z3, huh?

But now you know from the userbase responses, now you can make it a Cat+Voyetra 8 combo from the get go!

[Urs]

And there's absolutely no way to reconsider that after Z3, huh?

But of course. I'd love to do the Cat. The way I wanted to do it (not poly, for starters)

[EvilDragon]

Absolutely! I'm all for it. And Voyetra on the side

[gael_]

@Urs I hope The Cat will be released soon though and I would love some cpu improvements for diva/repro

Sorry, but Repro-5 ate the Cat. The time we sat aside for the Cat was pretty much consumed by "we don't want mono synths, we want Repro to be polyphonic".

And I'm glad you made it polyphonic!
Yep whatever EvilDragon is requesting, I will buy

[EvilDragon]

You may want to reconsider that last statement a bit

[GrandVelocity]

Got it, thanks Urs
And I think I saw mentioned that Zebra 2 and 3 will co-exist? So Zebra 3 wont be replacing 2?

[EvilDragon]

Correct.

[GrandVelocity]

Correct.

Thanks

[david.beholder]

And there's absolutely no way to reconsider that after Z3, huh?

But of course. I'd love to do the Cat. The way I wanted to do it (not poly, for starters)

We want Cat. We need Cat.

[Greenstorm33]

And there's absolutely no way to reconsider that after Z3, huh?

But of course. I'd love to do the Cat. The way I wanted to do it (not poly, for starters)

We want Cat. We need Cat.

The Cat: Because the Zebra needs a friend

[giant_panda]

And there's absolutely no way to reconsider that after Z3, huh?

But of course. I'd love to do the Cat. The way I wanted to do it (not poly, for starters)

We want Cat. We need Cat.

+1

[tony10000]

@Urs I hope The Cat will be released soon though

Prepare yourself for some bad news.

The CAT is dead...it didn’t have 9 lives.

[zerocrossing]

"Tentatively target next year for tangible results?" As in, "probably before December 31st 2020, but maybe not?"

Hehehe, as in: If all goes well, everything will be fine. But if, for instance, Apple decides to throw ARM processors at us, or, another example, if Steinberg decides to require some sort of certification process for VST3 which for whatever reason we fail - maybe just because we have presets with variable size - then there's no gurantee that we'll have enough time to spend on Z3. This is how it's been quite often throughout the past 8 years.

We did however remove the necessity to release a new product on the way. While we have a few potential candidates (and we do want to do a few other updates in-between, Bazille, ACE, Uhbik, mostly for maintenance), our recent sale with NI has given us the resources to keep going for a year or two.

I’d also add that while I’m probably one of the worst when it comes to “hey, how about Zebra 3?” comments, I’d add that the amount of free updates that Zebra 2 has had though the years clearly makes the current version mislabeled as Zebra 2. Any other developer would be already calling it Zebra 3... maybe even 4. You could probably easily make Zebra HZ into Zebra 3 (minus the Zimmer presets) and get people who don’t have Zebra HZ to upgrade, and then make what you’re working on Zebra 4. Train’s a bit out of the Station for that, but people should remember this when they talk about Zebra development. It’s not like we’re still all using something like the original Zebra 2 release.

[zerocrossing]

I wonder how the finished version of Hive 2 will compare?

Fewer tabs, lean design, fast results and no 2373 cinematic sound banks.

Damn it. I don’t get out my credit card unless I know a synth has at least 2373 cinematic sound banks.