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alexibm · Post by **alexibm** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:45 am

Sweet ! Thanks for fast reply. Synth looks very sweet. I already read the doc.

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:02 pm

Urs, will there be a public beta for FS PC or Zebra PC, now that I won Zebra?

arp_laszlo · Post by **arp_laszlo** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:06 am

this is all very cool - and you, Urs, seem to be a true bad-ass!

btw - did anyone else stop receiving emails on the topic? i'm subscribed, but i haven't gotten an email since mid-Feb. anyway, catching up was kinda fun - and i hope i'm not too late to be a guinea pig!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:23 am

kodama wrote:Urs, will there be a public beta for FS PC or Zebra PC, now that I won Zebra?

As predicted, I have planned for a preview version of Filterscape (kinda beta that runs in demo mode), accompanied by an introduction offer. I'm confident that this will happen pretty soon.

Zebra 2 has to wait until after Musikmesse though... but then it gets 100% of my time.

Cheers,

Urs

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:02 pm

Thank you - Thank you!

kodama · Post by **kodama** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:03 pm

Oh man, I didn't win Zebra, I meant to say own!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:07 pm

kodama wrote:Oh man, I didn't win Zebra, I meant to say own!

cthmusic · Post by **cthmusic** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:20 pm

Hey Urs, I just bought Zebra and filterscape! Im blown away with the endless possibilities!

What I didnt realize is that Zebra 2 is going to be coming out! Yikes, is there going to be a free upgrade for recent purchasers?

Thanks

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:26 pm

cthmusic wrote:Hey Urs, I just bought Zebra and filterscape! Im blown away with the endless possibilities!

What I didnt realize is that Zebra 2 is going to be coming out! Yikes, is there going to be a free upgrade for recent purchasers?

Thanks

Hey, thanks for the double buy!

Upgrades have been free so far, but I have not yet decided wheather there'll be an upgrade fee for Z2 or not. I *think* it will be 20$, but I'd find it only fair to make it free for people who've bought within the last 3 months when it comes out.

However, I'm currently buried too deeply into the PC side of things, porting my engine/Filterscape. It looks good, but I can't give an exact estimate on when the primary work on Zebra 2 will happen... (I suspect in April/May)

Cheers,

Urs

richardbrown · Post by **richardbrown** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:54 pm

Urs

Are you likely to do a VST OS X version of Zebra 1.5 before moving on to version 2?

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:41 pm

richardbrown wrote:Urs

Are you likely to do a VST OS X version of Zebra 1.5 before moving on to version 2?

No, unfortuantely not really. Zebra's engine is obviously too AU specific for that...

The ZebraShell VSTi does a good job though, but has some problems in some hosts, i.e. the editor window has to be clicked on the top bar to make it editable...

Zebra 2 will be built upon the new engine which I've worked on since Zebra 1.5 was released. The new engine has automatic support for AU and VST Win/Mac.

Cheers,

Urs

willb · Post by **willb** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:03 pm

Urs wrote:Zebra 2 will be built upon the new engine which I've worked on since Zebra 1.5 was released. The new engine has automatic support for AU and VST Win/Mac.

Urs, will Zebra 2 coexist with 1.5 in my components folder, or will it replace 1.5? Just curious.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:39 pm

willb wrote:
Urs wrote:Zebra 2 will be built upon the new engine which I've worked on since Zebra 1.5 was released. The new engine has automatic support for AU and VST Win/Mac.
Urs, will Zebra 2 coexist with 1.5 in my components folder, or will it replace 1.5? Just curious.

It will coexist!

It will have some refinements in about every area that need new parameters (FilterFM anyone?

). New parameters "in between" and stuff isn't good for backwards compatibility to existing songs (especially automation data...), so I voted for a side by side thing.

It's also very likely that there will be subtle differences in the presets. I will do my best to write a preset importer, but some stuff will definately sound a little different (though, of course not worse).

Cheers,

Urs

willb · Post by **willb** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:46 pm

Good news, thanks. (I'm also glad to hear that the PC FS port is going so well!)

kanker · Post by **kanker** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:22 am

Urs wrote:
willb wrote:
Urs wrote:Zebra 2 will be built upon the new engine which I've worked on since Zebra 1.5 was released. The new engine has automatic support for AU and VST Win/Mac.
Urs, will Zebra 2 coexist with 1.5 in my components folder, or will it replace 1.5? Just curious.
It will coexist!

This from the same man who asked why I would want to keep Zebra 1 along with 1.5.

u-he

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