Oh, I forgot to say... Sculpture takes way more cpu, naturally. Zebra 2 will not replace Sculpture in any way and vice versa although there are some sonical similarities at times...kuniklo wrote:more like Sculpture?
Cheers,
UrsZebra PC blog
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- u-he
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- KVRian
- 759 posts since 22 Mar, 2002 from fi
i should probably start making more sounds for z1.5 while i'm waiting... 
never stop loving music.
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- u-he
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Hehe, screenshots will come when they're due. That means, when the GUI design is more or less finished, which it still isn't.
Soundexamples... There are tons of demo songs at http://www.u-he.com/zebra - I wouldn't say that Z2 will sound 100% identical, I'd rather say that the sonical characters in the demos are a *subset* of the character variety that Z2 comes up with.
However, 2 sound examples that weren't intended for official use, but were leaked in another thread anyway (Drums are Apple Loops):
http://www.u-he.com/music/Z2ArtStrings.mp3
http://www.u-he.com/music/Z2CombChaos.mp3
Cheers,
Urs
Soundexamples... There are tons of demo songs at http://www.u-he.com/zebra - I wouldn't say that Z2 will sound 100% identical, I'd rather say that the sonical characters in the demos are a *subset* of the character variety that Z2 comes up with.
However, 2 sound examples that weren't intended for official use, but were leaked in another thread anyway (Drums are Apple Loops):
http://www.u-he.com/music/Z2ArtStrings.mp3
http://www.u-he.com/music/Z2CombChaos.mp3
Cheers,
Urs-
- KVRian
- 753 posts since 22 Aug, 2002 from on the inside looking out
Urs,
There's a feature that's mostly missing in the VST world outside of modular type synths and that's the ability to seriously alter the shape of the oscillator prior to sending it into the filters. It's a notion that goes all the way back to Buchla, but there are currently a couple of really cool hardware synths that use these ideas in the digital domain - e.g. the ArX synth or the droid3. Absynth does have a useful waveshaper, but it's shared between all three oscillators, whereas it should be per oscillator (IMHO). It strikes me that an interesting waveshaper at the oscillator level would be ideal for a synth like zebra...
Well, I can ask, can't I?
There's a feature that's mostly missing in the VST world outside of modular type synths and that's the ability to seriously alter the shape of the oscillator prior to sending it into the filters. It's a notion that goes all the way back to Buchla, but there are currently a couple of really cool hardware synths that use these ideas in the digital domain - e.g. the ArX synth or the droid3. Absynth does have a useful waveshaper, but it's shared between all three oscillators, whereas it should be per oscillator (IMHO). It strikes me that an interesting waveshaper at the oscillator level would be ideal for a synth like zebra...
Well, I can ask, can't I?
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- u-he
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Z2 has *something serious* working on per-oscillator basis that pretty much exceeds anything waveshapers could do...suthnear wrote:Well, I can ask, can't I?
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Hear hear...Urs wrote: Z2 has *something serious* working on per-oscillator basis that pretty much exceeds anything waveshapers could do...
Cheers,
Sascha
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- u-he
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What do you know? - I've started implementing 8 additional OSC effects today, including such magnificent working titles as "Phase Func" and "Sync Mojo". This makes 17 in total... or 19, if I re-animate the abandoned ones...Sascha Franck wrote:Hear hear...Urs wrote: Z2 has *something serious* working on per-oscillator basis that pretty much exceeds anything waveshapers could do...
(I must be drunk. Yes, I am. Otherwise I wouldn't talk about that...)
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Urs-
- KVRAF
- 25034 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
at ten minutes to two a.m. in Germany? How could you not be drunk?Urs wrote: (I must be drunk. Yes, I am. Otherwise I wouldn't talk about that...)
Cheers,
Cheers Urs!
*takes another gulp from his Budweiser*
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Uhm!Urs wrote: What do you know? - I've started implementing 8 additional OSC effects today, including such magnificent working titles as "Phase Func" and "Sync Mojo". This makes 17 in total... or 19, if I re-animate the abandoned ones...
As you know allready, I know nothing.
But that doesn't mean I wouldn't mind
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- KVRAF
- 1529 posts since 12 Jun, 2004 from Portland, OR
Holy shit Urs, people just don't know how Z2 will knock the Virtual Studio world on it's ass!Urs wrote:Soundexamples...
Sounds like THIS from a bee-u-tiful modern gui
It's gonna be a shocker..
We get these presets, right?
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- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30215 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Have I ever posted that test of the new Vintage filter?aer72 wrote:Since it´s friday again, do you have any new teasers for us?
http://www.u-he.com/music/NewZebFilter.mp3
It used to take a *lot* of cpu, but now it's quite moderate. Fast enough to be used on phat basses and lead sounds. For 8-voice chords, you'll need a host that freezes. Or you take one of the other filters.
And as I said, about everything is stereo now. So it's actually funny how the stereo channels interact with the filter drive, especially in the Vintage types, which have kinda "leak" between resonance and filter cutoff:
http://www.u-he.com/music/ZebVintage.mp3 - dry Z2 output, no effects...
(and I can finally reprogram my remaining favourite Virus preset in Z2...)
Cheers,
Urs