zebra2

[Foxglove]

Man, this has to be one of the most amazing synths I've ever gotten my hands on. Serious stuff. I strangely got sick yesterday, and had to call my boss and tell him I wasn't able to go in today.

One thing that I would love to see implemented, would be to be able to sync the delay in the LFO's to tempo. That would be just grand.

Huge Congrats Urs, You've created something amazingly special, that's an absolute joy to work with. The money's already put aside

PS, can't wait to see the ringmods in action :):)

Thanks man!

MINITUTORIAL: Syncing LFO delay to host tempo

As the name of the tutorial implies, here's a solution for something that was considered too "special interest" to make it into Zebra2's feature set. But it can easily be achieved by a simple workaround:



Just use an unused Envelope to control the LFO Amplitude.

Choose "Env4" by right-clicking the knob next to LFO Amplitude. Boom, Envelope4 will appear in the rack. If it's not next to the LFO, just click in the space between modules to exchange them until Env4 sits next to the LFO in the Rack.

Set you LFO to the desired settings, set Amplitude to 100 as well as the Env4 intensity. Set LFO Delay to 0.

Now comes the voodoo part.

Set Env4's *timebase* to "1/1". That's the little field next to the envelope name. Now, all envelope times correspond to the percentage of the duration of a full note, syncing to host tempo.

Next, choose "Delay" as an option for the knob left of the Attack time. This adds a delay stage to the envelope.

Now, set Env4 Delay to 50.00 for a 1/2 note delay and Attack to 25.00 for a quarter note fade in time. Bingo!

To finish this, set the Envelope mode to "linear" for a linear fade and Release to 100.00 so that the LFO doesn't fade out audibly during the Release stage.

Note: A little bug, the LFO gets sometimes initialized by some state if it's not set to Restart by Gate. So, adding a little Delay within the LFO isn't a bad idea for now.

To go a little further, you can also control the delay time by Velocity. Just click "+" in the tiny "+|-" box in the envelope. Squeek, a bunch of knobs appear below Env4. Each of these knobs controls the influence of Velocity (upper row) and Keyfollow (lower row) on any of the envelope parameters. Turn the top left knob to see how Velocity now effects the duration of the LFO delay.

Cheers,

Urs

Wow! You are the God of synth developers. You build us all the mother of all synths, and you take care of us so well too. I couldn't even start to tell you how much I appreciate the tutorial. I gave it a shot, and it works like a charm. I totally understand that this is truely a "specialist" request, and the workaround is clever stuff indeed.

Huge thanks for all your hard work.

[mkastrup]

How do i go about making my own dir for presets in the download version available ?

I can see Zebra2/uhe_data/Presets/Zebra2/ and here are all the user dirs.

If i cant do it, will i be able to copy my presets made in this version into the release version ?

[kuniklo]

Just got zebra 2 demo. Yes its good. I like some presets. But in my opinion it cant touch VAZ Modular sound (well at least i was thinking that it will )

Hmmm, isn't VAZ intended to be analog sounding? Zebra definately isn't. Thus if you are searching for analogesque sounds in Z2, it isn't for you. If you're searching for sculpturesque sounds, or for DX/PPG/Ensoniq style sounds, then you might want to check out Z2.

I think VAZ and Z2 could make a very solid team. VAZ for the more analog stuff and Z2 for the rest.

[bluedad]

How do i go about making my own dir for presets in the download version available ?

I can see Zebra2/uhe_data/Presets/Zebra2/ and here are all the user dirs.

If i cant do it, will i be able to copy my presets made in this version into the release version ?

If you save your preset edits using the 'save' button on the presets page, they will be saved in the Zebra2 directory and will still be available in the release version (at least it has been for the last few betas, I hardly think that would change)

[mkastrup]

okies thx bluedad

[Sascha Franck]

mkastrup, the initial "Presets" subdirectory is just that: an initial one. The actual presets are saved under C:\program files\u-he\Presets\Zebra2. When you save a prset from inside Zebra, it will save any new stuff in there. You can create subdirectories and put stuff in there, but you gotta do it in explorer as long as we can't perform a "save as" - in general, a preset will allways be saved into the same directory you loaded it from, so, if you load, say, one of the tas presets, modify it and save it under a different name, you gotta grab that new preset from the tas folder in explorer and put it into a directory of your own choice. As soon as there's a preset in a subfolder, you'll see them in Z2s preset manager.
Oh, and make sure to use at least 4 characters for the folder name.

[Dunc]

For some bizarre reason I can't see anything in the Preset subfolders. The folders are available but no visible contents...huh!
I created my own folder (in explorer) and put a couple of downloaded presets into it but that does not show up on the Zebra preset window either...

I've got all the folders and Hidden Files available for viewing in explorer turned on.

Any help is appreciated here. Thanks

Dunc

[spaceman]

Morning Urs..

A quick question.. how does KeyFol (used in the modulation matrix) behave?

[Sascha Franck]

A quick question.. how does KeyFol (used in the modulation matrix) behave?

Just as the usual "KeyFol" parameter you may find on most filters, only that it's working bidirectional.
Example: Set a VCF cutoff to the middle, assign cutoff as the mod. target, use KeyFol as a mod source and turn it up (to the right). Your filter will now close on lower notes and open up on higher notes. Now use a negative modulation amount and your filter will close when you go up and vice versa (perhaps useful when you find your filter to scream too much in the higher registers).

Another probably handy thing would be to control FX send or mix amounts with it, so you'd get less effect on low notes, which often is desirable - without affecting the effects spectrum by applying high passes to them directly.
And of course there's tons of more things imagineable... could make up for quite some lively sounds when slightly controlling, say, FM amounts or so.

[luCiPHer]

yeah, i use keyfol all the time, for example to mix the mixerchannels, in the low registers channel 1 is louder, in the higher registers channel 2 gets louder, while channel 1 gets quieter, something like that, extremely useful for everything that is meant to be playable over a wide range.

[Urs]

Morning Urs..

A quick question.. how does KeyFol (used in the modulation matrix) behave?

Morning Space,

KeyFol is currently centered around MidiNote 64 which is the E above the center C (MidiNote 60). I'm evaluating the usefulness of making this definable in the final version.

Cheers,

Urs

[Urs]

For some bizarre reason I can't see anything in the Preset subfolders. The folders are available but no visible contents...huh!
I created my own folder (in explorer) and put a couple of downloaded presets into it but that does not show up on the Zebra preset window either...

I've got all the folders and Hidden Files available for viewing in explorer turned on.

Any help is appreciated here. Thanks

Dunc

Huh? There are downloads for presets already?!? What file ending do the have? Make sure it's .fxp, not .fxb in this version.

Where did you create your own folder?

Cheers,

Urs

[spaceman]

Morning Urs..

A quick question.. how does KeyFol (used in the modulation matrix) behave?

Morning Space,

KeyFol is currently centered around MidiNote 64 which is the E above the center C (MidiNote 60). I'm evaluating the usefulness of making this definable in the final version.

Cheers,

Urs

when I use it as a via source for an envelope assigned to the wet amount of the reverb, I get pops, even with high attack settings

I want to add more reverb to lower notes and less to higher ones

I have this in the AU version, I'm now trying to replicate it on the VST for PC version

[spaceman]

A quick question.. how does KeyFol (used in the modulation matrix) behave?

Just as the usual "KeyFol" parameter you may find on most filters, only that it's working bidirectional.
Example: Set a VCF cutoff to the middle, assign cutoff as the mod. target, use KeyFol as a mod source and turn it up (to the right). Your filter will now close on lower notes and open up on higher notes. Now use a negative modulation amount and your filter will close when you go up and vice versa (perhaps useful when you find your filter to scream too much in the higher registers).

Another probably handy thing would be to control FX send or mix amounts with it, so you'd get less effect on low notes, which often is desirable - without affecting the effects spectrum by applying high passes to them directly.
And of course there's tons of more things imagineable... could make up for quite some lively sounds when slightly controlling, say, FM amounts or so.

thanks Sascha!

That's what I thought it would be but the behaviour I got when mixing with an envelope didn't give the results I expected

I hight have had some wires crossed in my brain though I'm still testing

[spaceman]

but in the meanwhile.. this is the best sound design tool I've ever used