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ColdPack · Post by **ColdPack** » Mon May 22, 2006 9:31 pm

So, Urs... uh... this is great fun!

I was about to get Albino2... and I waited... and waited... then I started seeing posts about Z2.
I checked it out. I bought it (well, the "beta" version)... and it's simply fun.

Thanks for a cool product. Can't wait to see the final.

CP

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:25 pm

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:52 pm

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:20 pm

spritex · Post by **spritex** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:29 pm

I bought it a few days ago. I had only tried the demo for a few hours and for some reason just felt the need to get it. Haven't actually seriously made music for years, but I feel that this helps me get started again

Finally something that reminded me of my former Kurzweil K2000 and (now in a separate computer because of the OS issue) Korg Oasys PCI. Of course very good sound too and an elegant _productive_ GUI without unnecessary flash.

I have played with it for only a few hours but I can say I am not disappointed. Fun fun fun - I can see myself using this as my main synth, actually the first VSTi that "clicks" with me in a way.

It's very easy to get the complexity up in a cohesive and musical way if you want to. And it gets "organic" too.

Heh heh, I didn't even know about those OSC FX when I bought it!

I wish it had some kind of sample OSC, even a simple one with some mapping. But that's mainly because I wouldn't want to use anything else than Zebra 2, under this GUI and with these modulators, controller assignments and so on

But by all means get the final version out as you have planned first!

Oh, and will there be a fuction to duplicate OSC settings and such in the final?

I'll try to make some presets at some point - I did some for the Oasys PCI.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:13 pm

spritex wrote:Oh, and will there be a fuction to duplicate OSC settings and such in the final?

First off, thanks for your appreciation!!!

Then, yes, there will. There's gonna be "module presets", so you can save/load/copy/paste settings for oscillators, MSEGs and, uhm, maybe some other folks, if complexity justifies the effort...

Later,

Urs

spritex · Post by **spritex** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:43 pm

Mind you, I only now found the ModMatrix. Since I had been modulating all kinds of stuff without it I didn't really miss it.

Then I was wondering, hmm, it would be very cool to be able to modulate Reverb depth with a LFO. And there it was, in the ModMatrix!

This is really cool. From what planet did you come Urs?

Oh, I know you are in Berlin.

My favourite city, by the way. Stayed in Kreuzberg for almost two weeks last summer. Currywurst and clubbing! Saw Aoki Takamasa and Pole in Watergate, great gigs - and lots of other things.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:14 pm

spritex wrote:Then I was wondering, hmm, it would be very cool to be able to modulate Reverb depth with a LFO. And there it was, in the ModMatrix!

This still has a little bug though (ouch!) - the modulators that are part of voices, such as envelopes and lfos just stop when a note stops. But they ought to play on when being assigned to an effect parameter - i.e. when the release of an env for reverb mix is longer than the one for voice volume

(Urs makes a note and better looks into it soonishly)

spritex wrote:From what planet did you come Urs?

Planet Clair, what did you think?!?

Urs

spritex · Post by **spritex** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:30 pm

Here's what I just messed around with. Just a snippet with 3 instances of Zebra2:

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~spritex/Zebra2test1.mp3

sushishiva · Post by **sushishiva** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:37 pm

spritex wrote:Here's what I just messed around with. Just a snippet with 3 instances of Zebra2:

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~spritex/Zebra2test1.mp3

Cool!!

spritex · Post by **spritex** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:39 pm

Urs wrote:This still has a little bug though (ouch!) - the modulators that are part of voices, such as envelopes and lfos just stop when a note stops.

But... I used a global LFO so I didn't have that problem as you can hear.

Ah, have to go to sleep now. This is dangerous. Gotta go to work tomorrow.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:10 pm

I've been trolling KVR and other sites looking for soft synths writing mini reviews as I go along and then "a/b-ing" them later to narrow down which I'll purchase. Zebra 2 didn't make it to that point. 15 minutes into it I'd decided to do a pre-buy! With lots of "pretty cool" instruments out there, it's so refreshing to find one that's got it's own great personality. Only a few VSTs have impressed me so (Sytrus! Korg Legacy!) much where the Visa gets wipped out without second thought. Great job! Also, while you're at his site buy Filterscape too, you won't be disappointed.

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:18 pm

Oh Yeah!

Some great bread and butter synth sounds in there with Zebralette too.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:20 pm

I already used this baby in a song and i just got it

http://www.soundclick.com/alexcooper

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:37 pm

zerocrossing wrote:Also, while you're at his site buy Filterscape too, you won't be disappointed.

Ah, that was you! - Thanks for the double-buy, that made my day!

And welcome to KVR

Enjoy,

Urs

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KVR Audio

Zebra 2 is damn fun