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synthique · Post by **synthique** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:54 pm

I wanted (badly enough) to use all of the old factory presets from the original Zebra in the latest version.
I re-organized all the settings files by instrument type, cause thats the way I like them, which worked fine. None of the older settings files work though, but at least they are handled nicely (no crashy)
Is there any way I can reformat the old settings files to work in the latest version?
thnx

beej · Post by **beej** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:59 pm

Zebra 2 is a completely different synth from Zebra 1 - you can't load Z1 patches into Z2.

The best you can do is try to recreate them, but that won't be entirely successful as some features have changed - I know, as I have a few of my own Z1 patches I tried to recreate in Z2 without much success.

Urs was planning to do a conversion program at one time, but I don't think it has a high priority, or even if the idea has been abandoned.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:01 pm

You can use Zebra 1.5 and Zebra 2.x simultaneously.

Patch conversion is very difficult. Even those patches that could be recreated 1:1 in theory (same layout, same parameter settings), sound pretty different.

Urs

SaganTech · Post by **SaganTech** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:20 pm

Urs wrote:You can use Zebra 1.5 and Zebra 2.x simultaneously.

Is Zebra 1.5 available as a UB?

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:37 pm

SaganTech wrote:
Urs wrote:You can use Zebra 1.5 and Zebra 2.x simultaneously.
Is Zebra 1.5 available as a UB?

Seriously, I don't think you can expect developers to port old versions to a new platform.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:45 pm

Soon!

Gimme a little time to breath...

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:46 pm

egbert wrote:Seriously, I don't think you can expect developers to port old versions to a new platform.

Me, you can

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:58 pm

Urs wrote:
egbert wrote:Seriously, I don't think you can expect developers to port old versions to a new platform.
Me, you can

Hmmm - I am surprised that that is even practical but more power to you if you can do it. I was thinking that if Z 1.5 used AltiVec routines and was handcoded/optimised for the PowerPC floating point units then adapting all that to x87/SSE that would be a hell of a lot of rewriting. I also thought that the development envirnment would be new and different.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 3:39 pm

egbert wrote:
Urs wrote:
egbert wrote:Seriously, I don't think you can expect developers to port old versions to a new platform.
Me, you can
Hmmm - I am surprised that that is even practical but more power to you if you can do it. I was thinking that if Z 1.5 used AltiVec routines and was handcoded/optimised for the PowerPC floating point units then adapting all that to x87/SSE that would be a hell of a lot of rewriting. I also thought that the development envirnment would be new and different.

Well, I guess that most people will be using Z2 from now on. But as Z1.5 presets don't load in Z2, it's important to ensure backward compatibility for existing projects.

AltiVec is no big issue. I had mostly used it in filter algorithms, which are identical with their counterparts in Z2. And in Z2 they are SSE'd already

So, Zebra1.5 UB is mostly a recompile and following some changes in the AU environment.

Cheers,

Urs

synthique · Post by **synthique** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:08 pm

Urs, that would be very cool. Z1,Z2,Triple Cheese..
I'm going to try out your CAUGui framework this weekend. It looks very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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Re-orged presets in Zebra2