The "Zebra2 plays Virus" challenge

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I have no idea what VNV Nation is, but Manuel Schleiss is a "big" sound designer in the Trance community who produces patch banks for many hardware and software synthesizers. That is a demo of one of his banks. :shrug:

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I read some interviews and they (VNV Nation) use Virus (TC Powercore & hardware) and Reaktor... maybe they were using some of his sound banks. But they don't seem like the preset type that's why I'm confused.

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for the fun of it

http://www.flstudio.com/gol/SytrusPatchtest_11.mp3
(credits: Toby for the score)

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JonasNorberg wrote:
Urs wrote:Had a quick look on the code... it seems to use wave cycles that fit a number of samples. My attempts in that direction were pretty frustrating.
I have one cycle per harmonic, linear interpolation, no oversampling.

Pros: Great performance, great signal to noise at high frequencies.

Cons: can be memory hungry. Limited number of harmonics (can be "dull" at low frequencies).
I've tried Helix yesterday and it's a pretty cool thing you're up to!

My approach is a bit different, I'm only interested in a virtual-analogue style SuperSaw much like the one in the Virus TI, hence I try to just use naive phase accumulators...

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spaceman wrote:Just to point behind this for me what the arp is concerned.. my last changes to the Twin patch:

Ze Arp played by ze Twin.. es ist zoeper!

This is how I'd want the patch to sound, not as much an attempt to copy completely (hmm.. yes, that sounds good enough :hihi:)
Damn, that Twin sounds juicy ! 8)

Does it come with built-in FX, like that phaser ? Or is that a filter ?

Peter.
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pschelfh wrote:
spaceman wrote:Just to point behind this for me what the arp is concerned.. my last changes to the Twin patch:

Ze Arp played by ze Twin.. es ist zoeper!

This is how I'd want the patch to sound, not as much an attempt to copy completely (hmm.. yes, that sounds good enough :hihi:)
Damn, that Twin sounds juicy ! 8)

Does it come with built-in FX, like that phaser ? Or is that a filter ?

Peter.
No internal FXs. It was just a short high pass filter sweep of one of it's filters
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ianweb123 wrote:How little I know!
You just wrecked Balla Nation. :(

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MaliceX wrote:
ianweb123 wrote:How little I know!
You just wrecked Balla Nation. :(

:lol:

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hifiboom wrote:
jivamukti wrote:
tony tony chopper wrote:
The sound demo is here...
http://www.vengeance-storage.com/www.ve ... 20Incubati on%20V2%20-%20Virus%20C%20Soundset%20by%20Manuel%20Schleis.mp3
do you think you can provide the score for this? We're trying a replica using Sytrus

http://www.flstudio.com/gol/SytrusPatchtest_3.mp3
Now that sounds sweet. Oversampling 64x? :hihi:
this sounds way better than the original virus preset.

Less of that "flatness" and much more "3D-dimensional".
Well done!!!

:tu:
I tried that too with FM7. You can hear it @ around 0:40

http://www.adamszabo.com/mp3/Adam_Van_B ... t_Demo.mp3

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Hello,
Here's my attempt at the arp with Zebra 2:

http://planetbyte.co.uk/mix/zebravirus.mp3

Roger :)

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cleverr1 wrote:Hello,
Here's my attempt at the arp with Zebra 2:

http://planetbyte.co.uk/mix/zebravirus.mp3

Roger :)
I think you've nailed it Roger :D
Probably the best so far..

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cleverr1 wrote:Hello,
Here's my attempt at the arp with Zebra 2:

http://planetbyte.co.uk/mix/zebravirus.mp3

Roger :)
This sounds good but is still different. This sound harder than the original which I think could be changed to some extent by equing it.
Besides of that I subjectively think that Zebra has surpassed the Virus in sound quality with some of the shown attempts here. Zebra can nail the desired characteristics and do it even better. Yeah! :D

Shogger

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cleverr1 wrote:Hello,
Here's my attempt at the arp with Zebra 2:

http://planetbyte.co.uk/mix/zebravirus.mp3
Great. Would you mind posting the patch?
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shogger wrote: Besides of that I subjectively think that Zebra has surpassed the Virus in sound quality with some of the shown attempts here. Zebra can nail the desired characteristics and do it even better. Yeah! :D

Shogger
in WHich world? :-)
rsp

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