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wow, this thread is starting to give me a chub. can't wait!
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I've worked through pretty much the whole weekend:

- gui theme support
- resizable gui (7 steps from 25% to 625%)
- additional bright & easy theme for More Feedback Machine

You'll love it. You can zoom an MFM2 over almost a whole 30' Cinema Display (whatever you got) and the text & knobs are still sharp. Or, you can populate your laptop screen with loads of the tiniest and cutest plugin windows which are still fully functional. These settings save with song, naturally.

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All that's missing tech-wise is still the patch meta information. Despite thinking that through in ages I simply can't find an efficient way to build a clever database. So I think that for now the information will go right into the patch file. Which means, for now this information can only be retrieved by loading a patch. It can't be viewed before that and thus one can't search or anything. But maybe that's not such a big deal...

Later,

;) Urs
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Urs wrote: You'll love it. You can zoom an MFM2 over almost a whole 30' Cinema Display (whatever you got) and the text & knobs are still sharp. Or, you can populate your laptop screen with loads of the tiniest and cutest plugin windows which are still fully functional. These settings save with song, naturally.
Finally! I've been waiting for plugin graphics to catch up with 1995 forever.
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Thanks for clearing up my confusion regarding the modulation scheme. If it works like Zebra then I'm sure it will be fine.


Any chance of you doing esoteric modules? I'm talking about modules like whats on offer from Buchla, Cynthia, Plan B, Livewire, Wiard etc...
All of that stuff makes me want to go broke!

Be sure to throw in some superfast envelopes like the Cwejman units too.
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kuniklo wrote:
Urs wrote: You'll love it. You can zoom an MFM2 over almost a whole 30' Cinema Display (whatever you got) and the text & knobs are still sharp. Or, you can populate your laptop screen with loads of the tiniest and cutest plugin windows which are still fully functional. These settings save with song, naturally.
Finally! I've been waiting for plugin graphics to catch up with 1995 forever.
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You'll certainly "feel the pixels" of the background bitmaps though... but if you have your screen behind your mixing desk... it might well be a cool thing to concentrate on a plugin for a while, then deflate it again...

;) Urs
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Wow!

Is that coming to Z2?

Oh, and on the modular idea, I thought one of the only things I would want more "modular" in Zebra would be an audio input, so I'm not so sure about a new more modular synth with no ability to modulate audio inputs?
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Urs wrote:- gui theme support
- resizable gui (7 steps from 25% to 625%)
Excellent! Is this just for MFM, or a more global architecture thing that works in forthcoming versions of Z2 etc?
Urs wrote:So I think that for now the information will go right into the patch file. Which means, for now this information can only be retrieved by loading a patch. It can't be viewed before that and thus one can't search or anything. But maybe that's not such a big deal...
That's a compromise I will personally be quite happy with. Just being able to include text notes, author etc is great!

Sounds good! :tu:



Hmm... LA2A docs folder, I see... :)
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ehdyn wrote:Thanks for clearing up my confusion regarding the modulation scheme. If it works like Zebra then I'm sure it will be fine.


Any chance of you doing esoteric modules? I'm talking about modules like whats on offer from Buchla, Cynthia, Plan B, Livewire, Wiard etc...
All of that stuff makes me want to go broke!

Be sure to throw in some superfast envelopes like the Cwejman units too.
A Livewire Dual Cyclotron would be something, wouldn't it 8)

Well, it'll start out as an ordinary box: 3 osc, noise (pink/white), 3 vcf, 2 lag, 2 adsr, s&h, 4 mixer/multiples/ringmod, 2 panning vca, 1 lfo. But the concept is so that it is not just one single system, it's merely one basic assembly that would come in several "flavours". While the design of a single system is closed, more systems can be added over time. Each system can have one or more "exotic" modules. It's extensible in a different way from Zebra 2 where I can just add modules. It's more like an armada of customized and circuit bent ARP 2600s. It's hard to explain without revealing too much.

However, it's a long way to go... but I havn't had as much fun recently as starting this...

;) Urs

P.S.: My "real" modular system has one row of Cwejman modules... the envelopes are insanely fast... still waiting for the AS filter...
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Oh, and WTF is 42/Zebra Science?
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Ah-ha!
You're a modo user. Zebra3's gonna have a sick interface!




Anyone else notice the LA-2A doc on his desktop?
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kodama wrote:Oh, and WTF is 42/Zebra Science?
Upcoming commercial bank for Zebra2 - 242 patches by Howard Scarr for 42$ :shock:
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kodama wrote:Oh, and WTF is 42/Zebra Science?
It's Howard's new set:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... e&start=15
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ehdyn wrote:Ah-ha!
You're a modo user. Zebra3's gonna have a sick interface!




Anyone else notice the LA-2A doc on his desktop?
I'm still a Modo beginner and havn't had much time to get back into 3d after almost 10 years of not using Maya ar anything... After some deep evaluation, Cinema 4D and Modo turned out to be the best modeling/animation/rendering tools to fit my needs...

LA-2A docs are just some circuit diagrams... nothing special... seriously...

;) Urs
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Yeah, the dual cyclotron pretty much kick started this whole revolution in modulars.
I think it's just two loosely coupled LFO's + a master LFO. Not entirely sure, but I can reproduce it's control signal output by mixing 3 LFO's at different frame rates.

Just three requests:
More than one LFO, or looping envelopes. One is not enough.
Any chance you can expand the noise module to do the whole spectrum instead of just pink and white?
Can the sample and hold do track and hold too?


I became interested in the Livewire stuff because of the Chaos computer, and the expansion modules dealing with things like the golden ratio, avogadro, fibonacci. But all of that seems to be on the back burner-but at least we have the audio frequency generator to look forward to.

Imagine a Klee sequencer, or a model 28(plan B) triggering a Zerooscillator by Cynthia running through a model 11 by Plan B. Mix in an arbitrary function generator to taste.
One can dream.



Really happy someones finally doing any audio rate synth. 3K wouldv'e blown me away, but this is much better.
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kodama wrote:Wow!

Is that coming to Z2?

Oh, and on the modular idea, I thought one of the only things I would want more "modular" in Zebra would be an audio input, so I'm not so sure about a new more modular synth with no ability to modulate audio inputs?
- it's a general improvement, available to all recompiled u-he plugins after adding the [Look] control to the interface (and of course, maybe a skin/theme or two shall be enclosed as well)

- I have a new concept for Zebra2's audio in: I surrender and make an effects plugin. The effects plugin will be monophonic (with a twist or two) but have all synthesis and all fx modules within a single Grid

- the audio input/routing for the modular system is not yet fully thought out but there are some cool ideas. It's probably gonna be an fx plugin with Midi input from the start

;) Urs
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