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tboulette · Post by **tboulette** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:41 pm

Echo Voodoo wrote:
Howard wrote:I'm considering sending a few extra special new sounds to everyone who writes such positive posts - because they make me happy
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Have I told you yet how your soundbank sends me into swirling realms of ecstasy? I thought nothing could give me greater joy in life than your factory presets for Zebra, until Zebra Science entered my life and touched my soul more deeply than it's ever been touched before.
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Howard,

I met my fiancee while listening to your patches, and we plan to name our first child "Howard" in your honor.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:08 pm

Okay-okay-okay!! End of offer already. Only negative reports from now on, please.

The best 5 i.e. the ones that warmed the cockles of my heart (or gave me a chuckle = Echo Voodoo, tboulette, djsubject

) will get some extra sounds soon. Gimme a few days to do this, OK?

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:34 pm

tboulette wrote:and we plan to name our first child "Howard" in your honor.

Poor daughter

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:36 pm

Howard wrote:Okay-okay-okay!! End of offer already. Only negative reports from now on, please.

The best 5 i.e. the ones that warmed the cockles of my heart (or gave me a chuckle = Echo Voodoo, tboulette) will get some extra sounds soon. Gimme a few days to do this, OK?

If I tell you they suck worse than a hoover will you give me the whole pack?

Echo Voodoo · Post by **Echo Voodoo** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:13 pm

Howard wrote:The best 5 i.e. the ones that warmed the cockles of my heart (or gave me a chuckle = Echo Voodoo, tboulette) will get some extra sounds soon. Gimme a few days to do this, OK?

You mean it worked? Woohoo!

bmrzycki wrote:Between Z2 Science and the Oldskool patches by Michael we Zebra users have a lot to be thankful for.

I don't recall a song I've made in the past several months that doesn't have either a Howard or a Michael patch in it somewhere (and sometimes both). It's like guaranteed sound satisfaction.

tboulette · Post by **tboulette** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:23 am

Echo Voodoo wrote:
Howard wrote:The best 5 i.e. the ones that warmed the cockles of my heart (or gave me a chuckle = Echo Voodoo, tboulette) will get some extra sounds soon. Gimme a few days to do this, OK?
You mean it worked? Woohoo!

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:52 am

Echo Voodoo wrote: I don't recall a song I've made in the past several months that doesn't have either a Howard or a Michael patch in it somewhere (and sometimes both). It's like guaranteed sound satisfaction.

You lazy boy, EVE!

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:50 pm

I hadn't taken the time to stop back and comment after getting the collection several weeks ago, and I have to commend you, Howard - this is some beautiful work. These kinds of sounds are the reason I drop Zebra into my sessions more often than any other plugin - genuinely useful patches that actually work in a mix. Not just one-finger presets and stuff that eats up the whole mix, but musical sounds that encourage writing all the parts from scratch and actually playing them by hand instead of relying on gimmicks.

I ended up using several of these patches on the last song I recorded, including one of the Minimoog-esque patches for bass, one of the Virus emulations for a comping part on which I would normally have played piano, and one of the other patches (I forget which) run through the ELS Vocoder for some unusual swells and atmospheres.

tboulette · Post by **tboulette** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:17 pm

djsubject wrote:
tboulette wrote:and we plan to name our first child "Howard" in your honor.
Poor daughter

"Howardina" in that case.

VitaminD · Post by **VitaminD** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:39 pm

tboulette wrote:
djsubject wrote:
tboulette wrote:and we plan to name our first child "Howard" in your honor.
Poor daughter

"Howardina" in that case.

she'll just go by 'dina' then.. but the kids at school will call her Ho-Dina or Ho-D.. or maybe even Ho-ina

stevechristian · Post by **stevechristian** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:03 pm

Whoa, where i have been? Didn't even see this released! Will be picking up with my next paycheck!

ObsoleteAcc99 · Post by **ObsoleteAcc99** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:03 pm

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Howard · Post by **Howard** » Wed May 14, 2008 5:47 am

Sorry for the delay - got other things on my plate right now i.e. rehearsing for a "release party" for my local band's first CD.

(BTW: any Frankfurt/Main-ers here?)

politcat · Post by **politcat** » Mon May 26, 2008 11:14 pm

please tell me, how many total files/presets should there be in the SCIENCE folder?

I don't know how, but I had the individual folders duplicated (bassics, leaders etc. 2x) so I merged them and now I have 738 presets in SCIENCE. Does that sound right?

I just want to make sure I didn't lose any presets. yeah, i'm AR, but what the f**k, I paid for them

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue May 27, 2008 1:27 am

politcat wrote:I had the individual folders duplicated (bassics, leaders etc. 2x) so I merged them and now I have 738 presets in SCIENCE. Does that sound right?

Hi politcat...
There should be 242 sounds in the Science folder (as stated in the picture and accompanying text at u-he-com)

242*2 = 584. How did you manage to "duplicate", and how did you come up with 738 i.e. how did you count those files?

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Zebra2 Science released!