Improvements!

[tetsuneko]

Phase Distortion oscillator modules! Combining this with Zebra's multi-point envelopes would allow for some very good Casio CZ synth emulations.

There are osc FX settings that can be used to obtain CZ'esque tones (Phase Xfer, Phase Root and Trajector). Haven't tried 'em much myself yet, but I've managed to get quite close to some of my CZ-5000 patches with those in Z2

Good luck!

[Urs]

I think it would be very good, if Zebra has 4 osc FX instead of 2.

That'll happen once everybody is on a minimum configuration with quad cores at 4 GHz!

[kodama]

I would like to re-state my request for an option in the user LFO to set the sync rate to "key", where as the lfo takes one step per key press, as opposed to syncing to a beat division.

This feature is present in a few synths, like the Evolver and I think the MS-2000/Radius (each key press moves the step seq forward).

It would also be useful for emulating slight differences per each voice in a poly analog synth, as described by the devloper of OP-X:

"...what a lot (not all) of vstis miss is the slightly different behaviour and setting of parameters like envelopes, filter, oscillators etc. from voice to voice - most vstis simply clone the voices to achieve polyphony - in OP-X the voices are built separatly with completely independent signal path and slightly different settings (which however can be tuned), just exactly as it is the case in most real vintage polyphonic analog synths, caused by the scattering/variation of the analog components (resistors, capacitors, trimpots)"

[Urs]

That's exactly what the new ModMapper modules do, when set to "Alternate" - each note/voice they move on to a new state

[kodama]

Yes! - exactly like that - but with user LFO, you can set 2-32 "steps", whereas the MMAPs seem much more difficult to configure for a certain amount on every 8th note, for instance.

[Urs]

Yes! - exactly like that - but with user LFO, you can set 2-32 "steps", whereas the MMAPs seem much more difficult to configure for a certain amount on every 8th note, for instance.

Maybe, some time... won't be in the LFOs though I guess.

[kodama]

Well maybe a user step/line mode in the MMAPs then

[Howard]

Well maybe a user step/line mode in the MMAPs then

Urs: Optional number of values in the map e.g. 2,4,8,16,32,64,128 would do the trick (and others!)

[Arksun]

Sorry if these have been suggested already (its a long thread!)

Regarding LFO Step Sequencer:

right click Grid/Step mode in addition to quantize mode.

It can be quite fiddly trying to get the small steps right for when you want to assign it to control pitch in semitones, you have to try and make your best guess and then use the quantize 12 function. Would be much easier and faster if it could be locked into 12 steps.

Also the addition of two smaller knobs, one for attack and one for release, controlling the attack and release time between each individual step.

Knob Value readout on rollover:

Blue and Predator have this, as you move the mouse over a particular knob it displays the current value of that knob without having to click on it first. Again this allows nice fast browsing of values, without any risk of accidently changing its value by clicking on it and the mouse moving slightly.

*edit* Just to add

Being able to copy and paste individual waveshapes within a waveset. Is that possibly already and I can't see it?

Also a waveshape reset would be most helpful, say I'm drawing a shape for wave no.2 in a waveset in Geoblend mode, dont like the shape of it, want to reset the line back to default straight line, so I could just right click initialize.

[CinningBao]

Just a simple ARP amendment please!

a switch to choose if Zebras arp triggers immediately, or waits for the 'next most appropriate beat'

A typical use for the 'waits for the next most appropriate beat' mode would be live; instead of having to quantize the actual triggering of the notes, the arp just starts at the 'next most appropriate beat'. Currently, for example, if a beat is playing in my host, and I trigger h my wicked arped bassline between a beat, the arp continues to run between the beats; therefore i _HAVE_ to trigger it bang on the beat, which isn't always possible for non-robot forms.

is it do-able?
cheers!

[kuniklo]

How about right-click to assign a knob to one of the macro controls? Maybe add a few more options after the midi learn/unlearn items? I tend to assign things to the x/y pads a lot to get around Ableton's parameter automation limits and this would make it quicker.

[kodama]

For MFM and Zebrify, I would like to request an envelope follower as a modulation source, and input volume as a modulation target.

[Urs]

For MFM and Zebrify, I would like to request an envelope follower as a modulation source, and input volume as a modulation target.

Ah... you mean like the envelope follower in Runciter?

[kodama]

Yes

[hakey]

This thread is a little too long for me to read all the way through and I wouldn't be surprised if the following suggestion, or similar, has already made, if this is the case I apologise.

Would it be possible to improve the way that presets are handled? The present preset browser seems a bit untidy to me and becomes unwieldy as more presets are added. I notice in Zebra 2.3 that a description can now be appended when saving a preset, which suggests that a future revision of Zebra will implement some way of interrogating the database of preset descriptions. Though this is a nice enough idea, the efficiency of searching for a preset this way depends upon the preset designer and the user choosing the same appropriate words to describe a sound.

I really like the system that NI has implemented in Kore (I think they also use it in Massive?), where a preset can be assigned any number of descriptive labels from a set list - bass, lead, pad, analog, digital, acoustic, etc. - which then allows presets to be searched for according to these sound characteristics. It seems a fairly efficient system and, if they haven't patented it or something, why not just steal the idea wholesale?

(Whilst I'm talking about presets, can we have some more please Howard? )