My First OSC

[Kriminal]

so, been messing with some samples recently, and noticed the Juno106 had a very individual shape sawtooth waveform.

Basically i tried to visually copy it in Z2, and this is what i got

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its not amazing i know, but its a start

the first is the waveform i copied, and it morphs into some odd shape at the other end...just cos it can.

I get very little time to experiment on stuff like this, aside from actually testing, so this is a medium step forward for me

EDIT: i havent actually compared the sounds, so not sure how close it actually sounds to the saw i was copying, will look into that later.

[jupiter8]

You do know that there's a much quicker and easier way to get Wavs into Zebra2 don't you ? Or did you miss that during your hiatus ?

[mcnoone]

You do know that there's a much quicker and easier way to get Wavs into Zebra2 don't you ? Or did you miss that during your hiatus ?

You mean the Temper wave drawing program, thats in the U-he forum?
To bad he didn't do the Mac version for it.
Question:
If I use Temper on my PC to do waves, I can use those waves on my Mac too right?

[ZenPunkHippy]

As long as Temper is saving the oscillator files in .h2p format, you are good to go, the will load on any platorm

The .h2p format was introduced to allow cross platform patches, oscillator files and MSEGS - otherwise Logic can't read Cubase native format patches and vice versa.

Actually, they are just plain old text files that you can edit by hand if you like!

Peace,
Andy.

[jupiter8]

You do know that there's a much quicker and easier way to get Wavs into Zebra2 don't you ? Or did you miss that during your hiatus ?

You mean the Temper wave drawing program, thats in the U-he forum?
To bad he didn't do the Mac version for it.
Question:
If I use Temper on my PC to do waves, I can use those waves on my Mac too right?

No,i'm talking about the wav2Zebra2. It loads singlecycle waveforms into Z2.
The first one was PC only but i did a Java version as well that runs on Mac as well.
http://www.tekno.chalmers.se/~magolo/sy ... ra2.tar.gz
Unpack.
Set the export path. I don't have a Mac but on a PC it's located in
C:\Program Files\u-he\Zebra2\Modules\Oscillator\Factory OSCs
Should be similar on a Mac.
Or make a new folder to keep the Facotry OSC clean.

You can double-click on a window to import a wav file (it reads aiff as well IIRC).
You can choose to export both the raw waveform and a resynthesized one.
There's some keyboard shortcuts as well that the C++ version did'nt have for ease of use. I prefer it to the C++ version but some thought it was a tad slow. I have'nt noticed that myself. It's uglier than the C++ version though.

[Kriminal]

You do know that there's a much quicker and easier way to get Wavs into Zebra2 don't you ? Or did you miss that during your hiatus ?

You mean the Temper wave drawing program, thats in the U-he forum?
To bad he didn't do the Mac version for it.
Question:
If I use Temper on my PC to do waves, I can use those waves on my Mac too right?

No,i'm talking about the wav2Zebra2. It loads singlecycle waveforms into Z2.
The first one was PC only but i did a Java version as well that runs on Mac as well.
http://www.tekno.chalmers.se/~magolo/sy ... ra2.tar.gz
Unpack.
Set the export path. I don't have a Mac but on a PC it's located in
C:\Program Files\u-he\Zebra2\Modules\Oscillator\Factory OSCs
Should be similar on a Mac.
Or make a new folder to keep the Facotry OSC clean.

You can double-click on a window to import a wav file (it reads aiff as well IIRC).
You can choose to export both the raw waveform and a resynthesized one.
There's some keyboard shortcuts as well that the C++ version did'nt have for ease of use. I prefer it to the C++ version but some thought it was a tad slow. I have'nt noticed that myself. It's uglier than the C++ version though.

yep, totally missed ti, will check it out post hangover

[Kriminal]

where is the win version?

[jupiter8]

where is the win version?

It's made in Java so it works on Win as well. The C++ version is here:
http://www.tekno.chalmers.se/~magolo/sy ... Zebra2.zip
but i prefer the Java version for a number of reasons. The GUI is resizable,it exports the raw waves as well as the synthesized ones (the C++ only exports synthesized ones), you can double click on a window to access the file browser, there's keyboard shortcuts that speeds up things.

Someone mentioned some minor annoyances with the C++ version and there's an update at
http://www.box.net/shared/51hm28ddn6

I think he might have used an older version but i'm not sure.I've never heard about his problems before. There were some niggles with my box account yesterday (there's always something,isn't it? ) so i'm not sure if you can access it.

[Kriminal]

boxnet = user out of bandwidth

got the other version tho.

will test later, thanks

[jupiter8]

boxnet = user out of bandwidth

Yeah, i heard that yesterday. Why is a mystery though. I can't see that anything in particular has been dled that much. I've had much more traffic before without problems.

[Kriminal]

i did a quick test, loaded single cycle wav (16/44) and exported, but when i loaded it into zebra it doesnt show up, the window still shows previous osc shape

[jupiter8]

i did a quick test, loaded single cycle wav (16/44) and exported, but when i loaded it into zebra it doesnt show up, the window still shows previous osc shape

I just noticed that version is somewhat f***ed. Try and change to GeoBlend and it worked for me. I noticed that it indeed does'nt load into Osc2 as reported yesterday. You could just open the h2p file and change the #cm=OSC1 to #cm=OSC
and i believe it will work.

This whole deal is starting to get slightly frustrating. I can't reach my UNI site anymore for some reason that is unknown. And that bloody box.net has that stupid dl limitation.

http://sites.google.com/site/wav2zebra2 ... edirects=0
http://sites.google.com/site/wav2zebra2 ... edirects=0

Try these instead. Should be latest versions. My head is a bit dizzy right now.

[Kriminal]

tried again with new version, seemed to be ok. Loads it into Z2

it exports as a geo blend?

anyway, i'll give it a proper run later and get back to you

thanks again

[jupiter8]

tried again with new version, seemed to be ok. Loads it into Z2

it exports as a geo blend?

anyway, i'll give it a proper run later and get back to you

thanks again

I just doublechecked both versions and they work fine here. Z2 automagically sets it's mode to GeoBlend so no need to set that manually.

EDIT: Just thought i'd mention you need to cut it to a single cycle yourself. It does'nt do that automatique. I have some stuff that'll take care of that in the future but for now it's manual labour.

[Kriminal]

when i made some conversions earlier, i notice that the sine has a spike in...



is this a bug?

(i mean the sine that is in the last position, but the spike appears in some other postions on it way to morphing to the imported wav)