"Yes we can"Baz_Masterplan wrote:My only observation (not criticism) is that there are not many dirty gritty biting patches. Seems to be a trait of Zebra but you cant have everything. (or can you???)
Zebra Oldskool News
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- KVRAF
- 4197 posts since 23 May, 2004 from Bad Vilbel, Germany
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- KVRist
- 354 posts since 19 Jul, 2007
hi michael,mkastrup wrote: At first this was ment to be a release with focus on drums but the workflow with tons of Zebra's used for drums is not that smart after all so drums will be released as a sampled kit later on.
i would love to know why? would one zebra per drum track eat too much cpu, then? i thought that it would be quite flexible to have such a synth drum machine that you can tweak in real time - as opposed to samples? or would it be too complicated, controller wise?
cheers
f
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1100 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from Copenhagen, Denmark
Hi ffas1piano wrote:hi michael,mkastrup wrote: At first this was ment to be a release with focus on drums but the workflow with tons of Zebra's used for drums is not that smart after all so drums will be released as a sampled kit later on.
i would love to know why? would one zebra per drum track eat too much cpu, then? i thought that it would be quite flexible to have such a synth drum machine that you can tweak in real time - as opposed to samples? or would it be too complicated, controller wise?
cheers
f
Well to be honest when working with drum kits the best thing is to have a setup made in advance spread out on one single keyboard. First of all there is the balance thing, then the panning, then ambience, compression etc..
Its not an CPU issue, but a question of workflow. Now i do know that some people like to tweak but the tweaking for drums is in 90% cases a EQ thing and not a synthesis thing. What matters is to have good clean material to start from, meaning material which is pure synthesis without any artifacts.
Most drum samples on the market are tampered with in some way, you may not hear that right away but when you start EQ'ing and compressing some artifacts like noise, irregular frequencies etc. shows up.
My plan with a sampled drumkit is to have a kit where you can raise any frequency to the extreme without artifacts and if you use compression the only noise you will hear is the compressor it self.
Most of my drums ideas are already in the Oldskool Soundset and i usually use it as a start of base. The sampled kit will be a perfected version of some of these setups made ready to use without any hassle.
/Michael
www.xsynth.com - Sound Synthesis with Vintage flavour
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- KVRist
- 354 posts since 19 Jul, 2007
sounds good, michael, for sure.
i have a few percussion patches where wild things happen when you use the mod wheel and/or some knobs. these might be mapped to fm operators or some characteristics of a physical model used. i thought somehting along these lines could be interesting. true, this is made more for a percussion/sound thing than for building the basic drum track.
i will check out old school.
fab
i have a few percussion patches where wild things happen when you use the mod wheel and/or some knobs. these might be mapped to fm operators or some characteristics of a physical model used. i thought somehting along these lines could be interesting. true, this is made more for a percussion/sound thing than for building the basic drum track.
i will check out old school.
fab
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- KVRAF
- 2545 posts since 22 Jun, 2004 from Paris. Well, not far.
Well I've got a theme for you if you like. You know I love early synth funk... And I'm sure Zebra can do it well with the right presets (with a little bit of dirt added in, like in Poly-Ana for instance, or even ImpOscar)mkastrup wrote:Hi tboulettetboulette wrote:To the extent this might imply a vol. 4 at some point, please allow me to be the first to say: "Woohoo!"
It would be nice to have another new theme, i'm just having trouble seeing what kinda theme it should be because atm. i just doing sounds with no purpose in mind other than having fun. But eventually something is bound to show up when i have enough of one type of presets.
/Michael
So...how about an early Prince soundset? His early albums, say Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, even Purple Rain? Each patch bearing the name of the song it comes from... just an idea...
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1100 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from Copenhagen, Denmark
Not a bad idea at all since it gives a clear indication of what to expect and what needs to be done.
/Michael
/Michael
www.xsynth.com - Sound Synthesis with Vintage flavour
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- KVRian
- 710 posts since 17 Jan, 2005 from Amsterdam
dacaumodo wrote:So...how about an early Prince soundset? His early albums, say Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, even Purple Rain? Each patch bearing the name of the song it comes from... just an idea...
I'd buy in the minute it's available.Michael, we know you can do it. Go for it
Just keep in mind to never ever mention Prince or any of his songs or you get sued 
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- KVRist
- 407 posts since 23 Oct, 2006 from Northern New England
Right. You'll have to refer to them similar to the way Jamey Aebersold refers to jazz tunes that are still in copyright, e.g.:bM3w wrote:dacaumodo wrote:So...how about an early Prince soundset? His early albums, say Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999, even Purple Rain? Each patch bearing the name of the song it comes from... just an idea...
Michael, we know you can do it. Go for it
"If I was your significant other of the same gender"
"Face"
"Soiled Brain"
"Disagreement"
"I'd like to be the person you sleep with"
"Small rose Chevy"
"Sibling"
Points (of some sort) for the person who can identify these....
"Enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll be killed in a knife fight."
-- Chris in the morning
-- Chris in the morning
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- KVRian
- 710 posts since 17 Jan, 2005 from Amsterdam
"If I was your significant other of the same gender"tboulette wrote:Points (of some sort) for the person who can identify these....
-> If I Was Your Girlfriend
"Face"
->Head
"Soiled Brain"
-> Dirty Mind
"Disagreement"
->Controversy
"I'd like to be the person you sleep with"
-> (I am) The One
"Small rose Chevy"
-> Little Red Corvette
"Sibling"
->Sister
Gimme the points
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- KVRian
- 1394 posts since 6 May, 2005 from Michigan, USA
I'd be all for a set of retro synth funk sounds. 
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New album, Chasing Fire, out now on Amazon, iTunes, etc.
Bandcamp: https://davidvector.bandcamp.com/releases
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- KVRist
- 407 posts since 23 Oct, 2006 from Northern New England
Sorry, that's "I wanna be your lover". But as a consolation prize, you get one of these:bM3w wrote:"I'd like to be the person you sleep with"
-> (I am) The One
Gimme the points
"Enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll be killed in a knife fight."
-- Chris in the morning
-- Chris in the morning
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- KVRist
- 407 posts since 23 Oct, 2006 from Northern New England
A+zvenx wrote:Don't know I am the one
but wasn't that
I wanna be your lover which has some of my favourite synthwork of his.
rsp
"I wanna be your lover" may be my favorite track of his, period....
"Enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll be killed in a knife fight."
-- Chris in the morning
-- Chris in the morning
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- KVRAF
- 2545 posts since 22 Jun, 2004 from Paris. Well, not far.
I should have thought "Dirty Mind" = Unclean Soul or something...
Well in any case I'd buy the soundset in a flash. Now if you reproduced that synth solo patch on "Head"...errr... i mean "Uppermost part of the body"...
Well in any case I'd buy the soundset in a flash. Now if you reproduced that synth solo patch on "Head"...errr... i mean "Uppermost part of the body"...