Sylenth1 "vs" zebra ?

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Urs wrote: Sorry, yeah... I havn't had the time to add it to other skins... :oops:
that explains a lot :D are there other 2.3.2 features that we can currently only find in the standard skin?

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polyfonken wrote:
Urs wrote: Sorry, yeah... I havn't had the time to add it to other skins... :oops:
that explains a lot :D are there other 2.3.2 features that we can currently only find in the standard skin?
Not yet... I think...

But the final Z2.5 will have 12 ModMatrix slots. And the "OSC Reset" button will be replaced by a drop down menu (with the "iterate" flag set to "yes" so that it cycles through 3 states when clicking). Plus, two buttons for undo/redo.

We'll see... it's going to be a mjor thing, it'll take some time to explain all the differences. Thankfully though you can use the gui editor by then. Updating existing skins will thus be simple.

;) Urs

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To the OP: I've been using Z2 for a while now. Then I heard of Sylenth and all this praise how it sounds so awesome and full of win.. so I thought I'd give it a spin..

I tried it and thought to myself "sounds pretty sweet"! But after a few minutes, I started 'cloning' the sylenth presets with Z2, and felt that the patches that I cloned into Zebra actually sounded better than the Sylenth ones, especially without FX :))

One last nail to the coffin: Sylenth has no microtuning support. Zebra has had this for a long time. I consider microtuning to be essential in a modern softsynth.

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tetsuneko wrote:To the OP: I've been using Z2 for a while now. Then I heard of Sylenth and all this praise how it sounds so awesome and full of win.. so I thought I'd give it a spin..

I tried it and thought to myself "sounds pretty sweet"! But after a few minutes, I started 'cloning' the sylenth presets with Z2, and felt that the patches that I cloned into Zebra actually sounded better than the Sylenth ones, especially without FX :))

One last nail to the coffin: Sylenth has no microtuning support. Zebra has had this for a long time. I consider microtuning to be essential in a modern softsynth.

What's microtuning? Do you mean tuning the Osc's in detail?

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microtuning is the ability to configure the tone generators to use other musical scales than the western 12-semitones per octave, like indian, african, arabic and other esoteric tunings.

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tetsuneko wrote:microtuning is the ability to configure the tone generators to use other musical scales than the western 12-semitones per octave, like indian, african, arabic and other esoteric tunings.
Ah I see. All that is a bit beyond my current capabilities I'm afraid!! :hihi:

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grandmasterbird wrote:
tetsuneko wrote:microtuning is the ability to configure the tone generators to use other musical scales than the western 12-semitones per octave, like indian, african, arabic and other esoteric tunings.
Ah I see. All that is a bit beyond my current capabilities I'm afraid!! :hihi:
You've got company! :( :hihi:

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Oh this is just great :x now I find out that Sylenth1 has a bigger bum and smaller tits.

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elxicano wrote:
grandmasterbird wrote:
tetsuneko wrote:microtuning is the ability to configure the tone generators to use other musical scales than the western 12-semitones per octave, like indian, african, arabic and other esoteric tunings.
Ah I see. All that is a bit beyond my current capabilities I'm afraid!! :hihi:
You've got company! :( :hihi:
Actually, these scales can be downloaded (there are a huge number of them) and then just uploaded into Zebra. It's easy. You don't have to create them yourself.

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billstei wrote:Oh this is just great :x now I find out that Sylenth1 has a bigger bum and smaller tits.
Not at all. Sylenth1 is a great synth. Zebra 2 is a great synth. It IS possible to love and use both.

FWIW, CM gave both synths 10/10, and both are routinely featured in their tutorial details.

Urs generously gave the world ZebraCM which I use quite a bit. I bought Sylenth1 during a group buy for something like a nickel.

Now while my music doesn't really require me to buy any more synths, I am saving my pennies for Urs' highly regarded Uh-bik (sp?) effect series.

Cheers
-B
Berfab
So many plugins, so little time...

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I own both. And USE both.

They compliment each other quite well in my book. Clearly two distinct entities, however that is exactly how the pair co-exist in my eyes. As different as night and day - but both having their rightful place.

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Yes but the Chinese pictograph for White Noise is a picture of two synths living under the same roof.

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