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mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:57 am

tboulette wrote:
mkastrup wrote:Bumpy dumpy with a Lounge relaxing jazzy tune:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/MK_MellowStream.mp3

All Zebra, only used stereo widening on master out.

Have fun listening

/Michael
Awesome, as usual..... And makes me want to turn in my DAW for a spatula.

Hey tboulette, maybe a picture can inspire you then

Its a screenshot of the total setup for that tune in Cubase 4.

http://www.xsynth.com/download/mellowstream.png

When i decided to mix it i realized that the small mid-hi EQ adjustments i had done on various Zebra instances was more or less around the same spot so i returned to the default value for the sounds and made the EQ adjustment on the master instead.

/Michael

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Thu May 28, 2009 9:34 am

mkastrup wrote:Bumpy dumpy with a Lounge relaxing jazzy tune:
http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/MK_MellowStream.mp3
All Zebra, only used stereo widening on master out.
Have fun listening
/Michael

Wow. Thanks for this. Just finished listening to this song. It sounds fantastic, and the production is top notch. I have all the demo sounds from your website, and the newskool set. So thanks for the inspiration.
Cheers,

Michael

dburns · Post by **dburns** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:38 pm

Really nice, MK!

I second the comments on your patches. I find them so inspiring!

Thanks for creating such great music and wonderful tools.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:48 pm

mkastrup wrote:Bumpy dumpy with a Lounge relaxing jazzy tune:
http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/MK_MellowStream.mp3

As always your works are inspiring and excellently composed. I love the dynamic range in your songs too; proof you don't subscribe to the "compress the hell out of everything" school of thought that is so common today.

I especially liked the glass bell-ish sound panned a bit to the mid right. Are all those presets in the commercial banks or are you at the sound design again?

Is there somewhere I can download all your mp3s for my ipod? I'd rather not have to scour the threads for your links. Maybe a page on your blog/website with an "all my music" links?

Cheers!

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:49 pm

mkastrup wrote:Its a screenshot of the total setup for that tune in Cubase 4.
http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/mellowstream.png

Ok, I gotta ask. How do you know what track is what when they're all named Zebra2?

dburns · Post by **dburns** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:54 pm

Here's a noodle featuring Z2, MK, and EWI.

It's ten minutes long, and may put you to sleep. But, what can I say, I love Robert Rich!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... dID=874598

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Thu May 28, 2009 6:37 pm

bmrzycki wrote:
mkastrup wrote:Bumpy dumpy with a Lounge relaxing jazzy tune:
http://www.xsynth.com/demos/MK_MellowStream.mp3

As always your works are inspiring and excellently composed. I love the dynamic range in your songs too; proof you don't subscribe to the "compress the hell out of everything" school of thought that is so common today.

I especially liked the glass bell-ish sound panned a bit to the mid right. Are all those presets in the commercial banks or are you at the sound design again?

Is there somewhere I can download all your mp3s for my ipod? I'd rather not have to scour the threads for your links. Maybe a page on your blog/website with an "all my music" links?

Cheers!

Well the Zebra demos page on www.xsynth.com might do the trick for most parts

Sounds used for that tune is tweaked 50% oldies and 50% new (which will see the light someday)

dburns wrote:Here's a noodle featuring Z2, MK, and EWI.

It's ten minutes long, and may put you to sleep. But, what can I say, I love Robert Rich!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... dID=874598

Dave, that tune was super, really liked it, thx for sharing

I'm also fan of Rich like music

/Michael

sinzero · Post by **sinzero** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:13 pm

mkastrup wrote:Bumpy dumpy with a Lounge relaxing jazzy tune:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/MK_MellowStream.mp3

All Zebra, only used stereo widening on master out.

Have fun listening

/Michael

another chillitz from meister MK! very nice

thx!

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:38 am

Music made with Zebrify

Other than a somewhat percussive motif and a brassy bit at the end, all of the amplitude on all patches is sourced from me singing (some pretty heavy reverb used too). I think this really changes the nature of the sound as it's not envelope-driven, there is movement in the amplitude that either consciously or sub-consciously audible has a different feel that I hope is appreciated (as an interesting technique)

The percussive motif is Zebra + a similar Zebrify patch adding transients whose amplitude is from percussive samples. The brassy bit is a more or less random vocal a cappella track found in Creative Commons, chopped up and resequenced, and run through a Zebrify patch tracking the pitch and amplitude - there are characteristics in this sound in the end that I can't imagine ever getting from envelopes and LFOs etc. I'd imagine a good vocalist could essentially play Zebrify with their voice (I'm not winning American Idol anytime soon, have no real mic etc.)

billstei · Post by **billstei** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:56 am

xh3rv wrote:Music made with Zebrify

That's really cool

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:04 am

billstei wrote:
xh3rv wrote:Music made with Zebrify
That's really cool

One of the patches is Urs saying 'a'

sinzero · Post by **sinzero** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:39 am

xh3rv wrote:Music made with Zebrify

it's about time I look into zebrify. Where should I start?

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:43 am

sinzero wrote:
xh3rv wrote:Music made with Zebrify

it's about time I look into zebrify. Where should I start?

The second bottom tab labeled 'Input'.

First thing is to get a handle on dialing in good settings for the envelope follower and transient detector, it's not hard but I think it'll always need adjustment depending on what audio is going through Zebrify. Drum loops are good here, try getting VCF1 to modulate with EnvFol1 and Transient in the modulation menu.

Next, I think the channel mixer 'Mix' modules are really important, using the ModMatrix to automate a mixer can turn it into a gate, more or less. The audio being fed into Zebrify can be distrubuted to each column of the Zebrify grid by the Input Mixer. Right-click routing is also a must at times. Try modulating volume controls anywhere in Zebrify with EnvFol / Transient.

To do pitch-tracking of a monophonic, tonal source (like, not drums and not chords), set input to 'input' on the tab w/ the keyboard, MIDI takes sidechain MIDI and I'm not real clear on how In Qtz is different from 'Input'. On the pitch-tracker section of the second tab, there's a box that has "percussive", change that to "voiced" or "clear". I'm not completely clear on everything in this area, but some of it is pretty obvious. While I think pitch-tracking will really shine on not-VA-Synth input, feeding Zebrify a sine wave patch works pretty well for getting a handle on the pitch-tracking.

One should be careful when adding oscillators, FM, combs, noise - they can be pretty loud as they load in active. While Zebrify without these is a pretty interesting effects unit, with these it's a lot more.

sinzero · Post by **sinzero** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:11 pm

thank you!

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:25 pm

From the MSEG thread and i picked up an idea which was given a full Zebra treatment.

I made a screenshot of the setup to give you an idea of how this arrangement was made:

http://www.xsynth.com/download/MK_Mechanical_Setup.png

and the track is here:

http://www.xsynth.com/demos/MK_Mechanical.mp3

Have fun listening

/Michael

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KVR Audio

Music made with Zebra