Free Zebra Piano patch

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thanks for the patch!

[mcnoone]

The low notes sound (especially) great, McNoone! .
How long have you been working on this?

It actually took a short time. Maybe about an hour for the osc1, and vcf1 setup. Just playing with the osc spectral fx. The added waves, and xy, and arp settings, took a lot longer. I just used the vcf2, to dampen some of the brightness, but the vcf2, isn't really needed.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

[mcnoone]

CM is all I currently have and I'd love to hear this piano.

K-Bee, You can also download the Zebra2.3 demo, which you can then use for 10 minute intervals, after reloading it. Just put any Zebra presets you want in the U-he/Zebra 2, presets folder, and you can hear any preset you want.
Including the one's below.

[hakey]

I've tinkered around with MC's piano patch (kind of an amazing discovery he made there!) and come up with a variation. I was trying to extend the realistic piano tone a bit further up the scale - which I think I've had some success with (?) - but I then got carried away and ended up with something a little different:

Old Grandee

The Comb, Delay and Reverb are being used to mimic the sympathetic resonance that occurs where all of the strings in a piano vibrate a little every time a string is hammered. I think it works to a degree, but it might not be to everyone's taste. The CPU hit is quite high due mainly to the very long release of Env4, which is routed to the Comb's VCA channel - if it's a big problem, turning down the release helps.


(I PM'd a link to MC, but he couldn't get the h2p file to work - reckons it's a corrupt file. I've dl'd the same h2p and got it working in Zebra 2.3.1 and 2.3.3, so I'm not sure what the problem is there. I'd appreciate it if someone can try this just to check if it works.)

[mcnoone]

I got a good tone for the upper keys just by changing the 2nd spectral fx setting "Fractalz" and moving from the left side + to the right - at about a quarter the way over. You could just use the modmatrix setting to make the mod wheel do that sfx change instead of the current setting it has. Then moving the mod wheel for playing upper or lower notes.
The digital background hiss, you hear can only go away by turning off "sync", as you stated before, but the sound needs the sync set on at that setting or it doesn't work.
In a mix though, that wouldn't be heard anyway.
Eleven is a great mode. It just gets a lot of noise when using sync, or modulating the phase. At least with most waveforms anyway.
I'll check your recreation patch out tomorrow.
1am here...
See ya.

[hakey]

The digital background hiss, you hear can only go away by turning off "sync", as you stated before, but the sound needs the sync set on at that setting or it doesn't work.

All I did was clone Osc1's settings to Osc2, turn sync off for Osc2 and then cross fade between the two Osc's over an octave. Not a particularly clever or elegant solution, but there you go

Eleven is a great mode.

Agreed, you can get some interesting timbres just by switching Eleven on.

[K-Bee]

Well, better late than never!
It took 6 months but I finally managed to check these Zebra piano patches out.

Obviously these sound nothing like real pianos but they have a lot of character of their own and they are easily suited for funky house in particular.
the Mc plain piano patch has that early 90s house sound to it and I was actually reminded of some of the presets on the old Roland P330 piano module. Cranking up the mod wheel gives a metallic FM piano sound I usually only get from my old DX7 And who am I to argue with that!
The old grandee patch hakey did is nice too but I think the sound actually lies closer to a Wurlitzer than a piano to be honest, especially when in the c4 - c6 area on the keyboard. No problem though, 'cause I love Wurlitzers

I'm gonna have to dig deeper in to this Zebra demo and see what else it can do. I'm usually a Rompler/Stage Piano kinda guy (Kurzweil 'n stuff) but so far I'm quite impressed with this synth.

Nice job all

[pdxindy]

I'm gonna have to dig deeper in to this Zebra demo and see what else it can do. I'm usually a Rompler/Stage Piano kinda guy (Kurzweil 'n stuff) but so far I'm quite impressed with this synth.

Nice job all

Zebra can do a wide variety of piano-ish/keyboard sounds with a lot of playability.

[JackD]

Kudos, .... this is very impressive. Most good FM pianos fall apart in the lower octaves, this one sounds great there. Hats off to ya.

[ZebraTamer]

attempt to recreate Tablas in Zebra 2.5


http://www.zshare.net/audio/73071309d02a6ab7/







Danke Urs, für diesen wunderbaren Synthesizer.

[mcnoone]

attempt to recreate Tablas in Zebra 2.5
http://www.zshare.net/audio/73071309d02a6ab7/

Nice.
Are you going to share the patch too?

[mellotronaut]

attempt to recreate Tablas in Zebra 2.5


http://www.zshare.net/audio/73071309d02a6ab7/







Danke Urs, für diesen wunderbaren Synthesizer.

na Streifentier, wieder im Lande?

[ZebraTamer]

attempt to recreate Tablas in Zebra 2.5
http://www.zshare.net/audio/73071309d02a6ab7/

Nice.
Are you going to share the patch too?

Thanks.
At the moment I won't share it, because the "patch"
consits of several patches.
If I'm able to convert them in one, i'll post it.
For now, it is too inefficient and not perfect at all

[ZebraTamer]

attempt to recreate Tablas in Zebra 2.5


http://www.zshare.net/audio/73071309d02a6ab7/







Danke Urs, für diesen wunderbaren Synthesizer.

na Streifentier, wieder im Lande?

was heißt wieder?

[mellotronaut]

attempt to recreate Tablas in Zebra 2.5


http://www.zshare.net/audio/73071309d02a6ab7/







Danke Urs, für diesen wunderbaren Synthesizer.

na Streifentier, wieder im Lande?

was heißt wieder?

neuer name, alter hase (vielleicht)