Zebra 2.5 Released!

[Urs]

Hi Urs, is this beta Snow Leopard-ready? :thanks:

Havn't heard much bad from Snow Leopard. It should just work.

I'm still working on Tiger and I'm eagerly awaiting this round of updates because once it's all out I'm switching right to Snow Leopard from here.

[auricle]

If you enjoy varying hues of grey, try living in Moscow. Today's weather is a beautiful shade of lead grey. Yesterday it was a breath-taking hue of concrete grey.

[popmoney]

We've got at wet brown grey here today.I think the sky is caving in

[mcnoone]

I installed the 2.5 9beta today, and it's working great. No problems so far.
I keep finding so many things that were improved. The osc phase and sync seem different, in a good way to my ears. Modulating the env attacks with velocity, is amazing. I don't think I could do that before. The XMF modes are the best. The overload seems more useful in altering the tone, then before too.
Great work Urs. Thanks for this.
I'll try to post some example sounds.

[billstei]

If you enjoy varying hues of grey, try living in Moscow. Today's weather is a beautiful shade of lead grey. Yesterday it was a breath-taking hue of concrete grey.

[bmrzycki]

I'll try to post some example sounds.

[HunterKiller]

If you enjoy varying hues of grey, try living in Moscow. Today's weather is a beautiful shade of lead grey. Yesterday it was a breath-taking hue of concrete grey.

Just get yourself a set of these



One for every day of the week.

[tipsch]

Hi Urs, is this beta Snow Leopard-ready? :thanks:

Havn't heard much bad from Snow Leopard. It should just work.

I'm still working on Tiger and I'm eagerly awaiting this round of updates because once it's all out I'm switching right to Snow Leopard from here.

Urs, I haven't had any luck getting the beta started as a demo in Logic 9.0.1/OS X 10.6.1. It doesn't pass AU validation at all. Downgrading to Tiger doesn't make much sense for my MBP.

My desktop is a G5/OSX 10.5.8, no big problems with Z2b9, apart from the the UI not being fast responsive.

[Urs]

It doesn't pass AU validation at all.

Hmmm... that would be strange - it passes here without a complaint. Maybe Apple changed the AU specs again?

[ZenPunkHippy]

The non-demo Zebra 2.5b9 is working fine here on Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and I've been using b7 up until just now without any issues.

Re-validated in the Logic 9 AU manager to double check, and it passes without any complaints.

Peace,
Andy.

[mcnoone]

I'm getting some digital artifact, or sounds like highend distortion for short intervals. It seems it's coming from using the aftertouch feature on this patch. In fact, something doesn't seem right with the aftertouch. It jumps in degrees too fast, in many of my 2.5 presets. The AT needs to be smoother. It isn't anymore.

Urs, I can send you the patch after work. It's in legato, and if you hold a note for any good length, you will hear it. The aftertouch just adds to the problem. It's a 2.5 patch with XMF being used.

[GMusic]

In moritz bank Pads, switching to the "Blur" preset from any other while the other is still releasing it's sound makes a horribly loud noise and nearly blew my ears out

there's other instances of this, but I just remember this one specifically.

[tipsch]

It doesn't pass AU validation at all.

Hmmm... that would be strange - it passes here without a complaint. Maybe Apple changed the AU specs again?

No idea. I do know there are quite a lot of problems known with Snow Leopard already. Possibly i have an unlucky install, didn't do a full clean installation (installed over Leopard).

[Urs]

It doesn't pass AU validation at all.

Hmmm... that would be strange - it passes here without a complaint. Maybe Apple changed the AU specs again?

No idea. I do know there are quite a lot of problems known with Snow Leopard already. Possibly i have an unlucky install, didn't do a full clean installation (installed over Leopard).

I installed over Leopard too.

Please open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and type teh following line (copy/paste will do):

auval -v aumu SMD2 UHfX

Then press enter/return and see what happens (there'll be gazillions of lines of gibberish). After a few seconds you'll either have "AU VALIDATION FAILED please correct errors above" or "AU VALIDATION SUCCEEDED". If former is the case, I'd be very greatful if you could send the whole content to me (email...).

It could btw. very well be that another AU crashes and thus Zebra is never checked.

Cheers,

Urs

[tipsch]

It doesn't pass AU validation at all.

Hmmm... that would be strange - it passes here without a complaint. Maybe Apple changed the AU specs again?

No idea. I do know there are quite a lot of problems known with Snow Leopard already. Possibly i have an unlucky install, didn't do a full clean installation (installed over Leopard).

I installed over Leopard too.

Please open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and type teh following line (copy/paste will do):

auval -v aumu SMD2 UHfX

Then press enter/return and see what happens (there'll be gazillions of lines of gibberish). After a few seconds you'll either have "AU VALIDATION FAILED please correct errors above" or "AU VALIDATION SUCCEEDED". If former is the case, I'd be very greatful if you could send the whole content to me (email...).

It could btw. very well be that another AU crashes and thus Zebra is never checked.

Cheers,

Urs

Thanks very much for the help Urs. After a thorough uninstallation and a clean installation of z2b9, all works fine! I had the component installed in both user and root components folder (likely because i did a quick pacifist install previously). My bad, very sorry.