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rictheobscene · Post by **rictheobscene** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:13 am

Zebra is just too cool. Every time I work with it, I find some new cool thing I can do with it.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:13 am

+1 on that. In fact, Urs himself rocks. Such a nice, easygoing presence here on KVR, too (in contrast to a certain other very talented softsynth developer, who seems to take a somewhat more Preussian approach to customer interaction). 'nuff said…

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 5:48 am

rictheobscene wrote:Zebra is just too cool. Every time I work with it, I find some new cool thing I can do with it.

Me too.
Just discovered some really crazy stuff using the new XMF filter modes, again.
ACE also is a winner.

objectman · Post by **objectman** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:18 am

But super CPU hungry. It spatters out on my 3Ghz dual core. But I love the 50% of presets that don't. Are all presets available in draft mode? I don't mind working in draft if I can render out those nice fat sounds for a final piece.

PaulSC · Post by **PaulSC** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:20 am

objectman wrote:Are all the presets available in draft mode?

You can set quality to "draft" on a per-preset basis; that's the only way at present.

xx JPRacer xx · Post by **xx JPRacer xx** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:54 pm

objectman wrote:But super CPU hungry. It spatters out on my 3Ghz dual core.

On what presets? I have a E8500 o/c to 3.82 GHz and I think ACE is not that bad on the CPU. I think this had to do with the host. I've demo Ableton Live 8.1 this weekend and even a simple Zebra patch makes the CPU oscilliate to 5-20%. That same patch take 0-1% in energyXT. I think the biggest CPU spike I've seen in ACE (in XT) was when I did a big chord (8 notes chord) with a pad sound (can't remember wich one, was a preset with draft quality but that I've switched to accurate) and the CPU jump to 37%. I thought it was big because I've never seen this before for only one stynth but there's still plenty of free CPU available.

And all the tests were done with an audio buffer of 64, the lowest I can get with my soundcard.

rictheobscene · Post by **rictheobscene** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:12 pm

objectman wrote:But super CPU hungry. It spatters out on my 3Ghz dual core. But I love the 50% of presets that don't. Are all presets available in draft mode? I don't mind working in draft if I can render out those nice fat sounds for a final piece.

Hmmm... I have horsed around with most of the presets and have not encountered the issues you are alluding to. I have not specifically been looking for anything like this, but I will pay closer attention to it.

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:16 pm

objectman wrote:But super CPU hungry. It spatters out on my 3Ghz dual core. But I love the 50% of presets that don't. Are all presets available in draft mode? I don't mind working in draft if I can render out those nice fat sounds for a final piece.

my presets were designed on a crappy quadcore 6600..the problem with adjusting the quality of presets if created in "accurate" mode and then switched to "draft" is that you'll need to make a few adjustments to the filter settings as unpleasent hissing can occur just by doing the switch..not on all presets but some

Rob

tehlord · Post by **tehlord** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:29 pm

rob_lee wrote:
objectman wrote: crappy quadcore 6600

Dude, that's still a fast CPU even today

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:46 pm

symplectiq · Post by **symplectiq** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:55 pm

Another ass-liking thread. Count me in!

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:02 pm

Just in case, these is this thread dedicated to all kind of congratulations to urs and his work, unlike what it title suggest :

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... rs&start=0

Echo Voodoo · Post by **Echo Voodoo** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:58 am

rictheobscene wrote:
objectman wrote:But super CPU hungry. It spatters out on my 3Ghz dual core. But I love the 50% of presets that don't. Are all presets available in draft mode? I don't mind working in draft if I can render out those nice fat sounds for a final piece.
Hmmm... I have horsed around with most of the presets and have not encountered the issues you are alluding to. I have not specifically been looking for anything like this, but I will pay closer attention to it.

I think objectman was probably referring to ACE (U-He's newest synth), not Zebra. ACE is a CPU eater, whereas Zebra is pretty efficient. They are both fantastic synths.

rictheobscene · Post by **rictheobscene** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:31 pm

Echo Voodoo wrote:
rictheobscene wrote:
objectman wrote:But super CPU hungry. It spatters out on my 3Ghz dual core. But I love the 50% of presets that don't. Are all presets available in draft mode? I don't mind working in draft if I can render out those nice fat sounds for a final piece.
Hmmm... I have horsed around with most of the presets and have not encountered the issues you are alluding to. I have not specifically been looking for anything like this, but I will pay closer attention to it.
I think objectman was probably referring to ACE (U-He's newest synth), not Zebra. ACE is a CPU eater, whereas Zebra is pretty efficient. They are both fantastic synths.

Ah, that makes sense.

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