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Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:11 pm

Forever 80's contains 64 vintage synth sounds from one of the most innovative decades of the 20th century - the 1980's - and covers many famous sounds heard in hit songs during that era.

http://xenossoundworks.com/zebra.html

Audio Demo:
http://xenossoundworks.com/resources/Ze ... s+Demo.mp3

Patch List

BA Analog Bass
BA Crushed
BA Digigrit
BA DX Bass 1
BA DX Bass 2
BA DX Bass 3
BA DX Bass 4
BA DX Bass 5
BA DX Slap Bass
BA OB-8 Bass
BA PPG Bass
BA Rapid Line
BA So Electric
BA Thick Moog
BA Thriller
BA Tom Sawyer
BA Too Much Time
BA Warm Analog
KB FM Ballad E. Piano
KB Gospel C3
KB Hybrid E. Piano
KB Jazzy B3
KB New Wave Harpsi
KB P5 1960's Organ
LD 80s Poly Lead
LD Brassy Lead
LD Classic Rock Lead
LD Elevation
LD Flash Light
LD Funkadelic
LD Funkmeister
LD Moog Lead
LD Porta Saw
LD Porta Square
LD Prophet 5 Sync
LD Square Soup
LD Squishy
LD Sunglasses
LD Tasty Pulsewave
LD The Phat Lady Sings
PD Analog Strings 1
PD Analog Strings 2
PD Big Juno Pad
PD Brittle Pad
PD Classic Ooh's
PD D50 Bell Pad
PD Juno 106 Strings
PD Lo-Fi Choir Pad
PD Prism
PD Soundtrack
PD Sweeping Harmonics
PD Warm Backdrop
SY Comp Synth
SY Digital Arp Food
SY DX Bells
SY DX Tubular Bells
SY Flutey Texture
SY JP-8 Brass
SY Juno 106 Dark Plucks
SY Meaty Polysynth
SY Realistik Brass
SY Soft Brass
SY Veridis Quo Arp Food
SY Wide Berth

C.Bennett · Post by **C.Bennett** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:22 pm

Absolutely essential stuff Bryan

Cheers,
Colin

Echo Voodoo · Post by **Echo Voodoo** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:09 am

I was listening to the demo and thinking "Hey, this sounds really nice!" Then I saw the price and thought "Just $7? What am I waiting for?" and clicked on the Paypal link right away.

Looking forward to getting the download link.

Edit: just received it, and played around with the sounds. I'm going to be using these sounds a lot, they're fantastic.

StickyWicket · Post by **StickyWicket** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:50 pm

Do you need the full version of Zebra to play these files or can they play in Kontakt, SampleTank, Dim Pro etc..??

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:09 pm

Wow, thank you, guys

. Really...thank you!

You know, this is my second vintage style soundbank release and I am yet again amazed at the positive reactions because vintage emulations are an entirely different animal altogether. They sound simple at first listen, but to me, they are paradoxically harder to do than monster "spaghetti patches" awash with obvious complexity because you have very sutbtle nuances that if you mess up, the purists will notice haha. As an example, on the Juno 106 style patches, I tried to emulate the actual stereo Juno chorus (setting II) and managed to get close enough, but still wasn't able to get it 100%. You hear a chorus effect going on, but there is none in the effect box - it's all LFOs and an extra OSC added to do the job, plus some adjustments on the osc-width settings.

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:14 pm

StickyWicket wrote:Do you need the full version of Zebra to play these files or can they play in Kontakt, SampleTank, Dim Pro etc..??

Hi there

These patches are usable with Zebra only. I read the other thread and I apologize to you personally for the delay in response as I tend to not check the "info" email as often as I should (most of my contact with customers is via my personal email).

C.Bennett · Post by **C.Bennett** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:32 pm

Bryan. Did I read somewhere that you'll be following this up with another 80s soundset? Part 2 maybe? If so - count me in for a pre-order

Cheers,
Colin

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:38 am

Colin Bennett wrote:Bryan. Did I read somewhere that you'll be following this up with another 80s soundset? Part 2 maybe? If so - count me in for a pre-order

Cheers,
Colin

Count on it

I'm hoping to get some good D-50 style sounds in here the second time around seeing as Zebra actually IS quite capable of emulating a significant number of the classic D-50 patches.

raikard233 · Post by **raikard233** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:31 pm

Great set!
I've just bought it to learn some techniques!

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 7:29 pm

raikard233 wrote:Great set!
I've just bought it to learn some techniques!

Hope you'll find the set educational

. Check out the use of veeeery short stereo delay in the "Too Much Time" bass patch to emulate a stereo widener effect, and the use of an additional OSC module in the Juno 106 string patch to emulate the Juno 106 "chorus II" setting (no actual chorus effect is being used). In the Prophet 5 Sync lead patch, an additional osc was discretely added to closer emulate the fundamental harmonic warmth of the real thing and I messed about with the phase setting to try and smooth out the sync modulation so it sounds less "quantized".

raikard233 · Post by **raikard233** » Sat Jul 17, 2010 9:44 pm

Xenos wrote:
raikard233 wrote:Great set!
I've just bought it to learn some techniques!
Hope you'll find the set educational . Check out the use of veeeery short stereo delay in the "Too Much Time" bass patch to emulate a stereo widener effect, and the use of an additional OSC module in the Juno 106 string patch to emulate the Juno 106 "chorus II" setting (no actual chorus effect is being used). In the Prophet 5 Sync lead patch, an additional osc was discretely added to closer emulate the fundamental harmonic warmth of the real thing and I messed about with the phase setting to try and smooth out the sync modulation so it sounds less "quantized".

Thank you for the tips, i was checking the "Too Much Time" patch just today!
The short delay is a clever effect, something like the LP filtered noise to emulate reverb on drum patches!

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 5:01 pm

Small bump.

Xenos has added a 7 preset demobank for this soundset. You can get it from the u-he patchlib:
http://u-he.com/PatchLib/presets/z2/Xen ... s_Demo.zip

or from Xenos' site itself:
http://xenossoundworks.com/resources/Ze ... s+DEMO.zip

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:29 pm

Did someone say "preorder for Part II"? Just bought Part I, and am loving it!

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:21 am

Hey thanks for the heads-up, bmrzycki. I didn't know my demo was uploaded to the U-he site

. Maybe Urs did that?

Jcsquire1, I'll have the second vintage soundset released soon, as well as a Dubstep and DnB bank, too

.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:44 am

Xenos wrote:Hey thanks for the heads-up, bmrzycki. I didn't know my demo was uploaded to the U-he site . Maybe Urs did that?

No problem.

It slipped under my radar and I noticed it when verifying links on the commercial presets section of the website.

I was the one that uploaded it to the u-he patchlib. I hope you don't mind.

There are some very nice sounds in the freebie demobank!

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"Forever 80's" for U-He Zebra Released!