I've heard a couple of people on youtube say that this parameter controls aliasing and the general sound quality of the oscillator, this is completely untrue in my experience.
AFAIK, resolution controls the frequency at which the waveform is re-calculated for wave-morphing AND osc FX, and NOTHING MORE (please correct me if I'm wrong).
For example if you have a static waveform, which you are pitch bending, filtering, and otherwise processing outside of the oscillator section, resolution is irrelevent and may as well be set to 0.
I'm not 100% sure on that, but it fits my experience. I'd appreciate any insight others have.
Another neat little factoid is, you can use the resolution parameter as an effect. Lowering it will make timbre transitions less like 'morphing' and more like 'crossfading', which has the effect of making Zebra sound like those old vector and wavetable synths which used to rapidly crossfade between harmonically related sets of waveforms (presumably because morphing was too computationally intensive in the 80's).
Oscillator resolution parameter clarification station (Zebra)
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- KVRAF
- 5223 posts since 20 Jul, 2010
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- u-he
- 30216 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
You're correct. Resolution controls the threshold of change that has to happen before the waveform is recalculted.
Although Zebra doesn't do granular synthesis, it's pretty much so based on it.
Although Zebra doesn't do granular synthesis, it's pretty much so based on it.