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abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:06 am

Esgalachoir wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:
hakey wrote:XY Pads
Hell no.
If anything, those XY pads should get together and have little xy babies!

Xs and Ys have...Zs

Esgalachoir · Post by **Esgalachoir** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:27 am

abstractcats wrote:
Esgalachoir wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:
hakey wrote:XY Pads
Hell no.
If anything, those XY pads should get together and have little xy babies!
Xs and Ys have...Zs

Those is some cute lil' zebralettes...

raikard233 · Post by **raikard233** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:43 am

Howard wrote:Question: If Zebra *had* to lose a feature, which would you choose?

I only ask this out of curiosity - AFAIK there no plans to lose anything!

What would you never lose from the F1 of the synth softwares?

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:12 am

mcnoone wrote:XY pads? Nuts...they can be automated and set to a controller knob. They can be used to find newer sounds that fit better in a mix, more quickly and easier than individual knob tweaking.

Good point!

Ring Mod? You might have better luck trying the combination below on one channel slot. Try an oscillator/ring/shape/filter setup, and experiment with this, until you get something. It's great for things with fast attacks, and can give great sharpness to the attack.

Sure, but Ring modulation is especially interesting across two lanes, with FMO sine waves or simple SpectroBlend waves as inputs. Then control the pitch of one or both oscillators - experiment!

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:23 am

mcnoone wrote:XY pads? Nuts...

Well, the question was - 'If Zebra *had* to lose a feature, which would you choose?'

And I chose a feature that, *based upon my own usage*, I could live without.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:28 am

hakey wrote:...I chose a feature that, *based upon my own usage*, I could live without.

Not what I would choose, but

anyway!

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:26 am

The option to have a postage stamp sized gui. Though squeeee it's a cute little baby zeblet! I'll give it that.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:33 am

Howard wrote:
hakey wrote:...I chose a feature that, *based upon my own usage*, I could live without.
Not what I would choose, but anyway!

Though I'm not militantly against XY's, my minor gripe with them was catalysed through the Zebra patch contest - in particular the notion that adding any old XY assignments automatically improves a patch. So, in the contests, a patch with poorly assigned XYs would beat the same patch with none, which seemed somewhat contrary to a competition where the objective was *good* patch design.

Anyway, browsing recently I found this (very old) post:

Howard wrote:Urs asked me to assign X/Y - I refused point blank. My excuse is that I'm rather allergic to adding stuff I see as superfluous. Can't help it.
I'm not saying the X/Y controls aren't a great feature of Zebra2 (they are), it's just that I personally have no use for them because I always want to control everything live: notes + expression.

Which had me thinking, 'Oh good! So it's not just me!'.

But I guess you've changed your mind (or hardware?) since then?

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:53 am

Howard wrote:Sure, but Ring modulation is especially interesting across two lanes, with FMO sine waves or simple SpectroBlend waves as inputs. Then control the pitch of one or both oscillators - experiment!

Thanks for the tip, will try it out.

Cyoon · Post by **Cyoon** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:34 pm

So why should we have to lose a feature? For what reason and what could we expect to come instead? maybe it makes the decision easier..

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:39 pm

Zork wrote:So why should we have to lose a feature? For what reason and what could we expect to come instead? maybe it makes the decision easier..

Zebra light, 20% less fat!

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:31 pm

Tiny & Cute size's

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:20 pm

hakey wrote:...Anyway, browsing recently I found this (very old) post:
Howard wrote:Urs asked me to assign X/Y - I refused point blank. My excuse is that I'm rather allergic to adding stuff I see as superfluous. Can't help it.
I'm not saying the X/Y controls aren't a great feature of Zebra2 (they are), it's just that I personally have no use for them because I always want to control everything live: notes + expression.
Which had me thinking, 'Oh good! So it's not just me!'.

But I guess you've changed your mind (or hardware?) since then?

That post must be years old - yes, I've changed my mind a lot since then!

Dr.Gunjah · Post by **Dr.Gunjah** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:58 pm

compressor

rockmachine · Post by **rockmachine** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:47 pm

Even though some might not use the XY things, I can't imagine why it would be a feature you would want to lose. Even if you haven't used it much, it's definitely something worth experimenting with and you certainly don't need an XY controller to take advantage of it. Just try using one or the other axis wired to a hardware control output. By assiging one or more parameters to it, you can have huge amounts of timbral control and changes live, and it certainly makes Zebra a great live synth too.

I can see Urs tearing hair out now as he now contemplates adding and subtracting features at the same time.

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