Hi,
Found this kind of thing that is in prototyping stage and I'm quite excited about it. Should the controls that this controller offer, work in Zebra?
Polyphonic pressure sensitivity, individual pitch changes and Continuum style vertical sliding?
Side question: What features of Zebra can't be controlled "polyphonicly" with velocity or keyfollow?
Linnstrument + Zebra?
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- KVRist
- 392 posts since 1 Jul, 2004
This mode is called multi mono mode / guitar mode / multi mode amongst other names. Unfortunately few synths support it. The u-he synths only support one continuous per-note dimension with aftertouch atm., but Urs mentioned that he thinks about adding support for polyphonic pitchbend, modulation, expression etc. at some point.
That would be really great!
Until now what you can do is to get you a sub host that supports a midi channel splitter (like Bidule or Usine etc.) and host various instances of the same plugin (each of them in mono mode) in it. Works but is not as convenient as it could be - especially when tweaking patches. And that many synth instances eat CPU for lunch, so some complex patches are only possible with reduced polyphony (= less plugin instances).
If you work with Bidule and want to try that out just say so, I can provide you a schematic that does the updating of 15 Zebra instances based on one reference instance at least semi-automatic.
Best chance to get native support for this would presumably be if Urs makes himself a nice present in the form of an Eigenharp/Continuum/Soundplane/Linnstrument/etc. at some point - I bet multi mono mode support would be implemented within days for his synths then as multi mono mode makes synths soo much more useful with these expressive controllers.
Perhaps we should start a collection...
Greetings,
NothanUmber
That would be really great!
Until now what you can do is to get you a sub host that supports a midi channel splitter (like Bidule or Usine etc.) and host various instances of the same plugin (each of them in mono mode) in it. Works but is not as convenient as it could be - especially when tweaking patches. And that many synth instances eat CPU for lunch, so some complex patches are only possible with reduced polyphony (= less plugin instances).
If you work with Bidule and want to try that out just say so, I can provide you a schematic that does the updating of 15 Zebra instances based on one reference instance at least semi-automatic.
Best chance to get native support for this would presumably be if Urs makes himself a nice present in the form of an Eigenharp/Continuum/Soundplane/Linnstrument/etc. at some point - I bet multi mono mode support would be implemented within days for his synths then as multi mono mode makes synths soo much more useful with these expressive controllers.
Perhaps we should start a collection...
Greetings,
NothanUmber
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 197 posts since 12 Mar, 2011
Hi,
Thanks for info. Yep would be really cool to have these capabilities at somepoint. Not very timely matter for me, for the moment all those available controllers are too expensive
. Doesn't stop me from daydreaming though .
I imagine that many synthesizer players would become more interested when the price point of these types of controllers comes down.
Thanks for info. Yep would be really cool to have these capabilities at somepoint. Not very timely matter for me, for the moment all those available controllers are too expensive
. Doesn't stop me from daydreaming though .I imagine that many synthesizer players would become more interested when the price point of these types of controllers comes down
.