Good resources to learn to program e.g. Diva, Zebra?

[savantgarde]

Are there any resources, e.g. books, that are particularly suited to learn to program u-he creations like Diva and Zebra?

[rockin1]

Are there any resources, e.g. books, that are particularly suited to learn to program u-he creations like Diva and Zebra?

Did you try the u-he channel on YouTube?

[xh3rv]

IMO - the manuals are really substantive, and digging through patches with the manual around is useful. Even simply transcribing patches to a blank instance or something like that has been really helpful to get at details that are really easy to gloss over visually or sonically.

More generally, I've been rereading the Sound On Sound synth secrets again the past couple days (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm). The series always seems to present something in a new way. Zebra is usually capable of working through the examples.

[hollo]

Are there any resources, e.g. books, that are particularly suited to learn to program u-he creations like Diva and Zebra?

Did you try the u-he channel on YouTube?

I would also advice to go thru the videos made by Howard on
Youtube u-he channel.

They are brilliant, and if you'll follow them on your Zebra, and saving in to a preset folder,
you will remember them better and learn a lot from them.

[pdxindy]

Are there any resources, e.g. books, that are particularly suited to learn to program u-he creations like Diva and Zebra?

Did you try the u-he channel on YouTube?

I would also advice to go thru the videos made by Howard on
Youtube u-he channel.

They are brilliant, and if you'll follow them on your Zebra, and saving in to a preset folder,
you will remember them better and learn a lot from them.

+1

[savantgarde]

Thanks guys Both watching the youtube videos and re-creating patches sound like excellent ideas.

[xinx]

A good way to understand synthesis with those VST's is to first understand how sound synthesis works, it will be way easier then, especially because you can have the picture of the sound you want in mind and thanks to that knowledge you can achieve it thanks to the oscillators. Just begin with basics then according to what you want to achieve try different sorts of synthesis.
After if you want to know more about the special features of those VST, the manuals provided are more than enough. Anyway, as the others said, the youtube channel is great ; check also the presets and try to understand them.


Keep on the work!

[Sendy]

Keeping an oscilloscope and (more importantly) a rolling spectrograph open whenever you're having a synthing session has been invaluable to me. Just remember that they're tools and don't become reliant on them for artistic/aesthetic decisions, and they'll show you in an intuitive way how synthesis works.