ZebraX - Who He? U-He... Speed modeling session in XT2.

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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8602770/ZebraX.mp3

Drumaxx - Kick Drum - the only drum sound in the track.

EVERYTHING ELSE!

ZebraCM
Zebra2
Podolski
Zebralette
Tryell N6V2
Zebrify

One of each mostly, maybe a couple of instances in a couple of other cases.
No external FX apart from some ADVerb touching up a couple of auxs....


EnergyXT2, from init to mastered mp3 - about 2 hours. So don't knock it!


No notes played apart from quarter beats on the bar, one off the bar and one eighth notes on the bar. Everything you hear is u-he's amazing Tech making it up as it goes along - gating, flanging, melodies on the fly. Closest you can get to 'Press this button to make track!'.



Very quick to make and very quick to load in the session. This whole track loads in about 2 seconds flat on a very average computer - testament to the speed of XT2 and the amazingly light resource usage of u-he's synths. Some might draw a bit more CPU to get where they want to go to reach the finish line, but they don't hang around at the starting gate, so to speak. This surprised me, in a good way.

Reminds me of the speed modeling sessions they used to have on one of the 3D forums I used to frequent. CGTalk if irc...


Might be a fun thing to try out sometime in the Cafe if anyone else is up for it.
Say, pick a night a few of us agree on. Choose our weapons. Choose our limits/boundaries (i.e. 3 hours max). Choose a mod to oversee to ensure no cheating (if possible).

Anyway. Just a silly thought. Feel free to rip the track, sample it, makey money out of it, as usual.

And then go buy the Synths/FX!

[Brittlestem]

Great track, kudos if you really wrote/recorded it in such a short space of time!

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Great track, kudos if you really wrote/recorded it in such a short space of time!

Cheers.

Well this one was quick even by my standards, but the whole point was I wasn't 'trying' to make a track. I just got carried away with demoing the u-he synths and the noises they made, led me on...

I have all the .XT source files and I think there are about a dozen in all - it was late last night - about five in the morning so I'm a bit foggy, but I don't mind zipping up the entire archive from inception to completion and then including the project file from Studio One 2 which I used to quickly Barricade and convert to mp3.

I know you aren't calling me a liar (even though I might have exaggerated slightly), but talking of the speed modeling thing has made me wonder how we could all ratify such a thing.

I think all of the source files from start to finish would be the ultimate way of telling and probably only needed in the case of disputes.

It may be that I spent 4 hours on the track, and I am lying. I can understand that. Time drifts. But, all I can do is honestly offer up everything I did. It shouldn't be too difficult to tell when scrutinized by someone that knows what they are doing.

I just thought that a live Moderator around at such a contest could save a lot of time checking shit later, for what is, let's be honest, just a bit of fun, with no reward.


Then again, who knows, maybe u-he would be up for providing a free soundset or something to the guy that wrote the best patch from init, in ten minutes! And the best/worst tarnce track in 20 minutes. I'm game!

I'm talking off the top of my head here, and out of my arse, so I'll shut up.


But no, I will happily post the entire project history for this. It would set a good precedent. Not a problem at all.

But that speed modeling stuff was an afterthought that came literally as I was posting.

This really was just originally about showing what amazing synths u-he makes. The point wasn't how wonderful my composition was or my sound design (none are present here) - just that these synths are very quick, very light on CPU and very mysterious with how they can organically take over a track. Oh, and a LOT of fun!






EDIT:

I've just had a look at the project files - The whole project took 2 hours and 20 minutes from start to finish. Any one that asks for a project file, I will post the entire project history, it's only about 50MB which I can .zip or wavpack and put in my dropbox. All done in XT2.

[DaMuh]

Very quick to make and very quick to load in the session. This whole track loads in about 2 seconds flat on a very average computer - testament to the speed of XT2 and the amazingly light resource usage of u-he's synths.

Have you ever tried diva? ^^

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Very quick to make and very quick to load in the session. This whole track loads in about 2 seconds flat on a very average computer - testament to the speed of XT2 and the amazingly light resource usage of u-he's synths.

Have you ever tried diva? ^^

No.

Just like women, I don't look at what I can't buy. Er, I think that might have come out wrong .

I'm sure my o/c'd i5 would have no problems with it, but I mainly work on a few years old triple core 1.8GHz laptop.

I don't mind rendering down, as obviously I had to do that quite a bit with the Zebra demo, but it's a pain. Hence one of the reasons I want to get the full Zebra2 - it's just so damn reasonable with the Cpu.



cheers.

[seismic1]

It's good to hear somebody else here using energyXT. I reckon this would make a great intro for an extended psytrance track. Very impressive for a couple of hours' work. I must get hold of Zebra one of these days.

Good work