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olikana · Post by **olikana** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:38 am

EdHarvey wrote:Another choir - A bit more synthy than the 'pseudo-realistic' one, but fun to pay nonetheless

PPG Choir

omfg sounds like the real thing, if not better!
you made it through plain synthesis or you used the wavetozebra thingy?
I use sq8l for these sort of choirs but maybe i should finally jump on zebra

snigelx · Post by **snigelx** » Mon Jul 01, 2013 8:29 pm

EdHarvey wrote:Another choir - A bit more synthy than the 'pseudo-realistic' one, but fun to pay nonetheless

PPG Choir

Excellent Ed. Did you use your own WT's or a pair of OSC already available?

EdHarvey · Post by **EdHarvey** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:51 am

olikana wrote:omfg sounds like the real thing, if not better!
you made it through plain synthesis or you used the wavetozebra thingy?
I use sq8l for these sort of choirs but maybe i should finally jump on zebra

Ah, the Ensoniq SQ80/VFX, some of my all time favourite hardware synths

SQ8L has the advantage of using real samples (all be it fairly short ones) and some of ensoniq's neat features.
On the other hand, Zebra has much deeper programming possibilities...

snigelx wrote: Excellent Ed. Did you use your own WT's or a pair of OSC already available?

My own WT (loosely based off the original PPG one), plus a lot of detuning/modulation tricks

The choir I posted to the preset library a while back is probably a bit more 'realistic'; PPG choir is bright, buzzy and 'synthy'.

for comparison, using the same sequenced data
Pseudo-real Choir vs. PPG Choir

snigelx · Post by **snigelx** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:25 am

EdHarvey wrote:
snigelx wrote: Excellent Ed. Did you use your own WT's or a pair of OSC already available?
My own WT (loosely based off the original PPG one), plus a lot of detuning/modulation tricks

The choir I posted to the preset library a while back is probably a bit more 'realistic'; PPG choir is bright, buzzy and 'synthy'.

Yeah, I kind of thought that last one sounded a bit "clean" and unquantized to be PPG. I love that buzzy character. The Blofeld features better quantization when modulating its tables BUT someone posted a trick on Waldorf forum about how to use modifiers to get back that quantized sound as prev Waldorfs and Wave had. I read somewhere about these detuning of the formant tables to get these choir sounds. I forgot where I saw that exactly. Takes a bit of adjustment to get it sounding 'right'. Cheers!

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 8:19 am

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 8:51 am

Excellent

snigelx · Post by **snigelx** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:30 pm

pdxindy wrote:Here are the audio examples ...

My god it's full of stars! Thanks for the excellent previews pdxindy.

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:59 pm

Could you possibly thicken the suspense any more?

But yea, they should take their time. One thing I like about U-he is they don't rush products and they take the time to fix bugs from the betas. I can't deal with plugins that crash the host no matter how good they sound.

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 3:22 am

snigelx wrote:
pdxindy wrote:Here are the audio examples ...
My god it's full of stars! Thanks for the excellent previews pdxindy.

Thanks... and welcome!

I had some equipment failures and have not been making any music for the past 6 weeks. Am back up and running again and I rather missed playing Diva and Zebra. Here is a new sound I just made with Zebra. 2 held notes. I suppose the preset should be called Bitches Brew or some such

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Zebra75.mp3

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 6:21 am

"Pitches Brew" (fantastic sound, BTW!)

snigelx · Post by **snigelx** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 2:55 pm

pdxindy wrote:I had some equipment failures and have not been making any music for the past 6 weeks. Am back up and running again and I rather missed playing Diva and Zebra.

I experienced similar hiatus because of a bad motherboard in that laptop. the whole thing sucked. I was also in the middle of a big project

Anyway, glad you're back in the saddle.

Here is a new sound I just made with Zebra. 2 held notes. I suppose the preset should be called Bitches Brew or some such

I don't have words... just, NICE.

If that giant spider that lives in our old wash house got hold of guitar and amp I am sure might sound similar. Cheers!

do_androids_dream · Post by **do_androids_dream** » Mon Jul 08, 2013 3:14 pm

pdxindy wrote:Here is a new sound I just made with Zebra. 2 held notes. I suppose the preset should be called Bitches Brew or some such

http://draigathar.org/sounds/Zebra75.mp3

Really like that - spiky!

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:28 pm

Another example using the new Uhbie filter in Diva along with the new Arp/Sequencer combo
http://draigathar.org/sounds/ArpSeq7.mp3

Simple arp/seq example
http://draigathar.org/sounds/ArpSeq8.mp3

Oh, this old one was left out of the post above:
http://draigathar.org/sounds/ArpSeq5.mp3

Example of the new Digital Osc and Uhbie
http://draigathar.org/sounds/Uhbie25.mp3

aaron aardvark · Post by **aaron aardvark** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:01 am

pdxindy,
You're such a tease, how long do we have to wait to try it!

Bronto Scorpio · Post by **Bronto Scorpio** » Sat Jul 27, 2013 2:41 am

Hey!
Now that I'm finally online again I'll try to keep the first post up to date again! Thanks for posting all the nice examples

I hope there is no MP3 link limit for a single post

If I don't sleep I'll maybe have the first post updated this evening (I'm already reuploading my examples and copying some links at the moment)

Thanks again and sorry for not updating the post for so long!

Cheers
Dennis

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