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EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:19 pm

Urs wrote:
tonkatodd wrote:I use Zebrify on everything. Is Zebra3 going to have the Amplitude/Transient and pitch detection features of Zebrify?
I'm rather sure there'll either be a new Zebrify, or - if Z3 gets audio inputs - it'll have those tools inside.

My suggestion - don't split it in 2 plugins, make Zebra have it all.

I skinned my Z2 to orange (thanks Teksonik for the idea!) but I can't be arsed to go and skin Zebrify in the same way as well!

:D

Dysanfel · Post by **Dysanfel** » Sat Nov 09, 2013 8:35 pm

I really want a patch browser in Zebra 3 so I can do searches. I had a really funny email exchange with Fritz where he "officially confirmed" my request for this feature. I love u-he. Great software and even better people.

tommyfrizz · Post by **tommyfrizz** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:07 am

Would it be possible to make a " favorites" folder in the patch select screen so that every time you select a preset as a favorite it automatically copies over to one place? I probably have 50 preset folders from different sound designers and clicking through every one of them to find something I like for a particular project becomes time consuming. Other than that I have zero issues with this synth whatsoever. Best plugin I've ever bought!!!!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu May 08, 2014 6:04 am

Yep, improvements to patch browsing and "all favs in a folder" will certainly happen

tommyfrizz · Post by **tommyfrizz** » Thu May 08, 2014 10:03 am

Awesome!!!

~Pd~ · Post by **~Pd~** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:22 pm

Good news on the favorites.

One thing I'd like to see in Z3 is the Ace pitch range options for the oscillators - semi, partial, subharm, Hertz - maybe even sync? Would make it even awesomer to use the oscillators as FMO modulators.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu May 08, 2014 6:10 pm

~Pd~ wrote:Good news on the favorites.

One thing I'd like to see in Z3 is the Ace pitch range options for the oscillators - semi, partial, subharm, Hertz - maybe even sync? Would make it even awesomer to use the oscillators as FMO modulators.

Well, they won't be modulators, so Hz (<100) and Sync don't make sense, but of course anything along the lines of a harmonc series will be desirable.

There'll certainly be a lin/exp FM setting so that a general tuning in Hz might be in it as well.

Cheers,

- Urs

~Pd~ · Post by **~Pd~** » Fri May 09, 2014 2:26 am

Yeah, agreed that it can't be an assignable modulator in Zebra the way the LFOs and MSEGs are but you can still take an oscillator down into LFO range with the tune control. I like to do that as well as assign a modulator to the tuning and use that as the input on an FMO for weird burbling sounds that can also go up into audio rate growls and squeals. This is also fun to do with filter FM on the XMF module.

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Fri May 09, 2014 6:17 am

Of course.

I think we'll also add one-shot modes to oscillators so that one can use waveforms as "seed" for the comb filters, or as transient samples.

As in Z3 the waveform format between oscillators and LFOs is going to be interchangeable, and low freq modulation desires will be solvable by a drag'n'drop operation.

ciaranconnor · Post by **ciaranconnor** » Tue May 13, 2014 1:48 pm

What I would like to see is the ability to create new modules on the fly vs being restricted to 4 FMOs or 2 Combs etc.

I wouldn't say I was running out of modules at the moment, but I think it would be a nice feature that would raise Zebra's barrier even higher.

News From The Sky · Post by **News From The Sky** » Tue May 13, 2014 1:51 pm

Urs wrote:I think we'll also add one-shot modes to oscillators so that one can use waveforms as "seed" for the comb filters, or as transient samples.

Waveshaping?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue May 13, 2014 1:59 pm

ciaranconnor wrote:What I would like to see is the ability to create new modules on the fly vs being restricted to 4 FMOs or 2 Combs etc.

I wouldn't say I was running out of modules at the moment, but I think it would be a nice feature that would raise Zebra's barrier even higher.

Don't think that's possible without serious memory overhead... I'm certain there's a reason why Zebra has a fixed amount of particular module types.

ciaranconnor · Post by **ciaranconnor** » Tue May 13, 2014 2:48 pm

EvilDragon wrote:
ciaranconnor wrote:What I would like to see is the ability to create new modules on the fly vs being restricted to 4 FMOs or 2 Combs etc.

I wouldn't say I was running out of modules at the moment, but I think it would be a nice feature that would raise Zebra's barrier even higher.
Don't think that's possible without serious memory overhead... I'm certain there's a reason why Zebra has a fixed amount of particular module types.

Well I could understand that from the perspective of when Zebra2 was first released, but that was a while ago. I would imagine that if this was implemented both CPU and memory usage would scale accordingly as more modules are added, similar to how Zebra's CPU usage increases with the more avaliable modules that are active. I'm not suggesting that an unlimited number of modules be available, I could see why that would be a problem, but a higher number than currently.

Alchemy allows the creation of new modulators on the fly, and it's a powerful feature that I really enjoy. Sadly, it's only one of the few things I like about Alchemy.

Edit: Scrap what I said. In Alchemy, the price to pay for being able to create on the fly modulators is automation limitations. It isn't possible to directly automate those modulators. The workaround is to assign a parameter of one of those modulators to a "Performance Control" and automate that, with a maximum number of 8 Performance Controls available.

However, because Zebra2 has an explicit number of modules, it is possible to directly automate each and every parameter. I would hate to lose that.

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