OSC Tracking in Zebra?

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From playing with the demo, am I right in assuming you can't turn off OSC tracking in Zebra?

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(Disclaimer: I'm not a Zebra expert. Like you, I'm just playing with the demo at this point.)

I don't think there's a setting to turn off OSC tracking, but you can get this effect by assigning KeyFollow to the OSC with a negative amount to offset the built-in tracking. I hope this does the trick for you!

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Hehe, unfortunately, the answer is "no, not yet".

It might be possible with the KeyFollow trick, but I havn't done the maths to find out the settings.

For the next revision, I'm considering independent tunings for each oscillator (i.e. .tun files), so that you can freeze the tracking to say 440Hz and tune them +/- 48 semitones.

What do you need that for? (an intrigueing answer might drive my motivation :D )

Cheers,

;) Urs

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In synth programming, an OSC with tracking off is usually used in fm or ring mod to have the same modulation up and down the kb, or for droning type sounds.

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In Cronox, for example, I put a soundfile as 1 osc and have FM or AM modulate the other (analog sawtooth) osc.

Cronox can make some interesting sounds this way, because the soundfile can be timestretched so it changes only pitch(not time) up & down the KB, but I may want the modulation from the sound file to be the same all the way up & down the KB, so I turn off the tracking on the soundfile.

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