Zebra web impressiveness survey
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- KVRist
- 425 posts since 16 Aug, 2002 from state college pa
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- KVRAF
- 1529 posts since 12 Jun, 2004 from Portland, OR
Well you are awesome for the free upgrade, but everyone has a point where they have to start charging upgrade fees.
I'm just saying that it would be cool if the upgrade prices in the future could stay reasonable, Maybe $50 instead of $100..
From what I can tell the sampler in Live is just a 1 sample 1 layer across the kb time stretching sampler which will be very cool, but won't play soundfonts or traditional sampler files.
Like I said, I hope the audio in function works in Live 4 so we can run this sampler through Zebra & ringmod, etc...
But as far as a replacement for the NN-XT, I think there's only Halion, Kontact, Sampletank(no SF2), Unity(weird & out of business?),& MachFive.
Those are too huge/expensive/cpu piggy though.
I might try out VSamp.
I'm just saying that it would be cool if the upgrade prices in the future could stay reasonable, Maybe $50 instead of $100..
From what I can tell the sampler in Live is just a 1 sample 1 layer across the kb time stretching sampler which will be very cool, but won't play soundfonts or traditional sampler files.
Like I said, I hope the audio in function works in Live 4 so we can run this sampler through Zebra & ringmod, etc...
But as far as a replacement for the NN-XT, I think there's only Halion, Kontact, Sampletank(no SF2), Unity(weird & out of business?),& MachFive.
Those are too huge/expensive/cpu piggy though.
I might try out VSamp.
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- KVRAF
- 1529 posts since 12 Jun, 2004 from Portland, OR
Well you are awesome for the free upgrade, but everyone has a point where they have to start charging upgrade fees.
I'm just saying that it would be cool if the upgrade prices in the future could stay reasonable, Maybe $50 instead of $100..
From what I can tell the sampler in Live is just a 1 sample 1 layer across the kb time stretching sampler which will be very cool, but won't play soundfonts or traditional sampler files.
Like I said, I hope the audio in function works in Live 4 so we can run this sampler through Zebra & ringmod, etc...
But as far as a replacement for the NN-XT, I think there's only Halion, Kontact, Sampletank(no SF2), Unity(weird & out of business?),& MachFive.
Those are too huge/expensive/cpu piggy though.
I might try out VSamp.
I'm just saying that it would be cool if the upgrade prices in the future could stay reasonable, Maybe $50 instead of $100..
From what I can tell the sampler in Live is just a 1 sample 1 layer across the kb time stretching sampler which will be very cool, but won't play soundfonts or traditional sampler files.
Like I said, I hope the audio in function works in Live 4 so we can run this sampler through Zebra & ringmod, etc...
But as far as a replacement for the NN-XT, I think there's only Halion, Kontact, Sampletank(no SF2), Unity(weird & out of business?),& MachFive.
Those are too huge/expensive/cpu piggy though.
I might try out VSamp.
- KVRAF
- 2036 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from Seattle, WA - USA
Urs, you wouldn't by chance have any background in the trackers of the C64 or Amiga? Some of your demo tunes just seemed to harken back to those days in such a strong way. ZebriForge and especially ZebraAccoustic brought such a big smile to my face. Thanks.
-Tronam
PS: As a recent switcher to the Mac, I look forward to purchasing Zebra in the near future.
-Tronam
PS: As a recent switcher to the Mac, I look forward to purchasing Zebra in the near future.
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- KVRist
- 55 posts since 19 Oct, 2003 from Indy
I put other. I thought about putting funny user comments, as there is one in particular that i find myself strangely fascinated by.

Other - well I had used Urs' other beautiful plugs, so when the beta demo came out, I downloaded it and then bought the thing about 5 mins later (according to Urs I have virtual serial number 3
). Let's face it, Zebra has a sound that's just stunning for a softsynth, and 1.5 is amazing - from any large developer it probably would have been a v.3. The best thing about Zebra for me is that it actually curbed any gearlust I had for about 7 or 8 months (which is a major record for me). I can honestly say that if I had to have only one softsynth, the choice would be easy, Zebra's just the
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Other - well I had used Urs' other beautiful plugs, so when the beta demo came out, I downloaded it and then bought the thing about 5 mins later (according to Urs I have virtual serial number 3
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- KVRist
- 130 posts since 17 Dec, 2003 from Germany
well the program as demo of course, and to be honest the price (introduction at the time) as well.
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machinesworking machinesworking https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8505
- KVRAF
- 8024 posts since 15 Aug, 2003 from seattle
I voted for the dark side, because well....... ( looks around and whistles to himself ).....
Michael

Michael
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- KVRer
- 12 posts since 24 Jan, 2003
Other : The Big Blue Lounge 
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- KVRAF
- 1602 posts since 14 Oct, 2002
hehe
the site is good and informative...
just change
"support for VST Windows is planned for 2004" in
"support for VST Windows is planned for 2006"
lalo
the site is good and informative...
just change
"support for VST Windows is planned for 2004" in
"support for VST Windows is planned for 2006"
lalo
- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30206 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Well, lalo, let's make a bet. If I don't make it this year, you get a free copy. If I do make it in 2005, you grab a license. Sounds fair?
Cheers,
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- KVRAF
- 1602 posts since 14 Oct, 2002
something let me think i've already lost
but yeah...sounds fair....my hopes are on a new group buy
lalo
- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30206 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Heh, sorry, but GroupBuys are pretty much not so in my plans... I mean, there already was one... at least, I won't make it more expensive than Z1, even though you get a lot more bang for the bucks.
We'll see
Cheers,
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
I voted "other"... but hey.
Anyways, I think one of THE top buying arguments might be superb sound at an incredibly low CPU overhead. Guess for what they do, the U-He synths are amongst the most efficient you can find out there. So you're not limited in taking advance of all the kickass features.
Anyways, I think one of THE top buying arguments might be superb sound at an incredibly low CPU overhead. Guess for what they do, the U-He synths are amongst the most efficient you can find out there. So you're not limited in taking advance of all the kickass features.
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- KVRian
- 1442 posts since 30 May, 2005
Hehe,Urs wrote:![]()
Well, lalo, let's make a bet. If I don't make it this year, you get a free copy. If I do make it in 2005, you grab a license. Sounds fair?
Cheers,
Urs
some developers have a nice way of telling some release date information.
Seriously, I voted other. The demo songs are not my cup of whatever. But some sounds in there are really good. The filters do sound very good to me.
I'm not a fan of stupid things like " Zebra is a next-generation virtual synthesizer plug-in." This is simply a joke. Either it "is" or "next generation". Future today? OK, having said that I'm really interested what Z2 will be like. And I'm on windows too but I won't make that deal.
A demo first is a good thing.
The website is simple looking but informative and looks kinda cool. The very detailed info of the internals of your plugins is cool to read. Information without (as much as I remember) any marketing bla. Nice take.
All the best, FRitz
In the end will be the word.
Check out some of my music at www.fritzmetal.de
Check out some of my music at www.fritzmetal.de
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- KVRian
- 1442 posts since 30 May, 2005
One more thing Urs,
why not reading over all the texts again to find stuff like: " Some additional waveforms, derived from interesting spectra have already been hardcoded into Zebra, with more to come until final release."
Isn't it released yet?
Best wishes, FRitz
why not reading over all the texts again to find stuff like: " Some additional waveforms, derived from interesting spectra have already been hardcoded into Zebra, with more to come until final release."
Isn't it released yet?
Best wishes, FRitz
In the end will be the word.
Check out some of my music at www.fritzmetal.de
Check out some of my music at www.fritzmetal.de
