Punch...

[gnomebottom]

Hi,

I'm new to Zebra and looking to program some percussive sounds. On my Virus TI, there's a control called punch, that adds a short click to the initial waveform attack. This can really help percussive sounds to punch through, thus the name

Is there anything similar in Zebra??

Thanks,
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[Mushy Mushy]

Is distortion a modulation source?
If so assign an envelope to it.

[ariston]

There's no button for this, but a few possibilities off the top of my head. The most obvious one: just program a click sound to your liking. Assign an additional envelope with 0 attack and a short decay to your sound. Use the comb filter "prefill" knob. Zebra's compressor is also very good at adding some oomph to that initial attack. Turn off "smooth attacks" in the global window. And, finally, the XMF module has a conveniently named "click" knob, which does what it says on the tin.

It very much depends on the patch, of course, but this should point you in the right direction.

[gnomebottom]

Thanks for the workaround! I'm working on that initial click sound, already run into a small issue though. I've set the Osc 1 key - gain, and vel - gain so that every note (or click in my case) should sound at the same volume. I've created the click with a spikey waveform and amp envelope with zero attack, very short decay, no sustain and no release.

Apart from this there's no modulation going on that I can see, since I created the patch from an 'Initialize' state.

The weird thing is that every click sounds slightly different! A little louder here, a little quieter there, slightly different each time I press a key. Sounds like phase is slightly different each time, which doesn't make any sense.

Any ideas??

Cheers!
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[ariston]

Did you activate phase reset on the oscillator?

[gnomebottom]

No, I hadn't activated it, that's exactly what I was looking for, great! Thanks

[Aiynzahev]

No, I hadn't activated it, that's exactly what I was looking for, great! Thanks

You can do that, and also create an extremely short envelope. So nothing but a tiny bit of decay. Assign that to modulate your volume just a bit (at the osc level or whoever you want).

This creates a very nice click. Not too different from the TI if I remember right.

[bmrzycki]

Howard comes to the rescue yet again. Check out his organ mini-tutorial:


The relevant part is around the 2 minute mark where he sets up a separate percussion oscillator using an MSEG to modulate the volume. You could just as easily do that to a noise module, a comb, or any other signal chain you like.

[gnomebottom]

All responses much appreciated, what a great (and active) forum…
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