Repro-1 (out now)

[fmr]

Does ProOne have a release date?

We're optimistic it's gonna be this year, but optimism slowly crumbles away.

What about Zebra 3?

[EvilDragon]

That one is definitely not happening this year

[fmr]

That one is definitely not happening this year

What's another year?

[Urs]

Does ProOne have a release date?

We're optimistic it's gonna be this year, but optimism slowly crumbles away.

What about Zebra 3?

We'll release Zebra 2.8 first, with a few nice enhancements. Hopefully also this year.

Unfortunately though we need to release at least one new plugins every year. Hence work on updates is a quite a bit slower than it was ten years ago. Last year's "super update" and the Presswerk ID issue have cost us a lot of time, so that we haven't released a new plug-in in one and a half years.

I think we're doing a really good job with Repro-1. The project has also taught the other developers at u-he how to create a product from start to finish. Which means I might have a lot more time I can spend on Zebra soon!

[zvenx]

......... Which means I might have a lot more time I can spend on Zebra soon!

Hallelujah
rsp

[david.beholder]

I think we're doing a really good job with Repro-1. The project has also taught the other developers at u-he how to create a product from start to finish. Which means I might have a lot more time I can spend on Zebra soon!

Please don't forget about other products too

[Numanoid]

It is no longer Alpha & Omega

It is Alpha & Zebra

[david.beholder]

It is no longer Alpha & Omega
It is Alpha & Zebra

Alpha Beta Gamma Diva

[david.beholder]

It is no longer Alpha & Omega
It is Alpha & Zebra

Alpha Beta Gamma Diva

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Does ProOne have a release date?

We're optimistic it's gonna be this year, but optimism slowly crumbles away.

I really hope getting the CV piece squared away doesn't take months considering the synth seems nearly complete otherwise. It just feels like an esoteric piece of the puzzle that a very small percentage of users would really get some mileage out of, while +99% of us would never even use those features (as evidenced by how no soft synths I can think of currently do this) and would love to play with the synth right now.

That said, if the point of this was to build this as a research project, and CV connectivity is something you need to get squared away for other products/plans, then I guess you kind of have to figure it out now.

[cake builder]

We'll release Zebra 2.8 first, with a few nice enhancements. Hopefully also this year.

Any chance of a teaser on what kind of enhancements you're talking about?

[Urs]

We'll release Zebra 2.8 first, with a few nice enhancements. Hopefully also this year.

Any chance of a teaser on what kind of enhancements you're talking about?

Most importantly, a new UI skin. Not far off of the original skin, layout-wise, but really nice and modern. Has a few workflow improvements. Makes Zebra2 feel like a whole new synth.

Featurewise, one new module has been added, taking notice of my recent endeavours in playing with my new "west-coast-ish" modular synthesizer. It's a Wavefolder, of course.

[Urs]

Does ProOne have a release date?

We're optimistic it's gonna be this year, but optimism slowly crumbles away.

I really hope getting the CV piece squared away doesn't take months considering the synth seems nearly complete otherwise. It just feels like an esoteric piece of the puzzle that a very small percentage of users would really get some mileage out of, while +99% of us would never even use those features (as evidenced by how no soft synths I can think of currently do this) and would love to play with the synth right now.

That said, if the point of this was to build this as a research project, and CV connectivity is something you need to get squared away for other products/plans, then I guess you kind of have to figure it out now.

While the Alpha seems like an almost finished product, there were loads of things that needed to be tackled. I agree that most people won't notice it, but I would not want to deliver a half-assed emulation that doesn't behave and sound exactly like both our reference Pro-Ones and the ones we have recordings of. Furthermore I've written 3 completely new effects for it that IMHO sound totally awesome. I'm on the fence with a fourth one, I might just reuse one we got

All in all it's now pretty much down to fine tuning the filter, envelopes and sequencer parameters. I took pictures and video of our dismantled Pro-One with oscilloscopes and the whole lot, in case we want to use that for something. Either way, now I can reassemble it and use it for parameter fine tuning.

We haven't started the final implementation of the multi-io version, but we've just got a skeleton of this. Shouldn't be a show stopper and we'll do it while the main version is in beta testing.

You'll see... the wait will have been worth it, I'm sure!

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

You'll see... the wait will have been worth it, I'm sure!

I hope I didn't sound like a downer in any way, I'm SURE the wait has been worth it. I love the idea of having a true 1:1 reproduction of a classic like this, especially at the level you've talked about. I only meant to say that if the Control Voltage piece would take months to get the synth out earlier, but it sounds like you plan on doing just that with the beta. I'm totally stoked about this synth (I already know I'll be purchasing on day 1), and I hope you (or you get the interns to) make a ton more of these.

[beely]

Most importantly, a new UI skin. Not far off of the original skin, layout-wise, but really nice and modern. Has a few workflow improvements. Makes Zebra2 feel like a whole new synth.

Yes, please! Don't want any more features, or redesigns or anything, just an updated, modernised UI, that would make a world of difference.

And when you do Zebra 3, please charge a reasonable amount of money for it, rather than the way-too-cheap prices that have previously been discussed. None of this £20 stuff - you have a business to run after all. A major upgrade deserves an upgrade price to reflect the awesomeness of the product...