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omiroad · Post by **omiroad** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:21 am

Urs wrote:I just spent the past few days aggressively optimising UI drawing. There are a few new glitches now on Windows (occasional hair line borders, depending on UI size), but according to the profiling software the CPU consumption has been reduced to 25% of what's currently out there from us. Which was always okay for turning knobs and stuff, but some people had problems dragging windows, or generally a laggy feel. I hope that's gonna be over soon. Once we get this tested and confirmed to work, I'll work on those glitches.

With that we might not need to go GPU.

(I always thought the blur effect of our oscilloscopes was the culprit for laggy drawing, but actually it was rendering certain waveforms vertically instead of horizontally and a stupid line segement ordering bug. Add to that, we used native drawing on Mac which was 3 times slower than our own path renderer. Our new renderer is ten times faster than Apple's native solution on intricate oscilloscope paths).

- U

This sounds great. Two questions:

When I open a u-he plugin it will be entirely white for a moment before showing the GUI. (I'm on Windows 10.) I'm sensitive to light so this isn't the most pleasant thing. Is this now no longer an issue?

Will this allow display refresh rate (say 60 fps) updating oscilloscopes? It's noticeable when dragging a control that it becomes more smooth, and I do quite like how that looks.

andresnol · Post by **andresnol** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:37 pm

did you get overly enthusiastic with the 2.8 update, Urs?

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:26 pm

andresnol wrote:did you get overly enthusiastic with the 2.8 update, Urs?

andresnol · Post by **andresnol** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:14 am

david.beholder wrote:
andresnol wrote:did you get overly enthusiastic with the 2.8 update, Urs?

andresnol · Post by **andresnol** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 12:23 am

but also, i have to say, that it was meant as a friendly jab. u-he doesnt really owe us anything but the product that we paid for at that particular point.

sorry, if the commen sounded douchey.

Elektronisch · Post by **Elektronisch** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:26 pm

Urs wrote:
Elektronisch wrote:so no new skin for Zebra 2 as christmas gift ?
Sorry, it isn't finished yet, as much as I too had hoped for it...

A few of the more complex controls are being overhauled, there's a major speed bump in UI snappiness on Windows, and we're working on some ways to manage UI graphic resources more economically. There's a very good chance this will come out before end of January.

The skin certainly closes the gap between Zebra's, what, 8 years old (?) default skin and the recent breed of synths such as Serum.

I'm looking forward to the holiday season because I can fully concentrate on this

Hey Urs,

do you think you will be able to release it before end of january ?

any pics ?

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:23 pm

andresnol wrote:

Waveform import request in 2016

What about same requests from 2015 and 2014?

andresnol · Post by **andresnol** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 12:32 am

david.beholder wrote: Waveform import request in 2016 What about such requests from 2015 and 2014?

nono. i meant the second part of the entry, where it says, that a design update is in the works - a one year anniversary of that statement. and, yes, repro-1. and yes, im a whiny douche, but then again, it might also be smart to not tease and not deliver.

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 2:44 am

andresnol wrote:yes, im a whiny douche, but then again, it might also be smart to not tease and not deliver.

Gotcha. If you old enough for strip bars it gonna train you to look, don't touch.
Waiting for certain Diva updates with no whining becuase U-he is providing important updates for free unlike others adding major version for every new line of code.

andresnol · Post by **andresnol** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:04 am

david.beholder wrote:
andresnol wrote:yes, im a whiny douche, but then again, it might also be smart to not tease and not deliver.
Gotcha. If you old enough for strip bars it gonna train you to look, don't touch.
Waiting for certain Diva updates with no whining becuase U-he is providing important updates for free unlike others adding major version for every new line of code.

yes, yes. you are right of course.
im already embarrassed, lol.

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:20 am

andresnol wrote: yes, yes. you are right of course.
im already embarrassed, lol.

please turn red

mrj1nx · Post by **mrj1nx** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:02 pm

100+ pages forgive me if this has been answered a dozen times already. Will Z3 be something built from scratch or will it be Z2 updated to 3.0? (I got the feeling that Predator 2 was very much P1 with a bunch of improvements/additions + facelift, while Dune 2 for example feels like very much a complete rebuild), and related question, will you aim for any backwards compatability at all for patches?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 4:02 pm

It will be from scratch. Z2 stays its own product.

mrj1nx · Post by **mrj1nx** » Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:44 pm

EvilDragon wrote:It will be from scratch. Z2 stays its own product.

That's exactly what I hoped for

vvilms · Post by **vvilms** » Sun Jan 22, 2017 1:48 pm

It would be really nice to be able to choose the "KeyScale" knobs (under the FMO tab) as a modulation destination. =/

but then again - it would also be really nice to be able to choose all the knobs on other tabs as well (ie. "resolution", etc.), -nod-

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