Will Zebra 3 be able to load samples?

[EvilDragon]

I bet we will

[FarleyCZ]

Yeah. This plane ain't gonna fly. Tried that years ago already on this very forum. Though I too think a sample playback would be welcome addition (for just a bit of hybrid synthesis), it's been clearly stated several times that it's not Zebra's goal. ...sad, but it's a descision u-he is fully entitled to. Zebra's still awesome. <3 That said, I'm happy to own Falcon for manipulation-style synthesis. Alchemy was may be even better in that regard, until Apple hijacked it.

I wished that people would simply let go of the idea that "everything u-he touches gotta be good". We can only excel in a small corridor of expertise, and that's hammered out quite well in our portfolio. If we start diverging from it, the quality of stuff will decline in that area and also in our core business.

Apparently our strengths are in synthesis technologies, workflow concepts and modular economy. While we have acquired great competence in content management, making a sample based device on the same level as our other products requires a whole lot more manpower, which is a) hard to find and b) hard to pay for.

Therefore I wished people could simply settle with the fact that we don't do sampling and that is that. Enjoy our synths and effects. They're good. They only can be good because we don't try to do things we can't.

Completely understood. On the other hand, there are small devs who are good at this. I can for example imagine a small instance of "The Mangle" VST by SoundGuru running as an oscilator inside Zebra 3. He's a small dev, he nailed that sample-loading and granular synthesis part (including preset-embedding of the samples) and because there is huge competition at this space, he might be happy to provide you binary or a bit of code for relatively low amount of money compared to hiring someone who'd re-code the sample loading from the scratch. ...and it would open so many new worlds for Zebra.

But yeat again. Consider this just hopeless daydreaming. As you said. You'e good at wat you're good at. That's the bottom line here.

[EvilDragon]

Nobody seems to be able to reach SoundGuru, not even his mother. The guy's a freaking hermit.

[Biome_Digital]

Well analogue and wavetable are covered now, so granular in Zebra next please. You know it makes sense!!

[elxsound]

Nobody seems to be able to reach SoundGuru, not even his mother. The guy's a freaking hermit.

Yeah soon as I saw that suggestion I had a quick laugh.

I’m sure there’s a thread out there about not being able to reach him.

I still have his last newsletter saved from October 2014 where he’s apologizing for not being reachable.

Hermit indeed.