Emulate unstable vintage synth in Zebra

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Hee there! I know Zebra is not emulating any kind of vintage synth, but I'm curious how to patch it in such a way that it behaves more like an unstable vintage synth would behave. Going in and out of tune is one thing I can think of. How would you patch that up and what are some other unstable behaviours I could try to emulate?

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Just watched this for Arturia Pigments. I think everything there could be applied to Zebra as well.
Maybe also not just use one source of randomness. With Zebra you can have 4 LFOs and also maybe play with noise sources?

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kodnin wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:02 pm Hee there! I know Zebra is not emulating any kind of vintage synth, but I'm curious how to patch it in such a way that it behaves more like an unstable vintage synth would behave. Going in and out of tune is one thing I can think of. How would you patch that up and what are some other unstable behaviours I could try to emulate?
Slightly different in scope, but tempo variation may be worth considering as a subtle variable. I think recent audacity editors let you type in numeric values for very subtle playback differences such that slower/faster portions can be rendered, to be pasted as desired. Disabling quantize and clicktracks during recording might also minimize repetitious moments. If using something like reaper's track rendering or 'save live output to disk' options, you can detune various synth settings, replay or re-render, and paste the result in likely places.

I like to de-amplify the portion to be replaced to 0.0, so it's easy to see where to paste the replacement, then just delete the 0.0 part that scooted ahead.

U-he Satin might be useful for a variety of post-waveform mods

https://tapeop.com/reviews/gear/136/satin-plug-in/

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