This. I'm sure Z3's sheer sound quality will be stunning given what u-he's achieved over the last decade.Shiek927 wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:49 am Technology has changed dramatically since 2012, so the sound quality is going to reflect all of u-he's developments over the past decade.
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- KVRian
- 724 posts since 15 Feb, 2012 from France
- KVRAF
- 7020 posts since 19 Apr, 2002 from Utah
Thank you again! I think I get the picture.Shiek927 wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:49 amFrom my understanding, yes: VA, Wavetable, FM, Additive, physical modeling, and so-forthaudiojunkie wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:47 am Thank you both for your info! It was very useful! Will the oscillators types be the same?
Zebra3 isn't changing the formula too much. It's still going to be a wireless semi-modular synth without a shred of sampling in sight. The main difference is unifying all of the separate editors into one so the workflow is even faster and more intuitive. Technology has changed dramatically since 2012, so the sound quality is going to reflect all of u-he's developments over the past decade. There's also going to be little things here and there to make things easier (e.g I believe the filters and XMF filters will be unified).
Beyond that, It's best to wait and see![]()
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- KVRer
- 12 posts since 2 Jun, 2021
OooowwwkayUrs wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:24 pm There should be some synths which can do that. Zebra doesn’t need to have this as well, it doesn’t really fit the concept.
Presets | Midi | Sounds
https://www.kvraudio.com/developer/octo8r
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- KVRer
- 12 posts since 2 Jun, 2021
!ONLY WITH LOVE!ralfrobert wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:26 pmIt doesn't need each and every gimmick on the planet.Urs wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2024 5:24 pm There should be some synths which can do that. Zebra doesn’t need to have this as well, it doesn’t really fit the concept.
Check Idiocracy movie. Maybe it'll encourage you on less artless and unpretentious vision.
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https://www.kvraudio.com/developer/octo8r
https://www.kvraudio.com/developer/octo8r
- KVRAF
- 26933 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
It's a whole new synth in that it will not be preset backwards compatible. The Osc's are fundamentally different.audiojunkie wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:29 am
Thank you again! I think I get the picture.It truly will be a “Zebra 3”. I had the understanding that it was going to essentially be a whole new synth.
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- KVRAF
- 26933 posts since 3 Feb, 2005 from in the wilds
mmm mm mmmmnilhartman wrote: Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:10 am This. I'm sure Z3's sheer sound quality will be stunning given what u-he's achieved over the last decade.
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- KVRian
- 929 posts since 8 Mar, 2008 from Crestview, Florida
I'm sure vendors and journalists alike are just now getting all set up today. Here's an early prototype from last year's Superbooth just to refresh your memory on some of the basic functions of the new spline editor. I'm sure some things have changed since 8 months ago. The UI has obviously come a long way since then.
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- KVRAF
- 9521 posts since 6 Oct, 2004
Congrats on harvesting some of your work! One thing that might help a lot of customers,Urs wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:04 pm We have vastly enhanced our skinning engine. Someone can maybe make a dark mode theme.
is a text file helping find the lines in a skin that define the color of both some text, and it's background panel. Is it possible to locate such things in roughly the same area of all in-house skins text? like
'font-sizes' will be about 40 % down the list
'font colors' will be about 60% down the list
'main panel color' will be about 5% down the list etc etc
With Synth 1. it is useful/fun to change colors of the main panel and text.
I managed to get larger text in Hive presets, after remembering that text editors had search
functions that were much better than my own.
Cheers
- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30180 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
So, just quickly, I think Sonicstate might be stopping by later and I will put the focus less on the editor- which was covered in last years Superbooth technical preview. I’ll focus more on OscFX, architecture and Additive Spectrum Distortion.
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- KVRian
- 724 posts since 15 Feb, 2012 from France
- u-he
- Topic Starter
- 30180 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
Nick from Sonistate just left after doing some vid with me. Should be up within half an hour or so 
- KVRAF
- 7020 posts since 19 Apr, 2002 from Utah
I still haven’t found the video yet. If anyone finds it, please post the URL. I’m so glad that U-he supports Linux! 
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- KVRAF
- 3401 posts since 6 Nov, 2006
lols.. "a half an our or so".. it's been like 35 minutes or something..
go here adn keep hitting refresh.

go here adn keep hitting refresh.
