Meet Zebralette 3 at NAMM

[Shiek927]

https://dandelionaudio.com/sound/Z3-15.mp3

These sound as good as Balinese Gamelans I'd hear in a sample library!

Also the diversity of percussion sounds will put a smile on any sound designers face. It's not like there is a "gamelan" setting and you get a gamelan sound and some crude control to make it brighter or darker and a damping parameter. The range of quality acoustic sounds is huge and of course one can make all sorts of organic sounds way beyond existing instruments.

Yeah, that's the crazy part. This is pure synthesis. It's not pre-built waveforms or samples. Heck, it's not even comb filters or any form of physical modeling. It's just *one* oscillator! when you start adding more oscillators, filters, envelopes, and all the other stuff Zebra3 will have...


I can imagine how much fun a sound-designer for a video game will have creating all sorts of fun creating timbres, both traditional and exotic, that sound as organic as this.

[pdxindy]

Yeah, that's the crazy part. This is pure synthesis. It's not pre-built waveforms or samples. Heck, it's not even comb filters or any form of physical modeling. It's just *one* oscillator! when you start adding more oscillators, filters, envelopes, and all the other stuff Zebra3 will have...

Yup!

Here's another quick example... 1 Osc, no MSEG, no LFO's, just 1 Osc Waveform, only modulation is on 2 OscFX parameters, one via velocity and the other randomization.

https://dandelionaudio.com/sound/Z3-20.mp3

[pgwalsh]

The quality of the sound is fantastic.

[Double Tap]

These examples are mind-blowing. When it comes out, I may not sleep.

[pgwalsh]

Heck, it's not even comb filters or any form of physical modeling.

That comes later, right.

[MorpherX]

Is it possible to load Serum- and Hive-Wavetables in order to further manipulate and modulate it ?
I have not seen it in the video !

[neverbeeninariot]

Is it possible to load Serum- and Hive-Wavetables in order to further manipulate and modulate it ?
I have not seen it in the video !

I think Urs said that you can (or perhaps it is just for single cycle waves), but the result is not predictable because it attempts to map the incoming wave to splines.

[Urs]

If all goes as planned, Zebra will have support for Hive wavetables. Zebralette will only offer spline based morphable curves. Those curves can be created from wavetables (drag'n'drop), but the process is a bit hit and miss depending on the complexity of the waveforms.

The other way round is already in here, Zebralette can save Hive/Serum compatible wavetables with smoothly morphed curves that can be used in either synth without further processing.

(reminder to myself: Ask Steve Duda if I used the ' clm' chunk correctly...)

[fairplay]

It is not exactly copy and paste. You can export .wav from Zebralette and copy/paste .uhm (wavetable creation language for Hive). You can also import .wav and extract/vectorise waveforms. That is a bit hit and miss.

So I can build my own Karplus-Strong oscillator for Zebralette and fiddle with the code for different FM bells and whistles? It's just wow!

[perpetual3]

Zebra 3 will be an instant buy. BTW - full CLAP implementation?

[Lyhrus]

Zebra 3 will be an instant buy. BTW - full CLAP implementation?

Of course. Urs proved it already several times.

[pgwalsh]

If all goes as planned, Zebra will have support for Hive wavetables. Zebralette will only offer spline based morphable curves. Those curves can be created from wavetables (drag'n'drop), but the process is a bit hit and miss depending on the complexity of the waveforms.

The other way round is already in here, Zebralette can save Hive/Serum compatible wavetables with smoothly morphed curves that can be used in either synth without further processing.

(reminder to myself: Ask Steve Duda if I used the ' clm' chunk correctly...)

I'm sure they'll work for Vital too since Vital supports Serum wavetables.

[Urs]

If all goes as planned, Zebra will have support for Hive wavetables. Zebralette will only offer spline based morphable curves. Those curves can be created from wavetables (drag'n'drop), but the process is a bit hit and miss depending on the complexity of the waveforms.

The other way round is already in here, Zebralette can save Hive/Serum compatible wavetables with smoothly morphed curves that can be used in either synth without further processing.

(reminder to myself: Ask Steve Duda if I used the ' clm' chunk correctly...)

I'm sure they'll work for Vital too since Vital supports Serum wavetables.

Sure, it's just that Serum stores some metadata in the .wav files to help recognise the format. I just added that kind of metadata two weeks ago, but I have yet to establish that I did it correctly. That said, they seem to work flawlessly in Serum.

[pdxindy]

Zebralette will only offer spline based morphable curves.

Only...

There's a thread in Instruments about favorite super synths. At the moment, Zebralette 3 is my favorite super synth and it's only a single oscillator!

[pdxindy]

Zebra 3 will be an instant buy. BTW - full CLAP implementation?

I would have been happy with Zebra 2 getting CLAP, MPE, PolyMod, MTS-EPS support. But now that I have tried Zebralette 3 with its startling sound quality, I know Zebra 3 has truly surpassed Z2 and will have been worth the wait. And yeah, an insta-buy!