Zebra 3 Public Beta Revision 20399
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- KVRian
- 1200 posts since 16 May, 2007 from At home. Good bye city ways!
Congratulations! Music technology has been about the only upside for me in 2025 and Z3 may be my personal favourite. Let‘s hope I don‘t immediately need a new computer.
..off to play with my music toys - library music production.
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- KVRian
- 936 posts since 29 May, 2002 from UK
Ahhh lovely. After playing with this beauty for a while, it's great to see this synth finally released to the public, its an absolute BEAST!! 
Huge congrats to the U-He team and all the hard work they put into creating this thing.
All I will say is, open up the MSEGs, and prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor
Huge congrats to the U-He team and all the hard work they put into creating this thing.
All I will say is, open up the MSEGs, and prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor
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- KVRAF
- 3032 posts since 6 Jul, 2013
“Awesomnification”…?iowastate89 wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 1:54 pm Whatever the opposite is of "enshittification", that is u-he
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- KVRian
- 932 posts since 23 May, 2010
Proud owner of Zebra 3 now 
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- KVRist
- 234 posts since 24 Apr, 2004 from Patagonia
Congrats on the release! Been waiting this moment for years. I plan to make some sound libraries very soon, specially for MPE devices…. do you have an estimation on when MPE will be implemented ?
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- KVRian
- 814 posts since 15 Jun, 2018
What in the world... Who would have thought that 2025 would bring us Serum 2, Omnisphere 3, Absynth 6, and now Zebra 3. What a year!
Thank you, Urs and team U-he, for making it to the (beta) finish line!
Thank you, Urs and team U-he, for making it to the (beta) finish line!
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- KVRian
- 1111 posts since 1 Jul, 2008
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- KVRist
- 59 posts since 2 Jun, 2016
I adore Zebra 2, my favorite synth, and I have been dreaming of Z3 for a very long time as I know others have! Surreal to arrive at this day, and start playing with it. Thank you U-he for the incredible plugins you make, the underlying design / interaction philosophy are equal parts creative and technical, which I think is something a lot of us love about them and find unique. Everything we have heard and seen of Z3 seems like the culmination (thus far!) of those ways of working, so this is very exciting indeed
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- KVRAF
- 2056 posts since 13 Dec, 2016
Congrats on the public beta release, really excited to finally try Zebra 3!
I have a few quick questions:
Does Zebra 3 support MIDI output? Specifically, can we record / drag-out sequences, arps, or other generated patterns directly into the DAW?
Since the interface is built with SVG graphics, is there a technical reason why we can’t freely resize the window by dragging the bottom-right corner, instead of choosing from fixed size presets?
Are there any randomization tools available to quickly generate variations of sounds, with the option to lock individual parameters to avoid being changed, and/or any other kind of smart randomization features? Something like Absynths sound mutation maybe.
I have a few quick questions:
Does Zebra 3 support MIDI output? Specifically, can we record / drag-out sequences, arps, or other generated patterns directly into the DAW?
Since the interface is built with SVG graphics, is there a technical reason why we can’t freely resize the window by dragging the bottom-right corner, instead of choosing from fixed size presets?
Are there any randomization tools available to quickly generate variations of sounds, with the option to lock individual parameters to avoid being changed, and/or any other kind of smart randomization features? Something like Absynths sound mutation maybe.
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Its over for Bitwig--CUBASE WON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- KVRist
- 188 posts since 28 Jun, 2013
Is there a discussion thread about the features and using it, or should we simply write here?
This is a whole world to explore, and might be enough featureset for the next decade...
Yet I am missing some "bread'n'butter" features, maybe I simply don't understand how to set these up:
1. Curves in ENVs. Are we supposed to use MSEGs then? If so, I would prefer 6 MSEG slots then...
2. Unison spread curve (log<->exp) for pitch and stereo position
3. Four mono outputs instead only 2. That would make mixing a lot more easy, esp. when using onboard fx.
This is a whole world to explore, and might be enough featureset for the next decade...
Yet I am missing some "bread'n'butter" features, maybe I simply don't understand how to set these up:
1. Curves in ENVs. Are we supposed to use MSEGs then? If so, I would prefer 6 MSEG slots then...
2. Unison spread curve (log<->exp) for pitch and stereo position
3. Four mono outputs instead only 2. That would make mixing a lot more easy, esp. when using onboard fx.
Last edited by ffx on Wed Dec 10, 2025 2:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRAF
- 2297 posts since 23 May, 2012 from London
\o/
Always Read the Manual!
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 28 Jun, 2024
This is incredible news! I do have a quick question about Zebra 2 Legacy and the upgrade. I have only ever used zebralette and only own a Diva license from U-He. If I bought Zebra 2 Legacy today what would the upgrade path be to Zebra 3? From the wording is seems like it would be free? But Zebra 2 Legacy is only $99 so I must be missing something. Either way I will be buying it I just want to make sure I do it smart, haha. Thanks again U-He, yall are the BEST!