Zebra 3 - final beta Rev 21625 April 8th

[ontrackp]

Hello Urs and Z3 team -- thank you for the updates. Zebra2 was my first soft synth, I loved it, and this is nothing short of incredible in sound quality and as a tool for sound design,

My request is that there be some shortcuts to open the OSC and MSEG editors. For instance, some kind of command-click on the item in the grid to jump right to the editor, and also just double clicking on it in the left pane. I think that would be intuitive and save the (small amount) of time it takes to navigate down to that button.

Thanks again for making so many great synths.

[krans]

Sorry if this has been answered (it's starting to get difficult checking everything):

1/ Why are the Lowpass filter and the Highpass filter in the Noise module now called Filter 1 and Filter 2, instead of the lot more describing and precise LP Filter and HP Filter (or something similar) that I think they were called before?
2/ While the new GUI is great, I actually find it a bit difficult to see deactivated modules, as they are so dark.

[Ivan_C]

Hello Urs! I don't know if you got my e-mail, I'm double checking here because I had some issues with my e-mail service recently. It was about a proposal for giving some extra visibility to the release of Zebra 3, you'll tell me if you are interested Good luck to the whole team!

There was some chatter, I do not know details. But we're all in a state of emergency and we do not have any marketing material yet...

Thanks the reporting, no worries and good luck with all of this

[exmatproton]

Filter (in the FX section) doesn't have the matrix view (yet)?

any word on this? The way to select a FX Filter is..well.......not good...

We're working on it.

Background: The filter picker is on the Synthesis page, but the filters in the FX Rack can be visible when Pitches or Presets are open. We need to code a mechanism to switch to the Synthesis page if someone picks a filter while on any of the other pages.

Awesome. Thanks

[HAJIME KOURIKI]

Everyone, I highly recommend reading the Zebra 3 manual thoroughly. While there are slight discrepancies with the current version, the essential points are well-covered. You can verify most functions using a sine wave, even without extensive technical knowledge.
Even though I am Japanese and not fully fluent in English, I have found the manual to be incredibly helpful. Zebra's sound and structure are distinctly different from conventional synthesizers, so I believe it is challenging to understand it simply by touching it briefly.
People have different opinions on the UI, but personally, I have come to enjoy the new design despite being a fan of the previous one. It is simply a matter of getting accustomed to it. The synth has actually evolved a great deal.
I look forward to further improvements and am truly thankful for this instrument.

[bonch]

The new graphite UI is cool.

[Funky40]

patch assist request:

i`m used to control the frequenzy of a VCF with a morph control.
i add a gain compensation of some sort to a VCFs control =>
Q: Where within Z3 should i apply my morph (post Filter) gain control ideally ? ( should be preset-change resistant as much as possible. I mean usually a patch has just Filter 1 active....but i have no overview vs. all the available gain/Level controls)

[Kyunghee]

I finally gave Zebra 3 a try yesterday evening and god it sounds amazing.
That UI is very displeasing tho, looks dated and almost cheap, especially compared to Zebralette 3 which looked so slick.

(Also I cant wrap my head around how the FM oscillator work Gonna need to dig deeper into that).

[Tracewidth]

I find the UI to be very pleasing. I think it's beautifully designed even if the zebra-stripe pattern brings me back to 1988, when Zubaz pants were king.

[PeterBPL]

I always loved u-He plugins because they was super fast. Loading time of Diva or Zebra is under one second. Zebra 3 however is a little slower. Also some presets needs more time to load. Will it be improved?

[Andrei Marchenko]

I finally gave Zebra 3 a try yesterday evening and god it sounds amazing.
That UI is very displeasing tho, looks dated and almost cheap, especially compared to Zebralette 3 which looked so slick.

(Also I cant wrap my head around how the FM oscillator work Gonna need to dig deeper into that).

Zebralette3 — top UI. O hope that the team just teasing us with Zebra 3 Beta )

[benmason]

I know some people made a point about the knob of the LFO being a bit tedious. Would a reasonable solution be to add a click function to the shapes so that the knob snaps to the shape that is selected? And then just shifting the bipolar/positive selector a little further down.

[ThoughtExperiment]

Now that we're so close to a final release, I've started looking into 'reverse-engineering' the factory presets, to gain a better understanding of how it all works. In the 'synth pads' folder, 'Otherworldly' appears to have an 'orphaned' lfo (LFO3), which has made me realize I don't know how to delete a module if it's not actually modulating anything? I thought that modulators automatically appeared in the rack when you connect them to a target, and disappear again if you remove all modulations?

Not so important, I'd just like to understand. It's entirely possible that it is modulating something and I just can't see it (although I've tried altering the rate and I don't hear anything). Any ideas, anyone?

[Eluwei]

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[pdxindy]

Not so important, I'd just like to understand. It's entirely possible that it is modulating something and I just can't see it (although I've tried altering the rate and I don't hear anything). Any ideas, anyone?

It's some sort of glitch. LFO3 is not assigned to anything. If you right click on the crosshairs of a modulator, you can see all the assignments. LFO3 has none.