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xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:35 pm

Due to recent discoveries about the ultimate nature of matter, space, and time, the contest deadline will be extended to 36 hours from now. (By 'discovery about ...' I mean without a time machine I'll a little busy until then)

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:53 am

xh3rv wrote:Due to recent discoveries about the ultimate nature of matter, space, and time, the contest deadline will be extended to 36 hours from now.

So at 1,079 million kilometres per hour. 36 x that.
I could have circled around the solar system by then.

wait...but when I return, I'll still have to wait 36 hours?

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:06 am

MCnoone wrote:
xh3rv wrote:Due to recent discoveries about the ultimate nature of matter, space, and time, the contest deadline will be extended to 36 hours from now.
So at 1,079 million kilometres per hour. 36 x that.
I could have circled around the solar system by then.

wait...but when I return, I'll still have to wait 36 hours?

Or, just see yourself in process of waiting the 36 hours.

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:42 pm

Just a quick note that patches will be up in a couple hours.

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:26 am

OK, finally have these put together. Worth the wait, I hope - there are some _great_ patches in here. I'm not going to post a voting thread right away, I'll wait for Bmrzycki to have a link to the set at Zebra HQ, but here they are.

http://www.box.net/shared/yb0ttcg65v

[e] Another quick note, I noticed one patch uses the latest beta version of Zebra with 1sec delay modes.

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:14 am

xh3rv wrote:I'll wait for Bmrzycki to have a link to the set at Zebra HQ, but here they are.

http://www.box.net/shared/yb0ttcg65v

I got this message when I pressed the dl button on that page.
"This user is not allowed to use direct links.
Please email support@box.net for support".

Guess I'll have to wait then.
edit: I managed to dl them using another proxy and it worked.
I'm blocked from that site, but got around it. Thanks.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:23 am

You can download them from the patch library now:

http://u-he.com/PatchLib/presets/z2/ZPC-06.zip

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:45 am

I've gotten some messages about the set from patch authors so I guess I'll hold off on the voting thread just a little bit just to make sure those concerns all get through prior to that thread.

Particularly, the patch 'Outside Jazz+' should have the 1st XY set at the top-right corner on loading. I think volume might be a little loud too (?) ( might have overcompensated from last time ... )

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:59 am

Also, we'll most likely have the Zebra 2.5 release version up in a few hours. I guess this should be used for voting

(I'm a little late... I know...

)

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:34 pm

xh3rv wrote:I've gotten some messages about the set from patch authors so I guess I'll hold off on the voting thread just a little bit just to make sure those concerns all get through prior to that thread.

Particularly, the patch 'Outside Jazz+' should have the 1st XY set at the top-right corner on loading. I think volume might be a little loud too (?) ( might have overcompensated from last time ... )

The same author contacted me last night and I was able to adjust the presets in the version on the U-He PatchLib to his liking.

Unless you have someone else unhappy with their patches the one found int he link posted above by me should be fine.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:44 pm

I kind of think that the balancing of relative patch volumes could do with some tweaking - I can hear a fair difference between the patch that, to me, sounds the loudest and that which sounds quietest.

And I think that it matters that it's done to everyone's satisfaction (in so far as that is possible). Having some patches that are noticeably louder or quieter than others not only makes auditioning more difficult, but it might also give an advantage to the louder patches.

BTW, I wasn't one of the ones who originally PM'd xh3rv, but, after reading his last post and then listening to the balanced set of patches, I sent him a PM saying more-or-less what I've just written here.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:21 pm

Normalizing is a tricky business, as I did it for the first 4 contests. I think it's safest if people remember to listen to the Original/ folder as that contains the person's untouched intent.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:58 pm

bmrzycki wrote:Normalizing is a tricky business, as I did it for the first 4 contests.

Well, it's certainly more art than science, but it's really not so difficult to adjust the levels so that they are all of similar perceived volumes (btw, I'm pretty sure that I balanced the first lot of ZPC patches

).

mcnoone · Post by **mcnoone** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:45 pm

Just an added opinion, but I believe that all the contests levels were balanced very well, up until the last zpc5, and this one.
There is no doubt that the last zpc5 had the levels too low, and this zpc6 has the levels all different.
..but really I can just set the levels using the output to where I like it anyway, so doesn't matter too much to me.
The zpc5 originals sounded good though. This time...their all different.

xh3rv · Post by **xh3rv** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:42 am

OK, well I'll have to admit I'm quite terrible at the task of balancing the volume of the patches in a way that makes them work well here . . . anyone want to set these up in the next little bit of time, or is it not even that big a deal? Once the voting thread goes up I don't think there's any chance of going back.

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