u-he update of almost everything August 2021

[BBFG#]

Is there a Dark Zebra update?

From the thread linked to in Urs' op above:

For The Dark Zebra (ZebraHZ), as always, please request a download link from here:

https://u-he.com/my-licenses/

Thanks.

[Urs]

Interesting And dangerous, the 'exploding' part I mean

Hence we spent a week of manpower to ensure that it isn't a fault in our stuff. We hope the host in question will be fixed soon.

So, you basically need to have all major hosts and operating systems, or resort to external testers.

both

U-he is bigger, but I suppose for a one-man company like TAL keeping his 12 plugins updated must be quite a challenge...

Depends. I don't know about TAL, but a small company which gets by with an externally maintained plug-in framework (e.g. JUCE), a standard website technology (e.g. WordPress) and a manageable user base (thousands rather than hundreds of thousands) has a lot fewer things to do than we do, and may not really need to put that much effort into such an update.

[Ploki]

For example, it was sheer coincidence that we found out that closing and reopening a project in a certain host in a certain way could lead to corrupted audio. It was easily fixed, but it was a non-trivial find, and it took several days to really get to the bottom of it.

Likewise, a certain project in a certain host could "explode" with a plug-in of ours, but after days of testing we could make it explode without any of our plug-ins. This isn't our fault, clearly, but it's an example of an uncertainly that may take days or weeks to look into.

The first one is logic, right? I remember this happening with rc1.
Second one i assume is also logic - because i could make it explode with any oversampled plugin

[Urs]

Hehehe, I'm not gonna confirm nor deny.

[EnGee]

Thank you for the update

The new skin in Hive is great I hope that Hive gets more complex oscillators with all the folding, sync, fm, pm ...etc Maybe in version 3.0

[PieBerger]

The new skin in Hive is great I hope that Hive gets more complex oscillators with all the folding, sync, fm, pm ...etc Maybe in version 3.0

Personally, I hope they leave Hive pretty much as is and just implement the aforementioned features in Zebra3 instead. Hive is awesome because it's not bloated with every option under the sun, just enough features, implemented in such a way to cover a broad range of sounds without choice overwhelm and or crap workflow.

[FotoxBr]

When I will do the updates (Diva, Zebra, Hive ,I am very interested in doing so), how will this affect my NKS database ?
I have some bad experiences with some other companies updates (double entries, missing links). Unfortunately, I cannot do a complete Komplete / Maschine rescan because of out of memory issues.

[Urs]

When I will do the updates (Diva, Zebra, Hive ,I am very interested in doing so), how will this affect my NKS database ?
I have some bad experiences with some other companies updates (double entries, missing links). Unfortunately, I cannot do a complete Komplete / Maschine rescan because of out of memory issues.

Komplete will automatically rescan just the libraries that changed. If memory serves me right, you can also manually rescan just the libraries you wish to rescan, i.e. there's no need to do a complete rescan.

That said, we have not heard of any issues and as these updates went through a full screening process at NI, I don't expect any problems.

[fese]

Thanks for reply. So we will see, but pay for CM Magazine only to get new version of ZebraCM with this skin is well spended money.

ZebraCM VST3 - YEP!!!

Or just save that money for a full Zebra license. Worth it!

[EnGee]

The new skin in Hive is great I hope that Hive gets more complex oscillators with all the folding, sync, fm, pm ...etc Maybe in version 3.0

Personally, I hope they leave Hive pretty much as is and just implement the aforementioned features in Zebra3 instead. Hive is awesome because it's not bloated with every option under the sun, just enough features, implemented in such a way to cover a broad range of sounds without choice overwhelm and or crap workflow.

Maybe you are right! If the majority of people are happy with it, why change it! I might be in the minority that want Hive to compete with higher end wavetable synths like Serum and Phase Plant as adding several wave shaping to the oscillators would make it a great sounding all in one synth.

[PieBerger]

The new skin in Hive is great I hope that Hive gets more complex oscillators with all the folding, sync, fm, pm ...etc Maybe in version 3.0

Personally, I hope they leave Hive pretty much as is and just implement the aforementioned features in Zebra3 instead. Hive is awesome because it's not bloated with every option under the sun, just enough features, implemented in such a way to cover a broad range of sounds without choice overwhelm and or crap workflow.

Maybe you are right! If the majority of people are happy with it, why change it! I might be in the minority that want Hive to compete with higher end wavetable synths like Serum and Phase Plant as adding several wave shaping to the oscillators would make it a great sounding all in one synth.

We will get a competitive synth, but it will be Zebra shaped

[Urs]

I think we just made Hive exceptionally competitive in the departments where it excels most: CPU and sound quality.

We fixed a weird left over sound bug that caused a teensy bit of digital artifacts in the standard waveforms. We also found a funky formula to estimate interpolation noise for individual harmonics, and applied it in a way that allowed us to speed up wavetable playback dramatically. With a lot of sounds and wavetables the performance gains are, well - and for all we have benchmarked -, without competition.

[fese]

I think u-he killed their CDN with this announcement... d/l is really slow, if it starts at all.

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wget https://dl.u-he.com/releases/Diva_145_12092_Win.zip
--2021-08-11 16:35:24--  https://dl.u-he.com/releases/Diva_145_12092_Win.zip
Resolving dl.u-he.com (dl.u-he.com)... 2001:8d8:100f:f000::29d, 217.160.0.218
Connecting to dl.u-he.com (dl.u-he.com)|2001:8d8:100f:f000::29d|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com/releases/Diva_145_12092_Win.zip [following]
--2021-08-11 16:35:25--  https://uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com/releases/Diva_145_12092_Win.zip
Resolving uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com (uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com)... 94.31.29.128
Connecting to uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com (uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com)|94.31.29.128|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 36041540 (34M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘Diva_145_12092_Win.zip.1’

Diva_145_12092_Win.zip.1       19%[========>                                         ]   6.87M  10.0KB/s    in 5m 39s

2021-08-11 16:41:06 (20.7 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 7206923. Retrying.

--2021-08-11 16:41:07--  (try: 2)  https://uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com/releases/Diva_145_12092_Win.zip
Connecting to uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com (uhedownloads-heckmannaudiogmb.netdna-ssl.com)|94.31.29.128|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
2021-08-11 16:41:07 ERROR 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable.

I checked on my (external) server, same problems, slow or I get a 503. None of the downloads completes.

So, either a DOS by KVR users or Urs didn't pay the bills

[tasmaniandevil]

Yep, sorry: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=569128

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

Glad I got my ZebraHZ yesterday. Pays to visit KVR first folks! Got a full day jump on the email announcement.