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pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:58 pm

Dr.Gunjah wrote:compressor

You'll touch that compressor over my cold dead hands!!! (unless it is to add to it)

GUI resize would be the feature I would remove if I had to... no loss to sound possibilities

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:12 pm

rockmachine wrote:Even though some might not use the XY things, I can't imagine why it would be a feature you would want to lose.

I don't think anyone said that they would *want* to lose the XYs, did they?

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:30 pm

Now now, no one is taking away features! It's just a Gedankenexperiment and we're all just having a bit of fun, so relax and enjoy.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:57 pm

pdxindy wrote:
You'll touch that compressor over my cold dead hands!!!

Carefull what you ask for, Zebraman! ninja assassin is always watching! Urs says "Remove a feature" and ZebraMan gets it done!!

Esgalachoir · Post by **Esgalachoir** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:40 pm

rockmachine wrote:...Just try using one or the other axis wired to a hardware control output. By assiging one or more parameters to it, you can have huge amounts of timbral control and changes live, and it certainly makes Zebra a great live synth too.

Excellent point. That's integral to the fun of Zebra. The way you can dish out proportions of a parameter to X or Y in the XY control panel is what I like. It's simple and straightforward.

Dr.Gunjah · Post by **Dr.Gunjah** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:43 am

pdxindy wrote:
Dr.Gunjah wrote:compressor
You'll touch that compressor over my cold dead hands!!! (unless it is to add to it)

having a compressor inside the synth is handy but in it's current state it's quite useless to me because even some good freeware compressors outperform it.

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:48 am

Dr.Gunjah wrote:having a compressor inside the synth is handy but in it's current state it's quite useless to me because even some good freeware compressors outperform it.

That's probably true, but you can't insert those external compressors into an fx chain inside Zebra. I use the compressor quite often, in between reverb and delay, for example.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:53 am

Dr.Gunjah wrote:having a compressor inside the synth is handy but...

Think inside (sic) the box!

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:36 pm

Dr.Gunjah wrote:
pdxindy wrote:
Dr.Gunjah wrote:compressor
You'll touch that compressor over my cold dead hands!!! (unless it is to add to it)
having a compressor inside the synth is handy but in it's current state it's quite useless to me because even some good freeware compressors outperform it.

You may find it useless... For me, it is a valuable sound shaping tool inside the Zebra signal chain... it cannot be replaced by an external compressor.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:01 pm

I've thought of a feature to dump! EQ!!! Why? cuz' I may be addicted to it. To my sounds detriment?!

Just thought about the fact that the EQ (as I'm using it) may be bad on the listener's ears?

May be better to use the filter in the fx section of the OSCs? Hmmm.

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:22 pm

The compressor unit un Zebra makes a good distortion effect. (strong type with minimum attack and release).
Learned this from "Zebra Sound Design -tips, and tricks" thread.

cis-didge · Post by **cis-didge** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:46 pm

what i realy would like to lose is the MISSING ability to save and recall arp patterns

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:01 pm

hakey wrote:
rockmachine wrote:Even though some might not use the XY things, I can't imagine why it would be a feature you would want to lose.
I don't think anyone said that they would *want* to lose the XYs, did they?

The thing about the XY pads is in terms of performance it's hard to use all 4 at once unless you tie them together somehow - I do it using the Kore morphpad - choosing 8 "sweet spots" as snaps to morph between. I have done this with my ZebraCore remix patches (on my site). Just mousing on one XY at a time is not my idea of a particularly musical approach, I prefer to be able to change some or all at once but in different ways. So while I would not want to lose XY's what would be good would be to have an automatable 5th master XY (or XYZ) pad that can be programmed to control the other 4 in the same way as I do in Kore (with maybe the capability to take snapshots to function as vector points between morphs)

Gino Cortesi · Post by **Gino Cortesi** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:53 am

Tough question...

If I had to pick something, I could live without the 4 mod mixers.

Other things I rarely use...

The central section below the main grid to modulate pan and volume. It takes up a good chunk of space, and I have no problem setting those in the mod matrix if I want them.

I also don't use effects routing (send 1, send 2, return1, return2).

Best regards,

Gino

Dr.Gunjah · Post by **Dr.Gunjah** » Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:51 pm

pdxindy wrote:
Dr.Gunjah wrote:
pdxindy wrote:
Dr.Gunjah wrote:compressor
You'll touch that compressor over my cold dead hands!!! (unless it is to add to it)
having a compressor inside the synth is handy but in it's current state it's quite useless to me because even some good freeware compressors outperform it.
You may find it useless... For me, it is a valuable sound shaping tool inside the Zebra signal chain... it cannot be replaced by an external compressor.

well it's all personal preference... I don't need this compressor while you seem to use it much.
conversely you don't need GUI resize while for me this is a key feature which contributes to my wellbeing in the creativity stage.

Cheers,
Doc

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