Zebra 3 and Zebra Legacy

[PieBerger]

i think it would be much easier if you "just" programmed an app for that on a tablet PC.

Soldering smells nicer than programming though

[WatchTheGuitar]

This has been bothering me for a while, I so badly just want some XY midi controllers but they just don't seem to exist! I feel like the only way to make it exist is getting a little midi controller commissioned or something. I don't like tablet midi stuff but I think that's the only other option.

nanoPad, pretty cheap
https://www.gear4music.com/Keyboards-an ... BLEALw_wcB

[gauderbock]

If the nanopad was available with just four touchpads it'd be ideal.

[martinjuenke]

If the nanopad was available with just four touchpads it'd be ideal.

Try this:

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[gauderbock]

Aha, that and a bit of gaffa tape...

[WatchTheGuitar]

If the nanopad was available with just four touchpads it'd be ideal.

You seem to be against them, but classic iPad app stuff there.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/midi-xy-pad/id1491657131
You'd just need some rtpMIDI handler on your PC/Mac. Bluetooth adapters are really cheap.

[whynotm]

U-he's ambition will never keep up with the changes. It worked with Zebra 2 because it was a synth in a synth desert. Zebra 3 will end up like Synthmaster

[Tuskerfort]

If the nanopad was available with just four touchpads it'd be ideal.

What OS are you on? If you are on a Mac, Audioswift gives you multiple XY pads on your trackpad. It's not as large as a tablet and it can take some practice to get trackpads three and four going. But there's nothing to connect. I'm a happy customer.

[ahanysz]

You can also put XY pads on a tablet or ipad screen using the TouchOSC app (and I think there's a few other similar apps out there too). Getting it to talk to your DAW can be fiddly, but you only have to set up that part once.

[robisme]

or ... simply use Zebra perf interface with a touchscreen laptop

[pierb]

The big issue with Audioswift or the Nanopad is you don't have a reference. When you tap you will not land on the exact same spot the XY pad is. You can of course then redraw the CC lanes but that become quite tedious.

A touch screen is much better but personally I'd just love a controller with 4 hi-res joysticks (for when MIDI 2 becomes generally available).

Or just use 8 faders...

[pierb]

BTW Urs one feature I'd love to have in Zebra 3 is full range OSC pitch modulation. This is great for making kick drums!

Maybe I'm mistaken but I think even Bazille cannot do that?

You can of course modulate the frequency of a filter with self oscillation up to 20Khz but sometimes you want the envelope to more snappy and the resonance doesn't react quickly enough.

[glokraw]

If the nanopad was available with just four touchpads it'd be ideal.

I have a two-joystick Logitech gamepad and Korg NanoKontrol2 teamed up
in Reaper daw, which has a joystick support button in it's midi preferences
panel, and a few choices. The live joystick xy access to U-he mappings is a delight, and the slightly less live knobs and sliders on the Korg are also useful.
Cheers

[gentleclockdivider]

BTW Urs one feature I'd love to have in Zebra 3 is full range OSC pitch modulation. This is great for making kick drums!

Maybe I'm mistaken but I think even Bazille cannot do that?

You can of course modulate the frequency of a filter with self oscillation up to 20Khz but sometimes you want the envelope to more snappy and the resonance doesn't react quickly enough.

Modulating osc freq from matrix has a higher range , or you can right click osc frequency and choose mmix module( which will appear at the right side ) , there you stack your ( same) sources * constant module

[pierb]

Modulating osc freq from matrix has a higher range , or you can right click osc frequency and choose mmix module( which will appear at the right side ) , there you stack your ( same) sources * constant module

In Zebra the matrix seems to have exactly the same range as the slot in the module. You can of course stack both to get to a higher frequency although it would be nice to not have to do this hack.