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Urs · Post by **Urs** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:16 pm

Howard wrote:

This smiley suits you very well!

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:07 pm

I was listening to the demos, and they really impressed me, specially, since you are telling that mainly you use only one oscillator. The oldskool demo reminded me very much of TD in the period Froese-Franke-Schmoelling - great demo.
I then listened to your space music. Very good stuff. Seems like you are as good as a composer as you are as a sound designer.
Look forward to check your sound bank

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:12 pm

Urs wrote:
Howard wrote:
This smiley suits you very well!

Can't work out whether that compliment was barbed or not!

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:58 pm

Thanks for the comments about the music itself. Making those small pieces of music is very important to me since it shows Zebra is not merely a synth you use for blips and blops but is quite capable of covering an entire piece of music in all its aspects.

In the start of the project i didnt pay much attention to the build in reverb but later on i started to think modular with the reverb like adding a EQ on the reverb input makes a huge difference. Anyway, you will spot this method in many of the pad+string patches. A good example is the orchestral like string (Breeze String) made of 1 FMO oscillator, if you took away the FX (reverb/delay/eq) then the patch would just sound like a dull Phase Modulation detuned saw thing.

Anyways, i'm looking forward to this release which have been quite an eye-opener for me

/Michael

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:16 pm

Superb work! Really shows off how great Z2 can sound with good programming, top marks!

HunterKiller · Post by **HunterKiller** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:14 am

Umm, link?

beej · Post by **beej** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:33 am

mkastrup wrote:In the start of the project i didnt pay much attention to the build in reverb but later on i started to think modular with the reverb like adding a EQ on the reverb input makes a huge difference.

Yes - using reverb in ways like this is one of my little techniques I use a lot - for instance, rather than feeding an oscillator into a filter, I might feed the oscillator into a reverb with small time settings to thicken it up, and then into a filter. Same with delays as well - basically injecting wet sounds earlier on into the patch, rather than just wetting them up at the end of the chain for ambience.

You can get some great textures this way that have a different quality to just using "dry" oscillators, especially if you are adding motion (wavetable sweeps etc) to run the the wet effects.

Fun stuff!

Urs · Post by **Urs** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:37 am

HunterKiller wrote:Umm, link?

Soon!

Ned Bouhalassa · Post by **Ned Bouhalassa** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:14 am

Great sounds and demos, Michael! Looking forward to adding these superb babies to our favourite African animal!

spritex · Post by **spritex** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:43 am

That Oldskool Sequencing sounds 1/1 like Tangerine Dream.
Some really fine patches in the snippets.

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:40 am

spritex wrote:That Oldskool Sequencing sounds 1/1 like Tangerine Dream.
Some really fine patches in the snippets.

If that snippet made you think Tangerine Dream then i couldnt be more happy cause thats the spirit/mood i was trying to recreate.

/Michael

HunterKiller · Post by **HunterKiller** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:02 am

mkastrup wrote:
spritex wrote:That Oldskool Sequencing sounds 1/1 like Tangerine Dream.
Some really fine patches in the snippets.
If that snippet made you think Tangerine Dream then i couldnt be more happy cause thats the spirit/mood i was trying to recreate.

/Michael

When I heard it a couple of weeks ago, I immediately thought TD, Michael you've very nicely captured the spirit of the analog epics' era. There's nothing that'll get people to buy patches faster than demonstrating them through some of their favourite genres.

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:33 pm

Added these 2 mp3 demos to the initial post:

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemo ... ool_11.mp3 The competition piece (DRY) (01:30)

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemo ... ool_15.mp3 S L O W pads (DRY) (06:22)

/Michael

Gucky · Post by **Gucky** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:03 pm

Hi mkastrup,
I am a big fan of your EVOL synth. Is there the chance for more presets for EVOL or a new synth from you?

mkastrup · Post by **mkastrup** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:49 pm

Gucky wrote:Hi mkastrup,
I am a big fan of your EVOL synth. Is there the chance for more presets for EVOL or a new synth from you?

Hi Gucky

Glad you like EVOL

and i know it can be a b.... to program but EVOL was a 2005 project and judging by the shere amount of free VSTi which have popped since then i think there MUST be something similar out there. If you are looking for a commercial synth with similar sound you should take a look at Surge by Vember Audio which is far more advanced than EVOL.

I have some synth which i made since then but they are only used inhouse for sampling projects.

Anyway, i might get some time to look at EVOL again for some presets but when-where-how i cant tell cause i'm pretty busy atm. I know its popular in some places cause i stopped counting after 30.000 downloads and still get 400-500 downloads a month.

/Michael

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