Zebrify 'Guitar Synth' Patch Example?

[Suntower]

Hi,

I've been messing with Zebrify and it's a gas---It's the closest I've seen to an Orville I've seen... Fantastic! (man, if you could take this kind of easy programmability and build in the Uh-bik FX? WOW! WOW! WOW!)

Sorry, got excited.

Is there a sample patch someone can provide... or some suggestions on pitch detection? The manual tantalizes with mentions of 'guitar synth' but I can't figure out how to get it to work... I thought using the 'Pitchness' to modulate an OSC and the Transient Ess to trigger an Env, but this isn't doing it. What's the trick?

TIA,

---JC

PS: If this is already here, I couldn't figure out how to find it. A Quick Search of Zebrify is 47 pages!

[xh3rv]

Set the 'KeySource' to Input or In Qtz, and OSC / FM / Comb etc. will follow the detected MIDI note (which is displayed on Zebrify's keyboard). In Qtz snaps values to the closest semitone. Pitch detection and really all the input-monitoring modulations are really program-dependent, tweaking is a must. Hope you have fun with this, I've always wanted to plug a guitar into Zebrify

[Suntower]

Thanks. I thought I was getting there, but then I realised I wasn't.

When I changed the KeySource to Input, it does some great things if one has a VCF in the path, but the signal was still weak (I don't get how the 'regular' signal gets mixed into the path with the VCO when one changes the KeySource to Input).

Also, how do I control the volume? IOW: how do I apply the AR envelope of the transient detector to the 'VCA'? Or... how do I use the transient detector to trigger an envelope to then open/close the VCA?

Thanks again,

---JC

Set the 'KeySource' to Input or In Qtz, and OSC / FM / Comb etc. will follow the detected MIDI note (which is displayed on Zebrify's keyboard). In Qtz snaps values to the closest semitone. Pitch detection and really all the input-monitoring modulations are really program-dependent, tweaking is a must. Hope you have fun with this, I've always wanted to plug a guitar into Zebrify

[xh3rv]

Thanks. I thought I was getting there, but then I realised I wasn't.

When I changed the KeySource to Input, it does some great things if one has a VCF in the path, but the signal was still weak (I don't get how the 'regular' signal gets mixed into the path with the VCO when one changes the KeySource to Input).

Also, how do I control the volume? IOW: how do I apply the AR envelope of the transient detector to the 'VCA'? Or... how do I use the transient detector to trigger an envelope to then open/close the VCA?

Thanks again,

---JC

The input mixer in the 'input' tab controls how much of the input signal is sent to each lane of the grid. OSC modules (and FM modules on some settings) pass the signal fed into them along with their output, since they don't process the input signal.

The VCA is actually maybe not the easiest place to put the EnvFol / Transient modulations for the gating you want. If I remember the exact details, the 'mod' knob in Zebra/Zebrify right by the VCA 'volume' knobs are multipliers; the reason is that Zebra needs to use Env modules or Gate to manage the number of voices being used.

There is a trick though: use the ModMatrix to modulate VCA volumes (Mixer:Volume#).

A couple of other things that work are 'Vol' on an OSC / FM, or 'Mix' on a mixing module (you can sidechain silence ).

[e] Or the output on a COMP module is a lot of fun to modulate too (via ModMatrix).