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david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:52 am

Is there any way to emulate string machine behaviour in Diva or Zebra. I mean phase locked/divider oscs and paraphonic like envelopes?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:05 am

Not as far as I know.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:41 am

Divide-down oscs - no
(Phase-locked oscs - yes)
(paraphonic envelopes - yes)

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:02 pm

Howard wrote:Divide-down oscs - no
(Phase-locked oscs - yes)
(paraphonic envelopes - yes)

Diva's DCO is modelled after a phase-locked, divide-down oscillator. However, it behaves somewhat differently to string machine DDO's.

Paraphonic envelopes in Diva?

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:25 pm

Didn't see 'Diva' - I replied about Zebra2

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:33 pm

And I didn't see 'Zebra'.

Phase-locked oscillators in Zebra? How?

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:47 pm

Howard wrote:Divide-down oscs - no
(Phase-locked oscs - yes)
(paraphonic envelopes - yes)

Absence of divide-down is sad a bit. Isn't it good feature request for zebra 3?

pdxindy · Post by **pdxindy** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:23 am

david.beholder wrote:
Howard wrote:Divide-down oscs - no
(Phase-locked oscs - yes)
(paraphonic envelopes - yes)
Absence of divide-down is sad a bit. Isn't it good feature request for zebra 3?

Sure... along with many many others

There is always Synth Squad!

jeffb01 · Post by **jeffb01** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:57 am

david.beholder wrote:
...divide-down... Isn't it good feature request for zebra 3?

I'm gonna go and put a +1 here...

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:13 am

jeffb01 wrote:
david.beholder wrote:
...divide-down... Isn't it good feature request for zebra 3?
I'm gonna go and put a +1 here...

Wrote to Z3 info thread, hope Urs will notice it.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:24 pm

We do notice, but "persistence is futile"

i.e. it will either be implemented or not, depending on viability and popularity.

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:56 pm

I love playing with emulations of obscure technology like DD oscillators but I have to admit I find it funny that string machine emulations expend vast amounts of CPU creating the DD oscillators with no phase shifting whatsoever, then spend even more CPU covering it up with lush chorus sounds

I totally get it, it's a particular, idiosyncratic sound, but DD oscillators, outside of that particular sound, don't seem to have a whole lot of applications or noticable sound benefits to be included in a general purpose synth.

hakey · Post by **hakey** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:19 pm

Yep. Surely, the emulation for emulation's sake of niche stuff like DDO's is more Diva then Zebra?

Sendy · Post by **Sendy** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 5:05 pm

Ind33d.

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:41 pm

Howard wrote:We do notice, but "persistence is futile" i.e. it will either be implemented or not, depending on viability and popularity.

this i do understand

Sendy wrote:I totally get it, it's a particular, idiosyncratic sound, but DD oscillators, outside of that particular sound, don't seem to have a whole lot of applications or noticable sound benefits to be included in a general purpose synth.

I'd rather say it's distinctive sound from 70s and 80s, that were used by lot of different prog/space disco/new wave bands.

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String mache behaviour in Diva or Zebra