Hey everyone fresh blood on the forums here,
When I make even a simple repeating arp and I modulate any LP filter with a free running LFO in Zebra, instead of the filter smoothly moving in and out, the notes seem to randomly pop in and out, even with fast or slow arps. If I use any other kind of modulation that slowly moves the filter back and forth it works fine, but it doesn't work as I would expect with any shape of LFO.
Using an MSEG is fine, and is usually preferable anyways because I can always choose where the filter starts in the arp (and a gate-set LFO doesn't work because it resets on each note), but does anyone know why a free-running LFO wouldn't move the filter smoothly? Is it a bug, or is it an aspect of the LFO in Zebra that I haven't considered?
I am using the latest stable build and it acts like this in both Zebra and ZebraHZ.
Thanks!
Zebra/ZebraHZ Arp+Filter+LFO unexpected behaviour
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tasmaniandevil tasmaniandevil https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=62450
- KVRAF
- 2171 posts since 22 Mar, 2005 from a planet called u-he
From the Zebra manual about LFO free restart mode:
free: the LFO starts at a random position within its wave every time a note is played
If you want a continuous smooth change while using the arpeggiator, then you can use one of the global LFOs instead.
free: the LFO starts at a random position within its wave every time a note is played
If you want a continuous smooth change while using the arpeggiator, then you can use one of the global LFOs instead.
That QA guy from planet u-he.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 3 posts since 8 Apr, 2020
Ah of course!
When I read that over, I had assumed it was just referring to the fact that a free-running LFO would be essentially random the first time it was used because you wouldn't know what position it was in at the time. But it picks a new random starting point every time a note is triggered!
Now the difference (and use-case) between the standard LFO and global module is more clear to me. This will also likely avoid some programming confusion in other similar cases in the future.
Thank you, I was spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out what the missing piece was only to have passed it over almost immediately.
When I read that over, I had assumed it was just referring to the fact that a free-running LFO would be essentially random the first time it was used because you wouldn't know what position it was in at the time. But it picks a new random starting point every time a note is triggered!
Now the difference (and use-case) between the standard LFO and global module is more clear to me. This will also likely avoid some programming confusion in other similar cases in the future.
Thank you, I was spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out what the missing piece was only to have passed it over almost immediately.