Can't get repetitive sound I need, Zebra 2.9.4

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Hello!
I made single beat that sounds exactly as I want (Sustain in ENV is 0) but I'm strugling with arpeggiators "Sync" ( I want to control speed in other words) can I modulate it ? is it possible at all ?
I don't want to change projects tempo, that's simply not correct. and none of premade Sync speeds suits speed I want.

Then I modulated volume with MSEG then I tried with LFO, all is good, speed is precise now, but I'm loosing hit that was at the beginning of a note..
What can I do ?
Ubuntu 24.04 on Wayland / Bitwig 6.0 b8 / Zebra 3 Rev 20399 CLAP

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Hi Walter,

the arpeggiator in Z2 sticks to the DAW tempo, you can't modulate that in Z2.
Can't help with the second question though, very sorry, maybe post the preset here so others can check out how it's set up?

Viktor
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Viktor [TUC] wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 12:01 pm Hi Walter,

the arpeggiator in Z2 sticks to the DAW tempo, you can't modulate that in Z2.
Can't help with the second question though, very sorry, maybe post the preset here so others can check out how it's set up?

Viktor
u-he team
Hello Viktor!
If there is no way to set custom sync speed, I don't think I can do something here, hope Z3 will be more flexible.
btw , do Z3 have arpegiator at all ? if yes, any info if it has abililty to adjust custom speed of arp ?
Ubuntu 24.04 on Wayland / Bitwig 6.0 b8 / Zebra 3 Rev 20399 CLAP

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WalterH wrote: Fri Oct 17, 2025 3:14 pm btw , do Z3 have arpegiator at all ? if yes, any info if it has abililty to adjust custom speed of arp ?
So... initially Z3 will not have an arpeggiator or dedicated sequencer. But we do wish to add those down the road.

The reason for that is what experience tells us. Several of our synths have competing concepts of how global sequencers do similar things as the sequencer-ish things in the voice. In Zebra 2 there are many presets that use the arpeggiator, and there are many presets that use MSEGs and LFOs to do the same thing. But there are no presets where both interact. Because they can't. In Hive that works a lot better, but then Hive has a comparably simple voice architecture and no full blown MSEGs.

In Zebra 3 we have expanded the options to sequence, arpeggiate and do complex rhythmic and melodic work inside the voice. Our sound designers have already used this extensively, there are a lot of complex examples, ranging from bass lines to quite some arrangements - all without any global sequencer.

The idea of starting all this in the voice and postponing the global arpeggiator/sequencer combo is that we want to figure out how to integrate them with the voice. We want to come up with a concept that makes per voice sequencing and global sequencing non-exclusive. I still have no idea what that actually looks like.

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