Namm 2013

[Berni]

Why even bother, all they did last year was announce a few additions to the software which is STILL in beta. Lame.

[Timo]

Originally Posted by Berni

Why even bother, all they did last year was announce a few additions to the software which is STILL in beta. Lame.

I'm actually a little nervous about Access. When other hardware and software companies are adding and releasing new offerings in a prolific way, Access has been like the Mary Celeste this last year.

Originally Posted by MBTC

I really don't want to get into a debate here on hard vs soft synths. I'm a fan of both... but have you ever looked at the modulation possibilities of something like Zebra? There are lots softsynths out there that let you literally modulate anything via anything, especially ones with modular or semi modular architectures. When I had my Virus Ti2, the possibilities VC afforded at that time (2009 I think?) were not even close to the versatility of Zebra, though admittedly I have not had my hands on VC recently.

The customisable oscillator waveforms on Zebra2 look extremely cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoQYVP010

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by Timo

The customisable oscillator waveforms on Zebra2 look extremely cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoQYVP010

Not only do you have flexibility on the waveform, it is dead easy to take that waveform, modify it in some way (for example using the mouse to redraw the harmonics), then morph the waveform.

This is not the best example video, but if you watch about 10-15 seconds in, where he transitions the waveform between stage 1 and 16: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjCrvcV8q0 it almost shows what I mean when I say its easy to start with one wave in stage 1, copy it to stage 16, tweakt it to a different wave, then morph so that stage 2-15 are slow transitions between the two states, then you can modulate between those stages pretty much however and using whatever you want. He is not using complex additive waveforms here so its not a good showcase, but sort of shows the morphing possibility (I couldn't find the exact video I wanted).
Here's a guy making a dirty bass sound, which shows editing the waveform a slightly different way, so if you combine the two vids you can kinda get the idea.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlMD7...e=results_main

Zebra is an absolute monster of a synth. There's a reason why Hans Zimmer made this his instrument of choice when he did the soundtrack to (Batman) Dark Knight Rises. You can even actually buy all the original sounds used in the movie for Zebra.

UPDATE: For some reason when I first clicked your link the vid didn't load so I proceeded with my post without seeing it, but it is actually a better vid for the features I was describing than the ones I posted... Anyway I will leave what I wrote for thread integrity even though it seems unnecessary now. As a side note, I find the MSEG feature just as valuable, although when Zebra first came out, there were not too many other synths available that had this feature, whereas these days it seems more synth designers are adding them... just more crazy modulation possibilities that you pretty much never see on hardware.

[TheHobbit]

Originally Posted by Timo

I'm actually a little nervous about Access. When other hardware and software companies are adding and releasing new offerings in a prolific way, Access has been like the Mary Celeste this last year.



The customisable oscillator waveforms on Zebra2 look extremely cool too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoQYVP010

I am silently waiting to see what urs does with Diva as I know there is a hardware version on the horizon, well in the somewhat future Would prefer to see a zebra hardware tbh.

I am a huge fan of u-he as their software and sound fits in so well with the TI in my personal opinion.

Coupled with synthmaster which I would like to see in vst3 and a better gui.

Dissapointed with the Moog offerings, price wise too much I believe. Keeping an eye on the Macbeth analogues though...see good things coming from them in the future I hope, if they grow.

Releived theres no TI3 as i cannot afford it at the moment heehee.