The sub oscillators have their own volume controls and can be transposed up to +/-24 semitones. I still don't think the unison is as good as sylenth or Spire, but it's certainly not as awful as Massive and well up to the task at hand.The oscillators offer a choice of nine wave types - Sine, Saw, Triangle, Pulse, Square, Half pulse, Narrow pulse, White noise and Pink noise - and each is accompanied by a sub oscillator that can be set to any of the same shapes.
Urs also spoke at length about how the envelopes slopes worked, and he's also paid attention to comments over at KVR about what to not leave out (noise osillators in particular) so he's got certain ingredients very right. That's exactly what I meant in a previous post about nailing one or two very specific things.
U-he has improved those things since doing Zebra. The smoothness and detuning and stereo width are all better. Zebra does not do supersaws as good as Hive, nor with the flexibility. However, the folks who want that will be really pleased. I totally understand if someone is not interested in Hive. Hive sounds better than Zebra and is an exciting harbinger of what to expect for Zebra 3. The highs are very smooth and pleasing and the low end is surprisingly good. The Hive filter has also benefitted from the Diva and Bazille development. The other side of it is that a lot of these guys flip through literally hundreds of presets, again not really needing a monster synth in the process.Zebra does not do supersaws as good as Hive, nor with the flexibility. Going back to this target market, a lot of tracks made in these genres are using 30-40 channels of synths and if you want any kind of workflow you need something fast and intuitive. Zebra is great once you get to learn it, but if you're not using 90% of its features it's actually pretty distracting. And I'll actually get down to making music instead of demoing a VST, very likely using some other u-he synths.
There's just been nothing to convince me that this is anything near my cup of tea yet. I've got nothing against those who love and will use the heck out of this. It's not like making this decision now is going to cost me thousands of dollars down the line if I do decide that yes, that may actually fit into my music.īut if it works for you, kudos. I've done enough of that in the past and still have a lot to learn about those hyped things I chased and bought. That in combination with my thinking of, "is this something I need?" and the obvious answer of "no" why bother chasing after it. It won't fit with what I do, and even if I were to find myself wanting something along the lines of a sound that Hive can produce, I've got other synths that can get in the ballpark. Everything I've read from the developer and the sounds I've heard thus far makes me not even tempted to demo it.
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I'm starting to find out where I'm lacking in my hardware and software sonic capabilities. For me, I know what kind of sounds I want in my music.
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