@@UrsHeckmannBerlin woooh that's funny but yes I do! You guys offers not just synthesizers, but the technologies that are open, editable, expandable, sharable and learnable, from which a new culture sprouts. Z3 will bring another new culture✨
i love this. you can feel urs' enthusiasm and joy. one of the great synth designers spends an absolutely gripping 20+ minutes showing you one oscillator.
I've always said the U-he software is in a category or level of it's own. When I bought Zebra back in the day I literally sold several hardware synths because I felt Zebra just made them redundant. When I started to actually understand the complexity and depth in so many U-he plugins I began to realise the level of thought and detail that has gone into them. Something I don't experience very often in other software. And Urs has got to be one of the coolest, friendliest dudes in the game.
Urs is AWESOME!! Such wonderful use of common, universal line-work to bring (seemingly) fresh results! SVG is so prevalent yet Urs incorporated it quite effectively! Zebralette III looks fun and I’m looking forward to it being eventually released (post beta) while i save up for ZIII !
@@akiramenai4973 I own Zebra 2.X but never bothered with Dark Zebra 2.X, Zebra 2.X is enough synth for my humble needs… thus i’m fine and somewhat overdue for a paid upgrade-which is not only OK, its expected. Just happily looking forward to exploring Zebralette 3.0 when its ready!
U-he is the blood that circulates through the precious veins of every sacred martyr in history, and the very material of which the entire universe is made. U-he is the wind, the sky, and the joyous chorus of a thousand unicorns singing in unison. U-he is... (ah, really... what the FUCK are you talking about - "U-he is love, U-he is life"... seriously... I'm going to need to throw up.)
U-he are an incredible company. I started with Repro... then i was hooked. Urs and his team produce top-quality software constantly. I simply can't wait for Zebra 3. It's gonna be an absolutd monster... I'm constantly raving to everyone about Zebra 2. I absolutely love it. 😉
I'm sure these guys get paid well. But probably not close to how much the people make who use these synths to make hit music. These are the true sleeper legends behind music we love. Man Zebra 3 looks so good, can't wait to try it!
YES ! AWESOME ! I don't have words ! A great discovering here ! I'm so happy to be passionnate as i am by such tools ! For me, U-He is a story to be continued soon🥰, very soon....
Wow that's amazing. Didn't know and saw when I was at the booth :( But I am sure this has so much potential that it brings the whole area of oscillators and wavetables to the next level. Think this will be the next Sounddesigners treasure and Musicproduction workhorse 🌻
more than a decade..... during that time multiple wars occurred, more than half of population have been injected with kool aid against their will, worth the wait, what else can we say...
Wow. I love Zebra 2 - and pretty much everything U-He makes. While I mostly work with hardware now, whenever I do something on the computer, I almost always end up using Hive, Diva, ACE or Zebra 2. It's not just how they sound, but also how intuitive they are to use for sound design from scratch. Even if you just want to flip presets, the included ones are amazing.
This is a fascinating development, very much looking forward to trying this out when it's released. It's also great to see this emerging from the 'hitmaker' zebra, and Urs' genius.
I do hope that Urs finishes Zebra 3 before he retires! 😅 Still very fond if Z2, though, was the first synth plugin I bought (I think…), and still a staple. Also, countless free updates along the way, and last year even got the whole Zebra Legacy for free!
A free, single oscillator version that does all this will be extremely generous. You could lose yourself for many hours experimenting with just the one.
Ok, wow. That's new. I was thinking there might be not much point in Z3 with things like pigments having taken the high ground in the "squeeze every feature into it but try to keep the UI manageable" war. But this looks like some groundbreaking shit.
I think Phase Plant is a much more comparable synth to Zebra and it's done far better than any other synth in that department. I struggle to think of any plugin with more features or a better UI.
Feature request for Zebra 3: Have a phaseplant-esque modularity with other u-he effects built in including satin, twangstrom, diva’s filter, and filterscape. The reason for having them built in is so that the preset community can design sounds that include advanced effects.
As someone who already had Falcon, Omnisphere, Serum, NI Komplete CE, Atruria whatever, I was very late to the U-he world as I didn’t think I needed anything else. Turns out I was completely wrong. Saw Zebra Legacy (Zebra 2/HZ and a load of packs) was basically the cost of a decent night out and thought - yeah I’ll try this out. It’s now pretty much all I use, and wished I’d paid more for it as it deserves it. Then bought Diva and loads of Luftrum and Unfinished packs. Can’t wait for Zebra 3. It’s great Zebralette is free, but hopefully anyone who tries it out actually buys the full version as Urs and the team deserves it. Excellent stuff!
I mean without Z2 - I would have never been able to do scores i did like Mass Effect or Tron or Deus Ex. Its a staple. Surely, take your time with version 3.
While watching the waveform editing and envelope editing, I kept thinking "I hope they use that same approach for creating a sound from a spectrum curve." Then Urs demonstrated doing just that. This looks insanely cool!
@@UrsHeckmannBerlin nice! thanks. if that works seamlessly, zebra 3's capabilities for creating wavetables for eurorack would be enough reason to own it, even if it wouldn't be a worthy successor for z2 (and i have no doubt that it'll be).
I wonder what would be the result, of a collaboration between 2 guys like Urs... and the visionary and genius Peter neubacker, the crazy inventor of melodyne... With the creativity of Urs, and the crazy maths and equations from Peter, they would be able to create a out-of-this-world virtual instrument ...
It was actually one of Peter's colleagues at Celemony, who are dear friends of mine, and who inspired me to explore rich oscillator level manipulation, which led to the development of Zebra and now this.
Looks impresive! But is it me or it looks like the next paint 3D in windows 12... more then a synth. Anyway I'm sure it sounds perfect as any u-he products.
I think we'll be able to keep about half of them, but they're being refurbished and "completed". By latter I mean that for each lowpass we're trying to add a bandpass, a notch and a highpass response. We're also trying to merge normal filters and XMF into a single type of module, as part of a general clean up.
What kind of responses from developers are you hearing with regard to the upcoming Logic Pro on iPadOS? Are they thinking of porting their desktop software to iPadOS?
u-he developed a wavetable scripting language which is used in Hive for wavetables, but that's all stuff that needs to be done in code then loaded into Hive. Hive does not have a graphical wavetable editor
Some please explain this to my feeble monkey brain. How is this unique compared to our conventional wavetable synths? Doesn’t cycling through a wavetable in serum of phase plant do the same thing?
I’m sure your brain is fine! It’s the customisation and control that’s the winner here. It’s also not just for building oscillators, it’s for controlling anything in the signal chain. Think of massive dubstep wobble bass times a lot. Being able to express this much control (or lack of control) can take your sound design into new areas very quickly.
This is an early demo of just one aspect of a workhorse synth. Urs has unified the waveform editing and envelope/modulation curve editing, and as for new modulation methods, new effects, new ways of building a semi-modular patch, all that is yet to be designed and the final Zebra 3 reveal seems a far distance away to me. years.
The difference between this and most (but not all) wavetable synths is that here, the source is based on bezier paths - while most other synths have sample based wavetables. Think of it as the difference between bitmap graphics and vector graphics or Photoshop and Illustrator. Both have pros and cons. The main pro of the vector based approach is that it's suited for effortless morphing between two completely different shapes. One of the cons is for instance that we can't do pieces of noise within the waveform, and resynthesis might be tricky as well. OTOH Hive does sample based wavetables, and we will add sample based wavetables to Zebra as well, it's just not anything we need this editor for, and thus we didn't show or mention this.
@@TheQxY I had only 20+ minutes. I've barely scratched the surface. But still, I'm fairly sure Vital is a classic wavetable synth. You can create sample based waveforms and then apply a few transforms based on key frames. It's a great system, it works well for what it does, better than most even. But it is fundamentally different from the system based on splines I'm showing here. There's a lot that Vital can do that Zebra can't, and vice versa.
At least someone here sees how it is, most likely people on KVR to this date discuss the new features of Zebra 3, lol. Wait for someone to comment that it was worth the wait... more than a decade, for software, talk about having no life.
i love UHE and have several of their synths. But lets be honest Zebra 3 is not coming . We will never see it . He's been working on it for almost 15 years now . !5 years for a softsynth. Soon AI will be designing synths that humans could only ever dream of. Zebra 3 will never happen.
