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| Akira_Kayosa |
Anyone using it yet? how are you finding it?
looking at investing, read some ok reviews, interface looks nice
Cheers
AK |
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| Rodri Santos |
| z3ta is my fav synth is there a demo version of it available? 1st version was incredibly cheap i hope this is also cheap still i think it would be worthy |
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| evo8 |
Its great, already had the original for many years so i got the upgrade price
Still as punchy as ever and it sounds great - although there are so many other synths available to buy these days
shame there doesnt seem to be a demo - what other softsynths have you got? |
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| PlasticSoul |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akira_Kayosa
Anyone using it yet? how are you finding it?
looking at investing, read some ok reviews, interface looks nice
Cheers
AK |
I bought z3ta 1 and I bought z3ta 2, its cool but its buggy, cakewalk is trying release 2.1 next month.
I recommend it, it comes with all old factory presets and with tons of new presets with a more modern feel, distorted/square leads/sounds for example...
Its not good like sylenth1 or zebra2, but its waaaaay cheaper... :) |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by PlasticSoul
Its not an over-hyped, under-spec'ed toy with highly limited modulation capabilities and factory presets that are waaaaayyyy over-used by every single trance kiddie like sylenth1, but its waaaaay cheaper... :) |
FTFY ;) |
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| Julz |
Dont use it since i switched to mac, but if its anything like the first Z3TA+ i'm sure it sounds amazing.
Was my favorite synth by far, shame cakewalk isnt making a Mac version. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
FTFY ;) |
Dave, if you don't get it don't knock it :p
I like z3ta2. I bought z3ta real cheap from the sale but I just couldn't get on with the GUI. I'm going to delve much further with it, but on first impression it's about as close as you can get in software to the evergreen 'teh v1rUs' without buying a powercore dodo. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
Dave, if you don't get it don't knock it :p
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Oh, I have it and I get it. I was mostly joking - it's a fine, if not way overused, synth that you have to admit is very lacking in the modulation department.
| quote: | Originally posted by tehlord
I bought z3ta real cheap from the sale but I just couldn't get on with the GUI. |
I agree - the original Z3TA GUI was annoying to look at. Just a horrid color combination with grainy graphics and blurry lettering. I hated looking at it. Z3TA2 looks so much nicer.
One thing I've never understood is why so many people (not referring to you, Geoff) say that it's difficult to learn and program. Pretty much everything (aside from the effects, waveform editor, etc.) is right there on the main page, even in the original version. It's pretty straightforward IMO from that perspective, especially considering that it's a 6-oscillator synth with EGs, LFOs, and modulation capabilities galore. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Oh, I have it and I get it. I was mostly joking - it's a fine, if not way overused, synth that you have to admit is very lacking in the modulation department.
I agree - the original Z3TA GUI was annoying to look at. Just a horrid color combination with grainy graphics and blurry lettering. I hated looking at it. Z3TA2 looks so much nicer.
One thing I've never understood is why so many people (not referring to you, Geoff) say that it's difficult to learn and program. Pretty much everything (aside from the effects, waveform editor, etc.) is right there on the main page, even in the original version. It's pretty straightforward IMO from that perspective, especially considering that it's a 6-oscillator synth with EGs, LFOs, and modulation capabilities galore. |
Yer the moduation on Sylenth is a little bit pants tbh. Still, that's not what the thing is about tbh and it does have it's own personality.
I don't know what it is about z3ta and it's learning curve, but I just don't find it at all intuitive. I think it could be that (like Massive for example) you don't have everyhing on GUI visible at the same time, and I tend to forget where I am when I program Massive. I likes fings simple me :D |
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| DNA_pl |
I also didnt like Z3TA 1 GUI - it wasnt all about graphic but more like a combination of graphic, workflow. For some reason it was far from intuitive. Compared to ie. V-Station it was hmmm - everything was not it where supposed to be :D
I'm satisfied Z3ta II, because i bought Z3TA 1 for like 20 $ which was a bargain. Then upgrade was cheap. Seriously - 1000 old factory presets + 1000 additional (even if people say that a lot are crap) is still 2000 presets to choose from.
Also there are plenty of free soundbanks from old Z3ta - follow this link for "fixed" old soundbanks (in old z3ta there was a problem with old banks which had automatically selected "draft" mode which sucked)
http://1-2-many.weebly.com/vsti-banks.html
I bet that anyone can find there 200-300 useful presets. So, even as pure rompler Z3TA 2 is worth because with this free banks it's probably somewhere around hmm 3000 presets. Sure, it has bugs but they'll fix them (within a month or two - at least thats what they said).
on the other hand - if I had to choose between Sylenth and Z3TA I would pick Sylenth. |
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| Akira_Kayosa |
some really good points here
I've always got on well with z3ta, i use sylenth but find the interface small and restricted, z3ta was always kinda wide open and split into 2 areas, which i liked, but i use my 8080 heaps layout is kinda along the same lines maybe that's why i find it easy
massive i couldn't get to grips with so that went
anyhow got z3ta 2, going to install it over the weekend if i can keep on top of my schedule
cheers for your thoughts
AK |
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| Normie |
Got it a couple days ago. Awesome overall, but there are indeed issues that Cakewalk is supposedly addressing with the arp and a 300MB hit on the GUI! KVR has a running thread on this.
But it sounds excellent. And the interface update/preset management is a big improvement. Well worth the bucks. |
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