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| tehlord |
HZ standing for Hans Zimmer
Apparently a pimped out version of Zebra co designed by teh Zimmer will become available soon, including a lot of the Batman presets. Quoted from Urs at KVR :-
As you know, next week premieres the final part of The Dark Knight trilogy. For the soundtrack HZ used a custom built Zebra with Diva filters and some prototype features originally planned for Zebra3. He got us to do this in return for some rights. Now the gist is, part of what we're releasing requires that pimped version of Zebra, hence it will be bundled. It isn't perfect, e.g. the "Diva" filters are mono, there's no multicore support, significant CPU drain if the extras are used. We call it ZebraHZ, and it will run nicely as a *separate* plugin! So, hehe, I can't hold back anymore, and it has been guessed rightly a few times - all Zebra patches by HZ/HS designed for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, accompanied by ZebraHZ. Sells for 99$, requires an existing Zebra license. This I think is the best way to celebrate 11 (i.e. one more!) years of u-he, and a great way to bridge the gap until we release Zebra3. I'm also very happy that we can finally and officially make these sounds heard
He's also indicated that Zebra 3 is on it's way with an update price to current users of $30
The entire thread can be found here :-
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewt...der=asc&start=0 |
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| Teezdalien |
I saw this earlier before Urs actually confirmed the details but yeah, not sure if would really be worth another $99, I guess maybe for some, think I'd rather just wait for zebra3 tbh.
Kind of goes against one of zebra's big selling points though which is pretty important I think, in that it has reasonably low cpu hit for such flexibility, but I can't deny the zero delay-feedback filters of Diva do sound really nice. I wish Urs would keep modest cpu use with zebra, as much as I like the sound of Bazille/ACE and Diva they can get a bit too unwieldy for me due to the high cpu usage. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Teezdalien
I saw this earlier before Urs actually confirmed the details but yeah, not sure if would really be worth another $99, I guess maybe for some, think I'd rather just wait for zebra3 tbh.
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Ditto.
TBH, I'm really getting a bit turned off by anything U-he-related these days. The fanboyism is enough to keep me from even wanting to look at any U-he threads, and the CPU hit is too excessive to make it worth my while. DIVA and, to a lesser extent, ACE are such CPU hogs that they negate one of the main advantages of software over hardware - i.e., the ability to use multiple instances simultaneously. Hell, if I'm only going to be able to use one at a time and/or keep it frozen in order to run my projects, I may as well be using the real deal. YMMV. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
you know which synth seems totally normal but has a really novel and quirky sound - taurus by tone 2. I was listening to the presets and was rather surprised by some of the timbres which seemed based on wavetables but that was the case as it is a VCO emulating designed synth. But they forgot to add things like midi learn and other stupid that makes you just shake your head.
what Zebra needs is a proper waveshaper and distortion. And better FM implementation. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
Ditto.
TBH, I'm really getting a bit turned off by anything U-he-related these days. The fanboyism is enough to keep me from even wanting to look at any U-he threads, and the CPU hit is too excessive to make it worth my while. DIVA and, to a lesser extent, ACE are such CPU hogs that they negate one of the main advantages of software over hardware - i.e., the ability to use multiple instances simultaneously. Hell, if I'm only going to be able to use one at a time and/or keep it frozen in order to run my projects, I may as well be using the real deal. YMMV. |
On the one hand I agree, and on the other hand I know that what he's doing is where the future of VA lies, otherwise we'll have no 'new' product to pretend we need. The KVR boys do get on my nerves, but having recently bought Zebra I do get it. I get Diva too, it just sounds better than most other VA's. Yes, to me it sounds better, not just different.
As for the distortion, they've just employed the dude that created Magix Vandal, which is still my favourite guitar amp/distortion sim, and he also did that spitfish compressor stuff iirc? More dirt is promised. |
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