Friday, June 15, 2007

Yay, Zebra Oldskool Soundset finished

I didnt expect to finish this soon, and i didnt expect all those nice sounds to come out of Zebra but now its ready, The Zebra Oldskool Soundset.

To define what i mean by oldskool i have prepared 2 MP3 demos.

1. Music made with Zebra (and thats Zebra playing drums, bass, pad, birds or whatever)

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemos/Zebra_Oldskool_Music.mp3

2. Patches made with Zebra (me going nuts with some of the patches)

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemos/Zebra_Oldskool_Patches.mp3

Whats included in the soundset ?

128 Patches made by me and 8 Midi Files which covers the most popular MP3 demos.

I dont plan to make a manual since i've used the PERFORM page on Zebra for notes in most cases. It makes more sence to me to have the notes follow the patch rather than have to look it up somewhere else like a PDF document. Also the MIDI files are there as tutorials to see how things are done. The MIDI files also have the purpose of showing people that this is Zebra and not some super mix treated with super outboard fx's.

All demos used TL's Pocket Limiter in the total mix (Great little Freebie from TL) and music piece 2+3+4 used Artsacoustic Reverb. (I first started to use the internal Zebra Reverb later on)

The Zebra Oldskool Soundset Volume 1 can be yours for $30 US when i found a way to distribute it.

For those who want to taste a bit first i suggest you download the first 17 patches i made public in the start of the project. These patches have been reworked in the soundset but will give you an idea of how i do things:

http://www.xsynth.com/download/MKastrup_Zebra2_V1.zip


Have fun :)

/Michael

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Update on the Zebra Oldskool patches

I'm starting to getting fairly confident with Zebra which helps me to come up with what i feel is essential synth patches and there is about 20 to go for a full 128 patch bank. So far i'm very excited about the results and feel that i'm barely touching the surface. There's no doubt, Zebra will be one of my major workhorses on the VST platform.

There is one more synth out there which needs to be looked over and get some attention but for now i feel most for exploring Zebra fully.

Another thing, the whole oldskool synth concept is starting to more or less be my signature and i'm quite happy about that cause finally i can put a word on what i do. :)

Here are some of the latest patches classified as MOVIE type of sounds:

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemos/Zebra_Oldskool_08.mp3

/Michael