Zebra 2 Morphing Voice

One of my big passions is synthetic choir's and voices. By chance i found a new waveform which could be used for a morphed ooh-aah voice but as always with voices you have to compromise between getting as much notes covered compared to avoiding chip monk effect. With 2 waveforms i make the transition between the Ooh and the Aah using velocity to control the crossover.

The patch uses 1 OSC with 2 wavetable waveforms.

Here is an example with some soft background:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/Z2_Morphing_Voice.mp3

and here is a Jazzy example of use:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/Z2_Jazzy_Oohs.mp3

Both demos is straight out of Zebra 2 and nothing added.

/Michael

Glass Viper first try

Glass Viper is a relative new synth from QuikQuak which is mostly known for the RaySpace reverb. Anyway, Glass Viper is a weird looking synth, doesn't look like much but is full of surprises.
The most important feature have to be the waveform modulation which is kinda unique but also the filters are worth looking at because its extreme in a good way. I dont remember hearing this kind of filter on a virtual synth before so i simply had to have that synth and see what its about.

I did the usual stuff, made an arrangement, rule was like always, only this synth plays whatever you hear. I had a really really hard time coming up with convincing drums, mostly because the pitch modulation isnt fast and high enough. So kick and snare is off limit on this synth atleast for now or until i find a workaround. Besides making various synth sounds i managed to make a roomy tom, hihat, snap and a weak kick.

I havnt even started on the possibilities with the waveform modulation, i just kept to standard synthesis for the following little demo. The demo is 14 instances of Glass Viper playing everything you hear and nothing else added, not even EQ, limiter or anything. I think this little green monster got much more to show and i'm looking forward to explore it.

My wishlist for this synth so far is:

Synced LFO,s Pan modulation and higher delay output.

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/gv_80jam.mp3

/Michael

Fabfilter Twin first try

Yesterday i played around with Fabfilter Twin synth. Twin is a great sounding synth but lack a EQ feature. Normally lacking EQ wont stop people from getting a synth but as a sound designer you want to make sure that people get the sound as its ment to be and not how it could sound with eq settings.

In short if Twin was to hang on the wall in my Synth Hall of Fame then it would need 2 things:

EQ and a Delay.

When i fool around with synths i really dont care what the outcome is music wise but i do care about the authentic analog touch. I think its fair to say that Twin DO live up to its claim of being authentic sounding as i'll demonstrate in this little 80's pop theme:

The overall mix went thru EQ, comp and limiter:

http://www.synthtronic.com/demos/twin_80jam.mp3

and here is a picture of the overall EQ setting:








/Michael

Zebra Guitar Flavour

I've been playing a bit with creating Zebra guitar like patches, my hope is to come up with an El-Guitar, a Western Guitar, a Spanish Guitar and a 12 String Western Guitar.

I found a MIDI file of Cavatina (Deer Hunter Theme) on the net and had it play the patches as they are atm. I try to keep things simple so each patch is 1 OSC and 1 VCF using additive waveforms and OSC FX to alter the body.

Left side is El-Guitar, Middle is Western and Right side is Spanish. The spanish one will be the hardest to get right.

http://www.michaelkastrup.com/synthdemos/Z2_Cavatina.mp3

Besides that i'm working on a Wurlitzer/Rhodes thing but its a tough one :)

/Michael