I prefer regular ADSRs to the Moog-style envelopes, so give those a try. Volume is really high by default so it's easy to blow things out if you play more than a couple notes without adjusting the volume. Or at least i cannot get great patches out of diva, dunno why.Ī couple Diva notes (some are probably too obvious):įilter cutoff by default is pretty low so things will sound dull by default. I think i am the only one but i prefer them to diva. Grillo wrote:Ace is my favorite uhe synth, zebra is also extremely good. I think I will buy it again, but let's hear your opinion/experience ? Soundwise, the numerous filters and the wavetables sound really nice, maybe a little less "crunchy" than the Ambika, but the sound palette is definitively wider. As it is a plug-in, I can use several instances of Zebra. Also, most of the main parameters can be viewed in one screen. I really like the Zebra's concept "you only see on the screen the modules than you need". I've tested again Zebra during the last week and was more productive than during the last six months dialing and programming sounds on the Ambika.
Building the Ambika was my biggest SDIY challenge (and it went perfectly), but I'm not comfortable with two things : navigating through menus (event with the big screen) is really counter productive for me, and the "steppiness" of some control (filter sweep, for exemple) is not to my taste (especially coming from an analog modular background). I'm mainly doing some kind of ambient/atmospheric sometime sequenced, sometime abstract music. My main use of the Ambika is for pads and some tiny polyphonic stuffs. My curent sound sources are a 18U eurorack, Ableton Live and some instruments (Sampler, Operator and Collision), a Shruthi-1 w/ SMR filter and an Ambika w/ SVF filter. I'm digging up this old thread I had started some years ago about Zebra (short story, I've bought it at that time but nearly never used it, then sold it a year and half ago.