Zebra Manual

Welcome to the world of Zebra 2.0!

What is Zebra?

In a short sentence, Zebra is a virtual synthesizer plugin. Among thousands of these plugins available today, Zebra stands out for several reasons. It’s not an ordinary virtual synthesizer.

Philosophy

Zebra is meant to be the most flexible yet easy to use synthesizer one can think of. The idea behind this is offering a vast amount of options and capability while hiding all the complexity that’s behind it. Zebra presents you with as much complexity as you need for a particular sound, but not more. It’s layout is arranged so that nothing gets in your way, unless you explicitely want it.

Zebra is a wireless modular synthesizer. You can choose from lots of different types of synthesis and sound manipulation, and you can mix them up in yet unprecedent ways. For instance, you can easily combine additive synthesis with phase distortion and frequency modulation. Or you can recreate the structure of your favourite analogue synthesizer. All this is done in an intuitive drag-and-drop fashion, without cluttering the user interface with cables and what not. Instead, Zebra always stays tidy, behaved and accessible.

In terms of sound and quality, Zebra does hardly ever offer a compromise. All digital algorithms are optimized for both speed and sound quality, but if there was to be made a decision for just one of these, it was always made in favour of sound quality. Nevertheless, for each cpu hungry functionality there’s always a lighter alternative.

Fact is, if you’re experienced with synthesizers you’ll hardly need to look into this manual. The majority of things are self explanatory, even though there might be a hidden gem here and there.

Enjoy,

urs heckmann