Global/FX

Global and FX

The Global/FX section sets, you guessed it, global paramter for the patch.

Use the Voices pop-up menu to set the amount of voices Zebra2 will play. The options are few, medium and many. Due to Zebra2’s intelligent voice allocation it makes no sense to set this to an actual number because sometimes it may be useful in a section that requires 4 notes to have one note hang over a bit. But you can generally control the amount of CPU Zebra2 uses with this menu

Use mode pop-up menu to set the polyphony mode of Zebra2.

  • Poly – Zebra2 will play chords up to the amount of voices set by the voice paramter
  • Retrigger – will start the envelopes with every new note
  • Legato – will continue the envelopes as long as the notes are played legato
  • Arpeggiator – turns on the arpeggiator mode. Click the link to learn more about the arpeggiator.

    • Us the pop-up menus under PitchBend to set the range of the pitch bend. This can be set differently for PitchBend up and down. So you coul pitchbend 7 steps upwards but only 2 steps downwards

    You can toggle the attack behaviour with the Attack Smoothing switch. With attack smoothing enabled some sounds may not sound as aggressive as desired, in this case try switching it off.

    Zebra2’s portamento settings are divided into two parameters. The portamento that determines the length of the portamento and the range. Currently Zebra2 is one of the few synth (if not the only one at the moment) that will allow you to set the portamento range. This is very useful for adding little glides into the notes that don’t cover the whole range between two intervals played.

    Use the tune pop-up menu to choose the basic transposition and register of Zebra2 and the fine tune to fine tune 50 cent up or down.

    Zebra2 allows you to use tuning tables. Turn on the use of tuning tables by clicking on the on/off switch above the Voice Tuning Table. Click in the box “default scale” above the the voice tuning table to open up a browser and select the desired tuning. Currently Zebra does not ship with tuning files, but as soon as the user area is up there will be a place to exchange tuning files as well.

    The Swing parameter applies to anything that is based on a note value. Set the desired note length from the pop-up menu and use the knob to set the swing percentage. This paramter affects the LFOs, the multistages (MSEG) and the groove of the arpeggiator.