Even though ZebraHZ comes as its own plugin, you do need a license of Zebra 2.x to use ZebraHZ and the soundset. The only downside is perhaps the price tag. Though the soundset didn’t actually end up using the new features in a whole lot of its patches, it’s still great to have the Diva filters, resonator, and lane compressors in ZebraHZ for your own sound design. It is well worth studying the patches to learn how particular sounds were achieved.
Zebra 2 soundsets archive#
Highly cinematic, but not limited to film scoring, this soundset is both an archive of hundreds of beautifully designed sounds ready for use in your own productions, as well as a peek into top notch sound design with Zebra. The sonic range of The Dark Zebra offers small and beautifully intricate to gripping, fast-paced and chaotic. How much more can a brilliant sound designer do with a fantastic synth? Howard Scarr is a true master of synthesizer programming, and in this collaboration with Hans Zimmer his skill, knowledge and dedication bears much fruit. I reckon a decent sound designer can make a bad synth look pretty good. Browsing the sounds of The Dark Zebra it is clear to see why this flexible, high quality instrument was used.
It is a real testimony to u-he’s Zebra, that a famed composer like Hans Zimmer chooses to use this particular synthesizer for his soundtrack scoring. Like: Brilliant sounds, excellent for studying Zebra sound designĭon’t like: Costly for new Zebra users (since Zebra 2.x is required) Only Zebra was used for this track!įormat.
Zebra 2 soundsets how to#
The patches come with information on the sound, how to use it and which controls are assigned to which parameters so you get an idea of how they were intended to be played.Ĭheck Jarkko Hietanen’s amazing demo below to hear some of the sounds of The Dark Zebra in action.
Zebra 2 soundsets mod#
Howard programmed most of the sounds to be performed with mod wheel, pitchbend, pressure and breath control, making them very dynamic. Regardless, the additions are great to have.Īs for the sounds, The Dark Zebra has a total of 400 patches which are categorized as follows:Īs you would expect with sounds that were used in the soundtracks for The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, many of them have a dark and cinematic feel to them. Interestingly enough, many of the patches in The Dark Zebra don’t use any of these new features. The Resonator has various filter color modes, and the filter mode includes lowpass, bandpass, a bandpass variation with inverted second pole, and highpass. ZebraHZ takes this concept and extends it with an extra full range band (60Hz-7.5kHz).
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