The O.L.C. (One Library Challenge)

Kel said:

Hi!
I released my little old project for zebra2. Absolutely free bank of orchestral emulation via zebra synth capabilities. 200+ patches, 4 years of work and still to this day. It would be mega cool to hear what you can do with it. If there is interest it could be usable in this thread.

What do you think?

Warm regards.

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I’d say it’s super welcome here, even if it’s synth and not sample based. It’s still one “library” as it’s one synth, and still intended to do orchestral music with. What do you say @Taron? :D

Hey, @Kel ! It's probably a little off-topic, considering that this thread is dedicated to sample based libraries, but I'm still super curious about what you've done with it. I really like Zebra, too, even if I've done very little with it, but it's great to get some inspiration again to dig it back up!

Soooooo...just drop it in here as an "exception". This thread could use some action anyway!

Thanks! I hope not to be disruptive here. extract it on your zebra.data/zebra2 directory.

there is no legato as I have no idea on how to do it on a synth but some patches in fast phrases do sound like legato, anyway it's very musical and most patches have been programmed to be more playable (most have random stuff for playability). Everything is a bit cryptic, but you can find names on sections, instruments, etc. Some controls do not work, as its a work in progress.

This was a commercial product some months ago, but I decided to release it for free as I couldn't find the time to make updates for it. Now I update it frequently but only in my dead times and for fun.

Hope you find some use for it and don't forget its a Free product. Next update soon...and for questions, just ask!

EDIT. Forgot to add, if you don't have zebra, it also works, but only for 15 mins or so, but let's you save for rendering.

Ah, thanks, that's sweet! I'll try it out as soon as I can. I totally thought you were posting a track you've made with it?! If you have one, feel free to post it!

Taron said:

Ah, thanks, that's sweet! I'll try it out as soon as I can. I totally thought you were posting a track you've made with it?! If you have one, feel free to post it!

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I only have remade tracks of old videogames. I'm the worst compositor you can think of... but I have some tests that I may post. if They are not so disgusting :D

No pressure, @Kel ! It's mostly too get an idea of what this stuff sounds like, you know. No need to be a master composer for that. I wished I had my Zebra2 on this machine, but it's on my old one. I'll have to find the installer and license again. But once I do, I'll see that I play around with your orchestral set, too.

Taron said:

No pressure, @Kel ! It's mostly too get an idea of what this stuff sounds like, you know. No need to be a master composer for that. I wished I had my Zebra2 on this machine, but it's on my old one. I'll have to find the installer and license again. But once I do, I'll see that I play around with your orchestral set, too.

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I'm sure something good will come from it I'm learning composition slowly after many years dedicated to synths.

In my soundcloud, all songs starting with zebra use the bank so you can have an idea (maybe the mixing is wrong, though) but the current version of instruments (in this download) blow the old ones out of the water.

I have his small bro bank for synth1, that I haven't released, orchestral too. As an example synth1 emulated Taikos sound as good as real ones! and can do cello section emulation out of this world... too. Some synths are tailored/filtered better to some kind of instruments.

Oh, I'm like a sort of veteran synth programmer with a special pleasure for recreating orchestral instruments and sections. You'll find a number of my OSC tracks that features some of it. I'm not sure if I did orchestral stuff with synth1, but it's part of the line-up for sure. With Zebralette, though for sure!

Thing with presets is, they often are made to work well by themselves, but won't quite squeeze nicely into an arrangement. Whenever I make sounds, I make them directly for the composition. As a result they may not work well outside of their bespoke range or context.

I'll have some listening fun in your soundcloud channel then later tonight! Excellent!

OLC bit me again!
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Here's EW Fantasy Orch. Just jamming' not anything serious. I kinda like this lib. It's on sale now and I had a coupon, so I bit. Cheers.