I first saw the Zebra 2
on Moogulator's site. I glossed over it as another soft synth and never got back to it. Now it's up on
Create Digital Music. I finally made time to take a look and it does look interesting. It actually looks a bit like Ableton Live, which is a good thing. What's great about Ableton Live is it's ease of use. It looks like Zebra 2 has a bit in this in that it packs a powerful synth hidden behind an elegant and simple to use UI. What's interesting is their concept of "The Grid" and a "wireless modular synthesizer." Not sure how much of this is the UI vs. the synth mechanics itself, but it does look interesting. You be the judge. Title link takes you to there.
"In terms of synthesis you'll hardly find anything that you can't do. In many hybrid approaches different synthesis concepts live side by side - in Zebra everything integrates seamlessly. This is owed to Zebra's renowned concept of modularity, called The Grid. Use an oscillator to build wavetables in an additive fashion, mangle these with some phase distortion effect, send that through a comb filter that in turn frequency modulates a sine oscillator. Sounds too harsh? - Put a warm sounding lowpass filter behind it! "
