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ZedSynth is a beauty - anyone have programming hints?
Seriously muckin about is fun and a unique sound: strings resonators, effects, modularity, who could ask for more... but for me creating new patches is a struggle. Any one have hints or help?
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Love this synth, but too fiddly to play for me. Every time I turn knobs, it speed up the knobs to pass around the parameter values. Some interface fix should gain lots interests!
And since version 1.1 (the first version) out to the market, there was no more update, what's happening?
I noticed the knobs were a bit "fiddley", but I chalked that up to my phone and maybe parameters that were linked somehow (at least in the presets). I have no idea what the developers are doing.
Personally I am bothered by apps that are released and not orphaned by neglect but by lack of deseminated expertise. If no one knows what does what people won't use it, sales suffer and the support falls off.
This kind of ties into another thread. ( https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/11197/the-app-economy#latest ) but I almost feel like a "small" patron-like subscription for developers is a way to keep them engaged and improving demoing their apps. I wish there was an "easy" and "official" way to do this.
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@Sebastian any ideas
It definitely needs update , the engine has some kind of auto level adjustment to avoid clipping (reduces the output level) but the problem is that some patches peek so much and then you can hardly hear anything . A limiter would be more appropriate ...also the knobs are not friendly to tweak them and can't use external hardware because there is a bug in midi channels. Whatever channel I set , Zed ignores it and always listening to "Omni" .
As for creating patches ,I always start initialized mess with everything except the fx,mallet and resonator. Then I tweak the latest and from one patch I get many ,way different variations (with LFO help)...
There is no other synth that sounds like Zed and it's the main reason I don't regret buying it.
Zed Synth has probably the coolest voice synthesis options I know of for iPad. I love the UI for it as well (once you get the hang of it, you can get anywhere in a very deep synthesis engine quickly). It's modulation routing is also deep and very well designed into the synth. One other thing I love about this synth is as you go through each component, you'll see oscilloscopes all along the way which constantly shows you exactly what you're doing to the waveform.
The knobs are fiddly and I agree with everything @Korakios said. I also do wish they'd give a bit more standard waveshapes along with its shaping creation options. But I also love this synth, a lot.
I have not used an ios synth which can match Zed for sheer gorgeousness of sound (I am mostly iphone focused though, and there the playing field is more constricted).
Isn't there a patch randomiser? I love randomisers on synths.
This is a rarely mentioned and very underrated synth. Massive variety of sounds you can get out of it
Man, I can't find any randomiser...
@gsm909 yeah I'm pretty sure they don't have that
An alternative is an idea @Matt_Fletcher_2000 has floated here before. Set the CC's for all the parameters on Zed Synth and fire a bunch of random stuff at it from a sequencer at once. This would bring much the same result (this technique also works with any synth which allows its parameters to be cc assigned, Zed Synth does for sure).
They should, when the main focus of their synth editors is random patch generation. Seems like they're missing out on their own party...
It's fun to run the synth as effects unit too, in case no one has tried that yet
I dont know
I was psyched with the new interface and all.
Then it just fell off.
I actually changed to IOS8 for Zed.
I always wished the controls were more centralized. I always find myself swiping and changing settings.
One reason the knobs were "fiddely" I was using them wrong. L <> R for small changes Up and Down for larger ones:
And the manual:
http://www.jazzman-ltd.co.uk/zed-synth/user-manual.html
This bummed me out too, then somebody around here said its all about tapping: tap the title bar on top of the section you're in, that takes you to the signal flow "Synth Overview" page, the to tweak elsewhere,tap on the title bar of whatever section you want to go to, then zip zip there you are on that page. Not even a double tap..so much easier (!) especially on my iPhone 5s at that time...
@Littlewoodg OK. If you have every other synth in the world, but somehow never sprung for the last ten Zed dollars is this the Full Joy that's missing from my life? (Please tell me it is).
@JohnnyGoodyear
It is.
Bugger.
@Littlewoodg Nicely put. And I randomly picked the 'Slap This!' patch first up, played with it for 20 mins, saved three different variations and have already had that ten dollars worth etc. Turning into a good day, albeit with only six minutes or so left.
Glad to hear this.
Offer stands.
Hehe, ZedSynth is pretty damn good. But the visual face is pretty awful for expression.
When they come out w an update and some extensive tutorials....
Most mornings, looking in the mirror, I feel similarly...
@JohnnyGoodyear
I might owe you that meal in LA, after all: opened Zed this morn to discover it had no virtual midi, (where did that go? Coulda sworn) so no sequencing or playing from other APIs indevice...
Wrote the dev immediately...not trying to ward off our eventual bread breaking, but in the interest of Joy til then
Old story for ZedSynth, but thank you to remind it's dev!
I guess I forgot why I never used such a wonderful one!
I was sequencing it from modstep this morning?? I'm not hot on the sound for some reason.
@anickt
Hadn't tried modstep, that will be cool when it records audio, my small issue is DAWs can't find it as IAA (Auria, Cubasis) at all, and if they can (MTS) they still can't sequence via MIDI. @Paul also noted in another thread that MIDI sequencers drive it (Fugue, etc,.now modstep as you shared).
Which had me try the Genome/AB/MTS three way with ZED, which is splendid indeed. I can write a modwheel curve in Genome for use with Zeds preset "Mod Wheel Drum Kit". Hilarious, at least and maybe useful...
It doesn't occur to me to use modstep quite yet, as clocking it from a DAW, and getting the audio from synths sequenced inside modstep eludes me (or I resist it, seems clogged with workarounds, IAA plus Audiobus, plus plus)
Part of that is that Zed is pretty cpu hungry, especially when 4x over sampling. It crackles when a lot of midi/moving parts are happening, and when other cpu hungry apps (like the present version of misstep) are in play...that may not explain audio quality issues, but it's a reason I don't run certain DAWs with certain synths, with AB, and a sequencer, and why I'd like to use IAA to sequence some demanding synths directly from a DAW that sips cpu, like MTS