Zebra has probably been u-hes's only hyped synth I've never really gotten into or explored.
Diva & Hive on the other hand yes, I have had great times with those two.
Will give zebra3 a shot when it comes out though!

 

I did post this in some other thread, but I think it belongs here too, from Urs @ kvraudio: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=9160297#p9160297

But I'll believe it when I get my grubby hands on it, of course

 

Same here, used it as preset machine with minimal tweaking, but starting anything from scratch was too much pain for me, skill issue for sure, but I'm not someone who enjoys sound design and mangling that much, so yeah.

 

I dont mind a bit of sound design, I own an arturia minifreak i make sounds on that all the time -- dunno what it was about zebra that made me overlook it. Will give it another go.

 

Sylenth1 was my go-to before, then Spire, actually I did enjoy programming sounds in them and that's where I go first even today, have lot of fun in Hive also, that's probably enough for me too, so my thing is probably Diva, Spire and Hive.

Main reason I even got into Zebra is those "complex" sounds that mimic acoustic instruments and just things that have lot of going on, ditched Kontakt moons ago, so use Zebra, Omnisphere and Nexus to get those sounds I might be missing. Zebra is last resort really, keep using Nexus for more synth sounds then I imagined and probably Omnisphere is where I get most sounds for my ambient/instrumental stuff, overall it's my atmo/pad/sfx thing for EDM/trance.

 

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