Sometime last year I wrote about how I had once owned a Moog MG1/Realistic Concertmate. It’s not just that I had no idea what it was or barely used it while I had it, or even that I sold it to some friends for like fifty bucks - it’s that of all the crap I’ve hung onto over the years I had to get rid of that. And every once and a while something comes along to remind me how misguided I was at certain points in my life.

Today this is pointed out via Analog Industries. Alerted to a new freebie sample set from the dedicated geniuses at Goldbaby that utilizes a Moog MG1 run through a bunch of Audio Damage plugins. I’m not on a broadband connection right now so I won’t be able to audition them for a while. But I’m prepared to download and weep.

_{Photo ripped the matrixsynth flicr stream}

In the inbox this morning: Zebra V2.2 released!

So, while most user have been using the beta for a few weeks (months?), developer Urs has nailed down the last of the bugs and made it official.

Requisite purloined update feature list after the jump:
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As I confessed here (see the Zebra 2 “Transmission” bit) and here, as much as I love working with Zebra 2 it can be a daunting task. It’s easy to make this thing sound like ass. But I’m getting more used to it, and have been building my own patches, trying some tricks and getting away with it.

Helpfully a user over on the u-he forum at KvR has done a re-skinning job on the already classy Zebra 2 interface that has completely changed the way I’m working with the synth. Ta da: Unempty Dark Horse. Known on KvR as dln (check out his virb.com site; great music. Unempty is his project name I guess), he obviously has some design skills. Basically, he tweaked the color and interface on the individual modules, giving each their own distinct look, while keep the overall flavor of Zebra 2. You can download it from the KvR thread. It’s really, really well done.

Highly Recommended. Thanks d.

More in the Kicking Myself for Not Knowing What I Had department.
via CDM

Seriously, I bought one from some kid I knew in High School who was ditching it because he had bought a DX7, neither of which he payed for. (more…)