Mr U-He sent us a note to let us know that the new version of Zebra 2.5.1 (Mac/PC) is now available.

The Zebra synth has been held in high esteem by many serious synthesists for its massive creative potoential and routing possibillities. Howard Scarr - who works with on many major films with Hans Zimmer used it on a lot of Dark Knight and Inception sound duties.

(Check out our interview with Howard).

New Features

• adds more than 70 new factory presets (Howard Scarr)

• adds a bunch of Zebrify presets (Tasmodia)

• includes completely new, well-structured manuals

• adds two new spectral effects (Phase Distortion and Wrap)

• includes native 64-bit support for Mac AU and VST Win

• adds Cocoa view to AU version

• loud spikes while switching presets now eliminated

• improved timing stability for swing (affects LFOs and arpeggiator)

• improved timing for MSEGs

• improved CPU usage for RTAS (Mac) version

• RTAS (Mac) now supports ctrl+alt+cmd+click (“3-finger salute”) automation

• improved installers, take Win7 permissions issues into account

• Zebralette is now freeware, includes extra presets (also by Howard)

• various bugs and niggles fixed, minor GUI improvements

• upgrade from Zebra1 AU is now free

U-He Social

• Superbooth 2023: U-he - Zebra 3 Early Feature Look 13-May-23
• NAMM 2023: U-he Show Updated Filterscape Bundle 15-Apr-23
• Patch Flip: u-he Zebra Legacy 16-Feb-23
• u-he Releases Zebra Legacy 17-Nov-22
• Sonic LAB: U-He More Feeback Machine 2.5 Patch Flip 13-Sep-22