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Glo2Zebra converter

Glo2Zebra is the converter wich translates Native Instruments Absynth's waveform templates into U-he Zebra's oscillator templates. To download Glo2Zebra click this link.

Some tips about using Glo2Zebra. First of all you need to create your own waveform in the Absynth's editor. To access the wave editor click on the waveform selector of the oscillator module, then click the "New" button of the popup dialog:

Absynth patch

The new waveform will be created and the waveform editor will be opened:

Absynth editor

Draw your waveform with mouse or edit it with editor's tools available from popup menu. Then save your work as the wave template (Save wave template... menu item). Wave templates are stored as ".glo" files wich are located in the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\Native Instruments\Absynth 5\Libraries\Wave\.

Zebra's oscillator templates contains up to 16 waveforms, so you can load up to 16 Absynth's glo files into the converter:

Glo2Zebra

It is not necessary to type in all 16 waves. The converter will automatically fill empty slots with the appropriate wave. If you have a sequence of glo files named as "wave1.glo", "wave2.glo", "wave3.glo", ..., then you can load only the first file and use the "Auto Increment" button to automatically fill the slots. This will save your time. At the end you click the "Save as h2p" button and get your Zebra's oscillator template, wich you can copy to the folder C:\Program Files\VstPlugins\u-he\Zebra2.data\Modules\Oscillator\ and then use it within Zebra.

Some tips:

  • Supported Absynth 4, 5 and Zebra 2.5 (incl. betas)
  • Supported only single Absynth's wave templates, not Morph waves
  • This is not exact conversion. Converter applies interpolation to glo files before saving them to h2p
  • Crisp mode is recommended for Zebra's oscillator to minimize differences between original and converted waves