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I was a lucky enough bugger to get one of these for my birthday. Anyone else own one? I'm finding it increadably intuative to use right now, and it sounds brilliant. It makes me wonder how some artists can come out with such boring sounds while owning synths like this; I'm not saying I'm a pro or anything, but it's difficult *not* to make interesting textures, pads, and growling bass sounds on the thing. |
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awesome knobs with LEDs the keyboard or the rack? |
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i love it |
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I don't have any of the leads, but I do have two of the old modulars. I've played around with the NL3 many times and it sounds awesome. |
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i want a nord lead sooo bad. i used to make music with herbwest (we are/were 'golgi apparatus') who has one. it was the most fun electronic toy i've ever twiddled the knobs of. |
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You're so lucky to get that as a present. Are you disabled or something? ;) |
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i dont know what im missing |
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i want birthday |
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oh let me tell you. you are missing something sooo cooool just imagine if you dare. |
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well i dont like sound sculpturing altogether, so |
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Clavia makes quality gear. Now you have to make us some overblown 70s Jarre-y prog opuseses! |
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You got one for your birthday, did Yanni and Vangelis have a gay wedding and adopt you? |
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Im considering selling my Virus rack xl, and getting a modular g2 engine... cant decide though... |
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I thought you already had a Nord modular - it's a G1 or a micro? |
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nope... Im mostly a softsynth man... the virus is the only external gear I own (had a motif rack, but sold that) I really dont use the virus much, because 1. I cant be bothered to use only 4 knobs to program, 2. the sounddiver edit is shit, and 3. Im spoiled by soft synths total integration (esp in logic, where the built in synths (which are quality) are COMPLETELY automatable... every damn thing) But the modular just sounds so damn good... and is so well made and thought out. I have reaktor 5, and I can make modular synth stuff on that too, but the modular just has got soul. or something. I dont know... I should probably save my money... |
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I wasn't sold on the Nord modular until I heard Studio Pankow's album Linienbusse and found out that the Nord is used all over it. My God what a sound. It doesn't sound either analog or digital but produces an entirely different class of pure tones like Platonic ideals. |
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I wish I could afford one :\ |
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I learned modular synthesis on the original modular at school. its really just perfectly done... soundwise and from the technical end, how the editor is made etc. fuck. |
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I can't bear using soft-synths. ;-P It's probably because every computer I've used hates them and crashes, or has just been a fiddly pain to configure. It's probably more my own fault than anything. I just find hardware more fun and it feels more like I'm playing an actual instrument (though it's also a lot more expensive, but all I like doing is making music and buying it so....) |
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I havent heard any of their stuff... Ill look into it. I read somewhere from Mike P, that Jegas entire Geometry album was done with a nord modular, and an imac. (you know, exluding sampling wendy carlos) CS2x: yeah, I feel ya. It does feel more like playing an actual instrument... but I've never been one to really play much... I write out all my stuff, opposed to recording myself playing. And Im really picky (anal?) and like having complete control over stuff |
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Ah, I see. That's a nice approach, the sort of absolute-control precision thing, and software-synths are perfectly suited to that. It's an equally fruitful way of doing things as bashing everything into the PC straight to audio, I reckon. I tend to play stuff in and either leave it as it is, or quantize it, and cut up the audio clibs and re-arrange them afterwards (along with applying effects and all that.) |
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You could of course play by hand and post-process the midi-data or record the playing with a sequencer that supports realtime quantizing of incoming midi-data, it's good fun :) |
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The best bit of the Nord Lead3 for me right now is the FM-synthesis stuff....some nice horrid, harsh, alien sounds going on there. :-) |
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this is true, but I rather think out every note again, with the analness |
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I definately want both the modular 2 and/or the lead 3. Superb instruments. The NL3 is so intutitive and the multi morphwheel routing feature is the bomb. Sounds fantastic. So sturdy too. |
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nord is the ipod of the idm scene |
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I thought that was absynth :P |
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Sell the nord. Get an Alesis Ion. Same thing but a third of the price (ok, less polyphony aswell, but most of us only have 10 fingers). Then you have shitloads of money left... |
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I have heard the ion has serious stability issues. Although the people at alesis are great for support, it doesn't help if you always have to send it in. Altho for half the price of the ion, you can get the micron. As far as I have heard, its problem free you just get less knobs. The next generation of Axis products looks really nice too. They are supporting to total integration system, and they have a sexy all white 25 key virus that looks like silk. |
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no, that i own |
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I have a Micron and it's amazing sounding - huge meaty velvety analoggish tone. I haven't had any problems with it either. And despite the shortage of controls it's easy to program - you press an "alt" button and one of the keyboard keys to get to the oscillator section, filter section, mod matrix etc. The two sliders and three knobs are assignable per patch so you still have a fair bit of performance control. I'd say it's warmer and fatter sounding than the Nord lead, tighter than the Viruses, but not as "pure" sounding as the Nord modular. On the other hand the modular is maybe too polite sounding to do some of the rich throaty sounds the Micron can put out. So get one of each. :-) |
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damn I really want a nord lead 3.... that's probably my favorite digital synth ever. |
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Heeeheeheee Yep. The Ion's stability is shit. I think you need to update the OS to get better performance. Anyway, the crashes do sound amazing.... |
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The virus has some good sounds. I would use it to create different sounds and sample them and thats about it. I prefer software myself. I'd like to dick around with it for a while. |
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With the new viruses, you get the same sound, and the ability to run them as vst plugins, with the virus doing all the processing, so you get the best of both worlds :) Here is a picture of the virus TI Polar. |
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It should be my avatar. I like the idea of the Virus, too. Hardware is too much fun, and mixing it in with decent software would be a killer combo. Providing you have a decent PC, of course. ;-) |
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i know it's not the same, but i have a Nord Lead 2x, and it's great i wanted the Lead 3 but i couldn't afford it :( |
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The sound of the 2x is actually quite different, and some people prefer it. The Nord Lead 3 can have that same reedy "biting" sound (well, I can't really describe it) but it can be as immediately achieved as on ther 2, imho. |
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My favorite thing about software synthesis is that it is driving down the resale value of hardware synthesizers... And they don't take up any room. But a room full of gear is a lot more impressive than a hard drive filled with VSTi :D |
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yeah well, the virus ti has finally arrived, after much delay. i wanted to buy one three months ago but couldn't wait so i bought a nl3 two months ago and already i can't imagine life without it. it's can do A Lot, while it's also very, very user friendly. clavia makes great products, i also have a modular (the old one, alas) for quite some time and it keeps amazing me whenever i make a new patch. ohwell, i have to save up now for the virus ti, guess it will do good next to my two clavia boxes. |
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Yeah, I feel fairly guilty, but a big part of my reason for the love of hardware isn't so much the sound-though that is slightly superior imo-but the fact of having a sexy looking bunch of synths with twinkling LEDs staring back at you. :-) |
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