JTurbide wrote:I don't have any Nord experience appart from my electro 5d which I love.
If only I was a great player...
I've seen some cool stuff by suddenlanguages on youtube with the nord drum, you might want to look him up
The 5D looks absolutely nuts, but I am a ham handed keys player at best - you're lucky to have it, though!
The suddenlanguages channel is pretty great, so thanks for the rec!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNN6TVJfXY[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNN6TVJfXY
tremolo3 wrote:Nord Modular owner.
It has a very particular 90s sound that makes me want to play early Autechre leads every time (if only I could play lol).
The thing I'm the most impressed with though, it's the built quality. For being an almost 20 year old piece, and compared to most modern stuff I have played, the knobs and keys feel amazingly good that makes me actual play it instead of sequence it or make typical senseless krell patches.
The modules available have been are more than enough for me to build everything I need, but wish I could download/import custom modules from somewhere to expand the capabilities a little bit and be able to create delay-based effects (this is covered on the Nord Modular 2 I believe).
Made this video for the first 100 factory presets, it might give an idea of what it can/can't do and how it sounds:
I apologize for the playing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E16vmDTkLU4[/youtube]
This vid was badass! Thank you!
I've been dipping my toe into the rompler world, but I am a knob person at heart, so naturally I've been steering toward the old Nords for exactly that reason: tactility! And getting away from a computer interface, most importantly (though I do realize they have the ability to absolutely slay via that method).
The build quality is also a huge point, especially since there are few Nords that I've found that are in totally poor condition (from endless gigging, usually), or just somewhat fried from within and/or in need of a PC (i.e. the last few Micro Modulars I've found recently).
And as much as I'd love to drop $800 on a Korg Opsix (even if it's dope as hell), I'd rather do a little less with an older interface, even if that means forgoing some MIDI capabilities/ease of repair down the line. Wavestate prices are beginning to fall, but I've never been wholly convinced by Korg's overall QC, anyway.
, but I also didn't know how synths worked or really cared for NIN's The Fragile (hits better today maybe, but not as hard as Autechre's LP5).
