Noah Sound

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 12:52 pm

Is it just me, or does Noah sound a tiny bit juicier than Scope?

the synth presets are quite wicked to start with, especially the multimode ones, they're quite inspiring to play with!

ok, i didn't have protone, prodyssey or six-string before getting noah, and they sound fresh & wonderful - even 6-string, which i thought would be cheesy (still can be

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and i realise that a lot of work went in to aux fx on the presets

ease of use contributing to workflow and perceived sound?

ears fooled by new hardware?

or maybe having the async work done on a sharc instead of a cpu does sound different?

aah, who cares, i'm digging this machine a lot

Post by **garyb** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:24 pm

maybe a little better...i have those plugs in both and they're pretty darn close. those other synths are pretty wonderful though, no?

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:23 pm

absolutely

Liquid Len · Post by **Liquid Len** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:34 pm

I had Protone, Proddysey, Minimax, B2003 before I bought the Noah. (Not really a good investment plan, buying them twice, but unless I had time to really check out these plugins and find out how good they all are, I probably wouldn't have bought the Noah.) I find myself wondering if there isn't a tiny bit better sound coming from the Noah as well. Not *that* much of a difference, but the sounds just seem bigger or something. Pads from the Proodyssey sound richer.

I build multipatches from scratch, not using any pre-configured effects . I'm going SPDIF into a 3216ddx mixer, and from there to the Creamware card, so there's no AD/DA conversion to add a new factor to the sound. I doubt that the digital conversions along the way would affect the sound, but I can't say I know for sure (but I do know it introduces measurable though often insignificant latency

) What is your signal path from the Noah to your external amplifier compared to the Creamware card's ? (Obviously, if you're going ADAT from the Noah into the Creamware card, the signal path will be the same).

Anyways, whether it's better or just my imagination, or postdecisional dissonance reduction, Noah rules! It's a lot of fun to play live (and takes the strain off your Creamware card).

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:52 pm

Certainly has opened up the creativity at home, as now i can be pretty sure that what i do in the home studio can be taken out live.

The multi-timbral thing is good, too - never used to do that much on the scope card, but noah makes it easy

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:04 am

i was at a creamware dealer the other day and he told me that the dsp code for noah had been optimised. Can't verify this but it could explain the tiny difference

Nebukadneser · Post by **Nebukadneser** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:56 am

According to the Nordic distributor at Luthman, the Noah has newer (and better?) converters than the Scope family of PCI cards.

Neb