hello all
I have been relatively happy with my pulsar setup for the last year, but I still get a hankering for new gadgets. I was talking to a chap in a music store who was telling me about the nord modular and the number of cool artists that use them(ie boards of canada). He wasnt trying to sell me one as the shop dont stock them so it wasnt a sales pitch in any way. I was wondering if anyone has one and can compare it to the pulsar mod2, which is one of the pulsar devices that I havent really used. I dont particulary want to part with the cash If what I am buying is too similar in sound to the mod2.
thanks
nord mod v mod2
Well I have both modular 2 and nord modular. I surely use the nord more then the pulsar modular - because of dsp usage, but i'm a bit disappointed with nord for some reasons:
1. The nature of it's sound is very metalic and identified. You can play all sorts of patches but they all basically sound the same.
2. You can't do no serious tweaking to the nord without a pc connected. If you take a patch, then only 18 of its paramters can be routed to the knobs. The structure of the patch can be understood only via the editor on the pc.
3. The same applies for building a patch from scratch - you'll need the editor.
yet, the options with the nord are endless. You can reach any type of sound you want. But, and i'm talking from a practical point of view - if you need a synth that you can tweak a bit and go - it's not the nord. If I was buying a synth now, I would go for nord lead 3 or waldorf Q.
just my 2 cents.
1. The nature of it's sound is very metalic and identified. You can play all sorts of patches but they all basically sound the same.
2. You can't do no serious tweaking to the nord without a pc connected. If you take a patch, then only 18 of its paramters can be routed to the knobs. The structure of the patch can be understood only via the editor on the pc.
3. The same applies for building a patch from scratch - you'll need the editor.
yet, the options with the nord are endless. You can reach any type of sound you want. But, and i'm talking from a practical point of view - if you need a synth that you can tweak a bit and go - it's not the nord. If I was buying a synth now, I would go for nord lead 3 or waldorf Q.
just my 2 cents.
well
i've try to clone nord patches with modularII
and it never sounds the same
vocal filters are different
there is a vocoder in the nord and other cool stuff like a signal shaper,a wave wrapper and a clipper (in fact i prefer the modularII ,i just regret that there is no other type of distortion like the wave wraper)
the midiclock sync( patches with sequencer)is crapy on both
the big advantage of the nord is the morph
groups that allow to control many parameters with different scaling
with ONE knob or one midicontroller
http://azymute.com
i've try to clone nord patches with modularII
and it never sounds the same
vocal filters are different
there is a vocoder in the nord and other cool stuff like a signal shaper,a wave wrapper and a clipper (in fact i prefer the modularII ,i just regret that there is no other type of distortion like the wave wraper)
the midiclock sync( patches with sequencer)is crapy on both
the big advantage of the nord is the morph
groups that allow to control many parameters with different scaling
with ONE knob or one midicontroller
http://azymute.com