Elektron Musical Instruments

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 shifty@... wrote:

[Nord Modulars, knobs, and programming]
> > but the sidstation only has four :) .. i can program that fine.
> 
> Only has four built-in.  It takes 2^7 "virtual knobs."

The Nord Modular Rack (and Nord Modular Keyboard, which is just a Rack
with a two octave keyboard, really) has 18 assignable knobs, and can of
course act on any MIDI control change as well.

All you need a computer for with the Modular Rack (and Key) is laying out
and wiring up modules (and assigning CCs/knobs as well).  You can do all
parameter changing, loading, saving, etc. from the Modular Rack/Key's
front panel.

[...small below refers to MicroModular...]
> but the small is non-multi-timbral :(  Nor is the SIDstation, completely,
> but those wave tables rock.  I mean, they're a sequencer.

Even the Nord MicroModular, under careful programming, can duplicate the
functionality of the SIDstation's wave tables with the sequence modules.  
All "non-multi-timbral" means with the Nord Micromodular is you can't
drive more than one patch at a time.  There's nothing that says that patch
can't be a bassline or three and drums (except for the DSP consumption,
that is), and if you've got a patch that doesn't take up much DSP, you can
still get polyphony--some of the simpler patches I've seen can get up to
eight-note polyphony on the Micromodular.

> does those nord thingies have sync'd oscillators?  do you have any idea
[...]

Those Nord thingies have oscillators that behave and interact however you
want them to behave and interact.  They sync if you tell them to sync, and
don't if you decide otherwise.

I love my Nord Rack and Micromodular, and they fit in quite well and get
along quite nicely with their fellow country-synth, the SidStation.

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