What new booty have you acquired? (Page 110 of 189)

I LOVE my G2, and I have lots of outboard analog gear.

What I really like about the Nord Modulars compared to stuff like Reaktor, Max/MSP, Kyma, etc. is the immediacy.

After a few years with the original Micro Modular, I spent 4-5 years using low level "boxes and wires" type software.  I eventually realized that while digging deep into the sub-atomic levels of synthesis and sound design was cool, it sure did keep me from actually making music.  It literally got to the point where my friends would come over and say "do you have any new tracks for me to hear?" and I'd reply "well...no, but I've been working on this cool Reaktor patch, here check out this sound". 

Now that I've ditched that stuff and come back "home" with the G2, I couldn't be happier.  It's the best digital synthesizer I've ever used.  The hardware interface is elegant and intuitive.  The high-level approach of the editor is conducive to getting sounds out of my head and into the air very quickly.  What it lacks in capability it makes up for in results.  It plays well with both my analog gear and my software.  When I want to get deep, it will satisfy that urge.  When I want to put something together in less than 10 minutes, no problem.

That being said, I'll be the first to admit that your new Kyma (congrats by the way) shits all over the G2.

But...and don't take this as a slight or let it deter you...I also know of 2 people who have sold off their Kyma's because they didn't have the time to invest in it in order to get the most out of it.  It sounds like you're not facing that issue though. 

uh, and gotta love that "house sync" BNC connector

Hey plikestechno,

I love my G2 too. This is such a great machine. To me the possibilities are endless!
And to be honest, I don't understand how somebody would not want one 
Maybe it's either too complex or just the lack of knowledge what this machine is capable of!

Cheers,

Awesome to see two G2 lovers so quickly.

But, when I read your post having experienced a G1, having read the specs of the G2. I feel the exact opposite.

I think the G2 should have had way, way more modules and possibilites than it does. You can make massive machines, and tweak them all night but you never have more than a small selection of uneditable parts.

The G1 I get and can respect, despite its crappy sound that ruined it for me albeit when I got one in 2008, for 1997 it was pretty mindblowing. And justifiably was lauded and used on many recordings.

But the G2 looks like a bit of a scam to me. When it came out in 2004, with the technology of the time, people should have been able to design their own modules and make something Buchlian or Sergian or types of modulars we've never imagined. But nope, same boring legos.

If you don't have a hardware modular it is probably a lot of fun and really awesome but if you do have a decent sized system I don't get the point. The fact that hardware modular manufacturers are really cranking up the innovation as well right now also makes the G2 far less appealing.

It's more musical as Unicity stated than most VST "modulars", but if the focus is making crazy sounds and unique synths, why not save a ton of money and buy Reaktor? Which has way more possibilities.

And a real modular isnt polyphonic most of the times...and no instant memory locations. The G2 wasnt designed as a competing modular synth but as a superprogrammable poly-performance synth beast with its own character. You program a synth and its always instantly recallable and playable without a computer.

A real modular has way more limitations then a G2, if you don't have 1000 modules  or something a G2 will always kick most of the real modulars ass ha! 

Those same boring legos really do provide the foundation for countless applications.  I'm far from exhausting them myself, and this is probably due in large part to the fact that I can add as many of those boring legos as I need at any given time.   

What kind of module would you want to build from scratch that isn't based on some combination of those boring legos, or what kind of modifications to existing modules would you want to make? 

Screw Reaktor...if you want crazy sounds, get a Kyma. 

Yeah Kyma is indeed the coolest thing for freaky digital stuff.
Max is nice and Supercolider is nice but it's for computernerds.
The Kyma is way more user friendly.

Not a NI customer by far.

Now back to laughing at the expense of Kyma customers:
http://www.carlascaletti.com/pmwiki/pub … pStick.mov

Ironically I agree with this somewhat as I just sold almost $1000 worth of cabling from my "audiophile" system that I never listen to anymore. Have sold my fancy preamp and transport/DAC combo as well. When you move house you really look around to see what you actually use.

But, back on topic, the point was the Kyma I bought was less than the going rate of a G2.

I don't mean to bash on the G2. I just wanted to hear from some enthusiastic listeners and I did.

Having already a room full of vintage and analog gear and two different hardware modulars capable of at least 4 voices each I simply didn't like the G1, probably had too high of expectations, and think that G2 purchasers were owed much more than Clavia gave them. And they seem to get sold a lot more than G1s. Do you guys like your G2s better than your G1s/Micros?

Different strokes for different folks. I think that video is awesome!

Definitely.  The MIDI modules alone offer a huge advantage over the G1.  I think the hardware interface on the G2 is superior in every way as well.  I agree with what people say about the G2 sounding a bit...tamer...than the G1/Micro, but it's not to the point that it's an issue for me.  They just sound a bit different.

To be honest, I think Clavia did drop the ball with both generations of the Nord Modular series.  There is a lot of untapped potential in the G2 (e.g. being able to make Reaktor-style macros in the editor would be nice), but I'm still very pleased with what they did manage to get out there.

Wall-e is mostly done with Kyma to.