Nord Modular

[maikeru]

I have been using my nord modular for some time and I was wondering like I did in the previous incarnation of the forum what if any pointers anyone had to create some nice techno noises (yeah I have been playing around and getting them myself but some pointers would be great). Im not asking or wanting to copy anyone as my musical style is techno and detroit-ish but I want to make something distinctive not plagiaristic.

any pointers or some starter patches to get me going would be great!

Thanks!

Michael

[CV]

The modular is great for techno - Refer to Mosquito 14 Boom Busine EP - thats ALL modular patches generating the tracks ,, all my patches are on my pozerbook not here with me but I will upload a couple for you to have a look at soon

[Will O The Wisp]

yes, please post some NM patches, (i don't have NM yet, but they can be more or less easily transfered into Reaktor)

btw
what about Sing Sweet?? did you use only NM or other synths (MAX, MSP, S_C)

[c s]

how do you convert NM-patches into Reaktor-ensembles ?!?

[CV]

Sing Sweet Software was 100 percent modular and production tricks

I didnt edit it at all

I can post some of those patches if anyones interested



oh and if you convert them , by recabling the equivalent modules in reaktor - it wont be the same - it WILL sound different - bear that in mind

:D

[c s]

and manually recabling would be a crazy idea anyway - i imagine those patches consist of 'a bit more' than 5 modules... also the editors really look quite different. i think we'd better forget about the idea of rebuilding those patches in reaktor...

btw, i personally find it harder to understand an nm-patch made by someone else than a reaktor-ensemble made by someone else (while i still don't have an nm, i have the editor and checked some patches) just because most ensembles are build from left to right (at least the 'main signal flow') and the modules don't snap to one another.

but - i would like to try ! i'd be very interesting in viewing those patches.

[maikeru]

cheers cristian mate, your a star! I will have a dig through some of those patches! any more would be appreciated. if I do anything worth letting people laugh at i'll post them on the board!!


:) big happy michael smile!!!

[maikeru]

oops sorry my last mail didnt make much sense sorry, got this habit of missing words when I type...

I will upload some songs or patches for people to have a look at Im trying desperately to get back into making techno as I have been doing nothing for the last month or so...

whats the gig with uploading files? would you rather a url to check the stuff out first or is their a file size etc?

cheers!

[Will O The Wisp]

so i'm a bit crazy cos' i edit them manually ;)

and of course it sounds different, i'm shure that Clavia and NI didn't use the same mathematical description of theirs modules, and i think that Clavia's modules are more advanced than NI's. Anyway even if they're the same i wouldn't copy them in 100% - that's boring...

and Cris could you post some of your patches??

[stu pitaus]

where can i get a memory card for my nord2? i havent made a new sound on it in over a year, and im starting to melt.

[deccard]

i think it´s cheaper to save the sounds on da pc over midi - sysexdump...
i used to save every sound i used external in the track. that´s safer if you erase/exchange a patch by accident f.e.

[piscaries]

i posted this question in the DL's thread, but i'm thinking that was the wrong thread for this question. i'm looking to make a 606-ish kit on the modular, but i'm having trouble with the hi-hats. if anyone knows how to get the closed hi-hats to cut into the release/decay of the open hi-hats, i would love to know how to do this.. if possible.

[anarchosyn]

I'm an x-modularist, but not to shabby in my prime. I never really got these to work very well, but you could create a switch that would only allow one when the other wasn't playing, and vice versa. I think the base patch (which you can find on the net pretty easily) is called "flip flop switch" and is made by one of the very prominent modularist off the clavia list. Utilizes logic modules in a very fun way, but not sure about the construction without having a modular in front of me (when the new update comes out, I'll rebuy it).

[Triptonizer]

In case you're still looking, piscaries lol:

I found a very easy way to XOR open/closed hats on the modular, that seems to work for all practical purposes: say you have two AD envelopes, one with short decay gated by F#1 (closed hat), one with longer gated by G#1 (open): run the F#1 gate (note detector out) through a logic inverter whose output is connected to the second envelope's amp input; now when you trigger the closed hat, the open hat's envelope immediately gets cut off.

I might post an 808ish analog drumkit here if I get round to finish it.

[piscaries]

schoopa schweet. thanks triptonizer!

[Syncodroid]

Anyone have some nord modular patch please?
thanks

sync

[anarchosyn]

Yes, but better to have them posted at www.em411.com in the patch section since the FTP server no longer exists.