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Re: Time nord released an editor for Nord Hardware.

Postby tsss27 » 31 Jan 2020, 09:11

As a blind musician myself who loves to design sounds, I'll take working on hardware over software editors every and any day, assuming the interface is good of course. I couldn't care less what the value on screen says. I just listen until the control is dialed in where I want it. Now if Nords were not as accessible as they are I would totally agree, and some of the functions you've listed could be helpful for everyone, but having messed around with many instrument editors the likelyhood of such a program even being accessible, let alone as easy to use as the hardware interface, is very low.

Re: copying related settings to different patches, Nords already allow you to copy programs on the hardware, and unless I am misunderstanding you I thought you had mentioned to me in the past that you can do this in Sound Manager?

I can only speak for myself regarding offline mode, but I would never desire such a feature unless the software could play the results. This wouldn't work as they'd basically need to design a software recreation of all the Nord engines that can play all their formats, modeling, effects etc. This would be waaaaayyyyy more time consuming than twisting a few knobs on the hardware, for me at least.

Now, as far as user-created Nord Piano Library files, we have discussed that before and I would absolutely love it if this became a reality. I suspect there is a well thought-out reason why Nord has not allowed users to create these files, but I have no idea what that would be. I wish they'd open up the format; we could then have all kinds of other non-piano sounds in that section too, the obvious advantages being multi velocity samples and release samples.

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Re: Time nord released an editor for Nord Hardware.

Postby tsss27 » 01 Feb 2020, 05:14

Thanks for the clarifications. Copying individual layers makes sense. However, doesn't the synth section of the Nord Stage basically already do this on the hardware with the synth presets? That way you don't even have to match the settings. It wouldn't work in your second example of matching a different instrument sample to the parameters of the original, so I guess you got me there. I hate math, so I'm definitely not focused on the math behind it haha! But we all work differently, I will have a sound in my head and a plan to get there, so just edit the controls. I find I work a lot slower with a software editor than with physical knobs, sliders and buttons. But it may be a bit unfair to say that because the software editors are for things like Motifs that have tons more options and thousands of waveforms to go through.
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Re: Time nord released an editor for Nord Hardware.

Postby tsss27 » 01 Feb 2020, 21:01

The Kurzweil editor has major holes missing in its design...like the page where you assign controllers, the effects parameters, and the Kore64 waveforms missing from its list. I have communicated with Soundtower extensively about that, and they didn't care at all. Nor did Kurzweil.

Have you used the standalone Integra editor? It is not an official Roland product. I forget if it is available for mac or only Windows, but if a mac version is available it may be easier to use. The Windows version did have some accessible controls.

The most accessible keyboard editors I've seen are for the Motif series and the old Roland Fantom X. Oh, and the GSI Gemini one which is literally web pages.
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Postby tsss27 » 01 Feb 2020, 21:21

If you have good luck with that Integra editor I definitely want to know! While I'm on Windows, it'll be encouraging anyway. I don't have the module so I only see a few parameters; presumably the interface will change a lot if one was connected. Some editors don't show all the options without the device.
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