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Hi there. New to Nord and looking for a couple of sounds for a project. I'm on an NE3. Any links or suggestions would be really appreciated!

1. Muted plucky E. guitar
2. Breathy, stabby, staccato flute, if you know what I mean. Something appropriate for uptempo Jazz.

Obviously the more nuanced and realistic the better. Thanks in advance for your time!

There are two main sources to look through: http://www.nordkeyboards.com for the official sample library and nordusersounds.com for user generated content - often with a short sound file to listen to. Have you already been searching those?

edit: changed to nordusersounds // Berretje

Thanks for the links. I've indeed checked both. i found a great flute at usersamples but it seems it's only for NS not NE. Is there any way to convert these?

I'm not sure what you found: You can use any _sample_ from the first generations (*.nsmp, not *.nsmp3) to build a sound, but there is no way to convert _programs_ from other products (even from different generations within the NE family).

gotcha, thanks for the info!

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should work!

Fortunately, GoingRed88 posted both: the basic sample and the full Stage 2 program.

If you load the program (*.ns2p) into florence's online file viewer, you'll find some settings to shape that sample into a sound: some reverb, of course, but also some frequency shaping (LP12 < 15 kHz along with the EQ opened to the upper end) and an envelope of A=1.1 ms, D=6.15 s, R=144 ms. You may reproduce part of it.

I remember searching for many free samples for muted guitar to cover "On the beach" from Chris Rea.
Made some nsmp from https://freewavesamples.com/and tested many to see which one sounded "not the worse" : came up with this tiny sample that makes the job !
Don't hesitate to seek around and test free WAVs. Then drag and drop in the Nord Sample Editor, extremely simple for those type of sounds !

Fred