Nord User Forum

Hi,
I realised that I very rarely used the vibe effect. Do any of you use it?

Playing a bit with it I noted that the effect applies more to low frequencies and appears to be some cyclic pitch shifting driven by an asymmetric wave on top of the original sound, but the manual description implies that it is not so but using phase filters.
Not sure what the "inspiration from a desirable foot pedal" means in the manual. Is it this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni-Vibe
The blurb in the manual looks almost identical.

Maybe I do not understand when this effect is best used, so I would be happy to learn a bit from other users.

I don't use it.

I'd rather they replaced it with a rhodes square wave pan.

Vibe shmibe... That is all.

I use vibe effect on some pads and synth sounds to get variation in the sound (which is sometimes needed in the absence of lots of LFO options). Works great with delay and a bit of reverb.

Mr_-G- wrote:Maybe I do not understand when this effect is best used, so I would be happy to learn a bit from other users.

Best Vibe Pedal?

If we are talking about the uni-vibe type of effect, it's going to be too subtle for many ears used to richer modulation fx that BBD chipped effects gave. There's hardly any delay, just a series of phase shift networks. The lack of delay may make it subtle, but it doesn't smear the sound and a guitar for instance, doesn't lose it's clarity.
As it had 1/4" jacks, it would certainly have had keyboards plugged into it. You may have heard it on old recordings and thought it was a poorly mic'd rotary.
IMO, the best keyboard source sound for it is a transistor combo organ. I've used VST uni-vibe with instruments like ComboSister and liked it.

Jim