From thatcat Sent Fri, Oct 16th 1998, 00:47
From thatcat Sent Fri, Oct 16th 1998, 00:47
On 10/14/98 22:11:24 you wrote: > >Any of you folks out there that make the IDM have opinions on this Access >Virus machine, particularly in comparison with the Nord 2? Too much of >the information on the web is authored by folks biased to certain genres, >and they don't go to too much trouble to tell you what their genre is. >So I thought I'd pose the question on the list. after screwing wit them both in stores, i'd say that the nord lead 2 impressed me much more than the virus...i can't exactly pinpoint what it was i disliked about the virus, but the nord lead sounded much nicer to me...very smooth and clean. (although the virus is pretty smooth too) neither does a great job of analog emulation imo...both sound very obviously digital to me. that blue novation box (supernova?) sounded much more convincingly analog to me...it'd be a great synth for doing generic techno...one good point about the virus is that you can run external signals through its filter...and one bad point about the nord lead is that everyone and their cat who is making idm has one or is about to get one. it's just too fucking nice not to want, if you're into its clean plasticky pseudo-analog sounds...in terms of value, i think they're about equal...each has a few nice things that the other doesn't; you should find a place that's got them both and screw with them side by side. .. "a dream is worth a thousand pictures, the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."