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I have tried out the Nord modular very close by now. In most parts it´s a wonderful synth. However there are short-comings, mostly in the multimode and classical lowpass filter-modules.
I dont think they totaly sucks, infact they are the best DSP-modeling filters so far, but likewise i DO have some remarks.
First: The cutoff stops filtering and just begin to TUNE down the sound when there´s about 20% left to tweak the knobb. This creates a "dead space" to the sound, whitch doesn´t nesecerely have to be major problem a in ordinary bass,lead and string sounds, but cuold be exremely annoying in sounds whith filter-attack. The real depth of filter-sweep just isn´t there. In some bass-sounds it can take away some of the deep edges to, because the filter TUNES them down.
Second: The resonance-filter is, in my opnion lacking the real juice. Then again it dosen´t allways show in the most ordinary sounds, but if you are making sounds that builds on hi-resonance caracters, the wet and blippy feelig is almost missing totaly. The resonance simply sounds to dry. And the self-oscilation of the classical lowpassfilter, just seems to be an added tune. Because of that, you can´t create sounds in the in the borderlines of self-oscilation that are good, because the borderlines doesn´t exist. That is another dead space.
But to all this, i can say that i haven´t heard a single digital filter that i realy like yet. The filters appears to be one of the prolems with all analogue-modeling, they sound either to soft and glassy or to dry.
I think the nord filters sounds, despite my remarks, ok, whitch is very strong for a digital filter.
And finaly there´s a third question-mark, when adding a vibrato to an ocsilator with an LFO, The vibato turns out to be Very much more present in the lower keys than the higher. That have made me really annoyed to from time to time too.
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