[sdiy] has anyone ever made their own Nord Modular?

[Peter Grenader]

EAR's Jim Bumgardner wrote a VST graphic interface for Csound called SYD
that has the look and feel of Reaktor.  It's available for windows and Mac.
It's a free download. Go here:

http://www.jbum.com/syd/

While you're there, he also rather painstakingly put together a midi file
Terry Riley'c 'In C' in it's entirety:

http://www.jbum.com/musicstuff.html

scroll down, you'll find it.

- P



NATE! wrote:

> at this point it's impossible... two main reasons:
> A. the nm OS is closed source
> B. the patch/"sysex" language the NM uses isn't public info
> 
> the B reason has been a bit of a problem since a lot of people have wanted
> to make ports of the editor.
> 
> however, if you dig around enough i'm sure you'll find someone who has
> probably made a DSP modular synth that is just not as extensive as the NM...
> even with a team of multiple engineers/programmers the first nord modulars
> must have taken quite a while to design in the first place.
> 
> for the price and time of building something like the NM you could just buy
> a micro modular [and they're more than worth it!] :P
> 
> - nate
> 
> ----- Original Message [from Synth DIY mailing list]-----
> Just curious if anyone has built a box with DSPs, converters and an OS in it
> that was comaptible with Nord Modular patches?
> 
> Basically a DIY Nord Modular?
> 
> cheers,
> Danjel
>