MOTM

i remember the horror in paul schreiber's voice when i told him almost all
my modular experience had been on a nord... and now i understand it. his
big complaint was that as soom as things on the nord got to digital zero,
the machine was no longer able to understand what was going on... no such
limit exists on an analog modular.

so now i understand what he was talking about.

(disclaimer: i love my nord. you will have to unshackle it from my
dessicated bones to seperate me from it.)

in my modest-sized motm system, feeding modules back into themselves has
become my primary MO. especially 420 filters. thank heaven for multiple
inputs! anyway, this normally just creates a really, really loud sine-ish
wave (as you'd expect), but as soon as you put additional signal through
the other one or two inputs... it's a sound so huge that mixing additional
instruments in with it is kind of pointless. yummy!

anyway, i tried the same thing with the nord and found much, much
different results. i had a drone going into the 24db filter, so i just
stuck a three-input mixer between the signal and the filter, and patched
the output of the filter to the main outs as well as to the second mixer
input. nothing. not a lick of difference in the sound. so then i patched
the filter out into the *third* input as well. nothing. until i start to
turn it up. it gets a little fuzzy, then the volume drops dramatically
until there is only silence. bummer!

so yeah... if you've got a nord and are waffling about adding analog
modular to your setup, waffle no more! nords are fabulous machines, and
mine ends up (in some way or other) on almost everything i do... but an
analog modular it certainly is not.

bleep.
out.