Mr. Tung wrote:Cheers matey, I will check those out now.
I found the Prophet 5 patches. Nice, but I wonder how they compare to the original P5?.
Well put it this way,After Demoing the DSI PROPHET,I'm convinced you can coax the same Prophet emulations out of the Nords....so make of that what you will...
The Nords have their share of shit presets,Like most synths,most of which are just variations on the same patch,and it can be a nightmare with the Nords remembering where the decent patches are because of the Numbering system instead of a combo of Names/Numbers,(Which is even more a bitch,with a Sound PCMCIA Card in the back,as theres a few hundred extra sounds)but thats one of the great things about the Nords,Your not fooled into having preconceptions of what they sound like because of a Name.
Took a while to warm to the Nords sound,after already owning one several years ago,I wasn't totally bowled over with it the first time around but after all the Romplers I've owned over the years I've become sick of over exaggerated presets swamped with tons of FX,the Nord does exactly what it says on the tin so to speak,so theres no gimmicks,and everything you need is on the front panel,As Jakob said, you can pretty much coax it into any sound you want,Ok not everybody's cup of tea soundwise,but especially the MK2 has been a huge seller over the years,and still continues to,the Nord don't pull any tricks they are just simply raw sounding synthesizers,even if you have a tonne of presets you don't need there's always some you will find good use for and be able to tweak others to your liking without too much effort.
In general I just think many of those presets sound too weak and thin, compared to those killersounds you can pull out of it.
. I understand what you mean about the Nord, it is (as you say) does what it says on the tin with no messing about. I'm currently going through all the sounds again and for a 2nd listen, liking the synth even more. 
I just use the notebook on my computer, however I know where most of my patches are. Another really cool thing is the 4 slots, so you can change bewteen 4 sounds located different places in the memory. Besides that as long as a patch is asigned to the slot buttons and you don't scroll using the arrows, they don't change back to the original patch. This means that you can quickly do a layersound using the same patch but with different values. I don't know why they stripped down the 4 slots to 2 on the Nord Wave.
