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Nah, Rolands pitchstick is better imho. Pushing for modulation (vibrato) works very good. The nords have their modulation wheel to the right of the stick, and I play the stick with my thumb, so it's rather inconvenient for me.

Roland pitch-sticks do have a zeropoint. Nord's don't have. But a combination of them two would rock!

Jarp2600 wrote:Roland pitch-sticks do have a zeropoint. Nord's don't have. But a combination of them two would rock!

Zeropoint? the pictstick work like any other pitchwheels with springs taking it back to the zeropint when you slip it, It doesn't have a normalt zeropoint so you can bend it like a string on a guitar, but it still has some sort of a zeropoint.

No, I mean, the Nord's pitchsticks don't have a pitch zero-point like wheels or Roland-sticks have. For example, press a key, turn your pitchwheel up, and let the tone go down, until the wheel is turned completely down. In the middle there's a short break. The Nord sticks don't have that problem.

Ahh ok, now I got the point

I don't see that as a problem. I either bend up or down, but never trough the zeropoint. I'd adjust the value for up/down range in that case

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@E-Vert Thanks!
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So... I have done a little demo. It's more a demonstration of sounds used in Jarre tracks and also a few Röyksopp. Others are just some improvisation not the most creative but I try to find some cool examples of what the Microkorg can do.


1. The Geometry Of Love lead we all know, it's hard to copy real one as you have the melody, modwheel and time to think about. So it wont sync with the original album version by JMJ.

2. Another known one from the GoL album, used for Velvet Road and Children Of Space. When the Rendez-Vous In Space concert took place, the microkorg wasn't made, that must have been from the MS2000, which was also seen in TK's setup on stage.

3. Yet another GoL sound, heard in Electric Flesh. the first part is supposed to give a picture of the real stuff, later I did some improvisation as I didn't want to figure out JMJ's notes :mryellow:

4. This sound was used in The Voyage from the Rendez-Vous In Space concert, but then again the MS2000 must have been used in that case. Can also be heard in a track called Voyage Voyage made by a group caleld The Nightflyer... hmm... voyage.

5. Just a Solina patch from the Microkorg. The mistakes in this one occures due to the low polyphony, otherwise you will have to be more precise to get out of such problems

6. A lightly modified patch. I found it very similar to something used in Robbie William's track 'Rudebox'.
Be aware of some high resonance sounds. On the lowest notes, it sounds like somebody are having a bad day with the stomach. It happened when I put the files together for an MP3 mixdown, what an irritating format. The Wav files were free from this disturbings, so is the Microkorg.

7. Just a sync patch I found amusing to tweak a little.

8. The same sync patch, just some experiments with the arppegiator, it could almost sound like something used in the end of Together Now.

9. A simple experiment with a patch Röyksopp used for a remix of Coldplay's 'Clocks'. Röyksopp are known to have MS2000, MS2000B and the microkorg, so I don't know which one they used for this sound, but that doesn't really matter.

10. A Bass patch, I changed a little. I think you can make it sound evil. Again there is a toilet problem with the gritty lower notes.

11. A patch I found very similar to some Kraftwerk stuff, besides The Man-Machine it was more or less useful for 'The Robots'.

12. Another patch used by Röyksopp. It can be heard on their track 'Follow My Ruin' from their latest album 'The Understanding'.


http://rapidshare.com/files/10560457/Mi ... o.mp3.html

Later I will do a demo of the Nordlead 2x where I have more homemade patches. I just can't get myself to overwrite the programs on the MK, eventhough many of the sounds are terrible an completely unuseable unless you are doing mainstream R'n'B or just too weird music.

Thanks a lot for your great demo, really good sounds here
I'm eager of the demo of the NL2x

Oh yes, one thing, I don't want to go in your toilets :mryellow:

I hope you got what I meant about toilet sounds

Synthesist wrote:I hope you got what I meant about toilet sounds

I did, that are these low sounds which are a bit saturated when too lound and low, right ?
Sometimes like farts :mryellow:

Yes but in this case, the recordings i made didn't have these farts on the lower notes, first untill I mixed all the files together to one MP3 file. I don't know why.

The MP3 has a lower range, especially when you make a MP3 with a low bitrate.
I think that's the problem, but I'm not an expert...

Which software did you use ?

Yes the files is compressed in MP3 format, but it shouldn't make such big changes. Im just not really sure about what to change, I thought everything was good enough.

Does anyone know where I can download new patches for this synth. I've been trying to find them but as to so far I haven't been able to.