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ReFx Nexus?? (pg. 2)
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| Terry Barker |
| quote: | Originally posted by alanzo
I'd go for V-Station and a synth or two from Arturia.
And a new avatar... preferably one with a shirt on. |
haha, that tickled me! |
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| vikernes |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
It's strictly a rompler that plays back Nexus factory content and expansions. |
Just to clarify this; it's not a rompler. It is a rompler but it's also a full blown synth, but the user isn't given the option to create sounds. |
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| Lucidity |
Directly from ReFx --
"NEXUS2 is a next generation ROM synthesizer of the highest quality that can turn your musical dreams into a stunning reality. Forget about stereotypical, boring, stale, old sounding ROM synths and embrace the power of NEXUS2 to evolve your productions to a new level of greatness." |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by vikernes
Just to clarify this; it's not a rompler. It is a rompler but it's also a full blown synth, but the user isn't given the option to create sounds. |
He may be right, I'm not positive, though. ReFX may have put in some actual synthesis algorithms to make the instruments more life-like. Sort of how Spectraonics has done with Omnisphere. |
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| johncannons1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by vikernes
Just to clarify this; it's not a rompler. It is a rompler but it's also a full blown synth, but the user isn't given the option to create sounds. |
haha this is going to start another rom war |
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| thecYrus |
| quote: | Originally posted by vikernes
Just to clarify this; it's not a rompler. It is a rompler but it's also a full blown synth, but the user isn't given the option to create sounds. |
it's probably time to introduce a new term: presetler
yes, nexus is just a preset player and has no real capabilities to create new sounds. |
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| adi_hanson |
Nexus is a rompler , and yes you can do things that a normal softsynth can do , But You CANT create new sounds , but you can bend and twist the preset sound to your liking.
Some say using nexus is cheating , but using it wisely cant get some good results. |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by adi_hanson
but using it wisely cant get some good results. |
I couldn't agree more ... |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| I don't see how using a ROMpler or preset-factory is "cheating" really, as long as you're still writing the actual music. Certainly not being able to tweak a sound much is less interesting to synth nerds like me, though. |
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| vikernes |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lucidity
Directly from ReFx --
"NEXUS2 is a next generation ROM synthesizer of the highest quality that can turn your musical dreams into a stunning reality. Forget about stereotypical, boring, stale, old sounding ROM synths and embrace the power of NEXUS2 to evolve your productions to a new level of greatness." |
They market it as a rompler and it acts like a rompler but it's actually a real synth with oscillators, envelopes, filters, etc... It just that they locked out the user being able to have access to these things. Probably to make it even simpler and easier to market to the noobs who use only presets anyway. The saw you hear when you open Nexus is oscillator generated in realtime for example.
This is a copy/paste from a guy from Big Tone who did an expansion pack for Nexus:
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it's pretty much all said, here's a bit more, but still rough explanation:
it's a very powerful substractive engine, where you can decide in 4 layers if you want to feed the engine with samples or realtime osc's (with unison osc modes, too) or any combination ... every layer has it's own signal flow + ringmodulator, on top of that you have independant layer insert fx, independant layer eq, and you can choose which of the 4 simultanious osc's you feed whatever of the 4 layers (you can also send one osc into all 4 layers, etc) ... all that is completed with a summary fx section, patchbased, and a summary eq ... etc, etc...
To elaborate a bit more on the oscillators - they use BLEP synthesis at their core (same as, for example, xhip and ASynth). However, they're expanded from that to allow all sorts of neat morph things while still having no audible aliasing. And, as mentioned, there's a unison mode which doesn't have a linear increase in processing time (I believe that, too, is similar to how it is in xhip).
Each waveform is actually a "mini-program" which tells the oscillator engine exactly how to render each waveform, with morphing and everything. This is insanely flexible and allows implementing alot of waveform types. To top it off, it's brilliantly fast - faster even than sample playback on normal and high quality modes. It's faster than the Vanguard oscillators too (and, in my personal opinion, better sounding).
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Not really trying to start a flamewar here. |
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| adi_hanson |
| quote: | Originally posted by alanzo
I couldn't agree more ... |
oh , my bad:D |
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| Raphie |
If you actually BUY Nexus, you will use NEXUS2 and that gives you way more options than 1.
Yes is is a rompler, but with ADSR and AMP section.
which means that you use samples as sources (something that you need to pay an additional 100$ when owning a Waldorf Blofeld)
People who moan about NEXUS, should also not use Vengeance CD's or Battery, or Omnisphere or Trilogy or...... (you get the point) |
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