Nomad Status

treehugger · Joined: Sep 10, 2007 Posts: 6 Location: Bowen Island

Just a ping to the group at large. Any word on a release for the latest version of Nomad? I've got two Nord Modulars gathering dust! The early work looked so promising, but the functionality is not quite there yet. Can't wait to see a release. Any word would be appreciated.

Regards/Rob

julien · Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 56 Location: Paris

Hello thehugger,

So Nomad progressed a lot in the meantime, you can checked the CVS mailling list to see there has been many commits:

So what is the status of Nomad ? Well the current version is pretty usable now. I will describe what is visible to the end user.
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The sequencer modules have been completed.
All the curve displays have been added (except one I still have to do, but this is a boring task that I constantly postpone).[list]
You can assign a color to a module
You can randomize a patch
You can load and save patch to the synth.
The patch is synched with the synth when you edit it
You can delete module (was partially working before)
Morph section partially implemented. Work on knobs.
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Christian did a lot of work for the backend of Nomad, this is not directly visible, but it should open Nomad to further extensions in the future. In fact, the credit of most of the recent work must go to Christian.

About the release. Nomad is close to a release. We are trying to fix the biggest bugs. The main feature that should be finished before the new release is the morph parameters.

There are many possibilities for Nomad but we lack man power. We do our best, but time is limited. So, if you know Java and want to help please contact us !

This is a list of what could be added to Nomad with some help:

Storing variation of patched
A better patch randomizer
A patch mutator,
Adding support for other synths to nomad
Creation of custom interfaces for patches (à la Reaktor)
Integration of external midi controllers
Adding OSC support, for remote control
Adding support for easy skinning of the interface
And so on...

Some of this will come, sooner or later, but the more help we have the earlier

I am using nomad to make my patches. I only use clavia editor as reference for nomad development.

As a threat here is a screenshot showing some of the new features:
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Click on it to get the unscaled version.

If you're a good observer you'll notice the Nomad also supports internationalization.

To conclude, the main message is the following:

The Nord modular is (almost) freed from his legacy editor. Nomad runs on Linux, Windows, Mac. So if you like your Modulars, don't sell them Smile

Cheers,

Julien

blue hell · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands

im buying a nord Modular on the basis of this screenshot!! Very Happy

blue hell · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject:

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands

not that nuts.. studio right now is windows bound and the modular editor for windows is working fine on my micromodular Very Happy

and THNX.. ive been lurking a while though.

as for noodles.. dunno whatcha mean by that.. ive been more of a pasta fan myself Razz

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

cappy2112 · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject:

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands

i know you guys were kiddin.. i dont get offended that easily.. Very Happy

i never knew that was called a noodle.. i call it.. or at least the output of it.. generative music..

as for my earlier comment.. i was exaggerating.. i wanted to buy the full scale modular for quite some time now.. and liked what i saw when using the MM.. so i got the big brother for 400EUR.. which in my opinion is a fair deal..

got a question though.. is it possible to send out individual notes to a midi output.. im used to max/msp and ive got a "Midibox" which lights leds when receiving midinotes ( i can always program it to react to something else though) and i want to use is to extend my MM (the MB_orb(the name of the thing) can send out CC aswell) so i can have some indicators showing whats happening inside the MM..

Roland Kuit · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:

I think we are all nutty;s Wink

It looks nice.

julien · Joined: Dec 08, 2006 Posts: 56 Location: Paris

Hello all,

Thank you for the kind words.

I made a couple of screenshots of two noodles:

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Make a right click, then show image, to get them unresized.

Julien

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands

ok, thanks to those two screenshots im selling both my NM and my MM..

.. just kiddin.. Very Happy

looks nice.. cant wait to get my hands on the NMrack..

blue hell · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:51 am Post subject:

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands

but you can sequence external gear with it from what i gather from the comments above about noodlesoup..

cappy2112

blue hell · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:49 am Post subject:

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands

i didnt copypasta the noodlesoup from other threads Razz

2bad about the midisequencing.. but at least you can assign CC to knob values.. ill just put the sequencing stuff in the midibox itself or some LFOs or whatever.. its all good ..

cappy2112 · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject:

wisefire · Joined: Jan 07, 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Netherlands