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buzzr · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject:

Somebody posted this over at Matrixsynth Blog. I first saw it and was shocked (The Clavia Syntha). Then came back here and saw it was not true of course. More mockups please Very Happy

Roland Kuit · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:25 pm Post subject:

hehehe buzzzzr, just did the photoshop thing. but if this was real. my dream would come true Smile

wow..they where quick to post it there Cool

but for real. it would be easy to make this thing for them.

Antimon · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject:

ark · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject:

Let me try to explain…

If Hans Nordelius wouldn’t work for Clavia he surely would be writing the same posts as you guys. Only Mr. Nordelius does work for Clavia and that changes a lot in a man’s life. Still most Clavia employees are ‘dreamers’ and that’s important.
Once I had a conversation with the former marketing manager of Clavia about why I was such a Clavia fan. I told him I had a lot of other material at hand in the museum and one day I realized there were synthesizers which appealed to me and others didn’t; not only sound wise but also how an instrument (it’s interface) presented itself to me. To experience this one should work only one day with another synth mogul, the DX7 from Yamaha. It's an easy conclusion!
After working some years with the NordModular Classic I played the NordLead2 in a shop and was surprised the same feeling was there and certainly a different feeling when playing the SCI Prophet V, after which the NordLead was shaped… There is something like a Clavia feel and that’s not dropped down from somewhere as an unknown mystery, but Clavia put it in. And it is also in the NordPiano Very Happy

I strongly believe the Clavia feeling is one of the reasons why the NM Classic generated that creative output by the members of the mailing list, which became legendary. To experience this just visit the Frankfurter Messe. You’ll find the designers from Clavia in the stand, Dave Smith and Roger Linn are in the house and in the past you could talk to Bob Moog. All designers which have something with their babies. Yamaha, Korg, Roland stands are only crowded by salesmen and slick demonstrators…

So to return to the big frustration.
Clavia talks enthusiastic about their idea’s, which doesn’t mean they all get a realization, but it could…

Wout

G2Psy · Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:31 pm Post subject:

ark · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject:

buzzr · Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject:

Hardware Modular synths are selling fairly well. Crazy sounds are back in again. Instead they make a piano.

3phase · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:30 am Post subject:

3phase · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:36 am Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 2:57 am Post subject:

Simple solution...

1 get up at 5.30 and bring the morning paper to its readers
2 go to your daytime work and ask for more money
3 bring the evening paper
4 start a cooking club for elderly people, so you can eat there for free
5 take a job as a tutor to foreigners learning the local language
6 go to bed and get up at 5.30...

(That's what my father did to get his children to university and I praise him still for it!)

Wout

3phase · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 3:31 am Post subject:

so you compare raising children with owning a syntheziser? you are realy a synth enthusiast

fac · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:57 pm Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject:

Roland Kuit · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:24 pm Post subject:

i never hit children or synths,..i think thats a lack of knowlegde how to tread them. but the last one(synth)....i like to abuse in sound Wink

Wout Blommers · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:57 pm Post subject:

Going back on topic...

Ever wondered why Clavia delivered a Vista update to the G2 Editor?
Why not to the Classic?
Simple because Clavia declared the G2 synth abandoned, but not the platform itself...

Never thought about that?

Wout

Roland Kuit · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:20 pm Post subject:

Wout, that is clever thinking. but my classic editor works fine with my vista...do people experience problems with that? or isn't that a vista problem with their midi interface?

Tim Kleinert · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:27 pm Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:55 pm Post subject:

Roland Kuit · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:31 pm Post subject:

i agree with wout. i think of the 2(NM and G2) that they are different instruments....they sound different! ok, not compatible, so?
often i route them though one and other, so it becomes(in audio and midi, a bit in patch) 1 big system.
its better to have them both.

trotz · Joined: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 83 Location: mallorca

I agree with Wout. I never abandoned my NM even though the G2 was very tempting but... I don't prefer encoders to pots and there was simply not enough difference between the products.

What I need today:

1) something as easy to use as the G2 editor
2) but with extra modules (sample reader from Nord Wave would be a nice start)
3) extensive DC I/O to interface with my other analogue gear
4) As NM and G2 did, the device should be mostly operative without a computer
5) DAW integration such as Virus TI

Or... give me a vst/au G2 demo at a price less than 500€ and I'll buy it. I can then use the plugin with Ableton Live + Max4Live, Volta and stick with a portable computer plus any nice controller.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:41 pm Post subject:

Did you noticed at the Panel there are two Electric Piano sounds catagories? Besides tines there are also reeds...
Could it be...?
The Hohner Pianet T?

Very Happy

Wout

Tim Kleinert · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:10 am Post subject:

jksuperstar · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:28 am Post subject:

Well, hopefully Clavia can save up enough money from organs and other transplants like this new piano, and revisit the modular technology again.

And, if I read between the lines, it seems like Wout is hinting at something new, but based on G2 hardware (or technology?)...G3, G2.1, or G2 firmware 2.0? G2_VST?