Does anyone know of any "Guitar Like" (audio) effects that would work well on the Nord Micro? I don¹t play guitar, but I am trying to recreate the lead sound with some good wind controlled synth waveforms and would like to process the signal with some distortion, and other characteristics with the Nord Micro. Any ideas?

There was some discussion of tube distortion here a while back. I haven't tried it in the nord yet, but basicly just DC offset a signal, put it through a waveshaper, highpassfilter it (low frequncy) then lowpass filter it.

You can flange with a couple of delay modules too, one set to max, one modulated in series, mix 50/50 with the original signal.

Won't sound like real flanging though, thats a bit harder.

Two cents and a patch.

The distortion is actually a clipper on the output of a mixer fed into a 6dB highpass filter and the filters output fed back into the mixer. You can do without the clipper actually, only a fed back 6dB hpf already distorts a lot. However the clipper prevents a too strong output signal and I like the asymmetrical clipping. Imho the hpf works best at the low frequencies for a distorted TB303-like effect. The two hpf's and the crossfader influence the sound of the distortion. Only one hpf controlled by a morph which is controlled by e.g. a foorpedal can give a distorted wah-like effect. Anyway, due to the clipping this type of distortion sounds brighter than the overdrive module which I find a bit tame to my taste.

Should work on an audio input as well. However the low-boost filter must track the fundamental of an oscillator to work properly and has less use on audio input. in that case better use a EG module to boost low frequencies.

NB If the clipper level is set to its default value it still clips at a level of 64!

Interesting distortion effect, I'l try it next time I'm in windows (my networking seems to have stopped working in windows, *shrug*).

Here's mine, quite subtle so more of a tube warmpth type thing. Uses all the things I was talking about (except ps sag, I thaught that was going too far!) also has an increasingly asymetrical gain (different for top half and bottom half of waves) which some hardware experts assured me actually happens in hard driven tubes. NB I've never used a real tube amp, so I've no idea if this is realistic or not, but mathematically its fairly similar to what happens in valve amps. I havn't checked it with my oscilosope, so it might be dodgy, but it sounds good on my bass.