I bought the Novation Nocturn yesterday

whizerbyte · Post by **whizerbyte** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:27 am

Yessir!!

I bought the Novation Nocturn yesterday afternoon (i think it came out late Thursday)

feel free to ask me any questions [EDIT>>] about the Nocturn [<<EDIT]

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mohler · Post by **mohler** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:04 am

Well I've always wondered about this:

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

whizerbyte · Post by **whizerbyte** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:13 am

lol
the un-im-aginable!

mohler · Post by **mohler** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:15 am

whizerbyte wrote:lol
the un-im-aginable!

You see, right there....

That's my problem, I can't get my head round it! You gotta give me something more than that!

liveISlife · Post by **liveISlife** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:36 am

it says "sup"

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:25 pm

Well tell us something about it. How does it work with Live? The build quality? If a baby sucks on it will they get Chinese lead poisoning?

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:38 pm

Anubis wrote:Well tell us something about it. How does it work with Live? The build quality? If a baby sucks on it will they get Chinese lead poisoning?

it does look like 6 or so nipples with a crossfader doesnt it..

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:39 pm

I call *freud* on this one.

Kozak · Post by **Kozak** » Sat May 24, 2008 5:25 pm

1. Do you think the nocturn can be used as a DJ mixer controlling mixing of tracks and effects? Is automap intuitive enough for this?

2. Can you link 2 nocturns to your comp? I've been wondering about this.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat May 24, 2008 5:29 pm

aw man, usb on the SIDE? sheesh. That rules it out in my live rig :-/

thelike5 · Post by **thelike5** » Sat May 24, 2008 6:26 pm

Machinate wrote:aw man, usb on the SIDE? sheesh. That rules it out in my live rig :-/

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You guys are unbelievable. The history of this music we create was built on so many more limitations than a fucking usb port being two inches from where your wet dreams say it should.

I always hate the dismissive suggestion of "build your own" but in this case it applies.

whizerbyte · Post by **whizerbyte** » Sun May 25, 2008 8:00 am

liveISlife wrote:it says "sup"

???

Anubis wrote:Well tell us something about it. How does it work with Live? The build quality? If a baby sucks on it will they get Chinese lead poisoning?

Ah! yeh i was going to get around to that...busy mapping my plugins still....
..well so far i'm very pleased, haven't really mapped it up with Live yet so i'll get back to that, i reckon it's built quite well, the knobs and crossfade are not to loose, they do wobble a smidgen but i only noticed since i was trying to wobble them (for checking sake), and i wouldn't let a baby go near my baby!

Machinate wrote:I call *freud* on this one.

Did you mean fraud?!

{lol started writing this reply yesterday, lucky Firefox saved what i had so far, forgot all about it}

whizerbyte · Post by **whizerbyte** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:26 am

Kozak wrote:1. Do you think the nocturn can be used as a DJ mixer controlling mixing of tracks and effects? Is automap intuitive enough for this?

2. Can you link 2 nocturns to your comp? I've been wondering about this.

1.I should think so, Nocturn controls Live using the Automap MIDI Client function which basically gives you 8 MIDI knobs, buttons and a MIDI crossfader to play with per Page (i.e. at a time) and you can have as much Pages as you like. so 127 CCs x 16 Channels = 2032 CCs, only thing is you can't have one knob/button sending CC message on Channel 1 and another knob/button sending CC messages on Channel 2 on a Page, since it arranges the channels in Groups (Groups have the Pages in them) but selecting a Group is quick (quicker then selecting a Page at times). Controlling effects (VST) is totally separate from Automap MIDI Client (it's better), although you can still use Automap MIDI Client to control your VST effects.

2.Not sure.

Rave wrote:
Machinate wrote:aw man, usb on the SIDE? sheesh. That rules it out in my live rig :-/
Agreed, bad design.

unlucky...the design worked out alright for me, just enough space on my desk.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sun May 25, 2008 10:34 am

thelike5 wrote:
Machinate wrote:aw man, usb on the SIDE? sheesh. That rules it out in my live rig :-/
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You guys are unbelievable. The history of this music we create was built on so many more limitations than a fucking usb port being two inches from where your wet dreams say it should.

But the market is so much different now, that we can afford to dismiss hardware on such criteria. Besides, it's not like I desperately need it - if I did I wouldn't be as critical about port position

Now, you can get angled USB cables, but in Denmark that means sort of special import and shit. No fun.

manimal · Post by **manimal** » Tue May 27, 2008 12:53 pm

Got the email saying mine has been dispatched!!
i do hope we dont have any difficulties making the exchange??