I just got a Nymphes too and am surprised how much I like the sound. It’s hard to describe in objective terms, but it has a really sweet, musical tone to it. I really enjoy playing it with a keyboard plugged in, which is not always the case with synths.
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Nice video from @fredweb
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It’s been a while since I had a Minilogue. I’d say Nymphes has more character and an overall stronger sound. It also gives you a second LFO with more LFO options than Minilogue. You’ll lose the two oscillators from Minilogue and its mod options.
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I know this an old thread but wanted to add this as it’s taken me a while to work out!
Changing programmes with the digitakt works great but you still need to press load if you want to edit the preset!
Also saving works the other way around than I first guessed. You go to the preset (A) you want to overwrite. Then Press shift and save. Then you scroll to the preset (B) sound you need and press save. When you got back to preset (A) it will now be the same as (B).
Long press to save or load factory presets (bank 2 on the digitakt) short press to load or save user presets( bank 1 on the digitakt)
Because of the saving workflow I think it’s not possible to edit a preset then save it to a different location in one step. You’d need to save it to it’s existing location first.
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Just got one B-Stock unit directly from Dreadbox and I cannot see why it is a B-Stock, it is perfect in every way. And you all were right, this thing sound amazing, I fell in love.
I found the menu system surprisingly easy to navigate, I was able to create my first patch, with modulations and all in less than an hour. I was afraid I was going to need a PC editor to be able to do sound design. Glad that’s not the case!
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Congrats! It’s an easy workaround imo, though the annoyingly cumbersome bit for me is the patchsaving… I had a few accidents there before settling on treating like a synth without patch storage.
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I had the same experience, bought one as b-stock and can’t find a blemish. I found a smudge on the insert card and was like, that was probably me, but maybe…?
It’s my first hardware synth after years in DAWs and I knew it would be a wild interface to learn on - and it is going slowly - but it sounds so good that I don’t care. It’s so fun to make a quick beat on my model samples and just wail away for an hour.
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some very nice Nymphes work here:
the best demo I’ve heard, actually.
I’ve grown to really like the Nymphes weird reverb. It’s actually useful for making industrial dark ambient ringing drones (when it’s put into a touch of a stereo reverb to give it space. This case Valhalla Shimmer).
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Back on the nymphes thread with maybe a dumb n00b question, baby! I’m still really into it - when I haven’t played it for a minute and think maybe the bloom is off the rose, I plug it in and am consistently impressed by the sound. It’s just so fun to play.
Anyway, how do other people use LFO1? Is it just for vibrato? I find myself only using delay and the tiniest bit of envelope for it because otherwise it feels like the pitch swings too wide to be musical. Am I missing something? Or is it just that more envelope makes it leave piano town (where i guess i live) and enter sound design territory?
Agreed, it’s a strangely calibrated range. My workaround (baked into the factory-patch-replacing init patches sysex I posted upthread) is to assign MW to add about an 8th of the LFO-pitch range, then the MW allows adding finer vibrato amounts.
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Oh dang, this is a really good idea! Thanks friend.
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Violating forum etiquette by double-posting to share this nymphes patch editor for macos and - :o - linux!
To be clear, I’m not involved in the project - a million thanks to the devs.
There’s a downloadable version you can pay for, although if you can get the nymphes to send and receive program changes and midi cc’s, and copy and paste text into a terminal, there are instructions for building it yourself for free on the github page.
I downloaded this a while ago but finally sat down with it for an hour or two this afternoon and it’s great, highly recommended.
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Good demo video
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Got a new video up on YT feat the Nymphes on polyphonic goodness.
Love this little guy but the panel is still a bit convoluted to navigate. So I think that I might try out the editor to help with saving sounds and put them in the right places.
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