NDLR is shipping.
Steven Barile and is team reach the end of their travel. After the nadir of the trip, now the best moment for them, Champagne !
The NDLR for us ! Youpi
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Expect a video on the NDLR from Gaz Williams. He announced that he just received the NDLR, (Gaz has been known to enjoy his Kordbot too) and is doing a video showing itās features. Heās using it with a Behringer DeepMind 12, and says heās having āmuch funā. See Sonic Talk #561.
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HĆ© hĆ©, mine is on its wayā¦
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Donāt have any use for it but it sure looks cool
Mine has shipped today. Yeah! Not holding much hope for it getting to UK before Christmas though.
Gaz Explores the Noodler
ADDED: Gaz as he says in the video goes into only one smallish area of the NDLR, and as Gaz is famous for, he wings it, so this video isnāt really a good measure of the complete Noodler. That said it is fun to watch if viewed with that in mind.
Mine arrived yesterday. Very short learning curve. Just need to practice a little bit to
acquiert the right reflex and masterise the differents procedures.
My first impressions :
- itās exactly what productors anounced.
- well thinked interface
- not a sequencer but an instrument to be played.
- With it you play your synths without knowing music theory and always in the right notes on all synths at the same time.
- Can be very usefull to create chords progression and complete songs
- I will use it to prepare songs and record them in my other sequencers. I already noodle with it and itās very pleasant.
- Great possibilities of improvisation, not boring thanks to all the possibilities of modulate notes and most of parameters with the LFOs and the modmatrix.
- Large possibilities to produce personnal motifs
- the NDLR is not confined in slow ambiance sounds (I must recognise that the Gaz William live demo on YT was not pertinent for the modulation part of the NDLR, and makes me fear about the efficience of my choice.
- It brings to me all the things I miss in other little sequencers as Zillion from Futureretro, that were, IMHO, to closed, but that have this same spirit of live instrument.
- It brings the direct link and playability of chords that miss in my beloved Pyramid (the combo will be fantastic).
- the little price made it perfect conductor of my gear and cool tool for chord based songs.
One Word : superfun
Amapy :)))
Thx to the NDLR team.
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This thing is great. Finally got a chance to play with it and itās really impressive. Gutted though encoder 5 isnāt responding to clicks so I canāt access certain functions. Waiting for a reply from support but it looks like mine will have to go back.
Loopop of course.
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yes, and again to the highest level of demoing, explanation that I have seen so far on the Internet. I have to upload the new firmware the coming days and look forward to noodling. My instincts when it was first presented on Kickstarter were right and I am glad I supported this project early on. The video will surely do its part to get more people interested. I keep looking for other ideas, like the theoryboard and hopefully more generative stuff. The Google AI on chord progressions was also nice and there are lots of Max for Live tools that would be fantastic to have in hardware. My plan is to use the NDLR in combination with the Haken Continuum fingerboard, where the NDLR noodles witht he synths while I concentrate on playing the Continuum.
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Can anyone confirm if this is limited to 4 note max chords for the pads?
I can see that the spread parameter adds additional notes but only doubles them in other octaves etc. Can it play minor/major 11ths for example ?
Does anyone know what Loopop is using for the display of midi notes in the video, which shows colored bars coming out of a piano keyboard? It looks very much like the display from Synthesia except in that case the notes (bars) are going the opposite direction ā specifically from future time, instead of into the past as the software Loopop is using.
It would be a useful program to use with the NDLR (and other stuff too).
The question has been asked in the youtube comment and you guessed right : Synthesia.
This little ndlr is growing on me should I resist ? No, go with the flow ! 
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Something else thatās caught my eye ā in a similar realm is ACDGEN by Spektro Audio. Itās a little more focused as to musical style, but it sounds quite good doing that. (At least from the demos.)
It comes both as a Max app for Live, but more interesting is the hardware edition they are developing.
Hereās the thread for it.
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How much was you hit with duty?
249 Queen quids seems ridiculous for what it does
Bloody hell. Canāt remember what I had for tea yesterday. Ha ha.
Is it not VAT at 20% plus a smallish fee from Royal Mail???
I think itās worth it though. Itās a great idea generator but I do record into Ableton to take it further.
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Youāre right, I record NDLR in other sequencer too. So possible to have fun for long session and back to the best moments and then editing.
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Just ordered, seems to be such a great sequencer 
New batch available!
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I recommend this too. Iāve been using mine with my Sonic Core PC (four independent synths going in to a mixer with fx) and itās great fun.
I like that it also appears in Ableton as four midi ports so can be routed anywhere with ease.
Get one, itās fun!
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nice NDLR vid this
imagine a clocked elektron alongside!
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