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noah seems a great synth, but according to me CW should give the possibility to integrate his hardware synth into a scope/pulsar platform...
a simple board with a stdm but should connect noah to a pulsar, and then you shoul control noah entirely in pulsar: imagine a "noah digital in", "noah digital out", "noah B3000" into the pulsar environment...
THIS would be a great advance in music making...
for what i read, noah is "just" another synth with the USB connection to the PC...

I think you're missing the point.
Noah will appeal to the people who don't want to spend their lives fiddling about with PCs - like me

CW are leveraging (hate that word) their software by creating a new hardware platform for it. This should mean more cheaper s/w and 3rd party plugs for us.
Hoorah!

You cannot extent high speed cables like STDM to an arbitrary lenght, they have to be very short to operate correctly.
USB is for shure the most simple and cost effective way to upload/save something today and you have even cards to be failsafe in live situations.
I've read a deeper review of the unit recently and find it's concept much more appealing than before - good job, CW.
Everything introduced with NOAH will shurely run on Pulsar as well and vice versa.
They paid lot of attention to the physical modelling stuff, seems very interesting

but only 16 knobs..........

you say correct thing (expecially on to stdm lenght). but it would be nice if you could add the DSP (btw: how many!?) of noah to the DSP of pulsar/scope...

<i>but only 16 knobs.......... </i>

More than most workstations from Yamaha (think Motif, EX5, etc), Korg (think Trinton LE, Karma), Kurzweil (think K2000), and Roland (Phantom??). And of course more external control boxes could be utilized, as with any of the above synths.

I would venture a guess that "only 16 knobs" was based on a decision that all knobs will have their associated Parameter Names displayed on the 2 screens - so you can see which knob tweaks which parameter easily. More knobs would mean more screen space to display these parameters. Of course, I don't know if it's going to work this way, just an educated guess, which would seem to make good sense in use.

16 also makes sense because it's got an internal step/arpeggiator.

only 16 knobs.

well the microQ is really easy to use and it only has 4 knobs

the yamaha samplers/fs1r are HELL to program and have 4 knobs.

So its not the number of knobs, its how you use em.

People like me who have the 3 card limit might consider a Noah if they come out with a rackmount version that's affordable.

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Kind of like that?

Yeppppp, count me in on the drewlin' down ourselves and the window in the shop, until the law throw us away for obscene behaviour in public

Stubbe

I guess I would buy one if I had the money.