NOAH in Electronic Musician Feb2004

Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:05 pm

Noah is back

Jim Aikin reviews Noah EX in the Feb 2004 issue of EM (page 140-146)

cool

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:43 am

and what's the judgement?

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:07 pm

I just read it. It's a very long review. He seemed to like it. He called the sound of it "exceptional".

I was much more excited about his review of the new Alesis Ion modeling sythesizer in the same issue of EM and the Alesis costs much less. From his review alone I'm considering the Alesis Ion.

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 4:29 pm

The ION seems to be great synth, I hear a lot of people raving about it. Can't really compare it with NOAH of course.

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 6:29 pm

I played the Ion at NAMM....a bit confusing on the user interface, which is not what I expected from first glance.

Sound was...well, very sharp and edgy to me...but there you are at the show, with lots of noise around, and having to use medium quality headphones, so...I'd like to hear it through something like the Mackie 824s before passing judgement.
Certainly the price is great! Just didn't like the interface (for example, you have 3 osc sections, and they are stacked top to bottom in reverse order, 3, 2, 1 ...so, I go to adjust the top row, expecting Osc 1, but it was Osc 3. Not intuitive).

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:50 am

From what I read it's a very original synthesizer. I love that. Too many synths are trying to copy old synths.

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 3:34 pm

How is it original - out of curiosity? I thought it was just another VA synth - but maybe I am missing something. I would be interested in finding out more.

interloper · Post by **interloper** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:25 pm

Anyone considering buying a synth from one review in a mag is bound to run into some trouble eventually.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 4:55 pm

He says the "three Oscilators, dual multimode filters and a fully functional modulation matrix" make it unique in it's price range plus "It sounds great".

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:24 pm

ok - maybe unique in its price range - but I am not sure that qualifies as something different or original.

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:52 am

Actually, Noah is much more original with its capability to transform into several different types of synths - not just VA.

It also a good value considering with most synths you don't get that type of flexibility. You would likely have to purchase several different synths to get everything in Noah. Plus you can expand it as new devices are released.