Creamware NOAH on cover of July SoundonSound

orbita · Post by **orbita** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:38 am

Noah recieved a very good review in Sound on Sound this month. Lets hope that it persuades people to buy it!

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 6:32 am

Beaut cover.

Nice seven page review (with a nice title page too - MiniMax to the for). Good review with main minus point being the cost, though if ModIII was ported the reviewer thinks it would make potential Nord Modular buyers think twice.

Also there is a full page advertisement from CreamWare themselves on Noah.

Can't find the promised Solaris review, maybe that'll be next month so that SOS doesn't seem too CW-biased!

The various polyphony counts are given for each instrument depending on how many 'slots' you have filled (1 to 4) in your Noah (3 and 4 are EX version only). The polyphony then (in order of slots) is:

Minimax: 3, 6, 10, 13
Lightwave: 6, 12, 16, 16
Pro One: 2, 5, 8, 11
Six String: 2, 6, 9, 12
B2003: 16, 16, 16, 16

Apparently most users prefer the B4's brighter sound (not necessarily more authentic) so CW are going to offer B2003 in 'original' and 'bright' flavours.

More when i've actually read the article (just skimming at the mo).

Mr Arkadin.

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 6:58 pm

Ok - nevermind

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Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:45 am

Well Sound On Sound might be a bit pissed off seeing as it's barely hit the shelves yet (also i'm buggered if i'm typing out such a big review!). i would advise subscribing (to at least the online version) at http://www.sospubs.co.uk or wait till it's freely available there.

orbita · Post by **orbita** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:53 am

Future music have also just reviewed it but it wasnt such a glowing review, scoring poorly on the build quality and value for money. They considered it very expensive for what it is.

orbita · Post by **orbita** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:54 am

You have to bear in mind though that many of future musics readers dont understand the difference between a midi and audio judging by some of the letters they get.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:22 am

On 2003-06-16 05:45, Mr Arkadin wrote:
Well Sound On Sound might be a bit pissed off seeing as it's barely hit the shelves yet (also i'm buggered if i'm typing out such a big review!). i would advise subscribing (to at least the online version) at http://www.sospubs.co.uk or wait till it's freely available there.

Yeah, well, i'm a subscriber of their online mag, and the july issues isn't there yet.

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 6:35 am

One of the few advantages in living in the UK

Oh and Future Music is one of those mags that makes Computer Music look like good value.

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orbita · Post by **orbita** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 9:35 am

unfortunately, it would seem future music have put a rather uninspiring selection of noah demos sound on their cover cd.

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:29 pm

I don't trust anything in Future Music. Here is just one example - a freelance writer hired by Future Music who ripped off reviews appearing in Sound on Sound:

"Over the last 18 months, extracts from at least 21 product reviews and features originally published in Sound On Sound magazine appear to have been reproduced without permission in Future Music magazine. Future Publishing apologizes to the publishers of Sound On Sound magazine, its employees and contributors for this apparent unauthorised reproduction and would like to thank them for bringing this matter to its attention."

Here is more...

http://www.futuremusic.co.uk/soundonsoundapology.html

huffcw · Post by **huffcw** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:34 pm

Looks like the online version is up now.