Bought my first step sequencer / genoQs Nemo.

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:42 am

Just wanted to share with you people that i bought my first step sequencer in the form of a genoQs Nemo to complement my Voyager Signature Edition.

Within no time i was creating great sequences even though the Nemo doesn't have any display to work with.

Before I bought it, I was concerned about the lack of this LCD display,
but oddly the machine forced me to be more creative because of this.

The clever arrangement of the tactile ball bearing buttons combined with the multi-color LED chase lights and the 4 track page setup brings out a natural workflow in my music arrangement.

All in all a great machine and a joy to play with...hopefully i can create a Tube movie soon to show it how it works.

Any additional info can be found on their site : www.genoqs.com

Voltor07 · Post by **Voltor07** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:53 am

Very nifty looking thing, there. It looks like a surfboard and a Star Trek computer all in one!

Pretty cool sequencer!

Anna's Digit · Post by **Anna's Digit** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:47 pm

apealing

jon_kull · Post by **jon_kull** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:43 pm

I'm curious to know how this is working for you. I may be picking on of these up tomorrow. Would you care to share any thoughts? Likes/dislikes?

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:29 am

After some weeks of playing around is still discover new ways to add into musical workflow....

Anyways...

Like :
- Quickly going through my layers of my workflow, Grid -> Pages -> Tracks -> Steps
- Copy, pasting tracks / pages
- Easy laying down a melody line with the use of step phrases or attribute flows
- Understanding really whats happening even without display, let your ears also do some work (love the pretty lights)
- Creating long sequences...even more then 64 or 128 steps.
- Chaining tracks or pages
- Building chords or strums
- Assigning different CC functions to the encoders
- Making snapshots to revert back at a later stadium when you are not happy with what you have done
- Forcing the music to a scale
- Using effectors as a state switch so you can do cross modulation, something which is unique to sequencers
- Using a USB lamp on my hardware
- 2 x MIDI in/out

Dislike :
- No group muting
- You can save only one project (All Grid or All Pages), if you want to keep different ones you have to do a sysex dump...this can be done via USB

Overall i think it is a really good and solid desktop sequencer (i really was looking into a desktop version for a sequencer iso. a rackmounted version).

I also like the optional firmware upgrades which happen regularly, and the guys at genoQs really listen to their customers over at their site and forum, adding new functions and wishes to the OS.

Even though i am missing a decent save functionality i still cannot find any reason not to buy this sequencer...

jon_kull · Post by **jon_kull** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:44 pm

Do you use this as your main sequencer or along with a computer? I'm looking to replace my computer for sequencing. Do you think the Nemo offers enough features to do that?

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:32 pm

I use the Nemo as my main sequencer...and only use my computer for recording songs.
Before the Nemo i used a MPC 2000XL as my main sequencer...but i think with the MPC my workflow was more beat based iso. the melody line.

From the Nemo manual which covers your question :

Reflection notes on MIDI recording

While MIDI recording is one of the most exciting and useful features
in Nemo, some restrictions do apply, as we have seen already.

The MIDI recording capability of Nemo and Octopus, while extensive
and clearly unmatched in hardware step sequencers, should not
be viewed as “what goes in, necessarily will come out” functionality,
which you may experience on software packages for example.

The reason for this is quite simple: step sequencers underly a certain
granularity constraint that is given by the interface, such as the number
of steps in a track, which again give you advantages which other
sequencer paradigms do not. Therefore, on Nemo, steps, while polyphonic,
will force certain input into certain start positions which may
sound different to your ears than what you have played in.

In other words, if you are looking to input material naturally, which
you then work and interact with further inside the sequencer, you are
spot on. If you are about to record your piano sonata as a MIDI
stream for later identical replay, you may not be using the right tool.
One of the many simple and possibly free software package for MIDI
recording may be a better choice than a highly sophisticated hardware
tool.

jon_kull · Post by **jon_kull** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:01 am

So I went and checked the Nemo out yesterday. I played with it for about 2 hours. That thing is pretty wild. It's hard to do anything that sounds bad on it. I ended up not buying it but may pick it up tomorrow.

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 2:33 am

Great to hear jon that you like it so far.

Let me know when you have bought it so i have a fellow Nemo user....

Paulkaiju · Post by **Paulkaiju** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:45 pm

I've had one for about the past month and I'm finding I use it more and more, as I learn to use it more and more.

Just this week I started using the clock multiplier on chanied tracks and the creativity exploded from there.

The only thing I've begun to sweat is the fact that eventually I might run out of storage space!

i think eventually i might need to move on to an Octopus.

Overall..I wanted an escape from the PC monitor and this was it.

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:17 pm

I can't wait until I get a 960 Clone. I really can't stand trying to rely on computers. Its just not as fun as reaching up there and tweaking a knob.

Eric

solconnection · Post by **solconnection** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:11 pm

looks cool
can you sequence cc's with this? is there anything on it that is 'playable' (switches,knobs that change groove or do anything interesting? etc)

have a nice day
-Dan[/code]

Prime NL · Post by **Prime NL** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:26 am

solconnection wrote:looks cool
can you sequence cc's with this? is there anything on it that is 'playable' (switches,knobs that change groove or do anything interesting? etc)

have a nice day
-Dan[/code]

Yes and yes.

You can record or program which MCC you want to edit or let run in the sequence.

Next to this you can edit the folowing functions with the knobs : Pitch, Velocity, Length of the notes, Start position, Amount, Groove, MCC, Position, Direction, you can feed or listen to tracks, speed of individual tracks....and many more.

xiaoliang · Post by **xiaoliang** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:16 am

Very nifty looking thing!!!

I think so!

Voltor07 wrote:Very nifty looking thing, there. It looks like a surfboard and a Star Trek computer all in one! Pretty cool sequencer!

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