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New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v2.126 with Native Apple Silicon support18 Feb 2022New Sonic Arts updates Nuance Creative Sampler Plugin to v2.12524 May 2021New Sonic Arts updates Nuance Creative Sampler Plugin to v2.116912 Oct 2020New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v2.115703 Jan 2020New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v2.110815 Jul 2019New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v2.032828 Mar 2019New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v2.011105 Sep 2018New Sonic Arts releases Nuance 2.016 Jul 2018New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.714 Dec 2017New Sonic Arts updates Freestyle to v1.25 + 30 EUR off and free Nuance with purchase07 Nov 2017New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.66109 Oct 2017New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.660120 Mar 2017New Sonic Arts updates Granite, Nuance and Vice18 Feb 2017New Sonic Arts updates Granite, Nuance and Vice25 Jan 2017New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.652209 Dec 2016New Sonic Arts releases Freestyle - VST Host For Stage And Studio06 Jul 2016New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.650801 Jun 2016New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.643403 Feb 2016New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.630424 Sep 2015New Sonic Arts Updates Nuance to v1.62826 Aug 2015New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.6212 Jul 2015New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.6 - Offers Essential Drums Vol 1 for free with new purchases05 May 2015New Sonic Arts announces Nuance XL and updates Vice to v1.2514 Mar 2015New Sonic Arts Announces New Sonic Suite Bundle08 Feb 2015New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to Version 1.51206 Sep 2014New Sonic Arts adds OS X support to Granite and Nuance10 Aug 2014New Sonic Arts updates Nuance Creative Sampler for Mac & Win to v1.5 - Adds Multiple Groups and Pad View14 Jul 2014New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.20229 Apr 2014New Sonic Arts releases Nuance 1.215 Mar 2014New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.115 May 2013New Sonic Arts updates Nuance to v1.01317 Apr 2013New Sonic Arts releases "Nuance - Compact Sampler" and announces Granite & Nuance Bundle22 Mar 2013

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Gamma-UT
Gamma-UT
29 January 2020 at 5:22pm

Review: the finale

There are various other niggles that make Nuance an often frustrating experience, like the LFOs will always retrigger on each note unless they are locked to the DAW's tempo - making it tricky to do things like get shakers move back and forth with a filter if you don't want that locked to a fixed beat count.

I wrote this review after trying to spend some quality time with a product that I bought some time ago. I found I'd try to start using it only to decide to knock it on the head because it simply took too long compared to other tools to get a job done. It was only after going through this exercise I realised why. For every worthwhile feature there is an inexplicable omission or odd behaviour that just makes building sample maps a lot more painful than it needs to be. Most samplers are under performers in the UI department. And like most things, there are clunky workarounds for most of the problems. But when a vendor is selling a product on the basis that it's lightweight and fast to use (and with something that barely has a factory library at all), the deficiencies in Nuance become startlingly clear really quickly. I've avoided writing about the lack of timestretch and other common sampler features in Nuance.

Overall, Nuance is reliable. I don't recall it crashing. And it does the job of sample playback but it can be irritating to use if you're trying to do something a bit more complicated than combining a few samples on a pad for triggering and messing with their effects. The effects themselves are rudimentary but you get a decent collection of outputs for assigning to individual tracks in a DAW, so that's not a big issue. The remarkable thing about it is that to make Nuance a lot more usable the changes it needs as far as I can tell aren't big. But the various quirks it displays makes me wonder if the dev ever tried to build their own instruments in it.

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