Nave or Thor?

[monsterism]

Limited budget but I brought ielectric because I want more Rhodes.

However, I'm stuck between Nave and Thor and which one to get.

I have an ipad 3 if that matters as well?>

The music I make is trip hop

[Aural Chaos]

Tough call.
Thor is more versatile, not that Nave is at all simplistic or limited.

[monsterism]

exactly I been listening to demos but I can't decide which.

[Aural Chaos]

Thor has a few patches that will only play with very limited polyphony on my ipad2. AFAIK, anything you can come up with on Nave can be handled by ipad2.

Nave has some buggyness when importing sounds, from what I've read, though I haven't run into that myself. I think I've also heard of some issues with its 4 track recorder. Its preset system is annoying- you have to sort by banks, you can't just sort by type of patch (bass, lead, etc) without having to look in each bank separately.

MIDI is pretty rudimentary in Thor, and I can't get it's step sequencer to sync to clock, which is a big dissapointment.

I think if I really had to pick only one, I'd go with Thor....

[JavaJ]

Animoog
hahahaha!

[monsterism]

Animoog
hahahaha!

I have animoog, looking for similar to massive.

[martygras]

For TripHop I would think maybe Alchemy would be more appropriate than Thor or Nave.

[Igor Amos]

that WOULD be a really tough call. I'd say Nave, then wait for a sale for Thor...

or TC-11 depending...

[monsterism]

For TripHop I would think maybe Alchemy would be more appropriate than Thor or Nave.

can I ask why?

I love trip hop but maybe this would help too...

I like Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Dabrye, that kind of electronic music.

I'm really strapped between Nave, Thor and Alchemy now.

[Igor Amos]

Alchemy

[monsterism]

why please?, isn't alchemy a rompler?

Is Nave or Thor not suitable for the genre of music?, generally interested to know question as I'm still learning.

[Igor Amos]

For me, Thor in all its greatness is a more modular approach in a sense. I guess Alchemy is too but its much easier to produce a rich interesting and unique unexpected sound. I guess technically it is a rompler but interestingly I forgot it was. To be honest, I'm having trouble eliminating one or the other based on you saying trip hop. I would think both depending how you use it. Isn't portishead trip hop? (Not so into that "genre") If so, Alchemy reminds me of that sort of sound except you can make infinite interesting sounds (that I'd say sound "elastic") to your hearts content. BUT, then again, I feel this way about Animoog though it does have a sort of grain feel to it cause its traversing the wavetables. What's WAY more important to me is how you use it. If I already had Animoog and know what I know, I would just use it or add Alchemy.

I feel like everything I just said is bullshit. But I meant it... Hope its of some value to you...

[monsterism]

thank you I appreciate the response.

I'm a bug portishead fan btw.

But yes from listening to demos most of them seem focused on dance orientated music while I'm into trip-hop, hip hop electronic scene.

Still on the face, shame you can't demo apps and unlock them.

[Igor Amos]

I love Portishead, just not familiar with other bands in that realm. I think you can get a demo of Alchemy for your computer though... I guess not Thor. and YES, I wish we could demo them!? why can't we? Guess they are too cheap to warrant the time for them to figure out a way to set that all up...

[Aural Chaos]

why please?, isn't alchemy a rompler?

Is Nave or Thor not suitable for the genre of music?, generally interested to know question as I'm still learning.

People seem to love it, and it has a really rich sound, but it is still basically a preset player. Unlike the VST version, which is pretty amazing and endlessly tweakable. Also, not sure if you were aware, but the basic app is free and comes with a few dozen presets, so it's well worth checking out.