It's a huge rompler if you add the whopping 170Gb of expansions from the sis site, but still lots of people complain that the sounds are dated. I tried the available version 3 on a Mac, and I liked the layout and ease of use. Compared to Xpand2, which has really tiny "buttons" to browse the presets, it was a huge workflow improvement. However, these are the things I'm doubtful about if I buy it:

1. Am I future proof with the sounds?
2. Will the [k]'d expansions work with a legit version?
3. Is $200 too much for a rompler?
4. Are there better sounds/workflows/presets for less or even comparable money?

Please understand I'm, not a synth guy. I just want to have a good palette of sounds to make beats and/or help clients make beats. I'm an old rock-and-roll type of guy who plays the bass, some guitar, and figures out keyboard parts by doing the math and inputting the notes.

Thank you for your kind support.

Blessings to you all (and happy holidays in advance).

 

Last edited: Dec 15, 2022

I bought the old "dongle" Nexus v.2.7.4 second hand (very cheap) 3 - 4 years ago with 27 expansions.....
Imho It´s more like a playtoy than a serious instrument. Never considered any upgrade.

 

Nexus is cool and all, but there are much better options if you are interested in the best value for your money.

The Roland cloud synths are about as sweet as it gets if your looking for full fledge synth engines + well desinged sound libraries with bread and butter sounds. Think the ,

The Korg stuff is also great for the same reason.

Due to the fact that the roland and korg stuff are fully emulated, they are lightweight (few MBs per instrument) and responsive when switching through presests and banks. Ideal for live shows if the musicians are familar with any of the older synths or workstations.

Between the Roland XV5080, D50, JD800, and the Korg Triton Extreme, M1, ModeWave, you'd have some of the best well known and proven sound modules from the last 40 years.


I also love xpand2, but I do wish air would update the interface, those preset changing buttons are way too small.

 

Last edited: Dec 15, 2022

Considering you're not a synth guy, Nexus sounds great just browsing through the sounds and you don't have to dive in too much so you can focus on playing. You should also consider Omnisphere if you are willing to go deeper as it's also a pretty powerful synth.

 

Nexus is not essential. I deleted it.

 

Nexus is essential to the bin. Nexus is like DnD, vast + endless yet it goes everywhere & nowhere simultaneously rendering it pointless cause it has no meaning. I've never had any issues writing my chords and melodies on a piano then replacing it later with my own synths and patches. I've never needed a rompler as a placeholder.

 

Last edited: Dec 15, 2022

Nexus is like modern games. First you need to buy full game ~200$ , and then pay for every new DLC. If you make money from your music production and need fast way to pick sounds - yes, nexus can be good solution for you. If not - just install k'ed version and use it

 

Romplers are kewl if ur not into synths. If sounds of classic/vintage synths is what ur after, Nexus fills that bill as well as Falcon, Omnisphere, Sampletank, and Kontakt.

 

It's like chasing booster card packs of any card game when you still in ya snot slurpin' daze.

Accumulating so many 5 finger discount booster pack sessions from from the shitter down at ye olde gas station that the dodgy nachos you buy from the clerk to appear like a normal citizen just ain't worth it when you get home to open them only to get 6 packs of sulfur spud duds again. Wasting even more time sifting for one good god damn patch from Nexus but it just ain't happenin like when Nelly was juss a dream. Nope wasn't worth it, not even just for freee.

Lesson learned... I should have just took out a piece of construction paper and drew myself my own special card with a better patch in half the time and stress it took me to shit out those dodgy assed nachos. It's how nexus does it, from scratch before they layers then sells it to yas in dodgy booster packs cause they were sicka squeezin out them dodgy gas station tacos too, it seems.

 

Last edited: Dec 15, 2022

you need Uhe Diva and Hive in your life...... after that you will be satisfied Nexus is good for certain things but it don't come close to Diva or Hive or Zebra and the community with Uhe is great u get so many 3rd party expansions and the 3rd parties expansions sound even better than Nexus

 

yeah thats all i see Nexus is good for is just when you want to just pick sounds very quickly and have no time to do nothing else so i can see where Nexus is the main event for some people but it's most def not the worth the price that they continue to push

 

it's why Falcon2 is way more value for the same money. To me. Because it isn't simply a Rompler; but even if it was, the material is way less already used than anything in Nexus. So on the "simple staple" sounds, it's faster than using Nexus by that measure too. You might want "fast", but you still want something not used to death already.

And Falcon is now at v2.8, so v3 is probably right around the corner. Or maybe you are a subscription type user, even better. No way I'd buy Nexus. Even as a commercial user (which I am not). Do you do work for clients who expect you to have it? No way around that.

 

Last edited: Dec 15, 2022

yeah you get all of them vintage synths and its sampled from the exact instrument with falcon they do add they own twist at times but not as much as Arturia they make they own twist too it within the presets and some of them sounds is nothing like the synth i be like wtf is this arturia lol
Arturia is good too just sometimes they stuff be way off i be like naw brahhhh

 

It's because Arturia has great built-in fx and additional flexibility in their advanced panels.

 

I don't like using anything from NI to be fair, but Falcon is 100% the reason why I have no interest in Kontakt. It's that good of a rompler.

I could live with just the factory library, drum designer expansion and scratch machine.

 

It can cost much more than buying some separate synths/kontakt banks.

Example :
Viper on windows only for now, cost 90 bucks.
Price of 2 expansions.

Spire ?
200 bucks (4 expansions)

If you really need the last trend sound, just buy some presets/soundpacks from any other source for those synths.
A lot of presets banks are around 20 bucks only.

Economically speaking, Nexus is a black hole.
You will pay 2 to 3 time more for the same thing than elsewhere.

Sidenote: you can use Windows plugins with mac (audiogridder and such)

 

I've used Nexus for a while but end up uninstalling it. The good things I can say about it is that it uses almost no CPU, and that's why I used to use it, for background strings and pads that would not shine in the mix and didn't worth the CPU usage. And yeah, the preview option for the presets is amazing, if every synth had that option the world would be a better place for sure. :p

About the sounds thenselves... Of course they don't offer much flexibility on the synthesis side, but you can still apply filters on the final sound, shape the envelope and even edit the layers to keep only the part of the sound you need (which is useful if you need something to layer above a sound you already have). And yeah, the sounds are already mixed, what makes it good for beginners or people who don't like shaping their sounds on the go and only care about mixing on the final stages of the production. But on the other hand, this is basically my main complaint about Nexus, if you download the whole 200gb library so far you'll see that most of the sounds are basically the same, they were just mixed differently (most recent tend to be more processed than the older ones), so yeah, I'm a "less is more" type of person, so spending a lot of space to get thousands of the same plucks and supersaws is annoying for me.

 

Imo you can build a pro song on freebies as well, less options, faster work and more focus on the idea itself. Looking back when i had no stuff i was crafting out better tracks than today with so much of everything.

 

Is there better!? .. Always is..
Is it worth it?! .. Depends
Do i need it!? .. We dont know the F*ck who you are!

(sry for the F* Word, watched to much SpectreSoundStudios YT Videos in the past.. god damit!)

 

When did the price drop? Last time I checked it was over 4000 euro