Interested in Purchasing

[oldgearguy]

Hi, all.  Very interested in purchasing this lovely product, but would like to ask an honest question:

I've been in need of a hardware sequencer and just recently decided to purchase a new Squarp Pyramid, which is inbound from France.  I only just yesterday became aware of the NDLR courtesy of the loopop video.

Not sure how familiar you all are with the Pyramid, but can you please honestly comment on what kind of overlap this has with that product.  This just being a modest home hobby, I can't afford to purchase anything too redundant.  However, if this provides its own form of creative expression completely, I think I can talk myself into it - doesn't usually take much.

Thanks so much for your input!

I used to own a Pyramid (and Deluge and Cirklon and MPC and Kordbot and Zillion and Cyclone and ...)

The NDLR *is not* a sequencer like the other more traditional definitions of a sequencer.

I'd say the NDLR *pairs well* with a sequencer, but IMHO you could not use it as a multi-channel, standalone, run your rig and play multiple songs kind of sequencer.

Think of the NDLR as your creative brain and another sequencer (or DAW) as the pen and paper that captures your ideas.

There's no real concept of creating a 2/4/8 bar pattern and looping it n times and chaining that to another pattern to create a track and then arranging multiple tracks.  That's not what was intended with the NDLR.  It spits out cool stuff you can use live or capture with another device to be edited/augmented later.

Adding the NDLR to any setup provides another take/another view on the notes and rhythms you are using and provides the ability for you to play along (in key!) with it all.  The Pyramid can (if I remember) do multi-timbral recording, so it could capture all 4 NDLR parts on 4 different tracks/channels.