Listened to some more sound demos and have to say I’m a bit surprised that a lot of them actually remind me of the A4, which I can’t say about any other synth, especially polies. That might be due to the overdrive at times? At the same time, it’s characterized as quite vintage sounding in a lot of reviews.
What do those of you like @Tchu or @ddiamond84 who own one or owned one think about this? How would you characterize its sound?
I just thought it sounded amazing- and the UI was the star of the show.
I think the a4 sounds incredible too. I don’t think I could compare them in a way that is too helpful or meaningful. Both are top notch, I think price and interface is the big difference!
So I checked what I could get for stuff I don’t use and turns out it almost paid for a Nina. I know, honeymoon and shit, but without hyperbole, I feel like this is the one. The synth that I’ve been searching for all the time.
First of all, it sounds absolutely incredible. It can sound fat and full of character (especially in unison!), but it’s easy to tame it. I even like a lot of the presets, and I wasn’t a fan when listening to Youtube videos.
Maybe even more importantly, it fixes all the issues I had with UI on other machines. It gives me all of the power of Elektrons (without the sequencer of course), meaning it’s multi timbral, has deep sound design option and patches are easily save- and loadable. But unlike Elektrons, it’s also knobby. And unlike all the other powerful knob per function polys, the knobs are actually showing you what’s going on. Which means you can use presets and layers and come back to it. And it’s not a huge chunky block.
Then it has these four outputs. And everything is just so straightforward, logical and user friendly. It just feels like Nina and the people that made it respect my time and it makes you feel appreciated. Just loading and saving patches or doing modulation is so easy and so much fun. And just the morph function alone is secretly the whole reason why many people get an OT as a nice bonus feature.
So yeah, I know it’s early and it’s too expensive for a lot of people. But I feel like this finally is the one box that can do it all (except for sequencing), and the motors make all the difference. Imo, this is the future and I honestly can’t see any reason right now how this thing could ever disappoint me and lead to workflow issues, like so many other synths. And Melbourne deserves to earn good money with this thing.
Happy to hear you’re enjoying it! Nina is one of the few synths that has stayed on my gas list since I first heard about it. One day, maybe I will be OK with parting with enough other things to make the purchase sensible.
Yeah it’s the elusive one I guess and I did some soul searching for two weeks to see if the reasons I think it could be the one workhorse are just GAS or actually justified. I’ve tricked myself into thinking I need XY thing before just to quickly find out it’s not for me. But every thought I had about it already turned out to be exactly right. My thinking was: will this actually enable me to make better music faster and have more fun. And I’m pretty sure the answer is a resounding yes.
I have never heard of either. Are there any further details? Would that be a reason to hold off on buying Nina?
I haven’t heard anything new, but if you’re looking for a poly with motorized knobs, then I would pick either the NINA or the DELIA. The new models will not compete with those.
There was a new firmware posted on the 22nd of July (with the wrong date):
Original model? I thought Nina was the original 
It’s the first they have released, but not the design they intended to release first. They were forced to change their plans because of Covid19.
Since they told you at superbooth, can’t you just share what the original should have been and what the surprise is that is coming? Doesn’t seem to be a secret since they already spilled the beans…
My issue is that I expected them to share their plans with content creators as well, but that didn’t happen, so I don’t want to ruin it for them. I’ll be very happy once we can start talking about their next piece of hardware. They did say that it would come out this year, so we should only be a few weeks away.
Based on what I was told, anybody who can afford a NINA or DELIA today will not be disappointed once MI release their next devices. Those won’t be substitutes.
So will it be NELIA or DINA?
@Tchu: How’s your second try with the Nina going? Are you still running into workflow issues?
Keycaps sets are now available for DELIA.
Disappointed that NINA isn’t getting any love 
I don’t have the NINA anymore. There was a scratch/blemish on it so I’ve decided to return it.
Oh no, was looking forward to hearing your results and experiences! So you won’t buy another unit?
Not in the near future.
You remember that user teasing a Melbourne MIDI controller here endlessly without any proof? You might be interesting what they replied to me after asking for a picture of my setup (i’m exchange for sending me a free second PSU):
„That’s a lot of Fader Fox!
You’ll be excited by our forthcoming new product that will solve a lot of your deskspace issues! Announcement in late January.“
Excited!
This sounds credible, substantive, highly significant, and imminent. If that’s the case, this deserves a thread.