use side by side with morphogene, but i use the nebulae much more regularly. I pile loads of sound into it, usually from the computer, and use it as a versatile hands on sampler.
i find it extremely playable. i am fond of phase vocoding, and love the timbral smear you get from altering the pitch and speed.
not quite sure what you mean by ‘directness’?
i think some might argue that it has less of an inherent sonic footprint - musicality? - than the morphogene. perhaps so. however, as i mentioned, i really like the two main granular programs on the nebulae, and their respective sonic characteristics. not so tape-y as the morpohgene, more clinical maybe, but for sound design and loop creation i can where i want to very quickly. i can find and locate a nice snippet, and - on the phase vocoder setting - it’s just a loop. no window, no overlap, but the right timbres for me.
versatility wise? for me, there is more than enough to fiddle with in terms of parameters. you have your standard, primary controls, as dictated by the faceplate, and access to a secondary set of controls with the touch of button. everything (i think, if memory serves…) has a cv jack. it also has an end of loop gate / pulse, which you can use to fire off rallies of envelopes to great effect. plus, it’s basically a computer, so you can load and use other programs, created in pure data. in short, i think it’s pretty versatile, but i am aware that it could be that it just suits my particular needs.
it has to be said, it’s a lotta fun feeding sounds from the nebulae to the morphagene and back again.
