Nord Wave
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The Nord Wave is a 49-key polyphonic synthesiser developed by Clavia. It integrates the playback and manipulation of samples into a virtual analog and FM synth engine, which is a rare combination on keyboard synthesizers.
Sound Generation[]
The Wave has two oscillators, each with six different sound banks. Five of these banks are common to both; these are the three analog waveforms provided (sawtooth, triangular and square), as well as noise generation and FM synthesis (with many different algorithms provided). Oscillator One's unique bank is a wavetable bank, with a sample-playback bank being unique to Oscillator Two[1] (the latter of which is full of Mellotron tapesets, amongst other things).
Performance control[]
There is an extensive, comprehensive user interface on this keyboard, with plenty of dials and switches at one's fingertips. Shown below is a list of these features.
- Polyphony Selection (Poly/Mono/Legato) with Glide control.
- Routable Vibrato.
- Octave Shifter, Pitch Bend and Modulation Wheel.
- Live Patches (Two Slots).
- Modulation Envelope.
- Two routable LFO's (with five waveforms).
- Oscillator Mixer, Osc 2 Detune and Pitch Shift.
- Variable keyboard tracking.
- Amplitude and Filter Envelopes (both with ADSR configuration).
- Variable (Cut-off and Resonance) filter (with six types of filter).
- Two-band EQ.
- Four effects engines (Chorus, Drive, Reverb and Delay).
References[]
- ^ "Clavia Nord Wave". Sound On Sound. May 2008. Archived from the original on 9 June 2015.
Further reading[]
- "Nord Wave". Future Music. No. 193. Autumn 2007. p. 16. ISSN 0967-0378. OCLC 1032779031.
External links[]
- Clavia synthesizers