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Clavia Nord Wave Walkthrough - Musikmesse 2007 Video

April 05, 2007
Clavia Nord Wave Walkthrough
In this final Clavia Nord Wave Video Björn gives us a more complete description of the design and possibilities of this new design. among other updates he first two osillators can feed waves and wavetables into the mix and apparently there will be more effects. We also get some demonstration of the new abilities of this synth.
Check out the official Clavia website for more info.

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BJORN LEANDER: Hi there. I’m Bjorn Leander of Clavia, Sweden, and I’m here at the Musikmesse to show you the Nord Wave, and what it is, it is a subtractive architecture synthesizer but for the first time with a Clavia instrument, you can play multisampled sounds with it. There are also wavetables and an effects section.

And where it really becomes interesting to us at least at Clavia is where you use samples as part of the synthesis process so that I’ll show you here for example. I’m going to start with just a guitar sample.

[BJORN LEANDER PERFORMING A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NORD WAVE]

I mean the other oscillator, I just chose a sine wave...,

[BJORN LEANDER PERFORMING A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NORD WAVE]

...and then by using the guitar as a modulator for the phase of the sine wave, I can...

[BJORN LEANDER PERFORMING A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NORD WAVE]

...and maybe add some previous sound.

[BJORN LEANDER PERFORMING A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NORD WAVE]

And I can add some extra effects like overdrive to that.

[BJORN LEANDER PERFORMING A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NORD WAVE]

So, starting off from that acoustic guitar sound, I get a sound that has very little to do with the original sound but still gets some of the acoustic quality or the lifelike quality of sampled sound.

We have two LFOs and a modulation envelope, two oscillators of which one plays samples or other traditional waveforms or wavetables or FM which is several different algorithms of FM. And we have the morphing concept that we developed with some of our other instruments like the Nord Lead and so on so that any controller like velocity or the wheel or something can control pretty much all parameters that are continuous at the same time, making it extremely powerful for sound generation.

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