Specifications

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USE YOUR OWN SAMPLES
Nord Wave offers the unprecedented power to
use any audio recording as an oscillator source in
a virtual analog environment. Simply import any
standard audio file to the Nord Wave Manager soft-
ware, map it to a key, and you are ready to go!
EASY TO USE MANAGER
The Nord Wave Manager, developed for OS X and
Microsoft Windows, is designed to keep things fast
and simple. Back up and rearrange programs and
samples, transfer Sample Instrument files, or map
your own audio files across the keyboard. You will
appreciate the same directness as you’ll find on the
Nord Wave panel, in the way the Manager works.
The Manager includes several features to speed up
the usually tedious job of arranging and adjusting
individual samples. If you have a single audio file
with chromatic (or any other interval) recording
of each note, you will be up and running within
seconds, it is that fast and intuitive to use. Keeping
functionality in focus, it provides the visual tools
needed to do the job as fast as possible without
a cluttered GUI. The Nord Wave Manager will be
a powerful tool to get your samples into the virtual
analog environment of the Nord Wave.
TWO SYNTHS I N ONE
Using the Slot function, you can seamlessly switch
between two sounds without cutting off any sus-
taining notes, or you can layer two sounds together
to create a massive sound palette. Everything is
easily controlled by the Slot A & B buttons conve-
niently located near the pitch stick, mod wheel, and
octave-switching buttons, making them as much
performance controllers as programming features.
MODULATION EXCESS
One way to assess the flexibility of a synthesizer
is to look at its modulation capabilities. The Nord
Wave comes with plenty of these with two LFOs
with wide frequency ranges, one of these can
actually double as an envelope if it is set to single
cycle mode. These two LFOs have five waveforms
and seven modulation destinations each. And you
do not have worry about using an LFO on creating
vibrato, that important function has its own set of
parameters. There is also a dedicated Modulation
Envelope that can be set in AD or AR-modes, with
six possible destinations.
FILTER FLEXIBILITY
High quality resonant filters are one of the most
important ingredients when creating memorable
sounds. The Nord Wave incorporates a total of
six different high-quality filter types. Included with
standard low-, high- and band-pass filters, the
Wave features a multi peak filter, comb filter, and
a format filter, which creates vowel effects. Filter
parameters can be modulated via the dedicated
ADSR envelope, velocity, any of the LFOs, or the
Modulation Envelope. Using Morph Grouping you
can even modulate the modulators!