Rumour: What will bring Clavia to the MusikMesse?

mtvic · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

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simplesatisfaction · Joined: Mar 14, 2007 Posts: 9 Location: USA

Doesn't the synth section of the Nord Stage have wavetables? How does that compare to this new synth?

mestlick · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

The idea of this synth really excites me! I've been focused on the G2 for a few years now, and I'm missing some of the synths that I sold to get it. I had a Korg DW-6000, and I really liked the sound of two grungy wavetable oscillators thru a real howling filter. I also had an Akai S2800 that I mostly used as a sampling drum machine. I think it would be great to have a modern standalone synth that could replace those two, especially if it sounds as good as the G2.
I'd like two oscillators with user loadable single cycle waves (like the Evolver). That would cover the DW-6000. If the multi-sampling capabilities also included separate filter and envelope settings per sample, that would make it a great sampling drum machine. If the oscillator settings were also per sample it would be like having a hybrid analog/digital drum machine such as the 909.
I think that the G2 does a great job as a replacement for vco/dco synths and analog drums (and obviously analog modulars), but the Wave could be a replacement for wavetable+analog filter synths, early samplers with analog filters, and sampling drum machines.

G2DREAM · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject:

Great information Rob! Very nice Clavia 2007 Musicmesse report!
And so we dig out some info on the G2!
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SynthLord · Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Tampa, FL

dorremifasol · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:31 am Post subject:

I hope that they will release a rack version, and with 4 slots. 2 slots seems very insufficient to me.

tomcat · Joined: Oct 14, 2005 Posts: 141 Location: earth

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

dorremifasol · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

Wout, the Nord Lead 2X, 3 and the G2 all have 4 slots and all are more or less designed for performances.

Slot 1 : bass
Slot 2 : ambient or strings
Slot 3 : lead
Slot 4 : drums

That's my favorite setup! Smile

With the Nord Wave I feel that the 4 slots will be more necessary than ever, just because it "could have" a great service as a drum machine.

Well it's only my point of view Smile

NoiseLab · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:05 pm Post subject:

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dorremifasol · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

I have seen the video at SonicState, unfortunately Bjorn didn't played the thing, so I'm still wondering what crazy sounds will it make.

Any chances to hear something from it??

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject:

Tim Kleinert · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:49 am Post subject:

I use Nord synths for live performance, and yes, I do often need more than 2 slots.

This is a very frequent configuration:
Slot 1: some polyphonic sound (eg. an electric piano patch)
Slot 2: a pad layer, which can be faded in/out via a footcontroller
Slot 3: a lead sound
(the keyboard is splitted, so the left hand plays slot 1&2, and the right hand slot 3)

Other scenario: I have four different sounds which I need for a song ,spread out over the four slots. In this way, I can set up and access the sounds very easily by just selecting the slots. Also: no sound is cut off or silenced because of switching patches. I use this very often on a Nord.

Another scenario: I played a 50-dates tour two years ago with only one G2X and a second MIDI-keyboard, where each keyboard controlled two slots. This was very practical, as I only needed to switch between performances to change the entire keyboard setup.

Sure, I'll get along with 2 slots too -but the notion "players don't need more than two slots anyway" is totally wrong in my opinion.

I think the real reason for Clavia to reduce the slots is because of the dedicated FX per slot. A decent reverb does eat up considerable DSP power, so the question of having two or four of them is relevant indeed.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:32 am Post subject:

Tim Kleinert · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:36 am Post subject:

jksuperstar · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:56 am Post subject:

I'm guessing the led ring-encoder thing has a few problems with RoHS for some reason right now. Behringer has also stopped production of the BCF/BCR2000 controllers.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:57 am Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:07 am Post subject:

Tim Kleinert · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:25 am Post subject:

However -I played the NordWave for quite a while (it was freely on display for playing) and really liked what came out. Looking forward to it.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:45 am Post subject:

And because nothing is decided yet (maybe even not the name...), expressing your idea's (within the concept, of course) here could change things Smile

Wout