[Clavia] Nord Modular G2

Na een paar dagen 'teasen' heeft Clavia de eerste details losgelaten.. de G2 blijkt de tweede generatie Nord Modular te zijn. Voor meer info zie de al bestaande thread (inmiddels samengevoegd met deze) of http://www.clavia.se

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Hundreds of different types of modules including Oscillators, Filters, Envelopes, Vocoder, Physical Modelling, Reverb, Delay, Frequency Shifter, Sequencers, synchable LFOs etc, etc.
Instant access to 80 patch parameters from the synth front panel makes it a breeze to tweak your sounds in real-time
8 Morph Groups per patch which lets you control sets of parameters from single control sources (Mod Wheel, Pitch Stick, Keyboard Velocity, After touch, Control Pedal etc.)
Performances (multi patch set-ups)
USB connection between G2 and PC Editor for real time communication
4 separate Audio Ins plus an XLR Mic input with built-in preamp makes the Nord Modular G2 the perfect sound processor.
4 separate Audio Outs
10 editable and storable parameter presets (variations) per patch let you use each separate patch as a unique synthesizer.
Self-optimizing modules offer bigger patches and greater polyphony
Intelligent "module replace" functionality with preserved cable connections
Multiple Undo functionality in the Modular G2 Editor
The Modular G2 Editor can control up to 4 separate Nord Modular G2 synthesizers simultaneously
3-octave velocity and aftertouch sensitive keyboard, Mod Wheel and Pitch Stick
Internal RAM for Reverb and Delay effects, Physical Modelling and more
Freely assignable Mod Wheel, Pitch Stick and Pedal inputs
Large internal memory for storing Patches and Performances (multi patches)
Extremely compact patch file size (2Kb) for easy sharing
24-bit resolution and 96 kHz internal processing for highest possible sound quality
24-bit, 96 kHz ADCs and DACs
Lightweight and portable
 
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-Meer rekencapaciteit -> betere polyphonie ... dat lijkt me de meest realistische en ook nuttige verbetering (maar ja, wie ben ik met mijn vrijwel monofone MicroModular :bekdicht: )

-RAM, dus effect modules (Chorus, Phaser, Reverb, Flanger, "Digitizer", "Pitch Shifter"?, maar geen Delay zo te zien).

-USB ipv MIDIvoor editing... tja, heb nu toch al een 4x4 interface...

-en ik zie ook nog wat nieuwe OSC modules (String OSC, Pulse OSC, Sync OSC) en ENV modules (H-env, D-env, AR-env)

De ouwe NordModular was intern toch ook al 24/96? Idem voor "load" afhankelijk van type verbinding (audio, control, logic?)

en eh... wat is zo'n Bode Shifter ding? (UPDATE: lama, zie onder...)
 
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Origineel geplaatst door Hanz
Ik denk dat het wat geluid en performance betreft nix meer uitmaakt of het nou wordt uitgepoept door een DSP of door een krachtige recente processor. Alleen zijn die pure-software synths gewoon veel gevoeliger voor piraterij.
En dat maakt wel degelijk uit voor de langere termijn support!
Zoals ik al zei... ik denk dat Clavia de zaken slim aanpakt met hun "hardware-dongle" in de vorm van een rood doosje waar "toevallig" nog wat knupkes aanzitten...


Klopt !
 
Bode-shifter-a-gogo

Bode-shifter-a-gogo

Beetje OT, maar nuttig voor de liefhebbers... de "bode-shifter" voor dummies...

What Is A Frequency-shifter?

I introduced many synthesizer modules throughout parts one to 23 of this series. I started with obvious ones such as oscillators and filters, and then proceeded to discuss some of the more obscure ones -- envelope followers, sample & hold modules, keyboard decoders, and so on. However, I didn't mention them all, and one of my omissions was the Frequency-shifter -- often called the Bode Frequency-shifter, in honour of the man who developed it for the early Moog modular synthesizers.
Unlike a Harmoniser or pitch-shifter, which alters the frequency of each component in the sound spectrum by a fixed ratio, a frequency-shifter moves each of the components by a fixed amount in Hertz. To understand the difference, we'll start by considering the first of the diagrams on the right. This shows the spectrum of a 100Hz signal with four harmonics.

If we pass this signal through a pitch-shifter set up to increase the pitch of the fundamental by one octave, we obtain the spectrum shown in the second diagram. And, since we have doubled the frequency of the fundamental, all the harmonics have moved too: the second harmonic still lies at twice the fundamental frequency, the third harmonic still lies at three times the fundamental frequency... and so on.

But what happens if we build a device that moves the frequencies of each component of the sound by an equal amount -- say, 100Hz -- rather than by an equal ratio? This is the very essence of a frequency-shifter.

As you can see from the third diagram, the signal still looks harmonic, but it is not. The first overtone (it's no longer a harmonic) lies at 300Hz, which is 1.5 times the lowest frequency, the second overtone lies at twice the lowest frequency, and the third overtone lies at 2.5 times the lowest frequency.

In this particular case, the signal shown will still sound musical, because the components lie in a harmonic pattern based on a frequency of 100Hz; it's just that the fundamental is missing. Indeed, the human brain is such an amazing piece of equipment that, if the signal components lie in precisely the right places, it will insert the missing pitch, and you will 'hear' a note of 100Hz, even though the lowest partial lies at 200Hz. The builders of church and cathedral organs have been using this trick for centuries, tuning the pipes so that you hear implied fundamentals lying an octave below the true pitch. Given that organ pipes in even moderate organs extend to 16', and that the implied pitch is one that would emanate from a pipe 32' long, you can appreciate that this represents a huge saving in height and weight.

Let's now extend this argument. Instead of doubling the frequency of the lowest frequency component, I'll increase it by 25 percent, as in the last diagram.

If we pass the signal through a pitch-shifter, the fundamental moves from 100Hz to 125Hz, and the overtones are likewise increased in frequency by 25 percent to 250Hz, 375Hz, and 500Hz. In practice, this means that the pitch of the note has shifted upwards by about two semitones.

But if we use a frequency-shifter to increase the frequency of the fundamental by 25Hz, the overtones also move by 25Hz, to lie at 225Hz, 325Hz and 425Hz. This means that the overtones lie at 1.8 times, 2.6 times, and 3.4 times the lowest component. Clearly, the signal is no longer harmonic, and it will not sound like a tuned musical tone.

As you might imagine, there are numerous uses for such a device, and the frequency-shifter can generate a wide range of effects. These include eerie chorus and phasing effects, ring modulation effects, stereo panning, Doppler effects, and more. You can even use them to reduce acoustic feedback. But these are all topics for another day.
 
Erg mooi allemaal. Ik denk wel dat het een aardig duur apparaat wordt. Wat zal er eigenlijk met de prijs van de huidige modular gaan gebeuren ? Voor weinig wil ik die wel hebben ;)
 
haha mooi is dit! Korg, Roland, Yamaha etc maar met re-runs van oude glorie komen, en de kleintjes maken de customers helemaal gek! ik kan dit erg waarderen......

ohja, van de NM mailinglist:

The keyboard version will be Euro 2.199.- and the rack version Euro 999.-
 
Ze hebben het toch goed verborgen weten te houden moet ik zeggen....
 
Origineel geplaatst door olafmol
haha mooi is dit! Korg, Roland, Yamaha etc maar met re-runs van oude glorie komen, en de kleintjes maken de customers helemaal gek! ik kan dit erg waarderen......

ohja, van de NM mailinglist:

The keyboard version will be Euro 2.199.- and the rack version Euro 999.-

Ik vind vooral die rackprijs meevallen. Ja ik weet, er zitten geen knoppen enzo op, maar dat is wel te overkomen :).

Netjes hoor!

-C-
 
Origineel geplaatst door C738
Ik vind vooral die rackprijs meevallen. Ja ik weet, er zitten geen knoppen enzo op, maar dat is wel te overkomen :).

Netjes hoor!

-C-

valt idd mee, maargoed, als je de rack vergelijkt met de huidige NM's dan is er behalve de RAM-based effecten niet zo heel gek veel extra...... dan kan je voor het prijsverschil toch zeker een leuke externe effectenbak kopen..
 
Origineel geplaatst door olafmol
haha mooi is dit! Korg, Roland, Yamaha etc maar met re-runs van oude glorie komen, en de kleintjes maken de customers helemaal gek! ik kan dit erg waarderen......

ohja, van de NM mailinglist:

The keyboard version will be Euro 2.199.- and the rack version Euro 999.-

Ik gok dat die keyboard dit jaar nog in m'n slaapkamer staat als dit de adviesprijs is.
Stel je eens voor:
1 keyboardversie en 2 modules in rack. Dan zie ik al voor me dat je die rackdingen gewoon met je keyboardversie kunt bedienen. Ohoh ik heb nu al lol...
 
Owk, 4K. Overdrijven is ook een vak. ;)

Misschien ook dan wel interessant om te weten of deze modules net zoals hun voorganger ook uit te breiden is met een extra setje DSPs? En dat je uiteindelijk toch wel iets meer mag dokken voor een volledig uitgeruste versie. (lijkt me niet onlogisch trouwens)
Of je moet idd de racks erbij gaan gebruiken als je meer wilt en bedienen via je niet-rack.
 
Re: Wat is er nou zo nieuw aan ?

Re: Wat is er nou zo nieuw aan ?

Origineel geplaatst door CraZ
Ik ga die Clavia mannen in Frankfurt eens duchtig aan hun jas trekken. Want wat is hier nou zo nieuw aan.. Okay.. de hardware interface is verbeterd.. en de micro is ingeruild voor een 19inch-rack (mooi trouwens!) met dezelfde DSP-capaciteit als de keys-broer... maar dat kan toch niet alles zijn ?

Ik had ook wel iets meer verwacht eerlijk gezegd.

Om dit een "tweede generatie" te noemen lijkt me een beetje overdreven, meer een soort update naar de huidige stand van de techniek (USB voor de verbinding met de PC, 24 bit/96 Khz ADCs/DACs), verbeterde interface van de keyboard versie en eindelijk geheugen voor delays. Ik mag hopen ook meer processing power, dus complexere patches of meer polyfonie.

Allemaal kleine verbeteringetjes dus, maar niet iets waar ik vreselijk opgewonden van word.
 
Hij is doooop! Sorry, ik zie net pas de foto's. Die rackversie is idd 'n mooie vervanging voor de Micro; drie knoppen of 0 knoppen, je zal toch snel externe knoppen gebruiken. En 4 inputs ipv 2, altijd leuk. zou die 2 patches tegelijk kunnen draaien?

Maar het is nu dus definitief dat ik 'm Micro niet meer kan editten als ik naar OSX overstap?
 
Nou, dat wordt dus een rack-versie voor mij :)

999 Pleuroz voor dit, met USB control vind ik niet
eens zo duur... En lekker veel I/O, en 24bit converters...
Ach ja, ik ga alvast maar eens ff kijken hoe we er een
kunnen bestellen!

Sweeeeeet!

Mvg.

CoolRunning
 
Assesment door Rob Hordijk

Assesment door Rob Hordijk

Wilde dit jullie niet onthouden, maar ook niet vertalen

Hi guys,

As not everybody will be able to go to Frankfurt this week and me having
been one of the lucky few who was forced to radio silence for an almost
unbearable amount of time (Jan Punter is another one) I guess it is time to
spill some beans. Still we're only up to date until about the date V4 for
the current NM was dropped. But this G2 has been in the pipeline for a
lóóóng time.

RAM is used for physical modelling oscillators and effects. A sample
oscillator would mean the necessity for a mass storage device. Can't have it
all fooks!

There is also another issue which has to do with how samples should be
distributed over the RAM: if the voice spans several DSPs the same sample
has to be in the RAM for all those DSPs and there is a lot of redundancy in
memory use. This would basically ask for an architecture where some DSPs
should have dedicated functions, like doing only sample oscillators, and a
mixer DSP like in the Capybara system to route signals between DSPs. That
would probably make the electronics a lot more expensive. I don't recall it
was ever an option to make the G2 also a full fledged sampler.
Instead, the physical modelling possibilities are very promising. And the
fact that delay lines and reverbs can be inserted anywhere between modules
in audio and control modulation paths. The endless and almost scary feedback
options will surely make up for no sampling. But maybe they find some trick
to do at least some short sample wavetable oscillators, don't know.

The ten program buttons at the top of the patch are ten knobsetting presets,
which means that there are now ten presets in a patch. Use is easy, just
click one of the knobs and all knobs in the patch get new settings
corresponding to that preset. As only the knobs take on new values there is
no recompiling and so no silencing or whatever in the patch. It can be used
in the traditional way of a preset synthesizer but other uses are to quickly
switch between e.g. different sequences in sequencer modules.

The rotary knobs are undoubtedly the very smooth feel NL3 knobs. It is a joy
to work with them on the NL3, my guess is that this will be the same for the
G2.

The little downward pointing black triangles in the upper left corners of
the modules are dropdown lists where another variation of the module type
can be chosen. It changes the module into another one while the inputs and
outputs are reconnected automatically. The idea is that if e.g. a 3 input
mixer was used and an extra fourth input is needed it is enough to choose
the four input mixer from the menu. The module changes into a four channel
mixer and only the fourth input needs to be connected. However, this means
recompiling the patch! There are also dropdown lists to choose other
waveforms on the oscillators, etc.

AND!!! If anyone noticed yet, NO MORE GREY CABLES!!! Ouch..., that hurt me
personally pretty much. But there will be many improvements in the
oscillators that virtually eliminate the need for grey values for some of
the more elaborate stuff, so I can live with it. And it is true, try to
explain to someone what that grey signal is...

One of the weaknesses of the NM was the eightteen knobs with no visual clues
to their function or current value. Hook mode is in essence not the final
solution. Rotary dials with leds and displays are much, much better in
practice. If one has played the NL3 one knows how good they work there.
Resolution of the rotary dials is 128 values as this is still the midi spec.
Led resolution is more coarse but the indication together with what you hear
is enough to immediately get the idea of 'where you are'. The backlighted
displays give the final answer if that is needed, no matter how dark it is
on stage or how loud your band's guitar player is freakin'.
Rotary dials with leds are extremely expensive and the amount of eightteen
knobs proved to be quite meager for most patches. The idea is that now up to
80 knobs can be assigned, grouped in ten groups of eight. These groups can
be easily chosen with the buttons named 1/osc, 2/osc, 3/mix, etc. already
giving a clue one how to organize the assignments. But osc, mix, etc. are no
laws, just clues.

There has also been talk about eight freely assignable buttons and those are
clearly the ones under the rotary dials. These apparently double with the
morph source button to make morph assignments as easy as on the NL3.

The whole idea of the G2 is to overcome the musical performance limitations
of the current NM by maximizing the controllability

The only thing I have my doubts with is the sentence: "Most of the modules
are self-optimizing, meaning that they adapt their bandwidth to the patched
signals." This means that is an input is not connected there is also no code
for handling that input. Connecting the input means that the patch needs to
be recompiled and the current values on e.g. LFO outputs might be lost and
sequencers might be reset to their first step, which might take some fun out
of noodling. There has been talk about saving and recalling the current
state of outputs and module parameter settings to solve this issue and I
severely hope Clavia managed to do that. I guess they did as the bottleneck
in the current NM is the control processor that handles the midi and
compiling. This will now be a much faster processor with much more
resources, this might probably be one of the issues why they dropped V4 for
the current NM altogether (although there are plenty more).

-
Expect the rack version to be much cheaper as the keyboard version, as all
the expensive features (rotary dials, five displays, pitch stick, modwheel,
etc.) are not present. In fact it is only a plain metal case with an
electronics board, a power supply and USB and some connectors.
Somehow I feel, but I haven't heard from a reliable source (=Clavia), that
this box might be made available at some later stage to some of the better
third party developers, e.g. NI. It seems just too perfectly suited for
that. And Clavia is a hardware manufacturer, not a software company, one
gets all the software for free with the hardware. But mind you, Clavia
realizes very well that good hardware needs good software, so I don't think
it will be some open source stuff. The rack is different enough from the key
model to not have them compete with each other. If one needs a keyboard one
buys a keyboard, but why not sell the rack to thousands of the laptop users
that prefer Reaktor and offer them a stable computation engine? But all this
is only my personal speculation.

Still, this G2 rack might also be the successor for the MicroModular,
probably not being that much more expensive.

-
It looks very much like the G2 will give a lot of fun to a lot of musicians,
it is now even more a serious performance and production tool. It has
everything that will make it a succesful classic. In fact, this cool baby
rocks!

Hats off for Clavia...!

Rob Hordijk
 
Ik vind het prijsverschil met de rack eigenlijk teveel, ik had liever wel "een paar" knoppen gehad.
Zekers de mic. inputs die je ineens gaat missen maken de rack-versie minder interresant.
Had ik liever gehad dat ze de rack-versie hadden gemaakt zoals bij de NL2 & NL3.

Clavia blijft verbazen :halleluja
 
Re: Re: Wat is er nou zo nieuw aan ?

Re: Re: Wat is er nou zo nieuw aan ?

Origineel geplaatst door j0ris
Ik had ook wel iets meer verwacht eerlijk gezegd.

Om dit een "tweede generatie" te noemen lijkt me een beetje overdreven, meer een soort update naar de huidige stand van de techniek (USB voor de verbinding met de PC, 24 bit/96 Khz ADCs/DACs), verbeterde interface van de keyboard versie en eindelijk geheugen voor delays. Ik mag hopen ook meer processing power, dus complexere patches of meer polyfonie.

Allemaal kleine verbeteringetjes dus, maar niet iets waar ik vreselijk opgewonden van word.

Ja ik geef je volledig gelijk ! ! !

eindelijk geheugen voor delays was dat dan nog niet? Hoe is het mogelijk.
 
Lekker vernieuwend het uiterlijk van de Nord Generation 2. Hadden ze deze generatie niet beter blauw ofzo kunnen spuiten?:)
 
Origineel geplaatst door J-Run
Lekker vernieuwend het uiterlijk van de Nord Generation 2. Hadden ze deze generatie niet beter blauw ofzo kunnen spuiten?:)

Blauw?

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