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Musikmesse Preview: Nord Modular G2

Nord Modular G2 Keyboard (Click for a close-up)

Nord Modular G2 Engines

Nord Modular G2 Editor (Click for a close-up)

Clavia hsd announced the new Nord Modular G2 platform, a new hardware platform with a focus on live performance features. You will also find an extensive amount of new, powerful synthesizer building blocks that may be edited from the Modular G2 Patch Editor software.

Live performance musicians want to have tools to tweak!

Whether you want to play traditional synth patches or control step sequencers in real-time or make cool sounds with delays, reverb and audio processing, the G2 offers plenty of knobs and controllers to tweak. Tweaking a step sequencer will be a lot of fun and extremely easy thanks to the real-time editing controls and the visual feedback from the LCD's.

The G2 offers fully assignable Modulation wheel, Pitch Stick and Rotary Encoders to turn, bend and tweak. The 4 separate LCD displays on the front panel give an overview on your patch creation. In fact, the user interface of the G2 takes real-time editing to a higher level.

The G2 offers unique features like: Rotary encoders with circular LED graphs (the LED graphs instantly show the correct values of the parameters you choose); Programmable Parameter Pages (which guide you in your sound editing work and patch creation); Performance Mode (which make it possible to set up your own multi-patches from the 4 individual synthesizer Slots on the G2). Last, but not least, the Morph capabilities on the G2 offer enormous sonic variations. The G2's 8 Morph Groups per patch let you control sets of parameters from single internal control sources - and via MIDI.

Do you want to create your own Reverb, Delay or Physical Modelling instrument? It's all there. The RAM capabilities in the G2 make it happen. And there's more: 4 analog Audio inputs including an XLR mic input with built-in amplifier give you plenty of room for inserting external signals and patch them.

The new Modular G2 Patch Editor is easy work with. Hook up the G2 to your PC via the USB connection and you're in. The logical architecture and great visual overview, including user-defined coloring of modules and color-coded module groups, make it easy to patch and "lay out" your sounds. Thanks to the real-time USB communication, the G2 immediately responds to your patching and follows your moves. Most of the modules are self-optimizing, meaning that they adapt their bandwidth to the patched signals. This opens up for big patches and greater polyphony. The flexible modules also make it easy to alter functionality without needing to replace modules. But if you want to replace modules, they've made that very easy too: replace the module and the cables will "jump" to the corresponding connections on the new module. The Modular G2 Patch Editor comes with more than a hundred modules ready to be patched.

Nord Modular G2 features

• 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

Nord Modular G2 Engine

The Nord Modular G2 will also be available as a 19", 1 unit high, rack mountable synthesizer - the Nord Modular G2 Engine. It comes without the hardware user interface, pedal and mic inputs. Connect the Nord Modular G2 Engine via the USB port to the PC and do all your editing from from the the intuitive and elegant PC Patch Editor.

Background

In 1998 Clavia released the Nord Modular Virtual Modular synthesizer. The Nord Modular concept is based on the traditional analog patch synthesizers from the past. Now, redesigned into a modern virtual analog concept where you create your own synthesizer from scratch on a computer screen with virtual modules that you connect with virtual cables. The modules are "digital models" of traditional synthesizer building blocks such as oscillators, filters, envelope generators, effects processors etc plus a full array of special purpose modules.

Both the sound generation and graphical information pertaining to the modules are storable into the Nord Modular. This allows the Nord Modular to perform as a stand-alone synthesizer, perfect for live performance.

PRICE:

• Nord Modular G2 Keyboard: USD/Euro: 2,199.-
• Nord Modular G2 Engine: USD/Euro: 999.-

SHIP DATE: June 2003

(technical specifications, appearances and prices subject to change without notice)

For more information, visit their web site at http://www.clavia.se/.

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