Clavia Nord Rack 3

Clavia Nord Rack 3

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With the Nord Rack 3 Clavia takes Virtual Analog to the next level and introduces the Advanced Subtractive Performance Synthesizer. ‘Advanced Subtractive’ because of the extremely flexible sound engine, featuring a combination of traditional shapable waveforms and a very intuitive 2 or 4 operator FM engine. All this can be routed through the top quality multi filter for further shaping. 'Performance Synthesizer' because of its unsurpassed user interface and play control functions such as keyboard hold, parallel polyphonic glide in legato mode, single-key triggering of whole chords and even clusters of slightly detuned voices for super-unison effects.

A very important thing for creativity is to always have total control of the parameter settings. The solution is to use high-resolution rotary encoders combined with circular LED graphs for each knob. The LED graphs around the knobs guarantee that you always have total and instant control over your sound! To put it simple: what you see is what you hear.

The synthesizer is available as a 4 octave keyboard model with Velocity and Aftertouch, the Nord Lead 3, and as rack version, the Nord Rack 3.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• POLYPHONY
  
  24 notes, 4-part multitimbral.
• PERFORMANCE CONTROLLERS
  
  4-octave Velocity and Aftertouch sensitive keyboard with Octave Shift functionality (+/- 2 octaves). Keyboard Split (two sections). Modulation Wheel. Pitch Stick with no dead zone at zero crossing. Chord Memory / Stack. Keyboard Hold. Sustain Pedal and Control Pedal input.
• USER INTERFACE
  
  2 x 16 character backlit LCD and 3-digit LED. 26 rotary encoder knobs with circular LED graphs for instant control. 4 regular knobs and 45 buttons. Big Rotary Dial encoder for system editing, sound selection, MIDI functions etc.
• ARPEGGIO
  
  Master Clock / MIDI-synchable Arpeggiator with Sub Arpeggiator and Mask function.
• VIBRATO
  
  Global Vibrato that affects all voices in the sound. Controllable from Mod Wheel or Aftertouch.
• GLIDE
  
  Glide, Auto Glide. Polyphonic Glide (in Legato mode). Rate control.
• VOICE MODE
  
  Monophonic, Monophonic with Highest or Lowest Note Priority, Monophonic Legato, Monophonic Legato with Highest or Lowest Note Priority, Polyphonic Legato (with polyphonic Glide if you like)
• UNISON
  
  Adjustable stereo Unison with retained full polyphony. 5 detuned virtual voices per note (2 in the left channel, 2 in the right channel and 1 in the center)
• MODULATION SECTION
  
  LFO1 and LFO2, each featuring: Master Clock / MIDI-synchable LFO. 6 waveforms: Square, Triangle, Sawtooth, Random Step, Smooth Random, Special. 12 destinations. Free running / Hard-sync / Single Cycle and Mono modes. Rate and Amount controls. Separate LFOs for each voice. MOD ENV: Attack / Decay or Attack / Release Envelope with Lin / Exp Attack. Envelope / Repeat modes. 12 destinations. Attack, Decay / Release
  
  and Amount controls. Separate Envelopes for each voice.
• OSCILLATOR SECTION
  
  OSC1 and OSC2 with six shapable waveforms each: Triangle, Sawtooth, Pulse, Sine, Noise and Dual Sine. 1 additional sync oscillator per oscillator group. Dual Sine mode for 2 or 4 operator FM synthesis. Synchable Noise for formant type of sounds. OSC1: Shape / Sync / DFM Amount control. OSC2: Coarse Tuning / Modulator semitones, Fine Tuning / Carrier partial, Shape / Sync / FM Amount and Keyboard Tracking controls. Oscillator Modulation featuring Distortion, Linear FM, Differential FM, Filter FM, AM/RM, Distortion Modulation and Noise. Oscillator Mix / Noise control.
• AMPLIFIER SECTION
  
  ADSR Envelope with Lin / Exp Attack. Level (Gain) controls.
• FILTER SECTION
  
  Single Filter Mode: Lowpass 6, 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Highpass 6, 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Bandpass 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Band reject 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Classic Lowpass 24 dB/Octave, Distorted Lowpass 12 or 24 dB/Octave. Frequency and Resonance controls. Multi Filter Mode: HP-LP in series 12 dB/Octave, HP-LP in parallel 12 dB/Octave, LP-BP in parallel 12 and 6+6 dB/Octave, BP-BP in parallel 2 x (6+6) dB/Octave, Multi Peak, Multi Notch. 2 x Frequency and 1 Resonance controls. ADSR Envelope with Lin / Exp Attack, Envelope Amount / Velocity, Positive / Invert. Keyboard Tracking and Oscillator Bypass controls.
• MORPH GROUPS
  
  Four separate Morph groups per sound. Up to 26 parameters can be assigned to each Morph Group. Control sources: Keyboard Velocity, Keyboard Range, Keyboard Aftertouch/Control Pedal, Mod Wheel.
• MEMORY
  
  Flash Memory (no backup battery required). 8 x 128 (1024) Programs and 2 x 128 (256) Performances and OS. SysEx Dumps via MIDI to and from a sequencer / computer.
• MIDI
  
  All knobs and buttons for sound editing send and receive MIDI Control Change Messages. MIDI SysEx bulk dumps: single Program or complete Program Banks, single Performance or complete Performance Banks. MIDI Clock hard-sync of LFOs and Arpeggiator.
• CONNECTIONS
  
  4 separate assignable Audio outputs, Headphones, Control Pedal input, Sustain Pedal input, MIDI IN, MIDI OUT, MIDI THRU. Detachable power cord.
• PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS
  
  870mm (W), 278mm (D), 100mm (H). Weight: 6.3 kg.

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