Clavia Nord Modular / Clavia Nord Modular Rack / Clavia Nord Micro Modular

ANALOG SYNTHESIZER PROGRAMMING

MIDI COMMUNICATION

SOFTWARE UPGRADES

The Nord Modular Editor software (Mac / Win from v.3) is offered in bundle with the instrument and is required in order to select the desired modules and to create original patch-chords in a realistic 3D environment.

Clavia is continously developing new Editor and system features for the Modular series, as well as new patches in order to strongly support the users that invested money in this synthesizers. The available software can be downloaded for free directly from Clavia, at www.clavia.se.

Introducing the Modular Editor v.3, Clavia extended the editor support to MacOS platform (previous versions were only Windows-based), requiring MacOS 8.6 or late and OMS for MIDI support.

UPGRADE PROCEDURE

There are two type of software that normally allows to upgrade the Modular:
- The Modular internal operating system;
- The Modular Editor (for PC-Win or MacOS platforms).

So, to upgrade the system to the following version it requires two main operations:
1. To upgrade the Nord Modular operating system;
2. To install the new Editor on the computer.

The first step is normally required only for big improvements, passing for example from version 1 to version 2 or 3. Intermediary steps - for example from version 2.0 to version 2.1 - normally are related only to the Editor. Anyway the Modular internal system upgrade can be easily accomplished via computer, thanks to an Wizard Installer software that - via MIDI - is able to delete and rewrite the Modular Flash RAM with the new data.

Before to install the upgrades it is always raccommended to save to the computer hard disk all the sounds located inside the Modular. This is for two main reasons:
1. The Modular internal system upgrade will erase any sound located inside the Flash RAM;
2. The new Editor version cannot exchange data with a Modular based on the previous internal system version.

Once finished the upgrade operation, the Modular Editor will be able to read the sounds of the previous Editor version from the computer hard disk, converting the existing sound libraries to the new format. In this way the updated Modular will be able to load again the old sound library (converted) without problems.



MODULAR EDITOR UPGRADED FEATURES
USER INTERFACE	v. 2.0 - Drag and drop of multiple modules - Copy and Paste - Undo v. 2.1 - Requested and Current polyphony notes (Voices) windows on the toolbar - Memory List Floater (Modular memory only) - Keyboard Floater (virtual keyboard for note control via computer) v. 3.0 (currently v. 3.03) - MacOS platform support (in addition to PC-Win platform) - General graphic restyling - Multi-level Undo/Redo - All-in-one Modular and Micro Modular support - Multi-Synth programming (up to 4 Modular and/or Micro w. multiport MIDI interface) - Poly/Common Voice Area management for DSP power optimization - Free patching (44-modules limit removed) accordingly with the available DSP power - Interactive Knob Floater - Patch Browser (floater) for computer and Modular memory areas management - Dynamic Patch Storage (Modular only). Up to 9 memory bank (x 99 memories)
MODULES	v. 2.0 - Master Oscillator (slave oscillators controller) - Spectral Shape Oscillator (oscillator with built-in filter) - Formant Oscillator (oscillator with preset resonance response control) - Sine Bank Oscillator (a module with 6 sine oscillators built-in) - Parametric EQ (1-band parametric EQ with Gain, Frequency and Bandwidth controls) - Shelving EQ (1-band shelving EQ with Gain and Frequency controls) - Clocked Pattern Generator (multibank preset sequence multistep generator) - Random Generator (LFO with random behaviour) - Keyboard Splitter (keyboard sound area limiter) - Phaser (stereo Phaser effect with peak spread control) - Partial Generator (partial ratio control signal generator) - Expander/Gate (stereo expander) - Compressor/Limiter (stereo compressor) - Vocoder (16-band vocoder with analysis band router) - Level Shifter/Inverter (Double shifter/inverter module) - DrumSynth Module (percussive mini-synth module) - MultiStage Envelope (5-segment EG with free sustain position) - Attack-Hold-Decay Envelope (2-segment EG with Hold time and input controls) - ADSR Envelope with modulation (4-segment EG with input controls) - Ajustable Gain Control (Gain module with switchable bipolar action) - Ajustable Offset (Bipolar offset signal generator) - 1 to 2 Fade (1 input to 2 outputs variable gain) - 2 to 1 Fade (2 inputs to 1 output variable gain) v. 2.1 - FM sine wave oscillator (FM-oriented oscillator , designed for DX-style sound) - Vocal Filter (vowels simulator filter) - Filter Bank (14-bands graphic filter) - Digitizer (variable low-bit depth signal sampler) - Ring Modulator (Amplitude Modulator/Ring Modulator module) - Key Quantizer (continous control signal-to-note quantizer) - Note + Velocity Scaler (key level scaling control module w. velocity response) - General improvement of existing modules and bypass feature implementation.