Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!

[angelogogo0]

All of the samples on my Nord Wave 2 sound dull. Do I always have to use the EQ section to brighten them up? Thank you.

[DJKeys]

Make sure you turn on the filter. When a sample is loaded, it will turn the filter off my default. This also may depend on the signal chain of your monitoring system.

-dj

[Jon Lukas]

Make sure you select the RAW SMP (raw sample) option in the oscillator section when you use your sample. Otherwise, the sound may be filtered by a filter intended to make acoustic sounds more realistic, which is separate from the synth filter.

[sEIGu]

All of the samples on my Nord Wave 2 sound dull. Do I always have to use the EQ section to brighten them up? Thank you.

Same here.

Startet converting my samples from NW to NW2 this evening. Any time, i need a semitone-correction for the sample, it's getting dull when tuned down. Compared to the NW if you do this, the sample remains clean.

For example:

Sample played on C4 tuned semitones 0 = Good.
Sample played on C5 tuned semitones -12 = Bad. Same done on NW = everythings fine.
Sample played on C6 tuned semitones -24 = Very bad. Same done on NW = everythings fine.

I do not use any equalizer. The behaviour disagrees to my understanding of using samples. RAW SMP = no change.

[DanLong]

I haven't found them to be dull, but they are not as loud as they are on my Fantom. I'm using mostly sound effects for a Pink Floyd band, stuff like the Money cash registers, etc. I even brought the original samples into Audacity and normalized the gain to get more volume, and they still play soft.

[soundxplorer]

Startet converting my samples from NW to NW2 this evening. Any time, i need a semitone-correction for the sample, it's getting dull when tuned down. Compared to the NW if you do this, the sample remains clean.

For example:

Sample played on C4 tuned semitones 0 = Good.
Sample played on C5 tuned semitones -12 = Bad. Same done on NW = everythings fine.

I'd like to hear a comparison between the two, if you still have both synths.
I only had my NW1 and NW2 side by side for about a week to re-program my favorite patches. But that was long enough for me to decide the NW2 sounded pretty much the same, so I sold the NW1.
Nord uses some sort of compression algorithm for samples, so we have to assume the audio is band limited.

[soundxplorer]

Startet converting my samples from NW to NW2 this evening. Any time, i need a semitone-correction for the sample, it's getting dull when tuned down. Compared to the NW if you do this, the sample remains clean.

For example:

Sample played on C4 tuned semitones 0 = Good.
Sample played on C5 tuned semitones -12 = Bad. Same done on NW = everythings fine.

I sold my NW2 earlier this year to get a Stage 4, but they are supposed to have the same sampler engine. I never noticed the behavior you describe on my Wave 2. And I just checked it out on the Stage 4 and samples play fine, as expected. I can play a sample on C5 (root C4) but tuned -12 semitones, and it sounds exactly the same as the original sample. No change in quality or EQ.

So if your Wave 2 still does this, have you tried the latest operating system? I would hope it's not a true problem on the Wave 2. But I can absolutely confirm that the Stage 4 does not have this problem.