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Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!
Posted: 26 Nov 2023, 20:18
by 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.
Re: Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!
Posted: 26 Nov 2023, 21:26
by 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
Re: Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!
Posted: 30 Nov 2023, 04:42
by 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.
Re: Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!
Posted: 04 Dec 2023, 23:17
by sEIGu
angelogogo0 wrote: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.
Re: Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!
Posted: 17 Mar 2024, 16:07
by 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.
Re: Samples sound dull on Nord Wave 2!!
Posted: 18 Mar 2024, 21:35
by soundxplorer
sEIGu wrote: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.