https://www.nordkeyboards.com/products/nord-wave-2

Looks lovely.

It’s a dream Nord Synth. 61 waterfall keys with aftertouch.

MAIN FEATURES
General
4-part Synthesizer with dedicated volume/pan faders
Sample, Virtual Analog, Wavetable and FM synthesis
48 voice polyphony
OLED Displays for Program and Oscillator sections
1 GB memory for Nord Sample Library 3.0
User replaceable samples
61-note keyboard with Aftertouch
Performance
Advanced Arpeggiator with Polyphonic Trig mode
Gate feature for rhythmic effects
Advanced Morph features with Impulse Morph
Master Clock control of Arpeggiator, LFO and Effects
Oscillators
Analog: Basic, Shape, Multi, Sync and Noise with up to 16 oscillators
Samples
Wavetable
FM with up to 8 operators
True Unison mode
Modulation
LFO with five waveforms
Flexible syncing and routing options
AD/AR envelope
Amp
ADSR Amp envelope
Transient Attack Mode
Filter
12/24 dB lowpass, lowpass M, band pass, high pass, and LP+HP
Filter Drive
ADSR envelope
Effects
FX section with Tremolo, Pan, Ring Modulation, Chorus, Ensemble and Vibe.
EQ section with Drive
Advanced Delay section
Reverb section with five sizes + Dark, Bright and Chorale modes

Ooh!! I have always wanted a Nord!!!!
This could be it!

Cool! I never thought they would revisit the Wave since it seemed to not gain that much interest from people but I'm happy they did!

OMG they actually did it :D

I really want this, must sell most of my remaining synths bar the Virus and try and get one. I had a Nord lead 1 back in the day and it was the one synth I seriously regret selling. I'm not hung up on real analog, virtual is good enough for me.

I think this is great, however I think (imho) it ain't no looker.

I loved the 'Lead' series look of the controls off set to one side. This seems to have been based on the Stage and Electro design which isn't so cool all plonked centered. A sad departure from the Lead corporate id design imho.


Specs look fantastic though!

Yep. So far, so good. Although I do prefer the Nord Lead look, this thing looks like it's going to be special. I hope so.

1 LFO instead of 2 like on Nord Wave 1 is a bit of a bummer

you can use the ad/ar env as lfo i guess. it probably has a looping mode with sync. let's wait for some in-depth reviews or for the manual to be online

I wonder if it’s this keybed: http://www.fatar.com/Pages/TP_8O.htm

The keys reach long below the front panel. Great if it’s correct.

I'd give it almost for granted. It's the keybed they have always used in the Electro and Stage line, so it would be an obvious choice. And it's pretty good, much better than most synth-style actions.

Damn, f***ing nice.

wonder what does the term wavetable oscillator mean for them..

i.e. is it used in traditional manner, referring to ability to scan thru adjacent set of waves simulating "morphing" via its modulation sources, like it is on ppg/waldorf/ti, or

they're repeating the recently popular misnomer and just call any collection of singlecycle digi waves (that can't be scanned), a - wavetable (like you would find on nord lead 4, virus a/b/c or recently 002 and Super6*) ?


*designer hinted there is still room in cpu to possibly implement that , on the recent Q & A tho..



another thing that interests me is polyphony:

it says 48, which sounds good. but there is only one oscillator referenced on the front panel, and they are talking about "layers" from the get go,,,, so i'm thinking, does that mean, if you want a classic dual oscillator VA patch, that you need two layers, and poly is de facto immediately down to 24? or much better scenario, poly of 48 is avail with all four layers engaged?



a single lfo, 2 standard adsr, plus a/d env that doubles as second lfo. i suppose is better than nothing. it is a tradition of the nord series to be skimpy on the modulation front.

48 notes polyphony with 4 layers means 12 notes per part maximum, am I right?

It looks enough polyphony to me….

8 op FM , colour me interested
I guess it will be close to 3000 euro

3k euro

No doubt coming from Nord its over $3k, with a whole 1gb of memory.

ONly 2 outputs ?

Looks nice, and expensive.

I've seen £2,149 as the UK RRP.

Snap! Anthony Rother uses Nord a lot and we seem to have similar taste in synths!

Man, they’ve had red synths forever! How’s about some new colors for the new decade?

Unfortunately, looks like Nord has given up / forsaken making modules / racks

"Midi over USB". Wot no midi din sockets?

? There are pics on the specifications page which shows DINs.
https://www.nordkeyboards.com/produc...specifications

That’s like asking them to change their name to Fjord Keyboards.

The red colour is in their DNA!

I also noticed on their site that the Lead 4 has been moved to the legacy section.

But the lovely A1 is still going strong!

"Debunked"? It was a question, not a claim!

Thanks for the clarification all the same.