Clavia
The company Clavia DMI is a Stockholm -based manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, which currently has about 20 employees.
History
Clavia was founded in 1983 by Hans Nordelius even keyboardist. By 1998, electronic drum machine / E -Drums were made with the name ddrum. The Ddrum series is no longer produced by Clavia, but was bought out and continued by the American distributor Armadillo Enterprises.
Since the publication of the Nord Lead 1995, the company focused on the development of keyboard instruments.
Instruments
Musicians who play instruments by Clavia, praise by the sound, the build quality, easy operation and long-term care of the models by providing updates and new sounds.
A special feature of the instruments manufactured by Clavia is the " Pitch Stick ", which is responsible instead of a pitch-bend wheels for pitch bend in the instruments with keyboard. Instruments of Clavia fall on account of the bold red color of the instrument housing. In addition, the manufacturer has omitted graphical displays and shows the status of the instruments on individual LEDs, diodes chains and 7 -segment displays (up to three digits).
The product range consists of Clavia synths and simulators of classic keyboard instruments of rock and jazz music.
Since 1995, manufactures Clavia Synthesizer. With the Nord Lead virtual analog synthesizer was first put on the market. The 4 -voice Nord Lead could be upgraded with an expansion board on 12 votes and gained cult status in a very short time.
1998 followed by the 16 -voice Nord Lead 2, which with some improvements ( Distortioneffekt, improved filter algorithms, etc ) came on the market. In expanded form it is still manufactured as Nord Lead 2X.
The 24 -voice Nord Lead 3 appeared as a complete revision of its predecessor on the market. Of particular note are beside now 3 instead of 2 oscillators, extended frequency modulation capabilities continuous turntable with LED rings, where you can read the exact position controller in the dark.
A special tool with the Clavia Nord Modular brought to market. It consists of a hardware instrument with up to 32 voices and a computer program that allows a modular synthesizer can be represented and interconnected. The interconnection of the individual modules ( oscillators, filters, step-sequencers, vocoder, effects units, amps, etc.) is on the computer ( Microsoft Windows and Mac OS). This eliminates the typical restrictions against pure modular systems where each block must be physically present. Restricting, in the case of the North Modular only in the processing power provided in the instrument. Hardware have analog inputs so that the blocks can also be applied to other signals, for example in the use of the instrument as a vocoder or effect device.
Also worth mentioning is the northern Micro Modular, which was configured with the same software as the larger models, but possessed in the device itself has a lower computing power. It is now used most likely as an effects device. Unlike competing computer solutions ( plugins), where the PC takes on the tone generator, set the modular instruments on separate hardware with correspondingly higher reliability in the operation stage.
2007, the Nord Wave was released, a virtual analog and sample-based synthesizer.
Clavia also produces equipped with two manuals organ simulators C1 and C2. While the C1 only the Hammond B3, Vox Continental and Farfisa Compact Deluxe included, a church organ was added in C2.
The Nord Stage (EX) is designed as a stage piano. In addition to an oriented on the C1 organ simulation it has keyboard instruments such as the Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, the, Clavinet and various pianos. In addition, a virtual analog synthesizer section available. The instrument is designed with 88 ( weighted keyboard ), 76 and 73 keys available and multitimbral.
The Nord Electro has from the 3rd generation, up to the synthesizer and the timbral, about the same tonal possibilities as the Nord Stage. He is 73 and 61 unweighted keys ( Nord Electro 4D, Nord Electro 4), and equipped in a weighted 73 key version ( Nord Electro 4 HP ), currently in its fourth generation available. The abbreviation " HP " stands for Hammer Action Portable. The main differences to the third generation are extended memory ( for sounds ), " C2D B3 tone wheel simulation" and USB MIDI. The Nord Electro and Nord Electro 2 differed only in the software and each instrument of the first generation can be updated to a Nord Electro 2.
North Sound Library
The special feature of all current North - instruments is the possibility of exchanging sounds / samples in the device memory. The required files and the transfer software can be downloaded for free from the northern site. The sound library is divided into the Piano Library, the sample library and the Vox and Farfisa Library. There are currently over 180 sounds available for free.