Waldorf Nave - Manual (Page 23)

The Controls
23 Nave User Manual
• Wave 1 controls the volume of the first Wave mo-
dule.
•
Wave 2 controls the volume of the second Wave
module.
• W1*W2 controls the volume of the ring modulation
between Wave module 1 and 2. For more informa-
tion about ring modulation please read the follo-
wing section.
• Osc 1 controls the volume of the Oscillator modu-
le.
• Osc*W1 controls the volume of the ring modulation
between Wave module 1 and the Oscillator modu-
le. For more information about ring modulation
please read the following section.
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What is ring modulation? From a technical point
of view ring modulation is the multiplication of
two oscillators’ signals. The result of this operation
is a waveform that contains the sums and the dif-
ferences of the source frequency components.
Since the ring modulation generates disharmonic
components, it can be used to add metallic distor-
ted sound characteristics. Please note that in a
complex waveform all harmonic components be-
have like interacting sine waves, resulting in a wi-
de spectral range of the ring modulated sound.
✻ Ring modulation can be very interesting when a
slow pitch modulation is applied to one oscillator.
This creates spacy effect sounds.
✻ For an E-Piano sound, you might apply ring modu-
lation when one high pitched oscillator’s Keytrack
is lowered to i.e. 50%.
✻ If you turn down the pitch of one oscillator marked-
ly, you can get an effect very similar to Amplitude
modulation. Use this for sounds with a periodic
element if you wish.
✻ Crooked pitch intervals of both Wave modules ge-
nerate very interesting ring modulation sounds.