Waldorf Nave - Manual (Page 27)

The Controls
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filter character with a strong boost around the cutoff
frequency. When the setting is raised to maximum, the
filter starts to self-oscillate, generating a pure sine wave.
This feature can be used to create analog-style effects
and percussion-like electronic toms, kicks, zaps etc.
Drive Amount 0.00...1.00
Determines the amount of saturation that is
added to the signal. If set to 0, no saturation
will be added or, in other words, the signal
will remain clean. Lower values will add
some harmonics to the signal, resulting in a
warm character. Increasing the value will
bring in more and more distortion, suitable for harder
lead sounds and effects.
Drive Curve diverse functions
Determines the character of the drive. You
can also deactivate the drive curves comple-
tely. The following drive curves are available:
• PNP generates a distortion based on a
bipolar transistor.
•
Tube simulates the asymmetric distor-
tion of a tube circuit.
• Pickup simulates an electrostatic pickup. This dri-
ve type sounds very interesting, when the audio
signal level is modulated.
• Diode generates a typical transistor distortion.
• Crunch is a sinusoidal waveshaper. It generates
FM-like sounds that can be distorted very ext-
remly.
Drive Location diverse functions
Determines, where Drive is located in the audio signal
path:
• Pre Filter routes the drive directly be-
fore the filter.
• Post Filter routes the drive directly af-
ter the filter.
• Pre EQ distorts the signal before it is
routed in the equalizer. Because this
is a sum distortion, the played voices
create additional intermodulations,
which leads to more sound sharpness.
• Post EQ routes the drive directly after the equali-
zer.