User Manual

6. The Instruments: The Synth section NORD STAGE Eighty Eight V1.1x
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O
SCILLATOR
S
YNC WAVEFORMS
The Saw, Square, Triangle and Sine waveforms can be synchronized, these modes are marked with a special
character in the wave display and extended with synced in the main D
ISPLAY
. Oscillator Synchronization
means that you use the signal from one oscillator to restart another oscillator. Nord Stage has a “hidden”
sync oscillator for waveforms with this option. Oscillator sync is very useful for generating lead lines with
classic “hard sync” sounds. When sync is applied, the basic pitch of the oscillator is locked to that of the
sync oscillator. When you vary the pitch of the synchronized oscillator with the T
IMBRE
knob, this will be
perceived as a change in timbre, with a frequency spectrum with deep resonance in the oscillator’s harmon-
ics.
Tip! When using Oscillator Sync, it can be very useful to have the Timbre amount(s) modulated from any
of the Morph assign sources. This will generate a signal with continuously varied harmonic content.
If you choose one of the synchronized oscillator mode, the Oscillator will start over with a new period of
the waveform, each time the sync-oscillator does so. If the Oscillator then has a higher frequency than the
sync-oscillator, it will get a complex waveform that depends both on its own pitch and on that of the sync-
oscillator.
Example 1: a sawtooth wave synced by a sync oscillator. The sawtooth wave is restarted every time the sync oscillator
begins a new cycle. The resulting signal gets deep resonance in its harmonics.