Nave 1.8

Nave 1.8

Waldorf Music GmbH – Commercial – iOS
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1.8
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Nave by Waldorf Music: A Deep Dive into Sound Design

Peter Salakani

Nave is a powerful and intuitive synthesizer app that brings the legendary sound design capabilities of Waldorf to iOS, offering an extensive range of features for music producers.
2025 Editor's Rating
VERY GOOD User Rating

Nave is Waldorf’s latest foray into Wavetable Synthesis, developed by chief engineer Stefan Stenzel, NLog creator Rolf Wöhrmann, and Design Specialist Axel Hartmann.

The Nave synthesizer engine introduces two innovative Wavetable oscillators, setting a new standard in wavetable synthesis. It allows for independent transposition of a sound's spectrum from its pitch. The oscillators render waves periodically to noise, enabling easy reproduction of sounds emphasizing formants and even integrating a speech synthesizer for simple wavetable creation.

The user-friendly interface of Nave caters to both beginners and experts, with the iPad providing ample space for Wavetable creation and editing. Aside from Speech Synthesis, new Wavetables can be crafted by analyzing audio files. Further manipulation such as stretching, rotating, and spectral shifting of Wavetables allows for enhanced refinement or distortion.

Featuring all factory Wavetables from Microwave, Wave, and Blofeld, Nave also includes new ones that fully leverage the improved capabilities. In addition to the groundbreaking Wavetable Oscillators, Nave boasts an oscillator module introducing Überwave technology to enhance sound with up to eight detuned oscillators.

The filter section guarantees the exceptional Waldorf sound quality with lowpass, bandpass, and highpass options at either 12dB or 24dB slope. The Drive section offers various characteristics and flexible positioning in the signal path for creating anything from aggressive overdriven tones to delicate Wavetable sweeps.

An extensive modulation matrix and a range of real-time controls enable users to animate Nave sounds in any desired direction. Adding versatility, Nave allows playing with “Blades” for dynamic polyphonic modulation triggered by sliding fingers in x or y directions.

Composing with Nave is further elevated by a 4-track recorder for crafting songs or sketching musical ideas inspired by the eclectic sounds of Nave.

For detailed sounds demos visit nave.waldorfmusic.de/sound

Nave Specifications per Voice:

  • Two independent advanced Wavetable Oscillators
  • Oscillator module with up to 8 oscillator Überosc featuring sawtooth, triangle, PWM, white or pink noise
  • Two Ring Modulators
  • Multimode Filter with LP,BP and HP, each at either 12 dB or 24 dB
  • 3 Envelopes
  • 2 LFOs
  • 10 Modulation Matrix Entries
  • Drive with adjustable curve, depth, and position

Effects:

  • Modulation Effect - Chorus, Flanger or Phaser
  • Modulation Delay
  • High-Quality Reverb
  • Three-band parametric Equalizer
  • Compressor

Additional Features:

  • Keyboard with adjustable size, scrolling and glissando modes
  • Blades with musical scales and optional chord mode
  • Polyphonic X/Y finger modulation on keyboard and blades
  • Modulation Wheel & Pitch Bender
  • Up to 3 X/Y Control Pads
  • Four Track Recorder with clip-based editing
  • Core MIDI in/out support
  • MIDI device manager for external hardware & virtual connections
  • Sync to MIDI Clock or WIST
  • MIDI Learn feature
  • Audiobus compatibility
  • Background Audio support
  • Arpeggiator function
  • Polyphonic Unisono capability
  • Speech Synthesizer for Wavetables creation
  • 3D Wavetable Editing option
  • Generation of Wavetables from external audio files
  • Audio Copy/Paste Support function
  • Patch Management offering unlimited user banks & categories
  • Import/Export audio & sound patches via iTunes

Overview

Nave is a Commercial software in the category Audio & Multimedia developed by Waldorf Music GmbH.

The latest version of Nave is 1.8, released on 09/04/2024. It was initially added to our database on 09/04/2024.

Nave runs on the following operating systems: iOS.

Users of Nave gave it a rating of 4 out of 5 stars.


Peter Salakani

Peter Salakani

I'm Peter, a software reviews author at UpdateStar and content specialist with a keen focus on usability and performance. With a background in both software development and content creation, I bring a unique perspective to evaluating and discussing general software topics. When I'm not reviewing software, I enjoy staying updated on the latest tech trends, experimenting with new applications, and finding innovative solutions to everyday tech challenges.

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