Nave 4+

Waldorf Music

Designed for iPad

    • 4.4 • 69 Ratings
    • $19.99

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Description

Nave - next generation Wavetable Synthesis

Nave is Waldorf’s first synthesizer App development – created by chief engineer and 
director Stefan Stenzel, NLog mastermind Rolf Wöhrmann and Design Guru Axel Hartmann.

The Nave sound engine includes two novel Wavetable oscillators, leaving every previous attempt in wavetable synthesis far behind. The spectrum of a sound can be transposed independently of its pitch. The waves are being rendered periodically to noisy. Especially sounds with an accent on formants can be reproduced easily, which made us integrate a speech synthesizer for the easy creation of wavetables.

The clearly structured UI invites both beginners and advanced users to experiment, and the large display of 
the iPad makes Wavetable creation and editing a blast. Besides Speech Synthesis, Wavetables can also be made by analysing audio files. Further stretching, rotating and shifting in spectral domain allows Wavetables to be further refined or distorted.

All factory Wavetables from Microwave, Wave and Blofeld are included, complemented by new ones that make extensive useof the enhanced possibilities.

In addition to the Wavetable Oscillators, Nave offers an oscillator module featuring the novel Überwave that can fatten your sound by up to eight detuned oscillators.

The filter offers the familiar outstanding Waldorf sound, featuring lowpass, bandpass and highpass with either 12dB or 24dB slope.

The Drive section offers different characteristics, and it can be positioned in the signal path: before or after the filter, or as a summing overdrive before or after the equalizer - for those who prefer harsh screaming sounds over delicate Wavetable sweeps.

An extended modulation matrix and diverse real time control functionality is waiting for animating Nave sounds in any desired direction.

Besides the classic virtual chromatic keyboard, Nave can be played with the “Blades” that allow for dynamic triggering of polyphonic modulation by sliding the fingers in x or y direction.

The 4-track recorder can be used to build your own Nave songs or to simply sketch your music, inspired by the sounds of Nave.

Audio Demos:
nave.waldorfmusic.de/sound

Nave Specifications per Voice:
· Two independent advanced Wavetable Oscillators
· Osc module with up to 8 oscillator Überosc with sawtooth, triangle, PWM, white or pink noise
· Two Ring Modulators
· Multimode Filter with LP,BP and HP, each either 12 dB or 24 dB
· 3 Envelopes
· 2 LFO
· 10 Modulation Matrix Entries
· Drive with adjustable curve, depth and position

Effects:
· Modulation Effect with either 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 and 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 and virtual connections
· Sync to MIDI Clock or WIST
· MIDI Learn
· Audiobus compatible
· Background Audio
· Arpeggiator
· Polyphonic Unisono
· Speech Synthesizer for Wavetables
· 3D Wavetable Editing
· Generation of Wavetables from external audio files
· Audio Copy / Paste Support
· Patch Management with unlimited user banks and categories
· Import / Export audio and sound patches from iTunes

What’s New

Version 1.8

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

- AudioBus 3 update
- Bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
69 Ratings

69 Ratings

DB1983_ok ,

Amazing wavetable synth, but eats battery and has a memory leak

Amazing sounds, great interface and arpeggiator. Unfortunately, still no AU plugin version, but I can live with that for now. The biggest issue is that it eats battery like a hog and if you forget to kill the app explicitly AND reboot your device, you’ll find your iPad out of battery within a few hours, even if it’s not being used / the screen is off. This is probably due to background audio, but it’s definitely annoying and should be fixed.

I see the developer has responded with the suggestion of disabling background audio. This still doesn’t explain why the battery goes dead after force-killing the app. There are plenty of other iOS apps with this “background audio” option which don’t continue eating battery after you force close them... and they don’t require you to reboot your iPad. I don’t want to turn this into an advertisement for other apps, but please: fix this properly.

Developer Response ,

Hi, just disable Background Audio in the "Tape & Sys" screen.

PageMad ,

Add Basic Sequencer ?

Update please for ios11.

iPad Pro and gettting cracking noises on sustained chords

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I agree with most positive reviews, it's great.
HOWEVER, can we please add at least a basic sequencer for recording. I have to play entire tracks in real time all the way through and if one measure is off timing, I have to re-record over ...and over. Please add a sequencer with quantization.... Please.
...And soon, I have work to do. Professional tools need profession features. Thank you

Running on an updated iPad Pro, using professionally

Matthew savant ,

Fantastic synth…except not AU support!

Nave is an excellent synth very deep and sounds fantastic. I’ve had the Waldorf blofeld and iridium and Nave has that core Waldorf sound amd feature set…however Nave is lacking AU support which is a crucial mistake. I used apps like Drambo to write and it cannot use Nave in anything I do on the iPad musically except for in stand alone mode which leaves me not using it that often other than messing around and writing random patches for no reason, I’ve yet to use Nave in any actual production due to the lack of AU support…what good is an iOS synth if I can’t use it as a plug in? When I’m working in my real studio I use my hardware synths so it makes Nave kind of useless. If Waldorf added AU support Nave would be easily one of the top must have synths in the iOS environment.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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