Modor NF-1 Polyphonic Synthesizer

The Modor NF-1 synth is a digital DSP synth very comparable to the classic Virtual Analog synths, but Modor is moving further on from this point.

Modor use the classic structure of VA-synths, with oscillators, filters and effects, with parameters that can be modulated using LFO's and envelopes. But every element has been rethought and reinvented. In a digital way.

The NF-1 has a classic 12dB/oct resonant filter, but also has a versatile formant filter, never seen in hardware before! It does make classic sawtooth waves, but also included are a lot of other brand new modulatable noisy waveforms! It has a classic delay effect, but we make every parameter editable to give way to special unexpected effect types.

Oscillator section:

• 3 identical fully independent oscillators
• 10 waveforms:
• SAW: pulse width modulation sawtooth wave
• SQU: pulse width modulation pulse wave
• TRI: pulse width modulation triangle wave
• SYNC: sounding like a oscillator-synced wave
• ADD: additive harmonics
• SONAR: resonant bandpass filtered noise
• WIND: wind instrument noise
• ARC: arcade game style noise
• FM: sinus FM pair
• FBFM: feedback sinus FM pair

Filter section:

• 12dB/oct resonant filter switchable as lowpass, hipass, bandpass or bandstop (notch)
• Formant filter with 3 morphing vowels, 10 vowel presets and user controllable formant frequencies

Effects section:

• 'Comb filter' effect section to create chorus, flanger, ... effects
• Delay effect section to create echo effects
• All parameters can be set independently and are modulatable

Modulation section:

• 4 3-stage envelopes, 3 level settings and 4 time settings
• 2 switchable LFO's with TRI/SAW/SQU/SIN waveforms, 1 TRI-LFO connected to modwheel, 1 random S&H with lowpass option
• Modulation matrix with 7 user-defineable modulation wires,
• 16 source signals, 59 destination signals

Firmware update October 2023! What's New:

• Waveform selection can now be done using the WAVEFORM button + SELECT encoder too, not just by repeatedly pressing WAVEFORM
• There's a new shortcut to Poly/Mono/Legato switching: OSC3 + VALUE
• And another new shortcut to the PhaseRandom parameter: OSC2 + VALUE
• Names are saved immediately after editing them. Previously you still had to save a patch after renaming it, which was a bit unlogical and confusing for many users.
• But the main big novelty of this upgrade is this: crossfading the different LP/HP/BP filter outputs!