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StrangeAeons wrote:
P.S. is the overdrive on the Wave 2 that bad? The A1's is an acquired taste (not as distorted as you'd expect but quite analoguish-sounding and "natural") but the Electro's great: one of the things I love most about Nord's Hammond simulation compared to the Legend is the distortion (the Legend features a lot of different overdrives, each worse than the other: and that really showed whenever I played Deep Purple solos).

Yes, trust me. The algorithm only affects certain frequencies and you have to fiddle with the waveform, cutoff, etc. to get a real overdrive sound, and then the sound is still very thin. The Filter Drive helps, but it cannot compare to the the NS3 drive which is much more powerful and gives a nice effect with the entire sound spectrum.

-dj

DJKeys wrote:

StrangeAeons wrote:
P.S. is the overdrive on the Wave 2 that bad? The A1's is an acquired taste (not as distorted as you'd expect but quite analoguish-sounding and "natural") but the Electro's great: one of the things I love most about Nord's Hammond simulation compared to the Legend is the distortion (the Legend features a lot of different overdrives, each worse than the other: and that really showed whenever I played Deep Purple solos).

Yes, trust me. The algorithm only affects certain frequencies and you have to fiddle with the waveform, cutoff, etc. to get a real overdrive sound, and then the sound is still very thin. The Filter Drive helps, but it cannot compare to the the NS3 drive which is much more powerful and gives a nice effect with the entire sound spectrum.

-dj

I honestly haven’t fiddled a lot with mine yet but I’m wondering if an outboard pedal would help. Not that it should be needed of course.

There a few great overdrive pedal for keyboards which might work well for synths too but they're usually on the expensive side (e.g. Lounsberry's or ). I wouldn't pick a guitar pedal because of how they cut frequencies, it might work but only for certain kinds of sounds (guitarish leads): for example, my MS-20 didn't like them at all. Sounds like something Nord could/should fix with a software update: considering how the Wave 2's been neglected, OS-wise, they might've been working on a substantial update.