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NORD MODULAR V3.0
S S S S
O O O O U U U U N N N N D D D D E E E E N N N N G G G G I I I I N N N N E E E E
A standard Nord Modular is powered by four Sound engines (DSPs). The Sound engine power can be
expanded to a total of eight DSPs with the Modular Voice Expansion kit. The allocation of the Sound
engine resources is totally automatic and cannot be changed by the user. Micro Modular has got one
Sound engine (DSP) and cannot be expanded.
P P P P
A A A A T T T T C C C C H H H H A A A A N N N N D D D D V V V V O O O O I I I I C C C C E E E E A A A A L L L L L L L L O O O O C C C C A A A A T T T T I I I I O O O O N N N N
When a patch is created or loaded from the memory/disk, the Nord Modular system assigns a section of
one or several Sound engines to that patch. To illustrate what happens in the system when you load a
patch, take a look at the following example:
This is a patch that uses both the Poly and Common Voice area of the patch. The requested and current
number of voices is 4. Schematically, the patch will require the PVA Load x 4 voices + 1 x the CVA Load.
You could also see it this way:
PVA voice 3
PVA voice 2
PVA voice 1
CVA all voices
The Poly voice Area, with its modules, is "duplicated" for each voice while the Common Voice Area mod-
ules are common for all voices in the patch.
PVA voice 4
9. Appendix: Sound engine
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