MODOR Reveals the NF-1k

Priced at 2950€

Details via MODOR Music

The Modor NF-1k synthesizer is the keyboard version of our original desktop synth: the Modor NF-1. You can read everything about the NF-1 and its sound engine over here.

The NF-1k has:

- a 49-key weighted keyboard by Fatar

- with polyphonic aftertouch

- a large (50cm) touch strip for pitch bends

- and 2 smaller (10cm) touch strips for modulation (mod'wheel' and CC3).

However, the NF-1k is more than just an NF-1 with a keyboard:

- An extra, newly developed voice board doubles the polyphony of the NF-1 to 16 voices, and makes it 2-part multitimbral. So 2 NF-1 patches can be layered, split over the keyboard or independently sequenced over MIDI.

- We added a programmable and midi syncable ARPEGGIATOR to it: Up, Down, Up+Down, Program and Random options.

- A very simple to use CHORD mode and a HOLD function have been added.

- and finally there's a UNISON mode with detuning and stereo spread.

Together, all these features controlling 2 entire NF-1 sound engines with their unusual but highly musical filters and waveforms, the NF-1k is an incredible inspiration machine. Already while building and programming, we constantly found ourselves carried away, just playing for hours, enjoying to play and create new musical riffs and themes on this machine... 😎 🎹 🎶


SPECIFICATIONS

KEYBOARD
Fatar keyboard
49 keys (4 full octaves)
weighted keys
polyphonic aftertouch

MULTITIMBRALITY AND POLYPHONY
16 voices polyphony
2 part multitimbral
polyphony can be split 8+8 over two parts, or all 16 to a single part

MEMORY
448 patches, 14 banks [A-N] of 32 patches
64 'setups' containing 2 full patches, and all chord/arp/unison settings.
All factory presets can be overwritten

CONNECTIONS
9V, 600mA adapter connection, positive voltage on center pin
MIDI IN/THRU/OUT connections, 3x 5-pin DIN connection
Audio Left/Stereo output, for 6.35mm TRS or mono jack, unbalanced
Audio Right output, 6.35mm mono jack, unbalanced
Headphones connector on frontpanel, 6,35mm TRS jack
Sustain switch, 6.35mm mono jack
Volume/modulation pedal, 6.35mm TRS jack
USB connector (MIDI only, class compliant - no driver installation necessary)

FRONT PANEL CONTROLS
43 rotary knobs
28 pushbuttons
1 rotary encoder

TOUCH STRIPS
50cm pitchbend touchstrip
10cm modwheel touchstrip
10cm extra modulation touchstrip

DISPLAY
16x2 green backlit LCD display, latin and cyrillic characters

MIDI
Keyboard transmits Midi Note on/off and Poly Aftertouch messages
All 'continuous' sound parameters accept and transmit Midi Control Changes in realtime
Pitch Bend, Velocity, Aftertouch (Channel&Poly), Modwheel (CC#1), BreathCtrl (CC#2), CC#3 and Expression pedal (CC#4) modulation
Backups and patch exchanges via Patch, Bank and Memory Sysex Dumps
Firmware upgrades via Sysex
MIDI MPE-compatible

MEASUREMENTS
Length: 72cm
Width: 51cm
Height: 14cm
Weight: +/-12kg