Description
Description
Even though synthesizers are musical instruments first and foremost, learning about them is easier and more intuitive if we can use our eyes to supplement our ears. Studying waveforms, frequency and time relationships, audio signals, and control voltages become clear and immediate if we can see how they change and interact, not just listen to what they’re doing. Seeing these signals come alive in full color as we patch and tweak gives our learning process a huge boost!
The oscilloscope, a tool for visualizing signals and voltages, has been around for many years – but as scientific instruments, they might not seem like something a musician could easily use. Not anymore – for the first time, an oscilloscope has been designed with the musician in mind! The NTS-2’s interface is simple, clean, and easy to use; rather than twiddling knobs and trying to understand obscure parameters, you can look at your signals and understand them in a matter of seconds. That way, your artistic focus can remain where it belongs: on making your music.
A useful toolset for musicians
The NTS-2 includes a variety of useful studio functions, all in a pocket-sized, elegant package that you can take anywhere.
4 CHANNEL OSCILLOSCOPE
With its dual stereo inputs, you can study up to four signals at once, comparing and overlapping them with ease. A variety of display modes let you see your data in color, a huge advantage over the old oscilloscopes you’ve seen in science fiction movies! Its user interface is clear and quick, thanks to its dedicated menu buttons and clickable encoder knob, and its 240 x 320 pixel 2.8” color LCD is a joy to watch.
NTS-2 even has a powerful Lissajous mode - opening the door to creativity and making it possible to visualize widely available oscilloscope art, for extra fun with your device.
FFT / SPECTRUM ANALYZER
To further dive into analyzing any signal, the NTS-2 also comes with a dedicated FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) mode with a real-time Spectrum Analyzer. These handy tools have always been out of reach for the synth musician because they either required expensive hardware or a nearby computer. Now you can carry them in your pocket!
DUAL WAVEFORM GENERATOR:
But the NTS-2 is much more than just an oscilloscope. The flexible Wave Generator mode has 2 oscillators with dedicated outputs, so you can test your synth rig or just get creative! Each oscillator can create a variety of waveforms – sine, square, triangle, sawtooth, pulse, and noise – whose shape and phase can be adjusted to suit many applications.
These sounds can be used in the audio range or as control voltage sources, and they can be set to cycle continuously or act as one-shot impulses; that means you can turn them into LFOs, envelopes, triggers, and control voltage generators, as well as sound sources. Attaching the NTS-2 to any patchable synthesizer instantly expands its power in useful ways, making it an analog synth player’s dream tool.
TUNER
And of course, coming from KORG, this multi-functional utility kit wouldn’t be complete without a precise and easy-to-use Tuner with multiple display modes! Being able to receive and monitor up to 4 input signals at the same time, the NTS-2 is an analog synth player’s dream tool.
Specifications
Dimensions: 12.9 x 7.8x 3.9 cm ( 5.08 x 3.07 x 1.53 inches)
Weight: 130g (not including batteries) (4.6 oz)
Power: USB type-C (2.0, 500mA max) or 2x AAA batteries (approx 2 hours running time)
Inputs
Input : 3.5mm Stereo x2, ±10V max
Through Output : 3.5mm Stereo x2
Output : 3.5mm Mono x2, ±5V max
Oscilloscope
Display modes : Single, Stereo (Input1L-INPUT1R, Input1L - Input2L, Input2L - Input2R), 4ch、XY(Lissajous, 2ch)
Vertical : 10mV~5V/div, AC/DC MODE switchable
Horizontal : 50us~1s/div
Trigger : Auto, Rise, Fall, Single(rise), Single(fall)
FFT (Spectrum Analyzer)
Input : mono (1L, 1R, 2L, 2R)
Frequency: 20Hz~20kHz
Function Generator
Wave type : sine, square, triangle, saw, noise, pulse, envelope
Frequency : 1Hz~10kHz, Hz/NOTE mode switchable, [1ms~10s,sec/BPM switchable(pulse, envelope mode)]
Output level : 10Vpp max, V/dB mode switchable
Tuner
Display mode : Needle, Meter
Input : Mono, Stereo (Input1L-Input1R, Input1L-Input2L)
Calibration : 410-480Hz