Nord Lead 4 49 Key Performance Synthesizer

Get An Incredibly Versatile Synth With Performance Features That Will Take Your Playing To The Next Level - The Nord Lead 4 49 Key Performance Synthesizer

With innovative new performance features, advanced layering and synchronization possibilities, new filter types and on-board effects, the Nord Lead 4 is a synthesizer dream come true. When the first Nord Lead was released in 1995 it started the Virtual Analog revolution, offering a very distinctive sound combined with the tweakablility otherwise reserved for vintage analog synthesizers. The new Nord Lead 4 takes what made the Nord Lead a success and adds a whole bunch of innovative new features justifying the name - performance synthesizer.

• 2 oscillators per voice / 20 voice polyphony
• FM, Hard and Soft Sync
• 2 LFO sections plus Modulation Envelope
• Flexible syncing and routing options
• 12, 24, and 48 dB low-pass filters
• High-pass and Band-pass filters
• Transistor and diode ladder filter simulations of Mini and TB-303
• Crush, Drive, Comb filter, Talk, Compressor, Reverb/delay
• 4-part multi-timbral
• Master Clock Sync of Arpeggiator, LFO and Delay
• Impulse Morph
• Velocity and Mod Wheel Morph
• USB MIDI - No driver is required for Mac OS X, a WHQL certified driver is available for Windows.

SPECIFICATIONS

Special Features

• Morph: One or more continuous (knob-type) parameters can be controlled by keyboard velocity and/or the Modulation Wheel/Control Pedal.
• Impulse Morphs: Both continuous (knobs) and switch parameters can have alternate value settings activated by Impulse Morph buttons. 7 unique Impulse Morphs possible by pressing a combination of the 3 buttons.
• Master Clock: The LFO rates, Arpeggio rate and Delay time can be synchronized to an internal or external (via MIDI) clock, with selectable rhythmic divisions.
• Mutator: Automatic program generator with adjustable style and strength.

General Features

• 49-key octave velocity sensitive keyboard (keyboard version only) with octave shift buttons, +/-2 octaves.
• 3 momentary Impulse Morph Buttons, 7 combinations.
• Keyboard Split with 2 slots for the upper and lower sections.
• Modulation Wheel (keyboard version only).
• Pitch Stick with no dead zone at zero crossing (keyboard version only).
• Programmable Pitch bend range, up to +/- 4 octaves
• Separate up/down bend range: -12 or -24 semitones, + 2 semitones
• 1 pedal input for sustain.
• 1 pedal input for expression pedal.

User Interface

• 3 character LED display, 29 knobs and 20+ buttons for program and performance editing.

Oscillator Section

• OSC 1 generating sine, triangle, sawtooth, fixed and modulateable pulse waveforms and 128 wavetables.
• OSC 2 generating triangle, sawtooth or fixed and modulateable pulse waveforms or noise.
• OSC MOD section with Hard- and Soft sync plus 3 different Frequency Modulations of OSC 1 from OSC 2.

Filter Section

• Multi-mode filter with 12 dB (2-pole) low pass, 24 dB (4-pole) and 48 dB (6 pole) low pass, band pass, high pass, Ladder M and Ladder 303 characteristics.
• Cut off, Resonance, envelope amount, envelope amount controlled by velocity.
• ADSR envelope.
• Filter keyboard tracking can be set to off, 1/3, 2/3 or 1/1.
• Adjustable Filter Distortion.

Modulation Section

• LFO 1 generates a square, triangle or any of 4 different types of saw- and inverted sawtooth waveforms. LFO 1 can be routed to Filter Frequency, Osc Mod, Osc Mix, Osc 2 Pitch, Amplitude and FX section. The modulation amount can be set as positive or negative/inverted. The LFO 1 rate can be synchronized to the Master Clock.
• The LFO 1 section is used to control the rate, range and directions for the arpeggiator. Arpeggiator: Range: 1 - 4 octave. Modes: up, down, up/down, random, Poly. The Arpeggio rate can be synchronized to the Master Clock.
• LFO 2 generates a square, a regular and inverted sawtooth, LF filtered noise and random staircase waveforms. LFO 2 can be routed to Filter Frequency