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Clavia | Nord Lead

Description

The Nord Lead uses Virtual Analog. Combines classic ideas with today's technology. Awesome leads, booming basses, frantic techno at your fingertips. Every function has a knob. No more menus. Total real time control and instant acessability make it a breeze to shape the sounds exactly the way you want them. Play with the filter and resonance knob and enjoy the precise tracking and the superb quality. You can program any parameter change to velocity and do your licks. High precision "Pitch Stick" (pitch bender) gives you the complete control of the pitch and allows to make a vibrato.

This synth is polyphonic and multitimbral, it has a very flexible filter, LFO and Envelope control, portamento/legato, a great arpeggiator and analog-like dedicated knobs for quick and easy synthesizing!

Everything is MIDI'd up and controllable, there's a pitch bender and a 'morphing' feature. A performance mode allows certain parameters to be stored with a sound such as unison or poly modes, legato and portamento.

BrandClavia
ModelNord Lead
DeviceSynth
TypeKeys
Engine TypeDigital
EngineVA
Voices (max)12
Multitimbral4
Oscillators2
LFO2 LFO's (triangle, sawtooth, random) control OSC 1 or 2, filter, pulse-width, ADSR envelope
NoiseY
Engine Detailed2 VSM oscillators (triangle, sawtooth, pulse) and noise
Filter (VCF)12 dB/oct 2-pole lowpass, 24dB/oct 4-pole lowpass / bandpass / highpass (both with cutoff, resonance, env amount, env velocity, key tracking, ADSR envelope)
Envelope (VCA)ADSR envelope and Amplifier Gain control
Memory59 preset programs, 40 user, 100 performances
Keys49
Key typeKeys
VelocityY
AftertouchNo
MidiI-O-T
Produced:1995 - 1995
Legend: Obvious Y: Yes, N: No, N/A: Not Applicable
VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator DCO Digital Controlled Oscillator
LFO Low Frequency Oscillator Sub Sub Oscillator
VCF Voltage Controlled Filter VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier
Velocity As with a piano, the harder you hit a key, the louder the sound, unlike most organs which always produce the same loudness no matter how hard you hit a key. Aftertouch Pressing a key after you activated it. Channel Aftertouch, no matter which key, it will send a Channel message. Poly Aftertouch, sends the pressure per key instead of the whole channel.
Values for OSC, LFO, Filter, Envelope are per voice unless stated otherwise.

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