Nord Lead 4
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2013
- Showing off CLAVIA's latest synth Nord Lead 4 .
This video was made right after delivery & unpacking.
Read my review in OKEY-magazine #117.
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Nord Lead 4
49-key Four-part Multi-timbral Synthesizer, with Virtual Analog Subtractive Synthesis, FM, Wavetable Synthesis, Hard/Soft Sync, and Built-in Effects
Performance Synthesis Redefined!
Onstage or in the studio, Nord's Lead 4 synthesizer keyboard is going to rock your world. Whether you're an old-school synth nut or a modern producer looking for fun and creative sounds to play with, you'll find everything you're looking for in the Lead 4. This bad boy comes packed with four synth voices, each of which gives you two oscillators, plenty of modulation options, and killer effects to play with. Choose from subtractive analog-style synthesis, FM synthesis, or two kinds of wild wavetables - it's all there in the Lead 4. And when you start digging into the power of the onboard Variation controls, the Nord Lead 4 keyboard will totally blow your mind.
Nord Lead 4 Synthesizer Keyboard at a Glance:
Loaded with four innovative synthesizer voices
Full of fun filters and freaky effects
Programmable Variation buttons let you instantly warp your sound
Loaded with four innovative synthesizer voices
Nord positively packed their Lead 4 synthesizer keyboard with a synth-geek's playground of sound-creation tools, and it all starts off with the sound engines. Onboard, you'll find a multi-timbral platform sporting a 2-oscillator virtual subtractive analog synth that features 2x oversampling for incredibly smooth sounds. There's also a wavetable mode that showcases Nord's groundbreaking Formant Wavetable. And when you add to that the Lead 4's FM synthesis, Hard/Soft sync options, and True Voice Unison (which can give you up to four oscillators per voice), you're ready to create anything from beefy leads and luscious pads to organic sounds you've never even dreamed of.
Full of fun filters and freaky effects
What's a synth without killer filters and effects? Certainly not a Nord! Nord absolutely loaded the Lead 4 with fun and creative tone-shaping options. First off, you've got a super-flexible filter section that lets you choose from 12dB and 24dB lowpass modes, highpass mode, and bandpass mode, as well as two awesome simulations of transistor and diode ladder filter, hooking you up with all of the gritty, dirty, beautifully flawed sound of classic analog technology. There's even dedicated filter overdrive you can use to rough up your sound before the effects section. Speaking of which, all four voices have their own dedicated effects sections, with delay, reverb, bit crushing, and even a freakishly cool Talk effect.
Programmable Variation buttons let you instantly warp your sound
If you've ever wanted to totally tweak your sounds on the fly, but didn't have enough fingers to do the trick, then you're going to have a blast with the Nord Lead 4's Variation buttons. These buttons let you instantly override nearly any and every parameter on the Lead 4 at once. For instance, you can set up a Variation button to push your LFO speed, crank the modulation setting, and kick up the filter saturation all at once - a perfect recipe for a wicked dubstep drop. Or your can bounce from one Formant wave to another while spiking the bandpass filter and adding delay to create a killer Goa effect. With seven assignable variations per program and clock synchronization, the possibilities are simply endless.
Nord Lead 4 Synthesizer Keyboard Features:
A super-fun virtual analog 4-part multi-timbral synthesizer with up to two oscillators per voice
Fast-action 49-key C-C keyboard gives you plenty of space to play
Create wild modern sounds with subtractive, FM, and wavetable synthesis, including Nord's Formant Wavetables
True Voice Unison lets you achieve the sound of up to four oscillators per voice
20-voice polyphony lets you stack up the sound
Filter designs include 12dB and 24dB lowpass modes, highpass mode, and bandpass mode, as well as transistor and diode-ladder filter simulations
Dual LFO and arpeggiator sections top the list of cool modulation and manipulation tools
Each voice comes with its own effects section that includes delay, reverb, bit crushing, a Talk effect, and more
Morph and Variation controls make it easy to twist your sound in real-time
USB MIDI and separate outputs per voice provides flawless studio integration
The Nord Lead 4 gives you the performance synthesis you've always wanted and so much more! (Sweetwater)
Fits better in the mix than most real analog synths - cause it has such a damn defined sound, very clear and punchy.
This is an amazing synth. Very fun to play and improvise music.
Norde Lead 4 is fantastic. You have to try it for a few hours to get it because it doesn't look like the best on paper.
Great demo!
Love it!
My kind of sounds. :) Just a while ago I played my NL4 with your video playing muted in the background. For a moment it felt like we were buddies jamming together. :D Nice feeling.
Nice demo :)
Very cool!!
03:38 and 04:45 are my favourites :) perfect demo !
Very Jarre-like :) nice one
Can it do the same as Nord Wave;
By introducing the oscillator to waveforms - not just single
wavetable-style waveforms, but complete user-defined, key-zoned and
multi-layered sampled waveforms - while keeping the full virtual analog
circuitry intact, Nord has opened a new dimension in the world of
synthesizers. Take any audio snippet you like. If it can be saved as a
standard Wav file, it can be used as a sound source for your
synthesizer.
Many sounds remind me of Synergy (Larry Fast).
Man this is amazing! can you explain how you make the sound in the minute 5:10 ?????
Uh ? So what we have here is basically a 1997 yamaha AN1x with a bit of a lesser sonic character, one octave shorter keyboard, aftertouch removed, no screen, no seq and no ring mod... Way to go !
+Frederic Sarge Is that the AN1x that only had 10 note polyphony?
Yeah, well *thank god* 18 years later we have at least more voices in our VAs, given the enormous computing power of todays DSPs that's really the bare minimum... but if that's all there is to brag about for the Nord, dear me.. ;-/
Oh yeah, and the AN1x had a great ribbon too, pressure sensitive, for both X and Y axis :-(
the first VA ever was in 1995. Nord Lead 1
+Frederic Sarge The AN1x sounds NOTHING like the Nord Lead. Sound quality of the Nord is quantum leaps ahead. True that some of the Nord's sounds do sound a little older but so what? The Nord offers a variety of sounds so the synth is usable for anyone regardless of the music style you make.
the an1x was a cheap, plastic piece of shit. in no way does it compare to anything Nord has ever made, sound wise, feature wise nor build quality wise.
It sound like Jean Michael Jarre, equinox 5
Sounds magnificent! I'm going to buy such one. Only one question: can you save your own preset and then use it later just pushing a button even after turning off/turning on the device?
Jesus Christ yes, ain't no digital synth in the world that doesn't do that.
sounds decent but I'll take my Lead 1 over this...
Can it make Korg Prologue sounds though...? don't think it can.
What case do you have for it? I'm trying to find a snug soft case for the nord lead 4 but I'm struggling. Thanks!
Wow really nice pad on 5.10 ... preset?
I'm looking to buy one - what's are the 'selling point' differences between the Nord Lead 3 and 4?
Thanks
probably effects and more wavetables or something.
I'd wish I'd know what preset 5:10 is made of - or how it's made. I can't get something like that to work, I must be missing some component in it :)
I'm no expert, and I don't own the NL4, but it just sounds like two sawtooth waves an octave apart with a LP filter. He messes around some with the envelope, but I don't think there's much more to it. I can get something pretty similar to it with my NL1, although I don't have all the filter options or the polyphony the 4 has.
Hm. with a bit of PWM and osc2 modulation perhaps. Thanks :)
I was thinking PWM as well, but I tried looking at the settings visible on the video, and it looks like he's using two sawtooth waves; PWM shouldn't do anything unless you're using at least one square wave. There is some kind of movement there; perhaps it's just a bit of detuning osc 2?
Right, I initially programmed it with a square wave. There's also some velocity-sensitivity programmed which we cannot see. 2-3 unison. Medium to slow attack on the filter envelope? Could also be some mod env? (it isn't on the default empty bank setting)
Sounds great, but if that's what you're looking for in a Nord, go to a Prophet 6.
on 1:12 what is the number of the preset
is it on the perf mode?
A18 or something else from the A1x range.
Moin Robert ! Kann man den Nord lead auch als midi keyboard nutzten und z.b mit Logic x und co. Instrumente via midi auszuspielen ?
Absolut !
Danke
4:44 that's nice, using that one preset as a track, I'd listen I mean I am. basing this idea on someone else or your own I must ask?
thanks ! everything was created from scratch.