Full Description

Nord's Lead 4 synthesizer keyboard will appeal to an old-school synth nut or a modern producer looking for fun and creative sounds to play with. Packed with four synth voices, each one offers two oscillators with lots of modulation options, and killer effects to play with. Choose from subtractive analog-style synthesis, FM synthesis, or two kinds of wild wavetables. The Lead 4 also has an variation of mindblowing onboard controls.

Four Innovative Synthesizer Voices

The Lead 4 synthesizer keyboard is packed with sound-creation tools. A multi-timbral platform sporting a 2-oscillator virtual subtractive analog synth features 2x oversampling for incredibly smooth sounds. A wavetable mode demonstrates Nord's Formant Wavetable. When this is combined with the Lead 4's FM synthesis, Hard/Soft sync options, and True Voice Unison, the possibilities are endless.

Packed with fun filters and crazy effects

Nord have packed the Lead 4 with fun and creative tone-shaping options. A super-flexible filter section lets you choose from 12dB and 24dB lowpass modes, highpass mode, and bandpass mode, and two awesome simulations of transistor and diode ladder filter. Dedicated filter overdrive enables you to rough up your sound before the effects section. All of the four voices have their own dedicated effects sections, which consist of delay, reverb, bit crushing, and a Talk effect.

Features

• 2-oscillator subtractive synthesis, with powerful frequency modulation, hard and soft sync and true unison
• Wavetable synthesis, including unique formant wavetables
• 12/24 dB low-pass, high-pass, band-pass filter section plus stunning simulations of classic 18 dB and 24 dB transistor ladder filters
• 2 LFO sections and MOD ENV section with flexible routing possibilities
• LFO, arpeggiator and delay can be synchronized to the master clock or external MIDI clock
• Drum mode
• Morph and Variation performance controls
• Crush, talk and distortion, reverb, delay
• 4 slots = 4-part multi-timbral, 4 separate outs
• 2x oversampled sound engine
• USB MIDI

Specifications

General

• 49-key octave velocity sensitive keyboard 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
• Pitch Stick (with no dead zone at zero crossing).
• 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