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Nord Lead 4

Discontinued 2020
Released 2013

Four-slot, 20-voice Lead built for performance: Impulse Morph buttons, Master Clock sync of LFOs, arpeggio and delay, and 128 wavetables on Osc 1. Ladder M and 303-style filter models and an effects section with crush, talk and comb filter arrived here.

Replaces Lead 3

Specifications

General

Manufacturer
Nord
Status
Discontinued
Released
2013

Sound engine

Engine
Analogue modelling
Voices
20
Polyphony
20 voices
Oscillators
2 oscillators (sine, triangle, saw, pulse, noise) plus 128 wavetables on Osc 1; hard/soft sync, 3 FM types
Filter
Multimode: 12/24/48 dB low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, Ladder M and Ladder 303, with filter distortion
Multi-timbral parts
4
Effects
Drive, Bit crusher, Talk box, Compressor, Comb filter, Delay, Reverb

Keyboard

Keys
49
Key size
Full
Aftertouch
None

Format

Format
Keyboard
Motorised knobs
No
Features
Pitch Stick, Arpeggiator, Impulse Morph, Mutator, Master Clock, LFO patterns, 4 audio outputs

Connections

MIDI ports
DIN in, DIN out, USB
CV / Gate
No

Size & weight

Dimensions (W × D × H)
864 × 272 × 94 mm
Weight
5.3 kg

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