Nord Lead 2
(1997-2003) The Nord Lead was followed by Nord Lead 2 which took the virtual analog concept even further, adding a number of improvements and new features.
General
- Polyphony 16 voices.
- 4 part multi-timbral.
Performance Controllers
- 4 octave velocity sensitive keyboard with octave shift buttons (+/-2 oct.).
- Keyboard Split, two sections.
- Modulation Wheel, the Pitch Stick (with no dead zone at zero crossing),
- 1 pedal input for sustain and 1 for expression pedal.
User interface
- 3 digit display, 26 knobs and 27 buttons for program editing.
Oscillator section
- OSC 1 generating sine, triangle, saw- tooth or pulse with adjustable width, waveforms. OSC 2 generating triangle, sawtooth or pulse (with adjustable width) waveforms and can also generate noise with a color control.
- OSC 2 can be hardsynched to OSC 1. Linear deep frequency modulation of OSC 1 from OSC 2. A wide range of new waveforms, with a strong formant character, is achieved with the new syncable noise, where noise can be synched to OSC 1.
Filter section
- 12 dB (2-pole) low pass, 24 dB (4-pole) low pass, band pass or high pass and notch with 12dB low pass.
- Cut off, resonance, envelope amount, envelope amount controlled by velocity.
- ADSR envelope.
- Filter keyboard tracking, full, 1/3, 2/3 or off.
- Filter distortion.
Amplifier Section
- ADSR envelope
- Gain control.
Modulation section
- LFO 1 generating triangle, saw, pulse, LF filtered noise and random staircase routed to OSC1+2, OSC 2, filter, pulse- width and FM amount.
- LFO 2 produces a triangle waveform, routed to OSC 1 and 2 or amplifier. It also controls the rate for the arpeggiator. Arpeggiator: Range: 1-4 octave. Modes: up, down, up/down, random. Hold function
- Echo can be set between 1 to 8 repeats.
- Modulation envelope (attack, decay) for OSC 2 pitch,
- FM amount
- Pulse width.
Performance Section
- Play mode: Poly, legato, mono, unison mono, unison poly.
- Manual mode: Four program slots for layering possibilities.
- Portamento/auto portamento.
Percussion Kits
- 10 “analog” drum kits. Each percussion kit consists of 8 independent sounds, configurated in 8 zones across the keyboard.
Memory
- Programs (single sounds): 396 (4x99) user, 594 (6x99) factory.
- Performances (multi sounds): 100 user, 300 (3x100) factory.
- Percussion kits (multi zone sounds): 40 (4x10) user.
Audio Out
- 4 outputs. Each slot has its own output.
- Modes: stereo, mono and multi-timbral mode.
- Headphones out.
- High-resolution low noise 18-bit DACs.
MIDI Features
- All control knobs and switches for program editing send and receive control change messages.
- System exclusive bulk dumps. One program or all programs.
- MIDI clock synchronizing LFO 1 and LFO 2/arpeggiator restart.
- Triggering of the filter and amplifier envelopes and velocity control from separate programmable MIDI channel and note numbers.
Dimensions
- 865(W) 265(D) 105(H)
Weight
- 5.3 kg (11.7 lbs)