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Postby Venatt » 12 Jun 2017, 02:24

I have a BIG DILEMMA, two years ago I bought the Nord Lead 4 which sounds super cool however for me is not that easy to use. When I see videos from the Nord Lead A1 I am blown away with its sounds and I read the comments that it is easy to use. I don''t know if I should sell the NL4 and get the NL A1 or keep the NL4. I would supposed the NL4 can do everything the NLA1 does since it cost more ???

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Re: BIG DILEMMA

Postby Puukka » 13 Jun 2017, 08:37

I wouldn´t swap.

I just bought the A1, because it´s bit smaller (good for my small room/studio) and cheaper.
My guess is, that lot of people think, the A1 sounds better or more analog because the factory sounds use (for my taste often too much) of FX.
When I listen to Lead 4 Demos, they seem to be more at the dry side.

The Lead 4 is for me more the classic synth with 2 independend oscillators, 2 LFO, 2 complete ADSR, A1 offers one oscillator with one slaved, 1 LFO, 2 ADR.
On the other side the A1 offers a mighty FX section, with chorus, ensemble,....being able to use delay and reverb same time.
But If you are used to record the synth to audio (freezing tracks), instead of MIDI controlled parts using the 4 slots, you could add FX at the DAW.

I´m currently studying the factory sounds of the A1, from the 350 Patches about 20 are my favorite "wow" sounds, about 100 will be usable for my music, some of these are similar sounding, especially synth brass/strings pads and sawtooth lead sounds, I guess I´ll end using about 70 patches for my songs.

I´d only swap a NL4 or my A1 when the next model will feature samples, too, as the Stage 3 integrated A1 is able to.

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