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Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Duplobaustein » 30 Aug 2016, 22:48

The A1r is not mentioned anymore on the Clavia homepage. What's giong on? :?

http://www.nordkeyboards.com/products/nord-lead-a1
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Re: Nord Lead A1r discontinued?

Postby Muziksculp » 30 Aug 2016, 23:19

Looks like the NL4-r has also been pulled out of their product list.

http://www.nordkeyboards.com/products/nord-lead-4

I wonder why ?
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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Duplobaustein » 30 Aug 2016, 23:39

Don't sell probably.
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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Muziksculp » 30 Aug 2016, 23:42

Don't Sell ? :roll:

I Purchased both ! and would have not purchased the keyboard versions. (Strange decision from Clavia).

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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby jfenton » 31 Aug 2016, 00:04

Hopefully the left the support documents up on their web site still.
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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby pablomastodon » 31 Aug 2016, 03:42

I have not seen a formal announcement about this, but I am tech support, not sales, so perhaps I was left out of the distribution list for any communications about this...? Muziksculp, I happen to agree with you in general principle. I almost always prefer rack version (although on NL4 the keyed version is much more useful for Impulse Morph). However, I strongly suspect that you and I are in a minority here, outliers in the grand masses of electronic instrument purchasers. Clearly, if these were actually selling in significant numbers, Nord would not discontinue them. It may therefore be safe to guess that they are not selling in significant numbers. We must therefore place the blame on the masses in the market who are not buying them, and not on Nord who "gave it the old college try, despite having already been down that road previously with what were probably similar results. In these times of increasing VST presence, hardware will seemingly continue to become more and more scarce. Yes, the modular scene has made a resurgence, but these are mostly boutique things, just as vinyl has made a small resurgence.
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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Gustavo » 01 Sep 2016, 06:33

Too bad, I was planning on buying a NL 4R in a few months :(
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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Marlowes » 01 Sep 2016, 12:15

According to the Swedish 99musik.se forum today, Clavia support confirmed that the rack versions are extinct due to low demand.

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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Muziksculp » 01 Sep 2016, 16:48

Desktops don't sell ?

Then why is Korg releasing this great analog synth in a desktop model, and will be shipping next month, (hehe ... I want one of those).

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Re: Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

Postby Duplobaustein » 01 Sep 2016, 17:25

Monophonic vintage analog synth vs. VA Synth.

Big company vs. small company.

Gustavo wrote:Too bad, I was planning on buying a NL 4R in a few months :(


I guess they will still be in stock of shops quite a while.
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