Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

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Nord Lead 4r/A1r discontinued?

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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?

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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?

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Don't sell probably.
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Don't Sell ? :roll:

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

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

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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?

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

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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?

Post by Duplobaustein »

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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