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Hello to everyone,
I'm a new and happy owner of a Nord Lead 2X, which I use for almost everything both live and studio, from vintage pads to organs and digital synthetic pianos
This one is the first hardware VA I own, and I noticed - in some warm organ sounds, or mellow pads with LP24 almost closed - a slight saturation, also with the output volume and the ADSR gain not at their maximum levels. While opening the filter, the saturation seems to vanish through the high harmonics.
The distortion switch is obviously turned off, and I can listen to the effect (it reminds a sort of tape saturation) both with headphones and monitors.
I would like to ask if this is a normal behaviour of VA's and analog synthesizers.
Thank you for your time and help!
FRY
Last edited by pjfry on 31 Jul 2012, 12:25, edited 2 times in total.
It's Virtual Analog, so it's math and code running on DSPs. That gives designers quite a lot of flexibility (and opportunities to cut corners). I immediately believe you when you say you hear this happening - your ears are probably better than mine anyway.
My point, however, is that it is pretty hard to generalize about VAs. Just my 2 cents.
Last edited by mjbrands on 31 Jul 2012, 12:25, edited 2 times in total.
