Nord User Forum

Every synth - including any soft synth - has its own tonality.

If you purchased an NL4 because you liked it, there's no reason you should like it less now that the A1 is out.

rob_lee wrote:I love the Nord 4's i have here and when i first had one delivered i thought why 2 Talk fx.. i thought right away it was a rush job. These 2 FX sound the same, have one sure but having 2 is sort of a joke.
Rob

Not to mention the fact that the prototype first showed at NAMM had three talk fx!

I would have been more than happy with just one. Or something else altogether.

TrueTone500 wrote:So is anyone let down by the fact that the NLA1 has awesome effects and the NL4 doesn't? I LOVE the sounds I'm hearing from the A1! I'm glad I kept my NL3... The A1 and NL3 will be the ultimate Nord pairing!

I would be lying if I said I'd rather not have the A1 FX. I like the reverb on the nl4 but that's about it. Even the delay on the nl4 is a joke, it has no modulations, no pingpong, no filtering, no character.

TrueTone500 wrote:So is anyone let down by the fact that the NLA1 has awesome effects and the NL4 doesn't? I LOVE the sounds I'm hearing from the A1! I'm glad I kept my NL3... The A1 and NL3 will be the ultimate Nord pairing!

Yes, I'm a bit let down.

To my ears the NLA1 has a warmer sound than the NL4.

I'm not sure if this is due to the effects in the NLA1 or the actual synth engine. Surely I would love to have some of the newer effects the NLA1 has in my NL4 (Rack). Maybe it will warm it up a bit more.

i.e. The NL4 can produce warm Pads & Strings, but I have to coat the sound in lots of long Reverb, and it also takes a bit or careful programming to achieve this. My guess is the NLA1 can accomplish this faster, and easier. I also find it interesting that there are basically very few warm pads programmed into the presets of the NL4 when it ships, I had to program my NL4 (R) for quite some time to produce some warm Pads & Strings. and still feel it can do better if it had the right effects.

What do you think ?

I have no problem with making it sound warm tbh. And I think the NL4 sounds the same if we're talking about the features they share. But yeah the fx make a big difference. Here's a demo of someone who hooked the NL4 up to a strymon:

I think so. The NL4 does sound warm, i have no problem with that either. The effects on the A1 are great, lets hope they add them to the NL4.

@SB-Six: is this a timeline he is using on this demo ?

Bought a NL4 last week, i so enjoyed the nord drum 2 sound i had to try a synth from them. I knew about the A1 and after all i like more freedom from the NL4 to sculpt whatever i have in mind.

But in a price point of view, Nord should make it clear that the NL4 is a step up from the A1, there are too many crossovers between these two synths…

@SB-Six: is this a timeline he is using on this demo ?

Congrats on the new nord He used a timeline and bigsky.