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NL4 users, I'm interested in getting your feedback on this ...
Are you using the Impulse Morph feature of the NL4 a lot in your productions ? Do you feel it is a very useful feature that helps you make cooler Synth tracks ? or are you rarely using it ?
I prefer the potentiometers personally but the implementation is bad and dates by more than a decade plus. Particularly upsetting is the lack of any meaningful response from Clavia. The falling on deaf ears routine sucks.
I absolutely love the impulse morph feature. I use it way more than the wheel or the pitch stick. Like a lot of people have said on this forum the NL4 can be quite an aggressive synth and I think the impulse morphs definitely play to that (I can't see how you could use them in a "nice" way because the lack of any interpolation is so jarring). I was a big fan of Rage Against the Machine when I was younger and the guitarist Tom Morello would rhythmically "play" a modified pick up selector on his guitar to make cool textural changes while playing. The impulse morphs feel to me like the synth equivalent of Tom Morello's pickup selector and is great fun for adding rhythmic texture to a synth part, or just making it sound like the synth is going to explode.
It's just a shame the buttons are so noisy because rapidly hammering on the impulse buttons makes a huge racket.
or are you rarely using it ? 
