Nord Lead 3 Synthesizer

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Nord Lead 3 for fat polyphonic sounds

With the Nord Lead 3 swedish manufacturer Clavia introduces Adjustable Unison without voice reduction. Ten detuned oscillators per note, synched or non-synched, with full polyphony are already promising. But by hitting the mono-switch the sound becomes even fatter by launching all Nord Lead 3 oscillators in a single keystroke.
Nord Lead 3 comes with 20-voice polyphony. There are two separate oscillator groups, each providing six different waveforms, plus an additional built-in sync oscillator. The extra sync oscillators makes it possible to create two separately synched waveforms per voice. There is no need to sacrifice an audio oscillator just to sync another. Clavia also introduces Sinus Modulation (SM) - a very hands-on form of FM. The Filter section of Nord Lead 3 holds two separate multi-mode filters which can be routed in series or in parallel, making it possible to create multi-peak filters with adjustable peak spread. Select between LP, BP, HP, LP-HP, LP-LP and Classic mode. The Classic filter emulates the characteristics of a classic analog filter.
Nord Lead 3 offers up to 3 LFOs/Envelopes per voice plus the additional Global Vibrato. Each LFO can also be hard-synched to MIDI clock. A Morph function allows the continuous control of up to 26 parameters in a sound, using only a single control source. There are four Morph groups available for each sound and you may assign up to 26 different parameters. The Morph groups are hardwired to one control source each: Velocity, Aftertouch, Modulation Wheel and Expression Pedal. With the Timbre function you can switch between two complete parameter setups in a sound.
Clavia combines endless rotary knobs with circular LED graphs for optimized control delivering full visual overview of a sound any time. As soon as a new sound is selected, the values of all parameters are shown instantly by the parameter LEDs, and you can adjust the knobs from their current positions without glitches. Nord Lead 3 responds to both Aftertouch and Velocity from its internal keyboard and sends/receives over MIDI.
Nord Lead 3 is 4-part multitimbral with dynamic voice allocation. Each part (Slot) can send and receive MIDI on a separate MIDI channel.