Specifications Nord Lead 3

POLYPHONY

  • 24 voices. 4 part multitimbral.

PERFORMANCE CONTROLLERS

  • 4-octave Velocity and Aftertouch sensitive keyboard with Octave Shift functionality (+/- 2 octaves).
  • Keyboard Split (two sections). Modulation Wheel. Pitch Stick with no dead zone at zero crossing.
  • Chord Memory / Stack.
  • Keyboard Hold.
  • Sustain Pedal and Control Pedal input.

USER INTERFACE

  • 2 x 16 character backlit LCD and 3-digit LED.
  • 26 rotary encoder knobs with circular LED graphs for instant control.
  • 4 regular knobs and 45 buttons.
  • Big Rotary Dial encoder for system editing, sound selection, MIDI functions etc.

ARPEGGIO

  • Master Clock / MIDI-synchable Arpeggiator with Sub Arpeggiator and Mask function.

VIBRATO

  • Global Vibrato that affects all voices in the sound. Controllable from Mod Wheel or Aftertouch.

GLIDE

  • Glide, Auto Glide. Polyphonic Glide (in Legato mode). Rate control.

VOICE MODE

  • Monophonic, Monophonic with Highest or Lowest Note Priority, Monophonic Legato, Monophonic Legato with Highest or Lowest Note Priority, Polyphonic Legato (with polyphonic Glide if you like)

UNISON

  • Adjustable stereo Unison with retained full polyphony. 5 detuned virtual voices per note (2 in the left channel, 2 in the right channel and 1 in the center)

MODULATION SECTION

  • LFO1 and LFO2, each featuring: Master Clock / MIDI-synchable LFO. 6 waveforms: Square, Triangle, Sawtooth, Random Step, Smooth Random, Special. 12 destinations. Free running / Hard-sync / Single Cycle and Mono modes. Rate and Amount controls. Separate LFOs for each voice.
  • MOD ENV: Attack / Decay or Attack / Release Envelope with Lin / Exp Attack. Envelope / Repeat modes. 12 destinations. Attack, Decay / Release and Amount controls. Separate Envelopes for each voice.

OSCILLATOR SECTION

  • OSC1 and OSC2 with six shapable waveforms each: Triangle, Sawtooth, Pulse, Sine, Noise and Dual Sine. 1 additional sync oscillator per oscillator group.
  • Dual Sine mode for 2 or 4 operator FM synthesis. Synchable Noise for formant type of sounds.
  • OSC1: Shape / Sync / DFM Amount control.
  • OSC2: Coarse Tuning / Modulator semitones,
  • Fine Tuning / Carrier partial, Shape / Sync / FM Amount and Keyboard Tracking controls.
  • Oscillator Modulation featuring Distortion, Linear FM, Differential FM, Filter FM, AM/RM, Distortion Modulation and Noise.
  • Oscillator Mix / Noise control.

AMPLIFIER SECTION

  • ADSR Envelope with Lin / Exp Attack. Level (Gain) controls.

FILTER SECTION

  • Single Filter Mode: Lowpass 6, 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Highpass 6, 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Bandpass 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Band reject 12 or 24 dB/Octave, Classic Lowpass 24 dB/Octave, Distorted Lowpass 12 or 24 dB/Octave. Frequency and Resonance controls.<7li>
  • Multi Filter Mode: HP-LP in series 12 dB/Octave, HP-LP in parallel 12 dB/Octave, LP-BP in parallel 12 and 6+6 dB/Octave, BP-BP in parallel 2 x (6+6) dB/Octave, Multi Peak, Multi Notch. 2 x Frequency and 1 Resonance controls.
  • ADSR Envelope with Lin / Exp Attack, Envelope Amount / Velocity, Positive / Invert. Keyboard Tracking and Oscillator Bypass controls.

MORPH GROUPS

  • Four separate Morph groups per sound. Up to 26 parameters can be assigned to each Morph Group. Control sources: Keyboard Velocity, Keyboard Range, Keyboard Aftertouch/Control Pedal, Mod Wheel.

MEMORY

  • Flash Memory (no backup battery required).
  • 8 x 128 (1024) Programs and 2 x 128 (256) Performances and OS. SysEx Dumps via MIDI to and from a sequencer / computer.

MIDI

  • All knobs and buttons for sound editing send and receive MIDI Control Change Messages.
  • MIDI SysEx bulk dumps: single Program or complete Program Banks, single Performance or complete Performance Banks. MIDI Clock hard-sync of LFOs and Arpeggiator.

CONNECTIONS

  • 4 separate assignable Audio outputs
  • Headphones
  • Control Pedal input
  • Sustain Pedal input
  • MIDI IN, MIDI OUT, MIDI THRU.
  • Detachable power cord.

MEASUREMENT

  • Nord Lead 3 870 mm ("), 278 mm ("), 100 (")
  • Nord Rack 3 mm ("), mm ("), mm (")

WEIGHT

  • Nord Lead 3 6,3 kg (lb)
  • Nord Rack 3 kg (lb)