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1995 · Clavia
Nord Lead
The imitation that proved the point.
The Nord Lead is a 'virtual analog': a DSP that models oscillators and filters in software, in a bright red case with one knob per function.
That a digital instrument's selling point was sounding and feeling analog says a lot about the decade before it. It closes this story.
- Synthesis
- Virtual analog (DSP)
- Voices
- 4, expandable to 12
- Keys
- 49
- Interface
- One knob per function