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4
Press Hold Enable (Shift + Hold), and then Hold to hold the notes
you've played . Each Slot has a Hold Enable control, providing
greater flexibility when creating Performances .
5
Turn the LFO Rate knob, to set the division of the arpeggio . Hear
the arpeggio speed up or down as the divisions change . Find the
quarter note division ("4") and leave it there .
6
Hold the Mst Clk button and turn the Program Dial to set a tempo .
You can also tap the Mst Clk button to set a tempo . Four taps (or
more) are needed to determine a tempo .
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Feel free to adjust the filter and envelope settings to a short, nice
sound, I'll wait here . Oh, you're already done? Great, let's move
on .
You can change the range of the arpeggio with the LFO 1 Amount/
Range knob, from one to four octaves, but let's stick with 1 for now .
The LFO 1 Waveform selector acts as the arpeggio direction selection .
Press repeatedly to listen to the various directions .
Synced Delay repeats
Keep the arpeggio running and we'll add more things .
1
Turn both Delay knobs (Tempo & Dry/Wet) fully counterclockwise,
press Feedback once to light up the "1" LED .
2
Turn on the Delay, hold Shift and press Delay On a second time to
sync the delay to the Master Clock .
3
Turn the Delay tempo knob to select the Master Clock "8" division
and turn up the Dry/Wet mix until you hear the delay repeats .
The arpeggio will play quarter notes, and the delay repeats will be dot-
ted eight notes (the first repeat will "move" the following repeats by half
an 1/8 note) .
Sync the LFO
4
Lets add a synchronized LFO sweep . Enable the LFO 2 Master
Clock sync by holding Shift and pressing the LFO 2 Waveform
selector once .
5
Select the Triangle waveform and Filter destination .
6
Turn the LFO 2 rate to select "2b" (2 bars) and turn up the LFO
2 Amount knob a bit past the 12 o'clock position . If the LFO 2
Amount doesn't seem to do anything, try closing the Filter Fre-
quency a bit .
There are now quarter notes playing from the arpeggiator, with delay
repeats that are synced at 8 notes, and the LFO 2 that opens up the
filter once every 2 bars .
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Hold the Mst Clk button and turn the Program Dial . The tempo
changes and the three rhythmic things we have running in this
example all change simultaneously to reflect the new tempo .
M
A tempo setting will be stored in a Performance.
Patterns
If the LFOs and/or the Arpeggiator are synchronized to the Master
Clock, they can use a Pattern, instead of the traditional cyclic or repeti-
tive behavior . To enable the Pattern, turn the Rate knob fully clock-wise
- "PAt" will be shown in the Display .
There are 128 Patterns in the Nord Lead
4, with different rhythmic characteristics .
Patterns are organized in 6 different
types . Some of the Patterns are one bar
long, others are longer . Some are in 4/4;
others have other time signatures, there
are Patterns with shuffle or swing timings
as well .
Selecting a Pattern
With Mst Clk enabled and the Rate knob turned all the way to the right,
hold Shift + Pattern and turn the Program Dial . The Pattern Type and
number will be shown in the display .
Pattern changes can be made on the fly using the Impulse Morphs .
Hold down an Impulse button (or activate Morph Lock), hold Shift +
Pattern and turn the dial to a desired pattern number .
Examples
Let's change the cyclic arpeggio from the example above to a pattern
based repetition .
1
Make the arpeggio play just one note and turn the LFO 1 rate
knob clockwise all the way to the "Pat" symbol . The rhythm of the
arpeggio will now be the rhythm of the pattern .
2
Hold Shift + Pattern and turn the Program Dial to select the pat-
tern .
Across the Slots
There is one Master Clock tempo for each Performance . All Slots can
be in perfect sync with each other .
Sound Menu Kbd Sync
The Sound Menu setting "Mst Clk Kbd Sync" determines if the Master
Clock should be reset when you press a key . This type of reset can
have a hard or a soft behavior, the softer would allow for note changes
slightly ahead of the beat . The Kbd Sync feature can also be turned off,
letting the Master Clock run free .
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Display
Type
E .
Elementary
S .
Straight
G .
Groove
b .
Back beat
o .
Odd Meter
F .
Fills
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