Nord Lead 1 Voice Expansion

brizzer · Joined: Jan 06, 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Liverpool, England

Hi. New to the forum. Can anybody out there who's every expanded a Nord Lead from 4 voices to 12 give me any good advice on installing the expansion card? I've got one on order but would appreciate any tips.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:05 am Post subject:

brizzer

There will be a little manual included.
Keep some little container nearby to save the screws.
Try to avoid extra foldings in the multi cable underneath the board (cable power supply to motherboard.
Try to find a PCMCIA card which works.

Wout

brizzer · Joined: Jan 06, 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Liverpool, England

Thanks Wout. Appreciated. I'll let you know how I get on assuming I don't fry myself in the process.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject:

tixxican · Joined: Jul 03, 2008 Posts: 17 Location: UK

Hi Brizzer

I Expanded mine about 6 months ago and turned out very simple to do. You will be extremely happy with your new beast, it will add a new dimension!!

Let us know how you get on.

Wout Blommers · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:17 pm Post subject:

tixxican · Joined: Jul 03, 2008 Posts: 17 Location: UK

brizzer · Joined: Jan 06, 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Liverpool, England

Wout and Tixxican - Just completed the installation this morning and took all of 10 minutes. Biggest challenge was earthing my free hand!! As you say, an absolute transformation. Thanks guys for the advice and encouragement. Now, to seek out the PCMCIA cards..........Cheers!

Wout Blommers · Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:00 am Post subject: Re: Nord Lead Voice Expansion

brizzer · Joined: Jan 06, 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Liverpool, England

Thanks Wout. Will give them a go. Brizzer.

toddADSR · Joined: Oct 13, 2009 Posts: 19 Location: Colorado

Got my Nord 1 Voice Expansion yesterday (new in box on Ebay for $56) and it's such an easy and quick install that you could probably do it without the instructions as long as you have all the parts. But if anyone needs the instructions let me know and I can scan them and send them to you.

Spent the rest of the night dumping favourite sounds from Nordgen onto the PCMCIA cards for both my Nord Rack 1 and Nord Rack 2. What a great, simple but powerful program!

Wout Blommers · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

toddADSR · Joined: Oct 13, 2009 Posts: 19 Location: Colorado

Hi Wout,

You would likely know the answer to this:

Can the drum kit sounds be edited individually and new kits created? If so how do I access this ability to create new kits? If not, where are there more kits available to fill up the extra drum kit slots on the PCMCIA cards?

I have the Percussion Soundbank 1, is that my starting point?

Thanks!

Wout Blommers · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:37 pm Post subject:

The drum kits on the PCMCIA card are just three times the factory presets.
These can be changed in any way and saved on the card, not in the synths memory.

See a Percussion file as 8 separate synths. The zones act like a normal NL, like Unison or not, LFO/Arp Rate can be different in each zone, only the last played zone sets all LFO’s to that last Rate.
In practice one can load each zone using the same sound, only a different LFO Rate. This means when playing a note in the first zone with a low Rate, which is hold, after hitting a key with a different Rate the first sound will be set to that Rate. Experiment with it.

You can upload any sound into the Memory buffer and save it in Percussion mode.
I use Percussion banks with FX sounds in two or more Slots. Beware the 16 or 20 Voice limit is still the case.

Wout