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Slot A - D

The Nord Lead A1 has 4

Slots, labeled A to D. Each

Slot can be loaded with one

program. Slots can be used

one by one in Program Mode or together in Performance Mode.

M Slot LEDs are red in Program Mode, green in Performance Mode

and yellow when you enter the Menus.

The Slot buttons can be used to quickly change from one program in

one Slot to another Program in another Slot.

To change the active Slot, simply press a single Slot button. To activate

additional Slots, hold one Slot button and press the buttons of the ad-

ditional Slots you wish to activate. Any combination of the four slots is

possible, by pressing two or more Slot buttons at the same time.

Deactivate a Slot

Hold an active Slot button and press another active Slot button to de-

activate that other Slot.

Panel Focus

The Slot with a ﬂashing LED has the Panel Focus, it is this sounds that

will be edited from the panel. To move the Panel Focus, press another

button of an active Slot.

Multi Focus

Multi Focus allows you to

change settings simultane-

ously on all the active Slots in

a performance (or a multi-Slot

scenario). Press Multi Focus

and all the active Slot’s LEDs

will ﬂash. Any parameter

change you make on the

panel will affect all the Slots.

Active Multi Focus will be stored in a performance.

Soloing a Slot

Double-click on an active Slot in a multi-slot selection to solo this Slot.

Press on any of the other Slot buttons to exit.

Incoming MIDI

If a Slot has been assigned a MIDI channel in the MIDI menu, incoming

MIDI on this channel will control this Slot, even if it is not active on the

Nord Lead A1 panel. This makes it possible to have quite advanced

MIDI setups with some Slots being controlled from the A1 keyboard,

and other Slots from external MIDI units. Read more on this in the MIDI

Chapter on page 32.

System - MIDI - Sound

Shift and System, MIDI or Sound buttons enters the menus where

global settings are made. Read more about the menu settings on page

30.

Master Clock

Shift + Slot D displays the tempo of the Master Clock. Change the

tempo by turning the Program Dial, or by tapping repeatedly on the

Mst Clk button. The tempo can be set from 30 to 300 BPM.

Four consecutive taps are needed to make a tempo change, more taps

can be used after those initial four. The ﬁrst tap will show the current

tempo in the display, the three taps after the ﬁrst will present a dot that

moves across the bottom of the display to indicate the position of the

taps in the 4/4 beat.

Octave Shift

Transpose the sound in the focused Slot with the

Octave Shift buttons. Range: -2. -1, 0, +1, +2

octaves.

No octave shift is applied when the center LED is

lit. This parameter will be stored in a Program.

•LEDs to the right of the center LED will indicate a shift upwards.

•LEDs to the left of the center LED will indicate a shift downwards.

M Keyboard messages from the Nord Lead A1’s MIDI Out will not be

transposed.

Keyboard Octave Shift

Keyboard Oct Shift transposes the keyboard in octaves for the entire

instrument. The LEDs will be in a inverted state to indicate that you

are in the Keyboard Octave Shift mode. The setting of the Keyboard

Octave Shift will be stored in a performance.

M MIDI Note messages at the MIDI output will be transposed.

Split

Split divides the keyboard in two part. Slots A and B are

controlled by the lower part, Slots C and D by the upper

part.

Setting the Split point

Hold Shift + Split and press a key on the keyboard to set the split point.

The key you press is indicated in the display and will become the low-

est key of the upper range. The Split parameter and the split point will

be stored in a performance.

Hold

Use Hold together with Hold Enable to create notes

and chords with inﬁnite length, they will continue to

sound when keys are released. This can be used to

create drones or hold arpeggios. The Hold parameter

will be stored in a performance.

Hold Enable

A program must have Hold Enable active to be held with the Hold fea-

ture. The separate Hold Enable feature makes it possible to enable and

disable Hold on selected programs in a performance. The Hold Enable

parameter will be stored in a program.

Shift/Exit

Shift is used together with other buttons or knobs to

access additional functions. The name of the additional

functions are printed below the buttons and knobs.

Pitch Stick

The Pitch Stick is used to bend notes. The

range is set with the Bend Range parameter,

see page 19.

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