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PERCUSSION KITS
The percussion kits offer no less than eight simultaneously playable virtual-analogue sounds in a single slot, with only one limitation (each voice in a kit has to share LFO settings with its fellow drums). Each sound is mapped over a fixed area of the keyboard known as a zone. The eight zones are divided between notes 'C'-'E' and 'F'-'B' in each of the Nord Lead 2X's four octaves. An ingenious method of selecting the voice to edit involves simply hitting any black note within that zone. Having fixed zones means you can't work with General MIDI drum maps, but I suspect few potential Nord customers will be unduly worried by this! The analogue percussion voices supplied include zappy bass drums, noise-blast snares and toms, and metallic percussion, but you can tailor them all to taste using the Nord's synthesis options. They sound pleasantly Kraftwerk-like to me, especially when layered and arpeggiated in a Performance.