nord lead how to make panning effects

Im finalyy getting around to working more in depth with my nord lead2x. Finalyy getting more in depth with it.

So my question is: how to i go about doing panning effects?

Say if i want to have oscillator 1 in the left and oscillator 2 in the right, and then switch the panning... How would i do that?

You can't. THe NL1/2/2X are really mono leads to all intents and purposes, however in the magic combinatio modes, you can set up different programs/voices to output from separate outputs that you can the post-process into something interesting. You don't get both oscillators though.

WHat you really want is a G2

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I guess panning was the wrong word.. there are some presets on there that alternate from left to right..

so i make a combo... patch 1 would be my pad and patch 2 would be my noise.

One would go to output a, two would go to output b

i got that now... So how do i get them to alternate?

Personally, I'd wire them into a G2 or even a fireworx fed by MIDI and use that, but doubling the patches with out of phase sine LFOs should emulate left-right panning well enough. Easy enough on an MS2000 or virus, fiddly on a NL.

Again, this isn't the sort of thing I'd do with a NL

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Sound panning from one output to another means nothing else than alternating the volume for each channel, out of phase (or polarity, which in this case has the same effect).

Set an LFO with a triangle waveshape on the amp on patch 1 in your combination, set an identical LFO on the amp on patch 2 in the combination - but its polarity should be reversed. So, while one LFO goes up (increasing the volume) the other one should go down at exactly the same tempo. When both have reached their maximums (at the same time), the effect reverses.

Ideally you'd use an effects box for that, because this just eats up polyphony.

If this takes place in a single patch, it simply means the same story; just per oscillator. Since the Nord Leads have just 2 oscillators, you could let a single LFO control the Osc1/Osc2 mix ratio.

The issue is how to get LFOs that are kept phase locked but inverted between patches, and how to route them to achieve osc/noise balance... on a NL2.

As I've said, it's easy to do on other things

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any more tips?

If you say you've got patches or programs which already do what you want, the best thing to do is to try to take them apart to see how they work.

This is unfortunately difficult to do on a NL2 without feedback for current settings. I plan to write a patch-dumper for it that gives you a better idea of how a particular patch is put together (and for other synths), but the project is on the back burner for the moment.

You might try this approach anyway.

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This is why mixers should have LFO's.

Too often someone asks for advice about a certain piece of gear they have saved for and finally bought  , only to be told by some cretin (that is you packrat) to go and get another synth. This is reduntant and is clogging up the internet with eroneous info.  Its like someone asking for directions to the Post Office and the cretin (that's you packrat) telling you " oh you dont want to use USPS  , go to the FEDEX office.

If you dont know  , dont bother replying.  

Same goes to you, Andrew. You obviously haven't spent much time with a NL2X and as such, you don't know nuttin'.

The NL2X has many strenghts - wacky modulation routings is unfortuneately not one of them. Its sources and destinations are fixed, and you can't fiddle with panning. The four separate outputs allow for flexibility in a larger setup, but directly out of the synth, there's

no such thing. You'll find that probably in a Virus, or in the Dave Smith synths, which are notorious for their