Need help with a Nord Lead 2 sound I'm looking to create

I'm a Nord Lead 2 newbie. Nothing too complicated here - what I want is the ability to create a tone and change the pitch with a twist of a knob (not using the pitch control wheel, which I have trouble controlling in a live setting) - I have been able to do this somewhat with the OSC 2 Finetone - but generally that will change only part of what I'm hearing. Thinking the right answer has to do with using the LFO, but I can't seem to do it.

I'm thinking about something like recreating the siren part in Jailbreak - and I know I could use portamento to do this - but also looking for other uses and a way to manually control the pitch change.

Appreciate your help, thanks!

Phil

When you've got two oscillators, one is always assumed to be at the basic pitch. If you could detune both - say, to +3 and +5 semitones, the actual difference is 2 semitones, and you'd handle the rest with key transpose. It's a shortcut that saves another knob/button.

Consider the LFO to be a little robot that turns any knob for you up and down; nothing less, nothing more.

On the Nord you could use LFO 1, set it to Osc 1+2, turn the Rate completely down, and use the Amount knob to modify the pitch of both oscillators, but that's really kind of a roundabout way.

Emulating a siren generally means a triangular LFO routed to Osc 1/2, or better, just a single oscillator (set to square wave).

Also, it's nice that you use this song as an example, but I haven't ever heard of it and it doesn't help that you don't include the name of the artist. If you really want to score points, add a Youtube link.

You should try experimenting with the Modulation Envelope. It can modulate osc 2 frequency.

Sorry, it's a mid 70's Thin Lizzy song, my bad. I didn't understand where you were going with your first paragraph - I did understand your second, and it was helpful to me. That roundabout way you described - I think that may be what I'm going for - a manual knob to change the pitch of the overall sound you're hearing. I'll try your experiment on the siren deal too.

Thanks very much for your help, I really appreciate it!

Brandon, can you then tie osc 2 with osc 1's pitch so I'm not just changing the pitch on one of two tones I'm hearing?

Unfortunately the mod envelope can only modulate osc 2. I love the Lead 2, but it does lack it modulation. As mentioned, your best bet is using the LFO for moldating both oscillators. Unfortunately, the LFOs do not have a sine waveform, which would suit best for producing a siren-like pitch modulation. The closest thing is the triangle. You can select the triangle waveform in LFO 1 or just use LFO 2 which is only a triangle wave.