Hmmm. This was the first Virtual Analog I ever bought. I love this thing, but it has some irritating limitations! It sounds like a Prophet 5. Very crunchy and great high pass filter! But the bottom end is weak. You cannot get phat bass out of this thing unless you run it through a pre amp and even then it cannot touch the virus or the jp-8080. I do like the lead sounds a lot, and it makes some really cool wacky sounds as well. The bass is weak but better than sampled bass or xp-50 bass. This also suffers like the JP-8080 in what you can assign the lfos to. What I really hate about this unit is that the knobs even though there are tons of them do not send midi information, so you cannot records knob movements like you can with the virus, an1x, & jp-8080.

The sounds are kind of weak unless you tweak them. WEAK ARPEGGIATOR! You can make this thing scream and do very cool analog sounding things. Portamento is okay, but not as good as the jp-8080. I find that the high pass filter on this is the best of the bunch! The crunchy sound is good, but i think the virus is a bit better at that as well. 2 outputs and no inputs :( I think i like this unit more than the Pulse Plus, but not as much as the virus, an1x, jp-8080.

It does beat the jp-8080 in the timber department, you can have 4 sounds at once and i had my board expanded to 12 voices + the drum kits (drum sounds are good). You can only save 40 sounds which is a bummer! It is not a bad virtual analog, but I like the virus, jp-8080 a lot more because they are a lot more versatile. All the sounds on the nord start to sound the same after a while. This makes it limited big time. The Nord Lead 2 has 4 outputs, but mine is fully expanded so that is the only difference between my nord and the nord 2. This synth was used on Calling ov the Dead and Fun With Knives.