If threatened with a pointy stick, I'd say that the 24dB low-pass filter sounds rather weedy when swept at high resonances, but the rather cool formant and phaser modes (which you won't find on the Nord) do go some way towards compensating for this.Įven without layering patches there's plenty on offer for thickening up the sound, including two types of distortion, a simple phaser/chorus, and a stereo delay. Whilst not seeming blandly digital, there's a notable smoothness to the sound, and I certainly wasn't able to distinguish any unpleasant aliasing characteristics amid much automating and twiddling of knobs. (Yes, Discovery actually includes a built-in arpeggiator - that feature so ofted neglected in soft-synth design - albeit one that doubles as the second LFO.)
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Though Discovery is not able to be deployed multitimbrally (a forgivable omission when multiple instances are available), each patch is otherwise completely independent, facilitating some nifty multi-arpeggiator action across several layers.
A particularly nice touch is that, unlike on the hardware synth, you can actually keep track of the morph status visually, with a 'ghosted' knob indicating the amount of morph sensing on each parameter.Īnother feature familiar to NL2 users is that which allows the stacking of up to four patches as a single program, enabling the creation of some really huge sounds. This provides a great deal of expressive potential, since it's possible to morph between two almost entirely different patches if need be.
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That's not to say it doesn't have some distinctive capabilities, most notably in the form of a 'morph layer', which translates as the ability to make every continuous parameter respond to either velocity or the mod wheel. Apart from a few variations here and there, Discovery boasts the same principal feature set, and a blue paint-job doesn't entirely obscure the resemblance of its attractively rendered interface to that of Clavia's synth.įor those not familiar with the Nord's format, Discovery is a fairly conventional subtractive synthesizer with a little bit of FM thrown in, the main architecture consisting of two oscillators, two LFOs, a modulation envelope and a single multi-mode filter.
Whilst you wouldn't glean any clues from the name, Disco DSP's Discovery VST synth - now at version 2 - is clearly an unabashed homage to a rather more modern beast than are most virtual-instrument recreations: the Clavia Nord Lead 2.
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