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RetroMod Lead Black Friday pricing takes 40% off this Tracktion virtual instrument, bringing it to $47.40 until Nov 6, 2026.
It is a sample-based instrument built from six Clavia machines. Each one was sampled note by note, at multiple velocities, across 5 octaves.
Every category of sound was captured. That covers pads, electric pianos, leads and metallic textures in the vein of a PPG.
The maker describes it as more than a straight reproduction of a few Clavia synthesizers. It is a blend of them, with the pieces chosen on purpose.
One example the maker gives: the attack of an FM piano from a modern NordLead A1, paired with the raw body of an early NordLead 1. The aim is a single instrument with its own character.
The source list:
The signal chain used for sampling was an Avalon U5, an A-Design Reddi, a BSS AR-133, an Apogee Mini-Me and VoVox cables. RetroMod Lead has no connection to Clavia Digital and was built without any involvement from that company.
The numbers the maker gives:
Plan your drive space around the 9.8 GB. Samples are the whole engine here, so the library is the instrument.
On Mac, RetroMod Lead runs on macOS 10.9 or later, in 32 and 64-bit. It comes as AU, AAX and VST.
On Windows, it supports Windows 7, 8 and 10, in 32 and 64-bit, as AAX and VST.
Both platforms list an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz processor and 2GB of RAM as the minimum. The maker recommends 8GB of RAM.
Yes. The RetroMod Lead Black Friday deal takes 40% off, which brings the Tracktion instrument to $47.40. The offer ends Nov 6, 2026.
RetroMod Lead ships with 413 presets built on 30,000 samples, totalling 9.8 GB. The samples come from six Clavia instruments, recorded note by note at multiple velocities across 5 octaves.
Yes, it is available as a VST plugin on both Mac and Windows. Mac also gets AU and AAX versions, and Windows gets AAX. Mac needs macOS 10.9 or later, Windows needs Windows 7, 8 or 10.
Six Clavia instruments: NordLead 1, NordLead 2, NordLead 3, NordLead A1, Nord Modular G1 and Nord Drum. The maker says it blends them, for example pairing an A1 FM piano attack with the raw body of a NordLead 1.
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