Nord Electro stage keyboard by Clavia

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Stage keyboard by Clavia: Nord Electro

Clavia's goal when developing Nord Electro was to create the best emulations of the traditional electromechanical keyboards in one compact and lightweight instrument.
The interface of the Electro is divided into two sections. You will find the tone wheel organ section on the left hand side and the electric piano section on the right. The organ in Nord Electro is based on a digital implementation of the mechanical tone wheels of the B-3 organ. It offers a complex digital model of the original chorus and vibrato scanner. The instrument includes simulations of the individual random contact bounces for each partial and of the unique frequency characteristics of the built-in pre-amplifier forming the "body" of the B-3 sound.
The organ section features 61-note polyphony from the internal keyboard and 122 notes using an additional MIDI keyboard to expand the Electro to a double-keybord instrument. Nine electric drawbars with memory functionality are represented by buttons and LED bar graphs. The drawbar settings are shown immediately by the LEDs. The swell is the distinctive B-3 volume pedal function. Other features include 2nd, 3rd, loud, soft, slow and fast percussion, chorus/vibrato, overdrive, rotary speaker simulation and a smooth morphing between two organ presets.
Six user presets store complete setups, including drawbar positions and effects settings. Nine drawbar presets and nine user presets give a wide range of immediately accessable sounds.
On the right hand side of the Nord Electro there is a selection of electromechanical pianos. Nord Electro features a multi-sample playback, catching every nuance from soft to hard hits. Nord Electro also sports a USB interface for quick and easy download of new piano sounds in the future.
Further features are a polyphony of at least 24 voices, six user presets to store complete setups including effects settings of overdrive, equalizer, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, wah-wah and auto-wah.
The Nord Electro offers keyboard split with two sections with selectable split point and it is designed to support an external MIDI keyboard in addition to its own.