Blimey! Nord Electro is Shipping

US It's finally here, in 61 and 73 key versions      01/08/01

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And now, the keyboard that you’ve all (well some) been waiting for: The Nord Electro - Virtual Electromechanical, is now shipping! Its sound and performance has now been tweaked way beyond the model originally shown at the Frankfurt Musikmesse last year. Clavia claims the new Nord Electro to be the world´s best stage keyboard with an obvious place in every keyboard players rig. Clavia’s goal was to create the best emulations of traditional electromechanical keyboard instruments, but to make the instrument compact and lightweight (I imagine only a few of you know what it’s like to carry the real thing up a flight of stairs or two). Nothing else.
  • The organ in the Electro is based on a digital simulation of the mechanical tone wheels of the B-3 organ.
  • The piano section comprises four carefully multi-sampled electric piano instruments: Rhodes Mk II Stage Piano, Wurlitzer 200A, Clavinet D6 and CP-80 Electric Grand. The Electro features a unique multi-sample playback, catching every nuance from soft to hard hits. As an extra bonus they also included an acoustic grand piano (concert model)! The big advantage with storing the sounds in Flash memory is that you can replace instruments with new ones and that no backup battery is required. The Electro also sports a USB interface for quick and easy download of new piano sounds in the future. Nord Electro comes in two different versions: the 5-octave Nord Electro SixtyOne and the 6-octave Nord Electro SeventyThree. Both models weigh less than 10 kgs! The Nord Electro will certainly set apart on stage, in studios and in shops with its awesome sound quality and striking design. Simply put: welcome to The Ultimate Stage Keyboard! Technical specifications
    Organ section
  • >Polyphony: Full polyphony
  • 9 electric drawbars with memory functionality: The drawbars of Nord Electro are represented by up/down buttons and LED bar graphs instead of ordinary mechanical drawbars. This gives you a big advantage: when you change presets, the correct drawbar settings are shown immediately by the LEDs. In other words, no need for the regular ’trial and error’ method. It's very easy to get the hang of changing the drawbar settings in a natural way with the buttons.
  • Drawbar settings presets: 9 drawbar presets in ROM and 9 user configurable drawbar settings.
  • Effects: Swell (the characteristic B-3 volume pedal function) - Percussion (2nd, 3rd, normal/soft, fast/slow). Chorus/Vibrato (C1, C2, C3/V1, V2, V3).
  • Keyboard Split: Makes it possible to play an organ sound with two different drawbar settings (Lower and Upper manuals) on the internal keyboard.
  • Dual manuals - MIDI Split: Nord Electro is designed to support an extra MIDI keyboard in addition to its own. This makes it possible to play the Nord Electro as a 2-manual (Lower and Upper manuals) organ with different drawbar settings for each manual.

    Electric piano section
  • Instruments: 4 multi-sampled electric piano instruments in Flash memory: Rhodes Mk II Stage Piano, Wurlitzer 200A, Clavinet D6 and CP-80 Electric Grand. As an extra bonus we also included an acoustic grand piano (concert model)!
  • Effects: Presence (EQ featuring Frequency and Amount controls).

    Global features:
  • Memory: 48 user memory locations (6 Banks holding 8 Programs each) in which you can store complete setups, including instrument settings (organ or piano) and effects settings.
  • Effects: Overdrive, Rotary Speaker simulation (slow, fast, stop), Equalizer, Chorus (2 types), Flanger (2 types), Phaser (2 types), Tremolo, Wah-Wah (2 types), Auto Wah, Auto panning and Ring modulation.
  • Keyboard: 61-key (5 octaves) or 73-key (6 octaves) velocity sensitive semi-weighted ”waterfall” (square front) keyboard.
  • Connections: 2 Audio outputs, 1 Headphone output, 1 Control pedal input, 1 Sustain pedal input, 1 Rotary Speaker speed switch pedal input, MIDI In, MIDI Out. USB interface for fast and easy download of new piano sounds in the future.
  • Weight: 7.8 kg (Nord Electro SixtyOne), 9.4 kg (Nord Electro SeventyThree). Specifications subject to change without notice PRICE:
    Nord Electro SixtyOne: approximately US$ 2,000 or Euro 2,200
    Nord Electro SeventyThree: approximately US$ 2,200 or Euro 2,500 Shipping now.
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