The Nord Electro from Clavia has two varieties which are the Sixty One- and the Seventy Three-octave keyboards. The number of keys are the only thing differentiating the two varieties. Their sound generators come in two sections, a fully phonic virtual organ and some sampled piano.
The organ section has nine LED bar-graph meters plus nine pairs of in/out buttons that will enable you to push harmonics and and out. This system replaces the work of drawbars. It is possible simultaneously to adjust all the harmonics. Above the virtual bars are three sets of additional controls for the Manual, Vibrato and Percussion sections. You can move over to the piano section by pressing the Instrument Select switch. There is a total of five electric piano samples.
Electro’s MIDI continuous controllers enables musicians to create great performances. You can sequence all changes including live tweaks to the equalizer and the effects. Another electroacoustic instrument sample found in the Electro is the acoustic grand piano that sounds rather uninspiring, though not bad overall, lacking the dynamics of a a well simulated piano sound. Once you have picked out the piano sound you like, it is possible to tweak it using a program called Presence, which is a peaking filter that can add +18dB at the middle of the frequency you prefer within the range 200Hz to 4kHz. The keyboard is equipped with a USB interface that will let you download more piano sounds.
With the Electro, you get first class sounds, organ chorus and vibrato, rotary speaker and effects. You do not really need the manual to set it up and the MIDI control for all the parameters is a bonus.
Author: Todd Johnson
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