This review is from: Nord Electro 3, 73-Key Electronic Stage Piano and Organ (AMS-NE373)I sold my Electro 2 so I could partially buy the latest model. After using it a few weeks it's clear how much better it could have been. Here are the good and bad:Good:- New sounds including Vox Continental, Farfisa, harpsichords and samples.- Better Hammond organ sound.- Better piano sounds but they take up a lot of memory and do not have keyboard resonance features of the Nord Stage EX.- Sample software allows you to create your own sounds, organize your patches and is easy to use.- More built-in effects including reverb, compression and 3 different amplifier distortions.- USB (not MIDI) interface to download patches.Bad:- Limiting up/down buttons plus A/B patch selector makes it difficult to get to the sounds you want quickly. The Electro 2 had 8 buttons plus bank up/down which is more useable.- Unergonomic button layout makes navigation difficult. For example, the shift button is too far from the organ presets making it impossible to play and switch presets at the same time.- Lack of effect amount knobs as on the Electro 2. You are stuck with toggling through only 3 preset amount settings.- Ring modulation should not be an oscillator like tremelo. The Electro 2 is correct. - New Vox and Farfisa sounds aren't that accurate.-- Expression pedal always effects organ volume so there is no way to do Wah-Wah organ.- Only 64 MB of onboard sample library memory means you'll be limited to how many sounds you can use at a time.- Sample software is limiting and doesn't allow for more than one sample per key, assigning polyphony, glide (portamento) or other patch functions.- No pitch wheel. Nord provides many synthesizer samples but, there's no way to control them. The Electro 3 cannot receive pitch bend MIDI commands from another keyboard either.- No modulation wheel. Why bother having any synthesizer sounds without modulation.- Same non-weighted keyboard feels junky.- Expensive.[DW]...
This review is from: Nord Electro 3, 73-Key Electronic Stage Piano and Organ (AMS-NE373)This instrument has amazing organ and electric piano sounds to say the least. The B3 organ sound is very close to my Hammond XK3 which is known to be the best digital organ in the business.The Fender Rhodes Mark I, II, III & IV Models are amazingly accurate to the real ones, I know since I have played a Mark II and compared both boards, and in fact the real one needed some work and didn't sound as good. The Rhodes Mark II, & IV used with the tremolo effect is simply over the top and will impress anyone who loves the real Rhodes Pianos, especially other musicians. The Clavinet and sound effects are incredible, the wah-wah effect really sounds good when used in conjunction with the Clavinet and can really get quick attention in a rock band. The guitars can take a long break when a good player knows how to use these effects, sorry guitar players.The Farfisa and Vox especially can really shrill and make the hairs on your neck stand up, and for people under 40, this organ will be an education.The Wurlitzer sounds acceptable but falls a bit short, night quite as meaty as the real deal but can still git-r-done in a band setting. The acoustic piano patches are the achilles heel of this board and Nord needs to continue their efforts on this. I downloaded a 9' Steinway-D Concert Grand from the Nord site and it did not come close to my Yamaha P250 Stage piano over a PA system or powered monitor, it lacks the realistic sound and is not convincing in this department.This board overall however is very satisfying since I bought it for the vintage sounds and light weight and it certainly can't be beat in those categories. All the functions are intuitive and geniously thought out for ease of use, Yamaha needs to take notes in this area since they are clueless. Great Board!! I recommend it to anyone who is looking for the real deal vintage sounds that will impress all musicians and is extremely portable, good job Nord!...
This review is from: Nord Electro 3, 73-Key Electronic Stage Piano and Organ (AMS-NE373)You need the sounds, and you want them in less than 20lbs? Here you go. The sounds are great. The organ is perfect. Just played my first gig with it and it sounded amazing- blended in perfectly with the other instruments. Organ cut through the guitars when it needed to and added background beef when appropriate. It's pricey, but I've yet to see a product as good as this.I read a review of it somewhere that complained about the fact that it was red: That's just stupid.You might be worried about the action- the keys are not weighted, but compared to all the over-easy synths I've played the action is great....
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