There is a new version of the most intrigueing keyboard i never owned

http://keyszone.boards.net/thread/221/nord-stage-3

And i must say... this would be something to replace the Kurzweil PC3X that currently resides under my Korg PA4x...

If it would have only had 4 synth/sample voices instead of 2, then i would have been convinced...

I was at our local music Store and played a Nord stage 2ex there for about 4 hours...

And it was one of those times that the musician in me won from the engineer... first off, the Nord cant compete to the Kronos where it comes to options and posibilities.. soemething that normally makes my decisions tick... but i must say, sound quallity was very very much comparable... often times even better as i really love the more organic sound of the Nord piano's and organs and synth to the more sterile and abstract sound of the Kronos..

But what cought me, was the workflow... where on todays arrangers and workstations we create a sound and then play with it, maybe having some articulations and/or a modulation to play with in real time... but everything is done preprepared ahead of time..

On the Nord stage, however, you are continously edditing your sound, much much more then on other instruments the interface encourages you to do so, much like a B3 player, that continously plays with switches drawbars and the rotary speaker to make his sound more dynamic... this does not only work well on the organ part of the Nord Stage, but also on the synth oart as well as on the effects..


This looks to be a perfect instrument to combine with a Ketron SD9 desktop version.. for when just the music counts....

The NORD is the Pros choice on stage just look around at all the big touring acts......

I know why Donny..

They are build like a truck
Quite light and small (espescially compared to Yamaha)
Sound great
Look cool
And are fun to play

They dont come with 1000's of sounds, but you can add whatever sounds you want.. you have totall freedom setting up your selected sounds

At Namm and Musik messe, the Nord stand is allways about music, and often turns into a nice jam..

Is that last picture of the piano player for Walk Off The Earth?

Asuming you dont mean Cory Henry

The righ one on the stage is Nick Semrad, he plays is a punk band..



Not really my kind of music, but from the video, he seems a great musician

Wish I could learn to play piano and accompany myself.

That Nord Stage 3 looks pretty cool.

Anybody ever go for the 76 key vs 88 key version?