Product Description/Review
The perfect combination of heavy sounds and light weight!

The remarkably light Nord Electro 2 Sixty-One Stage Piano/Organ is a perfect gig rig. 61 velocity-sensitive semi-weighted waterfall keys and only 17 pounds. The best emulations of traditional electromechanical keyboard instruments ever.

The organ in the Electro 2 is based on the digital simulation of the mechanical tone wheels of the B-3 organ and it offers a number of very innovative solutions to mimic the B-3 sound. Such innovations include complex digital modeling of the original B3 chorus and vibrato scanner, simulation of the individual random contact bounces for each partial, and simulation of the unique frequency characteristics of the built-in preamplifier which forms the body of the B-3 sound. The drawbars are represented by up/down buttons and LED bar graphs. So when you change presets, the correct drawbar settings are shown immediately by the LEDs, avoiding the need for trial and error.

The piano section comprises several carefully multisampled electric piano instruments. As a bonus, it also includes an acoustic grand piano. The piano sounds are built up by a vast number of multisamples to catch every nuance from soft to hard hits. USB interface for quick and easy download of new piano sounds. Very flexible effects section including a rotary speaker simulation.

Includes v.2 software.

Nord Electro 2 Sixty-One Stage Piano/Organ Features:

* Drawbar settings presets:
* 8 drawbar presets plus a random preset function in ROM and 9 user drawbar settings

Keyboard Split:
* Makes it possible to play an organ sound with two different drawbar settings

Supports an extra MIDI keyboard in addition to its own for 2-manual play with varied drawbar settings

Electric piano section:
* Rhodes Mk I Stage Piano, Rhodes Mk I Suitcase Piano, Wurlitzer 200A, Clavinet D6 and the custom modified Clavia Electric Grand Model G, and stereo acoustic Malmsjoe grand piano

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

61-key (5-octave) velocity sensitive semiweighted "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 I/O, USB interface

Includes v.2 software