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  • Hi I'm Chris Martirano here with our great friends at Kraft Music. And I'll be showing

  • you the Nord Electro 5. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Bundles Kraft Music

  • has put together for you. All the great accessories you need to get the most our of your instrument.

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  • The Nord Electro 5 picks up where the Nord Electro 4 left off. It's available in three

  • keyboard models. You have the 5D in front of me here, 61 note with physical draw bars,

  • then there is the 73 note also with physical drawbars, both of those share this waterfall

  • keyboard design, no undercut on the front of the keys, the black keys taper back,

  • it's great for organ playing. And then there's an HP, there's an Electro 5 HP that has the

  • hammer weighted action, and that's also a 73 note keyboard.

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  • Nord took the Electro 4 and by listening to their end users very carefully added a host

  • of new features that bring this to a whole new level. One of the first things you'll

  • notice looking at it is this beautiful display. Not only does it feature graphics but all

  • of the feedback you get telling you what sounds you have and what drawbar configurations you have.

  • Lots of information, it's a beautiful addition. One of the other very important things

  • is now you can layer or split. On the Nord Electro 4 as you know, you had to select whether

  • you wanted a piano or electro-mechanical sound, or whether you wanted the organ.

  • Now you have this great ability each, they call it a lower part and an upper part, allows

  • you to select either an organ, a piano, or electro-mechanic sound, such as a Clav or

  • electric piano, or the synth. And the synth they're calling here is actually a sample player.

  • There's a huge library available for the sample player and a huge library available

  • for the piano and electro-mechanical instruments.

  • These are free to any user that buys the Nord Electro series.

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  • Another new feature that they added, which is really really great for the instrument,

  • is they added more memory to the piano section, so the piano electro-mechanical section

  • now can have 1 giggabyte of memory.

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  • Nord uses a proprietary data compression scheme with losless compression, so you can really

  • pack a lot of sound into this area. They have many new pianos, many new electro-mechanical

  • instruments too. And as I said, they're free. Let me go through some of these great pianos.

  • This one is an Italian grand, and we'll listen to a little bit of that.

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  • The pianos are featuring the sympathetic string resonance and also the sound board modeling,

  • so the pianos are very realistic. Of course there's the Lady D that you probably heard

  • in the Electro 4 or even in the stage model. I'm gonna show you one of the newer ones.

  • This one they're calling Studio Grand II.

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  • Speaking of pianos, this section, the piano and electro-mechanical section, features forty

  • to sixty voices of polyphony. It's it's own engine, it does not rely on any global engines,

  • so if I use the organ, I'm not taking any polyphony away from the piano. Or if I use

  • the sample player, I'm not taking any polyphony away. In fact, the sample section has got

  • fifteen voices of polyphony dedicated just to it's own engine. Let's listen to a few

  • of the electric pianos which of course has established Nord. You see red all over the

  • stages on late night talk shows, you see it in concerts, and it primarily it's because

  • of these great organ and electro-mechanical sounds. Here's a Mark I Rhodes piano, and

  • I'm gonna put a little bit of effect on it, which was very well known, the panner, and

  • I'll have just a slow panning effect.

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  • That's admittedly a very dark Rhodes sound, let's go to a different Rhodes model, in fact

  • I have five of them loaded in here right now.

  • This one has a little bit more of a bell tone to it. This is a Mark II.

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  • Now I'll show you a Wurlitzer A-200, and I'm gonna use a tremolo effect on it, and I'm

  • going to assign it to my continuous control pedal.

  • So as I bring the pedal forward, we'll hear the tremolo effect.

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  • No electric piano collection would be complete without a FM Electric Piano. I'll let you

  • hear the one loaded in here now with a little chorusing effect on it.

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  • And I'll just round out the collection by showing you some of the Clavinets. Of course

  • they captured a Hohner D6 Clavinet, the A,B,C, and D rocker switches positions are all captured

  • faithfully. So I'll just go through the classic sounds with no effects on them, and then I'm

  • going to assign a Wah Wah pedal, using my CC pedal and play some cool funky Clav.

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  • The sample section has now been expanded as well as two hundred and fifty six megabytes, again

  • using their lossless compression scheme. Right now it's packed with Chamberlain and Mellotron,

  • and also some analog synthesizer samples. Very very cool compliment right out of the box.

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  • Now lets move on to the sample player. I'm gonna show you a lot of the cool library,

  • of course it's huge, if you go to their website, you can download tons and tons of cool instruments,

  • Mellotron, Chamberlain, vintage analog synthesizers, much more. There's also envelope control for

  • this section, so I can adjust the attack and the decay or release. There's a single knob

  • allowing me to either make the sounds decay very quickly or by turning the knob in the

  • other direction I can add release to the sounds. This is very cool when you want to shape Mellotron

  • sounds which had no release, they were tape

  • and the moment you lifted your finger there was no sound.

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  • In this sample section Nord has given you not only envelope control to control attack

  • and release, in fact the same control for release can be used to change the decay, but

  • they also gave you velocity control, so you can change the dynamic response from your playing,

  • and they gave you a filter that's built in that you can track velocity if you like

  • or you can disable it. So I'm going to show an example of some of the Mellotron sounds

  • and I'll be applying the dynamic touch, some of the envelope settings and also the filter

  • setting that's tied into my velocity. We'll start with a plain Mellotron string sound.

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  • You can hear how much you can vary the sounds pretty dramatically. I'll just step though

  • a bunch of sounds let you hear some of them and them I'm gonna start to combine them with

  • the other engine allowing me to layer with piano or with the organ or make some cool splits.

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  • So there's an example of some of the orchestral sounds found, of course there is a very wide

  • offering of basses electric guitars, different types of synthesizer programs,

  • so plenty of stuff to work with here.

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  • The organ they have now improved so it matches the C2D spec, and the rotary simulation now

  • has also been greatly improved. Also in the organ section, they've expanded it now to

  • offer you the pipe organ. So they've got a beautiful pipe organ now, in addition to the

  • Vox, the Farfisa, and of course the Tone Wheel organ. You have also now a new B3 bass pedals

  • setting, so you can have B3 plus bass pedals. So now you have the two draw bar settings

  • as well that were standard on a Tone Wheel organ for bass pedals.

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  • A cool new accessory for the Nord Electro 5 is the rotary half moon switch. It functions

  • just like you would expect on a normal Tone Wheel organ, operating a rotary cabinet. This

  • is sold separately, this accessory, but it's contained in some of the great Bundles

  • Kraft puts together for you.

  • I'm now going to show you the pipe organ model. It uses the draw bars

  • to engage different registrations which they name appropriately like bass, flute, oboe,

  • trumpet, and these are essentially stops that you would have on a real pipe organ.

  • I'm gonna turn off the rotary effects so you can hear the pure organ sound.

  • I'll just use a little reverb to simulate a chapel.

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  • Ok, so let's dig into making some layers. Very simple, you have a left engine, called

  • the lower part, and then we have the right engine, called the upper part. The only caveat

  • is that we can't layer two pianos, we can't layer two synth sounds and we can't layer

  • two organ sounds, so you must pick a different category for the lower and the upper when

  • you're doing a layer. When you split, you can split using similar engines. So right

  • now we'll make a quick layer, we'll use a piano sound, and I'm gonna select the Italian,

  • and on the synth side I have it turned on, I'm gonna select a string program, and then

  • I'm going to assign my CC pedal, which I have tuned on here, just to control the string

  • section, and I have both of them seeing the sustain pedal, so I can tell one or the other

  • to ignore that, but right now they're both gonna see sustain, and as I move my CC pedal

  • up and down I'll bring in strings.

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  • If I chose to change one of the sounds it's as easy as just making an adjustment to either side.

  • If I decide I want to change the octave, each side presents me with an octave shift button.

  • In this case I'll transpose the strings up an octave,

  • and I'll also add some release to the strings.

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  • Ok. Let's make a quick split here and see how easy that is to do. I'll just pick, let's

  • say for example I want an organ on my right side, I'll pick an organ. And maybe on the

  • left I want a piano bass. This is a standard for club repertoire. So, I'll now pick the

  • Lady D grand, and that will be for my left side. And then I'll also, for the organ side

  • I'm gonna use a kind of a Prague rocky sound. With a little percussion, little chorus vibrato.

  • And right now, all I have to do to split, is hit the split button. The knob in the middle,

  • the mix knob allows me to balance the parts, how much I want to hear of the left or the right.

  • And then if I want to change the split point, it's as easy as holding the split button

  • down and turning the knob, and the display is telling us split point is at 4, C5, C4,

  • and what's happening is this LED is being illuminated on the keyboard. You can only

  • split on the notes C and F. There's an advantage to that which is the LED can be viewed on

  • a dark stage. Really great when you're not sure where is the split and because it's only

  • C and F you know that it's going to be in a particular region of the keyboard.

  • So now I have piano in the left. And I have organ in the right. I have the organ patch that I want.

  • As I move the drawbar the display is showing me the drawbar configuration, which is very nice.

  • So, I'm gonna move it up an octave. I'm gonna put it in the rotary.

  • And I'm gonna assign my CC pedal so that it's controlling the organ volume.

  • The piano I want deeper octaves.

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  • Additional new features, you bet. They now split out reverb and delay, they are separate

  • effects. In fact while I'm talking about effects, they have a really cool new effect called vibe.

  • Which we'll hear in one of the examples. Uh, by the way you can load your own samples

  • of course in the Electro 5. That's right, you can make your own key maps with WAV files

  • and load them right into the instrument.

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  • Now you can assign your CC pedal to the effect depth of let's say panning or tremolo or even

  • a wah effect, for wah wah on your Clavinet, or gettin really funky, it's great.

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  • Ok, so you can now organize into sets, groups of four sounds, and to do that we have list,

  • so we have a set list and now that shows me a name of the set list and if I want to see

  • what's inside it I can hit list view. List view is gonna show me this particular one

  • does not have anything in it, but we'll pick one here and now let's say we want to organize

  • what's inside that, that's now showing me the patches in that set. And I can assign

  • these to these buttons in the front, so that all I have to do is touch a button to step

  • though groups of four. Let's say I want to decide that I want to change the location

  • of where these actual patches are in my set list. I can do that by holding these two buttons

  • and then moving. You see I'm now moving the location so bright whirly is now being moved

  • to location 106. So I can organize what I want, if I decide I want a LA grand to be

  • moved up to 107, I can simply move it to 107.

  • So now it's really easy to organize my patches for live performance.

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  • So that's what new from Nord. The new Electro 5 series. If you have any questions or need

  • any additional information, don't forget to contact a team member at Kraft Music.

  • And check out those Bundles for great value and great packaging of all the accessories that

  • make the instruments awesome.

  • Thanks again, I'm Chris Martirano.

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