[NAMM] New Nord Electro 5 series

The Nord Electro 5 series will feature three keyboards: the 5D 61 and 73, with respectively 61 (C to C) and 73-note (E to E) waterfall semi-weighted keybeds and physical drawbars for the organ section, and the 5 HP 73 with a 73-note Hammer Action Portable keybed (E to E) with Nord Electronic LED drawbars.

All the sections of the new live keyboards have been reworked, here’s what you’ll find:

• Split and Layers functions: piano/organ, piano/sample and sample/organ
• 1GB of memory for the Nord Piano Library
• 256 MB of memory for the Nord Sample Library
• Larger OLED screen
• 6 split points with LED indicators
• Reworked Program section with a Set List feature
• Sympathetic string resonance for the piano section
• Dedicated Sample Synth section with attack, release and dynamic controls
• Pipe organ modeling
• B3 Tone Wheel Bass 
• Leslie 122 rotary speaker simulation from the Nord C22D
• Can receive a switch to control a rotary speaker (on 5D 61/73 models)
• All the effects are now stereo
• Tube overdrive simulation
• Vibe effect
• Separate delay and reverb effects
• Ability to control tremolo, pan, ring modulation and wah-wah from a pedal

The three Nord Electro 5 keyboards will start shipping in April, 2015. Pricing is TBA. Visit www.nordkeyboards.com for more info.