Nord Electro 3 73 Note Keyboard

The Nord Electro 3 has redefined the standard with its combination of authentic vintage sounds and portability, all wrapped in an elegant interface designed with live musicians in mind. 

 

We are now expanding the family with the Nord Electro 3 HP...

 

The original Electro 3 is available in two different sizes, 61 and 73-key. Both feature our Semi Weighted Waterfall keybed. This is a great set of keys to play organ and pianos with, with light action and low weight (7.65/9.1kg)

 

The Electro 3 HP has all the features of the original Electro 3 but sports a new 73-key Hammer Action Portable keybed, with a classic E-E range and 4 selectable Dynamic Response Curves. Amazingly, the Electro 3 HP only weighs 11 kg, making it the most ultra light weight professional Hammer Action keyboard on the market.

 

Main Features Electro 3 Series

C1 Organ Tonewheel/transistor modeling

Nord Piano- and Sample Library support

String Resonance (generation 1)

Exclusively licensed Mellotron and Chamberlin sounds

Rotary Speaker simulation

Flexible Effects

Light weight

Physical controls for all vital functions

 

Piano Section

The Nord Electro 3 series are compatible with the Nord Piano Library, a continuously expanding sound library filled with amazing grand pianos, uprights, vintage electric pianos, clavinets and harpsichords. Our sounds have been carefully selected for their unique characters and deliver stunning realism thanks to state of the art multisampling techniques and String Resonance, providing you with an unprecedented expressiveness. The sounds are included on the Nord Piano Library DVD and can also be downloaded for free in our Nord Piano Library section.

 

The Electro 3s come preloaded with a selection of these fine sounds. Replacing them couldn't be easier - just connect the Electro 3 to the USB port of your computer, start the Nord Sound Manager and drag and drop the desired sounds to the desired program location.

 

NEW! The Electro 3 HP additionally features a Long Release mode that adds a slightly longer release to Piano sounds, suitable for playing Legato Piano parts.

 

The Electro 3 HP also has a dedicated button for disabling the String Resonance feature temporarily.

Nord Sample Library and Sample Editor

 

With the Nord Sample Library support Electro 3 owners have access to our exclusively licensed Mellotron and Chamberlin sounds and a wide selection of quality sounds from leading sample producers. See the Nord Sample Library section to learn more and to listen to the sounds available! The Nord Sample library is updated on a regular basis and new additions can be downloaded for free!

 

The included Nord Sample Editor makes it possible to add any sound you want to the Electro 3. The Sample Editor can use audio files in the .wav format and has great tools to assist you in getting the results you want. Mapping several samples across the keyboard or creating seamless loops has never been easier.

 

The Electro 3 series has 68 MB of dedicated sample memory and our efficient lossless compression algorithm makes it possible for us to use samples of up to three times the size compared to a standard linear sample player.

 

Organ Section

The growling sound and soul of a B3 is hard to replicate faithfully in a digital instrument. Sampling is definitely not an option if you want to create a living, breathing tonewheel sound. We've spent years perfecting our digital models and the Electro 3 contains our award winning second generation tonewheel model.

 

The attention to minute details is stunning, the Electro 3 is even equipped with four selectable tonewheel modes, that stretches from a clean sound to battered unit with the most dramatic setting; Vintage 3. This setting even produces a sound in the background of its own, even if you don't touch any keys.

 

It's all in the details

 

Every function in a B3 has been considered and examined in great detail, to make the Electro 3 as true to the original sound as possible. There are key clicks derived from the original busbar behavior and the energy robbing that produces the gentle compression when you do that massive palm smear across the keyboard. To get the response right, we have included the option to trigger the organ sounds at the very top of a key's range, making it react just as fast as the original. And sometimes we couldn't resist adding functions that went a bit further, like the option to either include or exclude the 9th drawbar when Percussion was activated.

 

Vox and Farfisa

 

The Farfisa* and Vox* models are just as impressive as the B3. The massive savage sound created by their 12-top oscillator frequency-divider designs is of course another nosample zone in the Electro 3; you have the same behavior and unique response from our models as in the original instruments. The Farfisa Compact Deluxe, considered by many to be the mother of transistor organs, involves routing matrixes and complex filter combinations that offer a tailored sound with massive energy and high-end.

 

The Vox* Continental's brute design brings you a more hollow tone, but with a very intense character. Both these transistor organs have their own unique, irreplaceable personalities. Combine them with any of the Electro 3's speaker simulations, add some distortion, adjust the EQ and they will definitely get you through any organ gig with flying colors.

 

Rotary speaker simulation

The rotary speaker simulation originates from the award winning Nord C1 Combo Organ, acclaimed for its sound quality. The rotary speaker incorporates the acoustic variations that occur when a physical speaker spreads the sound in a room, providing the full experience of when air is moved around.

 

The Electro 3's rotary also features a great function in the addition of the Rotary Stop Mode. This allows users to switch between fast and stopped rotation and back again by using either the controls on the panel or with a foot pedal connected to the Rotor Pedal input. This is a crucial functionality that mimics the behavior of early one-speed original rotary speaker units.

 

Those of you who are picky about the rotary behaviors will be pleased to find several user adjustable settings like speed and acceleration times for both treble and bass rotors. These options, as well as all the other System, MIDI and Sound Menu functions are written on the right side of the panel, a great help for all those moments when the manual decided to stay at home.

 

Organ split

 

Using the Organ Split mode, you can play two different organ registrations in a dual manual fashion, one sound on either side of a user definable keyboard split point. Connect a second MIDI keyboard to the Electro 3, to use the organ split functionality, but in a true, dual manual setup.

 

Effect Section

 

The Nord Electro 3 is equipped with a great selection of high quality effects including a lush sounding reverb with five different reverb types. There is also a selection of tremolo, panning, wah-wah, phaser, flanger, chorus effects, and a ring modulator.

 

For adding a final touch to your sound, there's a selection of amplifier simulations - for anything from warm fuzz to devastating mayhem. 

A user friendly three-band EQ with a sweepable mid-range and a compressor can be added to the final stage of the audio path.

 

The new Electro 3 HP additionally features a flexible Delay effect with Tap-Tempo, Rate, Amount and a stereo Ping-Pong mode.

 

Performance

 

Changing, editing and storing presets is easy, and there is also a Live mode that automatically saves what you're doing. The Program memory can hold 128 different Programs, and these are organized in 2 Program Banks with 64 Pages each.

 

One of our the main focuses is to have dedicated knobs and buttons for all vital functions, and keep the interface simple and easy to use during a performance. We don't believe in submenus, and the only functions in the Electro 3 that only are available through menus have been printed on the panel so you don't need to read the manual.

 

The Electro 3 HP has 4 Live locations, the Electro 3 has one. Also the Program memory of the Electro 3 HP is organized in 4 Program Banks with 32 Pages each.

 

Keybed Nord Electro 3 HP: 73-key (6 octaves, E-E) Hammer Action Portable keyboard

PIANO AND SAMPLE LIBRARY SECTION

5 selectable types of pianos - Grand, Upright, EPiano, Wurl & Clav/Harpsichord. Each type can contain several different models

185 MB of the flash memory is allocated to the piano types

Each and every piano in the Electro 3 is replacable by the user. New models can be uploaded to the Electro 3 using the Nord Sound Manager application

String Resonance (Generation 1)

 

The Sample Library section can contain up to 50 samples from the Nord Sample Library

68 MB of the flash memory is allocated to samples

Stereo pianos and samples can be played back in mono

40-60 Voices polyphony

Nord Electro 3 HP specific features:

String Resonance-control (ON/OFF)

4 Selectable Dynamic Response Curves

 

ORGAN SECTION

Organ section from the acclaimed Nord C1 Combo Organ

Three classic organ models: B3, Vox Continental, and Farfisa with full polyphony

9 digitally controlled drawbars

Two complete organ registrations for every program

The drawbars of Electro 3 are represented by up/down buttons and LED bar graphs instead of the ordinary mechanical drawbars. This gives you a big advantage: when you change programs, the correct drawbar settings are shown immediately by the LEDs

17 user configurable organ presets for each organ model

Percussion with 2nd, 3rd, normal/soft, fast/slow for the B3 model

User adjustable percussion levels, percussion decays and keyclick level

Vibrato / Chorus Control with separate functionality for each model (the classic C1, C2, C3, V1, V2, V3 options for the B3, Vibrato for the Farfisa)

4 Tonewheel modes: select the level of "vintage" you wish to have in your B3 sound

MIDI Split: The Nord Electro 3 is designed to support an extra MIDI keyboard when the Organ Split mode is activated. This makes it possible to use the Nord Electro 3 as a dual manual (Lower/Upper) organ with different drawbar settings for each manual

 

EFFECTS SECTION

Effect 1 - pan, tremolo, auto-wah, pedal-wah and ringmodulator

Three selectable depths for the pan and tremolo, rate controlled with the Effect 1 Rate knob

Control pedal assigned to pedah-wah and ring modulator depth

Effect 2 - phaser, flanger and chorus

Three selectable depths, rate controlled with the Effect 2 Rate knob

Comp/Amp - three amp/speaker simulations, compressor and rotary speaker

Drive/Compression amount controlled with the Drive knob

Rotary speed controls - Slow, Fast and Stopped

User adjustable rotary treble and bass rotor speeds and acceleration rates

Reverb with five algorithms - Room, Stage Soft, Stage, Hall, Hall Soft

Dry/Wet control

Three band EQ, with sweepable mid. +/- 15 dB gain/attenuation

Nord Electro 3 HP specific features:

Delay Effect - Rate, Amount, Tap-tempo and Stereo Ping Pong

 

CONNECTIONS

2 Audio outputs L & R - ¼", 6,35 mm jacks, unbalanced

1 Monitor input - 1/8", 3,5 mm stereo jack

1 Headphone output - ¼", 6,35 mm stereo jack

1 Control pedal input - ¼", 6,35 mm TRS stereo jack. Use a Control/Expression pedal like e.g. Yamaha FC-7, Roland EV-5 etc.

1 Sustain pedal input - ¼", 6,35 mm jack. Use a momentary pedal, like e.g, Roland DP-2, DP-6, Yamaha FC-4, FC-5, Fatar VFP1-25 etc.

1 Rotary Speaker speed switch pedal input - ¼", 6,35 mm jack. Use a momentary pedal or a switch type pedal

MIDI In, MIDI Out - 5 pin DIN connectors

USB - type B connector

IEC320 C7 power connector

Nord Electro 3 HP specific features:

Extended Control Pedal support Yamaha FC7, Roland EV-7, Roland EV-5, Korg EXP2 and Korg XVP10.

 

INCLUDED ACCESSORIES

User Manual

Power cord

Nord DVD-ROM

 

DIMENSIONS

Nord Electro 3 Sixtyone: 900 mm (35.4"), 100 mm (3.9"), 300 mm (11.8")

Nord Electro 3 Seventythree: 1120 mm (44.1"), 100 mm (3.9"), 300 mm (11.8")

Nord Electro 3 HP: 1078 mm (42.4"), 121 mm (4.8"), 344 mm (13.5")

 

WEIGHT

Nord Electro 3 Sixtyone: 7.65 kg (15.3 lbs)

Nord Electro 3 Seventythree: 9.1 kg (18.2 lbs)

Nord Electro 3 HP: 11 kg (24.25 lbs)