The Clavia Nord Piano 88 - When lightweight and portability is as important as sound quality and flexibility, Nord Piano 88 is the way to go. With an impressive response and functionality the Nord Piano 88 takes you one step further towards the ultimate stage piano. The Nord Piano is a dedicated stage piano with 88 keys and a weighted hammer action. It is designed with the performing musician in mind and very lightweight at approx. 18 kg (39.6 lbs), without compromising build quality, sound quality or means of expression. With a well designed user interface, it doesn't matter if you want to prepare your settings in advance and save them for later use, or if you'd rather set the sounds and effects as you go along - the Nord Piano delivers in both these aspects. There are plenty of memory locations in a bank/program configuration to provide you with a quick access from the panel, to your favorite sounds. The Nord Piano comes equipped with several acoustic and electric pianos and harpsichords. Other pianos are available as free downloads from the Nordkeyboards.com website. The sounds are stored in a Flash memory with a 512 MB capacity. This allows you to replace every piano if you wish and the sounds are kept intact in the memory even when the unit is turned off, no loading time is necessary. As always with Nord downloads, the sounds are available for free and easily exchanged by using the Nord Sound Manager application, which runs on Mac OSX, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 computers. The Nord Sound Manager allows you to quickly organize your programs according to your needs and allows you to create backups of the entire content in your Nord Piano. Using the Nord Resonance Ready pianos, you can activate the Resonance feature on the panel, which will add this wonderful acoustic phenomenon to the Nord sound. The Nord crew has gone to great lengths to ensure an accurate reproduction of the acoustic resonance, using the actual sound of the source instrument in an extremely realistic way. The Nord Piano can use the new Nord Piano pedal, providing the functionality of all the three pedals found on an acoustic grand piano. The Nord Piano pedal functionality have been closely modeled to allow you to ''play the pedal'' in the same fashion as on an acoustic grand. The soft pedal (also known as the una corda) makes the sound significantly softer. Dial in your preferred sound with the effects and the powerful three-band equalizer with sweep-able mid, and save the settings with a quick double tap on the Store button. The effects in the Nord Piano are just as detailed as the piano sounds them selves. The tremolo adds that perfect vibe, the pan sweeps across the stereo panorama, and the auto-wah brings out the funk in you, like never before. Whenever you want to spice up a sound with a beautiful phaser, a screaming flanger, a lush chorus, these are readily available. These modulation effects are modeled from a couple of highly desirable vintage effects. The Nord Piano Speaker models faithfully reproduces the overdrive response of different amplifier/cabinet combinations, lending your sound that authentic feel. Select the desired speaker model - Small, JC or Twin - and use the Drive knob to add powerful tube amplifier distortion to your piano sound. Even the slightest amount will make a big difference to the sonic character.
The Clavia Nord Piano 88 main features,* 88 keys, weighted hammer action
* 6 selectable categories of pianos - Grand, Upright, EP Tines, EP Reeds, Clavinet & Harpsichord
* 512 MB is available for the pianos
* Each sound is exchangeable by the user. New models can be uploaded to the Nord Piano using the Nord Sound Manager application
* Effect 1 - pan, tremolo, auto-wah, three selectable depths for the pan and tremolo
* Effect 2 - phaser, flanger and chorus, three selectable depths
* Comp/Amp - three amp/speaker simulations and a compressor
* Reverb with six algorithms - Room 1 & 2, Stage 1 & 2, Hall 1& 2, Dry/Wet control
* Three band EQ, with sweepable mid. +/- 15 dB gain/attenuation
* 2 Audio outputs L & R - 1'', 6,35 mm jacks, unbalanced
* 1 Monitor input, 1 Headphone output
* 1 Aux Switch pedal input
* MIDI In, MIDI Out
* USB - type B connector
* IEC320 C7 power connector
* Dimensions: 1284 mm (50.5''), 121 mm (4.8''), 340 mm (13.4'')
* Weight 18 kg (39.6 lbs)
* Included accessories: Nord Piano pedal, User Manual, Power cord, Nord DVD-ROM
* Does not include Stand