Clavia Nord Electro 6 HP Stage Keyboard

General

From the signature red housing to the professional sound and playing experience, Nord stage keyboards are essentially experts within their field. The Electro Series is focussed on electro-mechanical keyboard instruments that somehow combine the feel of an acoustic piano with a tonewheel organ and with a synthesizer, giving performing keyboardists everything they need under one hood. The Nord Electro 6 HP is the follow-up to the 5 HP and does, just like its predecessor, all of the above. However, this model features a Hammer Action Portable keybed, giving it a more complete piano-style playing feel than the lighter-weight, organ-style keys of previous Electro models.

New Features

All Nord Electro 6 variants have been upgraded here and there and come with some new additions like the Seamless Transitions function, which makes flipping from one sound to the next smooth and literally seamless, rather than obvious and frankly jarring. The transition between splits can be made just as smooth using the new adjustable Split Point Crossfades. Nord has also made the Program section more accessible via the new Organize and List View modes, which make navigation easier than ever. Other new novelties include the addition of a Piano Filter and a higher polyphony over in the piano section, while the polyphony of the sample section has been given boost and the storage space has been expanded. Over in the organ section, you also gain an extra two pipe organs and a Dual Organ Mode.

The Electro: Stage-Ready

For anyone less familiar with the Nord Electro phenomenon, you're looking at roughly three different sound sections: piano, organ and synth. All of this is clearly laid out on the control panel and, since this instrument has been specifically designed for performing musicians, everything is easy to reach mid-set and even mid-song, whether you need to adjust the vibrato of your organ, change up the filter of your synth, activate the sustain pedal to support your piano sound or tweak the parameters of the built in effects. Every sound, meanwhile, is backed up by an insane level of quality plus the set of Fatar-built keys. To keep things flexible, the Electro can be connected to a computer via USB to load in a different library, while the rear connection panel supplies an array of audio inputs and outputs, MIDI ports and pedal ports.