General
The fourth generation Nord Piano comes in the same iconic red housing, but with a few welcome upgrades. The Nord Piano 4 comes with a raised polyphony that reaches 120 for the standard piano sound, and gives the upright and electric pianos and harpsichords an even deeper sound. The synth-section also benefits from this welcome tweak. The control overview has also been enhanced and expanded with new controls for direct access to various programmes, while transitioning between sounds and programmes is now entirely uninterrupted by loading times, and the new split and layer functions can chop up the keyboard at up to seven points, so that independent effects can be applied per slice.
The Nord Piano 4: The Playing Feel of an Acoustic Grand
The hammer-style response of the 88 keys combined with the Triple Sensor construction of the keyboard provides the same playing feel of a concert-level grand piano, so that even playing pianissimo or fortissimo is seamlessly registered and reproduced, and to complete this authentic feel, the Piano 4 comes including a Triple Pedal, while the newly added piano filters can add contour and colour by adjusting the softness, mid or brilliance.
Memory and Effects
The newest edition of the Nord Piano has a full gigabyte of piano sounds, and 512MB of sample memory that already includes high-quality samples that can be replaced with sounds from the Piano Library or Sample Library using the free Nord Sound Manager for Mac or Windows. Every single sound from the piano to the synth comes fully supported by an extensive bank of different and endlessly tweakable effects.