Nord Nord Electro 2 Keyboard 73 Key Keyboard

by Nord

Product Features

• The Electro 2 also features great new vintage-style effects in the Effects section.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 26.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 26.5 pounds
• ASIN: B0002E1OSG
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,242 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

The Nord Electro 2 is the next big step in the development of the Nord Electro series of stage keyboards. Among the features of the Electro 2 you'll find the new Mega Clavinet sound which offers all the filter and pick-up variations of the original Clavinet D6! This means that you'll be able to access no less than 60 + 4 different Clavinet D6 sounds in the Electro 2! Thanks to the remade piano sample playback engine, the polyphony for the piano sounds is now greatly enhanced. The new piano sample playback engine also made it possible for Nord to digitally model the sounds you get when you release keys on a piano instrument. For example, the Clavinet and the Wurlitzer have very characteristic key release sounds. In Nord Electro 2 this is very faithfully modeled. The new sample playback engine also allows for playback of stereo pianos. In the new factory sound library Clavia has included a great new Acoustic Grand piano - in stereo. The Electro 2 also features great new vintage-style effects in the Effects section. Nord has also beefed up the Overdrive distortion to sound more like an overdriven tube amplifier. Nord Electro 2 fully supports USB download of Nord Electro piano samples. Now you will be able to download new piano instrument samples using Nord's specially developed Electro Tool sample dump program for Mac and PC! Additional piano sounds are available on the CD-R that comes with the Nord Electro 2 and also for download at www.clavia.se - free of charge! More...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely great keyboard, July 28, 2004

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Mark Asch "notehead" (South Orange, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nord Nord Electro 2 Keyboard 73 Key Keyboard

I've been using this fine keyboard for over a year. Your audience may notice little more than the cool red color, but if you have any experience with instruments that emulate electro-mechanical keyboards and organs, you will realize right away that this is a truly fantastic product. The semi-weighted keyboard action is excellent. The controls are very easy to understand and use. I find the number of knobs to be a good compromise to satisfy both players who prefer to just call up presets, and players who like to modulate their sounds constantly. The "virtual drawbar" concept is very elegantly implemented -- it's a snap to adjust sounds, and the presets provided cover a good gamut of organ tones, from very mellow and smooth to highly modulated, ultra-beefy shrieks. The other instruments (grand piano, Yamaha C3 electric grand, Fender Rhodes, clav, and Wurlitzer electric piano) are super authentic. The unit looks good, and is rather light for its size. Also, Nord makes a padded gig bag for this keyboard which is really, really nice, with straps that let you wear the keyboard on your back -- very handy when you've also got to lug an amp and a keyboard stand! For keyboard players that are "purists" in the sense of only playing traditional keyboard sounds, this is the perfect gigging keyboard.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars strong points are..., January 29, 2006

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nord Nord Electro 2 Keyboard 73 Key Keyboard

I endorsed this keyboard a few years ago, but no longer play it.

Strong points are... Best chorus/vibrato/Leslie effects of any of the clones in its price range. You can run it through a keyboard amp, and its still going to sound fat and greasy. Great Wurly, Clav plus onboard FX. Very user friendly (never mind the strange drawbar system, once you get used to it it works.) Unlike most of its competitors, you can actually program and change features on your go while you're playing... you don't have to go through a million digital menus. Also very light and sturdy. Mine was run over by a taxi, peed on and smashed against a brick wall (over a two year period0 and survived !

Weak points - - feel of the keyboard is horrible - - its more like a weighted piano (XK-2 beats it out on that, but with XK-2 you REALLY need a Leslie.). If you're used to consoles and you want to play the Hammond using Hammond technique, forget it. - - Also, shrills at high end (tube preamp the solution???) and if you walk LH bass, there's some problems.

All in all... the ULTIMATE dream keyboard if you're a KEYBOARDIST who wants a great Hammond sound but aren't a Hammond Organist per se or are an organist who needs a light weight option that does NOT require a Leslie to sound good. Also great for the studio. I did a recording where it was run DIRECTLY into the console and it sounded really accurate and to boot I was able to overdub clav for extra effects and use the onboard effects for some added funk. Console players may or may not be satisfied.

I currently play a B-3P and have decided that for ME, nothing but double manuals with two sets of drawbars will do. All in all it depends upon your style of playing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant design this is my favorite device ever, June 1, 2009

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medialint (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nord Nord Electro 2 Keyboard 73 Key Keyboard

Ok this simple little thing that does only piano and organ is on the verge of overtaking the (now-vintage) Yamaha EX-5 as my favorite all time keyboards I've owned. Here's my story:

I am a synth player that does piano and organ mostly on my own prog rock. Well I morphed into a prog rock band (you know how that happens) and the guitar player morphed into familyhood (you know how that happens, too)... so here's the synth player left with no guitar to bounce off of.

Ut-oh.

Never fear the Nord Electro 2 saves the day. Give it a couple days you'll know what it's capable of. Give it a month you'll be confident in it. Use it in high-stress-tests and you'll mind meld with it. It JUST does piano and organ, huh? Yeah right. Ok dial up a nice electric piano and punch your first effect to ring mod, turn on the distortion about 30%, drop it down an octave, get to know that low F down there ... hold the sustain and get all the F's going and maybe some intervals for fun in the upper ... then set the rate knob on the ring mod all the way up and turn it on ... turn the knob down slowly over 2-3 second. Oh yeah ... yeah you heard that didn't you? That's no piano sound that's old school FX and it sounds so sweet ... you were trying to get that with portamento and it never worked. See? That's what you're missing.

Seriously this thing is my pulse. I breathe it. I really don't know what else to say if you are looking for piano and organ that's completely organic and open and intuitive this is it.

Oh yeah it does drawbars too and the organ ... well ok

You'll want an EV-5 pedal for organ swell
A sustain pedal
MAYBE a switch for the leslie, but I have one I don't use it
and a reverb pedal, I recommend the Digitech/Lexicon guitar pedal thingy
It does NOT have built in FX such as reverb ... relax you don't need it. Better that be outside.

This was not a technical review, this is a player review. If you want specs ignore me. I just love the damn thing, all I can really say. I break out in a sweat playing this thing it's just so fun and gets me so animated.