You only live once. Better to go through life with one of these than to regret having gone through life without one. At least that's how I'm going to justify the expense.
This Video may be 4 years old, but it is 100% impressive. Not least because nearly every one of the hundreds of sounds is demo'd with its own unique tune & style of playing, for 3 Hours!!! Add to this that everything is time stamped and indexed, this is brilliant.... One day I hope to be half as good as this on the keyboard, until then I will keep practising. Thank you so much for uploading.
Thanks for this awesome resource. I'm awaiting the arrival of my new Stage 3 Compact, and this helped pass the time and get to know it a little before it gets here!
Looking to buy this and I was hoping to find a video that shows the factory sounds that come with it this is absolutely helpful for me I will be buying this this week thank you
Excellent playing and excellent demo! When programming your own sound/patches can you store them in their own area, or do they have to override the presets?
You'll find plenty of space for your own sounds in addition to what the Nord comes with. Personally, I deleted all the factory presets and made my own!
@@benallen5967 That is great thank you! But why would you delete the factory presets? Why not just make your own? Did you run out of space for your own sounds? Or are you making sounds with adjustments to the factory presets and saving them?
I just got this keyboard but I had a question about the A11 Royale Grand 3D. When I play notes at the higher octave range the notes are sustained without me holding the pedal. Is this part of the sound?
These are all pure presets, and frankly don’t do a great job of showing what this instrument is capable of (but do presets ever?). No post processing or additional effects added- just what the preset was programmed with.
@@benallen5967 great! I bought a Stage 3 recently and your demo was a great help in pulling the trigger. However I’m getting the impression my Stage doesn’t quite have the “fidelity” or “crispness” that I hear in this video. I’m not sure if it’s my OCD/between my ears or whether there’s an issue. The sound seems somewhat muffled or fuzzy to me. I am running it in stereo.
I find it odd that the instruments aren't grouped together. Like all the pianos grouped together, organs and then synth. This seems to just scatter the sounds all over the place. Is this actually how the sounds are categorized?
YES!!! I DO! Had a Montage all though the synth capabilities is crazy but their acoustic unless if you download and buy Purgatory Creek( Vintage Keys for Montage/MODX) their EP’s are completely trash! 🗑 and so as their pianos it drives you nuts and they keys are very narrow not fun when it comes to playing jazz runs. But the Nord is straight up once you learn it won’t waste your time! It’s the ultimate board interns of seed
Can. someone tell me why the Nord's piano library has no organization. Why are aren't all the organ sounds, then the piano sounds, then the hybrid sounds, then the synth sounds ALL TOGETHER for more easy recall, etc. ????
i found the category system on our „Nord Stage 3“. While pressing shift turn the knob „List“ - then switch (with button 4 or so) to „Cat“ ===> voila the „programs“ are shown in „categories“ !!!!! (change category with bank switches) My plan is to make a video about this.
Fredtouch Do know that it's two layers per instrument section though. 2 Organs, 2 Instruments from the piano section (pianos, EPs, Clavs, etc) and 2 Synths/samples that reside in the synth section like strings, brass etc. In other words, you can't have more than two instruments from any of those sections (i.e. Piano, EP, and clav... or strings, brass, and pad)
You're thinking of the Nord Electro 6D. It is similar but only comes is 73 key and 61 key and doesn't have a synth engine. Theres some other differences too but those are the big ones
@@sideshowbob6241 If you are looking for a heavy action, I would say even the Nord Stage 3 88 isn't as heavy as the FP-30. The Nord is designed to strike a balance between being playable for all types of sounds, and flexible enough to play organ, piano, synth, etc without fatigue. Believe it or not, the HP series of the Nords have a heavier feel than the 88 key versions. I personally use a Compact 73 with a waterfall action, and place a SL88 Grand under it, to have the best of both worlds as far as feel and flexibility.
Ben Allen, nice playing. Is this the 88 key? I’m thinking of purchasing the stage 3. We don’t have stage 3s available in stores where I live. I think want weighted keys, which I think is only offered with the 88, but not sure if it makes a big difference
Nord não é o mesmo esquema de outros teclados. Só mexendo em um pra você entender. Ele não é um teclado cheio de samplers prontos. onde cada som é travado. O stage tem 3 motores. órgão, Piano e Synth. São como se fossem 3 teclados dedicados independentes em uma só carcaça. Por exemplo: No órgão vc não fica travado com sons pré definidos como em outros teclados que tem 1000 sons. No nord Stage 2 que é o meu, vc tem 3 tipos de órgãos : B3 (hammond), Vox e Farfisa. Porém, vc tem o controle real de todos os parâmetros. Se um teclado como motif (que tb tenho) vem com 50 sons só de hammond e você acha muito, saiba que no nord vc tem quase infinitos sons. Nos outros teclados, cada programa de Hammond é uma configuração possivel sampleada. No nord vc tem o órgão lá na sua mão pra vc fazer o ajuste que quiser de verdade.. Na maquina de piano tem poucos Grand, poucos Upright, alguns EP, clavinets e harpsichords. Ou seja, são poucos pianos. O que você está ouvindo aí achando que são muitos são os programas de fábrica feitos variando parâmetros desses pianos. O que vc acha que ele tem em exagero, pelo contrário ele tem pouco e bons, os programas tocados aí apenas são misturas e equalizações desses poucos pianos.Aliás, esses programas é onde vc salva tudo. No meu, nem existem mais os de fábrica aí tocados, eu montei meus bancos misturando meus proprios sons que preciso usar. Agora, a parte de synth dispensa comentários, é a parte mais variada. Vc tem um synth de verdade, com as formas de ondas primitivas que devem ser moldadas para ganhar as características desejadas. Aí sim a parte mais extensa do teclado, exige conhecimento real de modulação de onda sonora pra v criar todos os sons que vc já ouviu nos sintetizadores famosos. E de quebra ainda tem uma seção onde vc coloca os samplers prontos para que ele trabalhe tal qual um teclado comum. Sendo 3 motores independentes, todos podem ser ativados ou desativados têm volumes independentes. Portanto se esta tocando um piano e quer um orgão de fundo, não tem que ir em menu nenhum, ligue o motor do orgão que é como se 2 teclados estivessem tocando juntos, vc ajusta cada um do seu gosto, em tempo real. São paineis separados para cada.
Totally overpriced, so many far cheaper instruments from Korg, Yamaha, kurzweil, and Roland can produce the same sounds, and have far greater programming capabilities than all the Nord keyboards
On paper, I might agree with that assessment- in fact, I used to. Then I bought Roland (had a JP-80, 50, RD-800, RD2000) Korg (had a Triton, Krome, CX-3, Kronos 1,2, SV-1 and SV-2, Grandstage) Yamaha (Currently have a CP88, had a Montage 8, CP33, CP4) and briefly had a Hammond XK-5, and SKPro). I have also owned various Kurzweil boards, and even Dexibell. I’ve also got the full live MainStage based setup, as well as every major plugin for VST and FX. And….honestly? None of the above has served me as well as the Nord Stage 3, or the Nord Electro 5D. I have had the Nord Piano 2,3 and 4 as well. When it comes to sampling my own sounds, and using a keyboard for live performance- Seriously, the Stage 3 has paid for itself many times over, and it is far far more accessible, while having seriously authentic keyboard sounds… than any of the above. Take that for what it’s worth, but I still think this is the best all around live board out there, and considering it is hand built in Sweden, it’s not outrageously priced either, especially if you look inside. Happy New Year!
@@benallen5967 depends on what context you're using it in, I mean seriously, you can't even define your own split points on Nord, you have to pick one of the hardwired points, and 2 pianos, 2 organs, 2 synths, what if I want 6 synths? I don't know how many gigs a year you play, but I average over 150 a year for the past 31 years, and the Nords are lacking in the programming realm, and boards take a beating on the road, I can't justify the extra cost, the other boards sound just as good and make me the same amount of money, nobody has ever complained that I wasn't using a Nord keyboard, now that being said, I do like the Nord stage boards.
A very overrated tool. It is not worth the money that is asked for it! I don't like how it implements the reverberation algorithm as a whole (in this regard, the Nords have always lagged behind in terms of effects in general). Pianos and electric pianos, lifeless, flat. As if they lack something.
Yamaha acoustic pianos are thin and metallic sounding. I returned my YC73 for a Nord Stage 3 Compact. Way better pianos, eps, and organ on the Nord, not even close
