Hi I'm Chris Martirano here with our great friends at Kraft Music. And I'll be showing

you the Nord Electro 5. Be sure to check out the great deals on the Bundles Kraft Music

has put together for you. All the great accessories you need to get the most our of your instrument.

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The Nord Electro 5 picks up where the Nord Electro 4 left off. It's available in three

keyboard models. You have the 5D in front of me here, 61 note with physical draw bars,

then there is the 73 note also with physical drawbars, both of those share this waterfall

keyboard design, no undercut on the front of the keys, the black keys taper back,

it's great for organ playing. And then there's an HP, there's an Electro 5 HP that has the

hammer weighted action, and that's also a 73 note keyboard.

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Nord took the Electro 4 and by listening to their end users very carefully added a host

of new features that bring this to a whole new level. One of the first things you'll

notice looking at it is this beautiful display. Not only does it feature graphics but all

of the feedback you get telling you what sounds you have and what drawbar configurations you have.

Lots of information, it's a beautiful addition. One of the other very important things

is now you can layer or split. On the Nord Electro 4 as you know, you had to select whether

you wanted a piano or electro-mechanical sound, or whether you wanted the organ.

Now you have this great ability each, they call it a lower part and an upper part, allows

you to select either an organ, a piano, or electro-mechanic sound, such as a Clav or

electric piano, or the synth. And the synth they're calling here is actually a sample player.

There's a huge library available for the sample player and a huge library available

for the piano and electro-mechanical instruments.

These are free to any user that buys the Nord Electro series.

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Another new feature that they added, which is really really great for the instrument,

is they added more memory to the piano section, so the piano electro-mechanical section

now can have 1 giggabyte of memory.

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Nord uses a proprietary data compression scheme with losless compression, so you can really

pack a lot of sound into this area. They have many new pianos, many new electro-mechanical

instruments too. And as I said, they're free. Let me go through some of these great pianos.

This one is an Italian grand, and we'll listen to a little bit of that.

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The pianos are featuring the sympathetic string resonance and also the sound board modeling,

so the pianos are very realistic. Of course there's the Lady D that you probably heard

in the Electro 4 or even in the stage model. I'm gonna show you one of the newer ones.

This one they're calling Studio Grand II.

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Speaking of pianos, this section, the piano and electro-mechanical section, features forty

to sixty voices of polyphony. It's it's own engine, it does not rely on any global engines,

so if I use the organ, I'm not taking any polyphony away from the piano. Or if I use

the sample player, I'm not taking any polyphony away. In fact, the sample section has got

fifteen voices of polyphony dedicated just to it's own engine. Let's listen to a few

of the electric pianos which of course has established Nord. You see red all over the

stages on late night talk shows, you see it in concerts, and it primarily it's because

of these great organ and electro-mechanical sounds. Here's a Mark I Rhodes piano, and

I'm gonna put a little bit of effect on it, which was very well known, the panner, and

I'll have just a slow panning effect.

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That's admittedly a very dark Rhodes sound, let's go to a different Rhodes model, in fact

I have five of them loaded in here right now.

This one has a little bit more of a bell tone to it. This is a Mark II.

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Now I'll show you a Wurlitzer A-200, and I'm gonna use a tremolo effect on it, and I'm

going to assign it to my continuous control pedal.

So as I bring the pedal forward, we'll hear the tremolo effect.

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No electric piano collection would be complete without a FM Electric Piano. I'll let you

hear the one loaded in here now with a little chorusing effect on it.

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And I'll just round out the collection by showing you some of the Clavinets. Of course

they captured a Hohner D6 Clavinet, the A,B,C, and D rocker switches positions are all captured

faithfully. So I'll just go through the classic sounds with no effects on them, and then I'm

going to assign a Wah Wah pedal, using my CC pedal and play some cool funky Clav.

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The sample section has now been expanded as well as two hundred and fifty six megabytes, again

using their lossless compression scheme. Right now it's packed with Chamberlain and Mellotron,

and also some analog synthesizer samples. Very very cool compliment right out of the box.

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Now lets move on to the sample player. I'm gonna show you a lot of the cool library,

of course it's huge, if you go to their website, you can download tons and tons of cool instruments,

Mellotron, Chamberlain, vintage analog synthesizers, much more. There's also envelope control for

this section, so I can adjust the attack and the decay or release. There's a single knob

allowing me to either make the sounds decay very quickly or by turning the knob in the

other direction I can add release to the sounds. This is very cool when you want to shape Mellotron

sounds which had no release, they were tape

and the moment you lifted your finger there was no sound.

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In this sample section Nord has given you not only envelope control to control attack

and release, in fact the same control for release can be used to change the decay, but

they also gave you velocity control, so you can change the dynamic response from your playing,

and they gave you a filter that's built in that you can track velocity if you like

or you can disable it. So I'm going to show an example of some of the Mellotron sounds

and I'll be applying the dynamic touch, some of the envelope settings and also the filter

setting that's tied into my velocity. We'll start with a plain Mellotron string sound.

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You can hear how much you can vary the sounds pretty dramatically. I'll just step though

a bunch of sounds let you hear some of them and them I'm gonna start to combine them with

the other engine allowing me to layer with piano or with the organ or make some cool splits.

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So there's an example of some of the orchestral sounds found, of course there is a very wide

offering of basses electric guitars, different types of synthesizer programs,

so plenty of stuff to work with here.

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The organ they have now improved so it matches the C2D spec, and the rotary simulation now

has also been greatly improved. Also in the organ section, they've expanded it now to

offer you the pipe organ. So they've got a beautiful pipe organ now, in addition to the

Vox, the Farfisa, and of course the Tone Wheel organ. You have also now a new B3 bass pedals

setting, so you can have B3 plus bass pedals. So now you have the two draw bar settings

as well that were standard on a Tone Wheel organ for bass pedals.

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A cool new accessory for the Nord Electro 5 is the rotary half moon switch. It functions

just like you would expect on a normal Tone Wheel organ, operating a rotary cabinet. This

is sold separately, this accessory, but it's contained in some of the great Bundles

Kraft puts together for you.

I'm now going to show you the pipe organ model. It uses the draw bars

to engage different registrations which they name appropriately like bass, flute, oboe,

trumpet, and these are essentially stops that you would have on a real pipe organ.

I'm gonna turn off the rotary effects so you can hear the pure organ sound.

I'll just use a little reverb to simulate a chapel.

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Ok, so let's dig into making some layers. Very simple, you have a left engine, called

the lower part, and then we have the right engine, called the upper part. The only caveat

is that we can't layer two pianos, we can't layer two synth sounds and we can't layer

two organ sounds, so you must pick a different category for the lower and the upper when

you're doing a layer. When you split, you can split using similar engines. So right

now we'll make a quick layer, we'll use a piano sound, and I'm gonna select the Italian,

and on the synth side I have it turned on, I'm gonna select a string program, and then

I'm going to assign my CC pedal, which I have tuned on here, just to control the string

section, and I have both of them seeing the sustain pedal, so I can tell one or the other

to ignore that, but right now they're both gonna see sustain, and as I move my CC pedal

up and down I'll bring in strings.

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If I chose to change one of the sounds it's as easy as just making an adjustment to either side.

If I decide I want to change the octave, each side presents me with an octave shift button.

In this case I'll transpose the strings up an octave,

and I'll also add some release to the strings.

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Ok. Let's make a quick split here and see how easy that is to do. I'll just pick, let's

say for example I want an organ on my right side, I'll pick an organ. And maybe on the

left I want a piano bass. This is a standard for club repertoire. So, I'll now pick the

Lady D grand, and that will be for my left side. And then I'll also, for the organ side

I'm gonna use a kind of a Prague rocky sound. With a little percussion, little chorus vibrato.

And right now, all I have to do to split, is hit the split button. The knob in the middle,

the mix knob allows me to balance the parts, how much I want to hear of the left or the right.

And then if I want to change the split point, it's as easy as holding the split button

down and turning the knob, and the display is telling us split point is at 4, C5, C4,

and what's happening is this LED is being illuminated on the keyboard. You can only

split on the notes C and F. There's an advantage to that which is the LED can be viewed on

a dark stage. Really great when you're not sure where is the split and because it's only

C and F you know that it's going to be in a particular region of the keyboard.

So now I have piano in the left. And I have organ in the right. I have the organ patch that I want.

As I move the drawbar the display is showing me the drawbar configuration, which is very nice.

So, I'm gonna move it up an octave. I'm gonna put it in the rotary.

And I'm gonna assign my CC pedal so that it's controlling the organ volume.

The piano I want deeper octaves.

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Additional new features, you bet. They now split out reverb and delay, they are separate

effects. In fact while I'm talking about effects, they have a really cool new effect called vibe.

Which we'll hear in one of the examples. Uh, by the way you can load your own samples

of course in the Electro 5. That's right, you can make your own key maps with WAV files

and load them right into the instrument.

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Now you can assign your CC pedal to the effect depth of let's say panning or tremolo or even

a wah effect, for wah wah on your Clavinet, or gettin really funky, it's great.

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Ok, so you can now organize into sets, groups of four sounds, and to do that we have list,

so we have a set list and now that shows me a name of the set list and if I want to see

what's inside it I can hit list view. List view is gonna show me this particular one

does not have anything in it, but we'll pick one here and now let's say we want to organize

what's inside that, that's now showing me the patches in that set. And I can assign

these to these buttons in the front, so that all I have to do is touch a button to step

though groups of four. Let's say I want to decide that I want to change the location

of where these actual patches are in my set list. I can do that by holding these two buttons

and then moving. You see I'm now moving the location so bright whirly is now being moved

to location 106. So I can organize what I want, if I decide I want a LA grand to be

moved up to 107, I can simply move it to 107.

So now it's really easy to organize my patches for live performance.

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So that's what new from Nord. The new Electro 5 series. If you have any questions or need

any additional information, don't forget to contact a team member at Kraft Music.

And check out those Bundles for great value and great packaging of all the accessories that

make the instruments awesome.

Thanks again, I'm Chris Martirano.

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