{intro music playing} 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 outthe great deals on the bundles kraft music has put together for you. all the great accessoriesyou need to get the most our of your instrument. {music playing} the nord electro 5 picks up where the nordelectro 4 left off. it's available in three keyboard models. you have the 5d in frontof me here, 61 note with physical draw bars, then there is the 73 note also with physicaldrawbars, 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 a73 note keyboard. 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 beautifuladdition. one of the other very important things is now you can layer or split. on thenord 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, orelectro-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 forthe 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. another new feature that they added, whichis 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.
nord uses a proprietary data compression schemewith losless compression, so you can really pack a lot of sound into this area. they havemany 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 listento a little bit of that. the pianos are featuring the sympathetic stringresonance and also the sound board modeling, so the pianos are very realistic. of coursethere'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. speaking of pianos, this section, the pianoand electro-mechanical section, features forty
to sixty voices of polyphony. it's it's ownengine, it does not rely on any global engines, so if i use the organ, i'm not taking anypolyphony away from the piano. or if i use the sample player, i'm not taking any polyphonyaway. in fact, the sample section has got fifteen voices of polyphony dedicated justto it's own engine. let's listen to a few of the electric pianos which of course hasestablished nord. you see red all over the stages on late night talk shows, you see itin concerts, and it primarily it's because of these great organ and electro-mechanicalsounds. 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.
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. now i'll show you a wurlitzer a-200, and i'mgonna 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. no electric piano collection would be completewithout a fm electric piano. i'll let you hear the one loaded in here now with a littlechorusing effect on it. and i'll just round out the collection byshowing 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 classicsounds with no effects on them, and then i'm going to assign a wah wah pedal, using mycc pedal and play some cool funky clav. the sample section has now been expanded as wellas two hundred and fifty six megabytes, again using their lossless compression scheme. rightnow it's packed with chamberlain and mellotron, and also some analog synthesizer samples.very very cool compliment right out of the box. now lets move on to the sample player. i'mgonna 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 andthe decay or release. there's a single knob allowing me to either make the sounds decayvery 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. in this sample section nord has given younot only envelope control to control attack and release, in fact the same control forrelease can be used to change the decay, but they also gave you velocity control, so youcan change the dynamic response from your playing, and they gave you a filter that'sbuilt in that you can track velocity if you like
or you can disable it. so i'm going toshow an example of some of the mellotron sounds and i'll be applying the dynamic touch, someof the envelope settings and also the filter setting that's tied into my velocity. we'llstart with a plain mellotron string sound. you can hear how much you can vary the soundspretty dramatically. i'll just step though a bunch of sounds let you hear some of themand them i'm gonna start to combine them with the other engine allowing me to layer withpiano or with the organ or make some cool splits. so there's an example of some of the orchestralsounds found, of course there is a very wide offering of basses electric guitars, differenttypes of synthesizer programs, so plenty of stuff to work with here.
the organ they have now improved so it matchesthe c2d spec, and the rotary simulation now has also been greatly improved. also in theorgan section, they've expanded it now to offer you the pipe organ. so they've got abeautiful pipe organ now, in addition to the vox, the farfisa, and of course the tone wheelorgan. 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 wheelorgan for bass pedals. a cool new accessory for the nord electro5 is the rotary half moon switch. it functions just like you would expect on a normal tonewheel organ, operating a rotary cabinet. this is sold separately, this accessory, but it'scontained in some of the great bundles
kraft puts together for you. i'm now going to showyou the pipe organ model. it uses the draw bars to engage different registrations whichthey name appropriately like bass, flute, oboe, trumpet, and these are essentially stopsthat you would have on a real pipe organ. i'm gonna turn off the rotary effects so youcan hear the pure organ sound. i'll just use a little reverb to simulate a chapel. 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 rightengine, called the upper part. the only caveat is that we can't layer two pianos, we can'tlayer two synth sounds and we can't layer
two organ sounds, so you must pick a differentcategory for the lower and the upper when you're doing a layer. when you split, youcan split using similar engines. so right now we'll make a quick layer, we'll use apiano 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 havetuned on here, just to control the string section, and i have both of them seeing thesustain pedal, so i can tell one or the other to ignore that, but right now they're bothgonna see sustain, and as i move my cc pedal up and down i'll bring in strings. if i chose to change one of the sounds it'sas 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 stringsup an octave, and i'll also add some release to the strings. ok. let's make a quick split here and seehow easy that is to do. i'll just pick, let's say for example i want an organ on my rightside, i'll pick an organ. and maybe on the left i want a piano bass. this is a standardfor club repertoire. so, i'll now pick the lady d grand, and that will be for my leftside. 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 splitpoint, it's as easy as holding the split button down and turning the knob, and the displayis telling us split point is at 4, c5, c4, and what's happening is this led is beingilluminated on the keyboard. you can only split on the notes c and f. there's an advantageto that which is the led can be viewed on a dark stage. really great when you're notsure where is the split and because it's only c and f you know that it's going to be ina particular region of the keyboard. so now i have piano in the left. and i have organin 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 anoctave. i'm gonna put it in the rotary. and i'm gonna assign my cc pedal so that it'scontrolling the organ volume. the piano i want deeper octaves. additional new features, you bet. they nowsplit 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. now you can assign your cc pedal to the effectdepth 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. ok, so you can now organize into sets, groupsof four sounds, and to do that we have list, so we have a set list and now that shows mea name of the set list and if i want to see what's inside it i can hit list view. listview is gonna show me this particular one does not have anything in it, but we'll pickone here and now let's say we want to organize what's inside that, that's now showing methe patches in that set. and i can assign these to these buttons in the front, so thatall i have to do is touch a button to step though groups of four. let's say i want todecide that i want to change the location of where these actual patches are in my setlist. i can do that by holding these two buttons
and then moving. you see i'm now moving thelocation so bright whirly is now being moved to location 106. so i can organize what iwant, 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. so that's what new from nord. the new electro5 series. if you have any questions or need any additional information, don't forget tocontact a team member at kraft music. and check out those bundles for great value andgreat packaging of all the accessories that make the instruments awesome. thanks again, i'm chris martirano.