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Nord Electro 3-73

Item ID: Electro3-73

73-key Keyboard with Piano and Organ Sounds, Split Mode, Effects, USB, and Rotary Speaker Emulator

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Get Amazing Organ and Piano Sounds plus a Ton of Features!

The Nord Electro 3 keyboard updates the famed Electro and creates a very powerful instrument with great new features! The Electro 3 includes a new piano section, a new organ section, and impressive new effects. You can also access any samples from the Nord Sample Library on your Electro 3, making it more versatile than ever. This 73-key version (a 61-key model is also available) allows you to work in Split Mode on its keyboard, or plug in a second keyboard for true split performance. You also get a very impressive rotary speaker emulator that makes organ sounds from the Electro 3 even more authentic sounding!





Nord Electro 3 Keyboard with 73 Keys at a Glance:
  • Play great-sounding new pianos
  • Access the Nord Sample Library
  • Play incredibly realistic and responsive organ sounds
  • Play Split mode on the Electro 3 or with another keyboard
  • Take advantage of great effects and a rotary speaker emulator

Play great-sounding new pianos
The Electro 3 is loaded with a great selection of pianos. There are three acoustic grands and two electric grands. Electric piano aficionados will love the tine-based types: a Mk I, a Suitcase Mk I, a Mk II, and a Mk V - all with their own unique and distinctive personalities. A great A200 A is onboard, as is the mighty D6. The Clavinet type also includes harpsichords. There is a French harpsichord in the factory sound bank, and more to come in the Nord Piano Library download area.

Access the Nord Sample Library
Not only loaded with great piano sounds, the Electro 3 also sports some great samples to add flavor to your sonic arsenal. You'll find some of the classic Mellotron sounds, a selection of strings, a celeste, a vibraphone and many others. And just as with the piano partition, all of the samples can be replaced if the factory selection does not suit your immediate needs. You can add virtually any sound you want to the Nord Electro 3. Nord offers free sounds from their expanding and extensive Nord Sample Library. By using the free Nord Sample Editor, you can add any sound you want to the Electro 3. The Sample Editor can use audio files in the WAV format and is equipped with some great tools to assist you in getting the results you want. Mapping several samples across the keyboard or creating perfect loops has never been easier. You can even start assembling your own samples in the computer without having the Nord Electro 3 present - just download the Editor and the Electro 3 manual and fire away. The Nord Sample Editor is compatible with Windows XP and Vista, and Mac OSX.

Play incredibly realistic and responsive organ sounds
The growling sound and soul of a B3 is hard to replicate faithfully in a digital instrument. Nord has spent years perfecting their digital models, and the Electro 3 contains the best emulation so far. The attention to small details is stunning! The Electro 3 is equipped with four selectable tonewheel modes, taking it from a clean sound to a battered unit with the most dramatic setting (this setting even produces a sound in the background of its own, even if you don't touch any keys).

Every function in a B3 has been considered and examined in great detail by Nord to make the Electro 3 as true to the original sound as possible. There are key clicks derived from the original busbar behavior and the energy robbing that produces the gentle compression when you do that massive palm smear across the keyboard. To get the response right, Nord includes the option to trigger the organ sounds at the very top of a key's range, making it react just as fast as the original. They also added option to either include or exclude the 9th drawbar when Percussion was activated. The Farfisa and Vox models are just as impressive as the B3. You get the same behavior and unique response from Nord's models as in the original instruments. The Farfisa Compact Deluxe, considered by many to be the mother of transistor organs, involves routing matrixes and complex filter combinations that offer a tailored sound with massive energy and high end. The Vox Continental's brute design brings you a more hollow tone, but with a very intense character. Both these transistor organs have their own unique, irreplaceable personalities. Combine them with any of the Electro 3's speaker simulations, add some distortion, adjust the EQ, and they will definitely get you through any organ gig with flying colors.

Play Split mode on the Electro 3 or with another keyboard
Using the Organ Split mode, you can play two different organ registrations in a dual manual fashion, one sound on either side of a user definable keyboard split point. Connect a second MIDI keyboard to the Electro 3, to use the organ split functionality, but in a true, dual manual setup.

Take advantage of great effects and a rotary speaker emulator
The Nord Electro 3 is equipped with a great selection of high quality effects including a lush-sounding reverb with five different algorithms. There is also a selection of tremolo, panning, wah-wah, phaser, flanger and chorus effects, and a ring modulator. You can sculpt your final sound even further by choosing from three amplifier simulations - they can add any amount of grit and distortion you need. A three-band EQ with sweepable mid-range and a compressor can be added to the final stage of the audio path.

The rotary speaker emulator originates from the award-winning Nord C1 Combo Organ, with its acclaimed sound quality. This rotary speaker emulator incorporates the acoustic variations that occur when a physical speaker spreads the sound in a room, providing the full experience of when the air is moved around.The Electro 3's rotary also features a brand new function in the addition of the Rotary Stop Mode. This allows you to switch between fast and stopped rotation and back again by using either the controls on the panel or with a foot pedal connected to the Rotor Pedal input. You also get several user adjustable settings, including speed and acceleration times for both treble and bass rotors.

Nord Electro 3 Keyboard with 73 Keys Features:
  • Keyboard: 61-key (5 octaves) or 73-key (6 octaves). Velocity sensitive semi-weighted ”waterfall” (square front) keyboard
  • Organ section from the Nord C1 Combo Organ
  • Three classic organ models: B3, Vox Continental, and Farfisa with full polyphony
  • Nine digitally controlled drawbars
  • Two complete organ registrations for every program
  • Percussion with 2nd, 3rd, normal/soft, fast/slow for the B3 model
  • User-adjustable percussion levels, percussion decays, and keyclick level
  • Vibrato/Chorus Control with separate functionality for each model
  • Four Tonewheel modes
  • MIDI Split supports an extra MIDI keyboard when the Organ Split mode is activated
  • Five selectable types of pianos - Grand, Upright, EPiano, Wurlitzer Clav/Harpsichord
  • 185MB of the flash memory is allocated to the piano types
  • Every piano in the Electro 3 is replacable by the user
  • Samp Lib type can contain up to 50 samples from the Nord Sample Library
  • 68MB of the flash memory is allocated to samples
  • Stereo pianos and samples can be played back in mono
  • 40-60 voices of polyphony
  • Effect 1 - pan, tremolo, auto-wah, pedal-wah and ring modulator
  • Effect 2 - phaser, flanger and chorus
  • Comp/Amp - three amp/speaker simulations, compressor and rotary speaker
  • Drive/Compression amount controlled with the Drive knob
  • Rotary speed controls - Slow, Fast, and Stopped
  • User-adjustable rotary treble and bass rotor speeds and acceleration rates
  • Reverb with five algorithms - Room, Stage Soft, Stage, Hall, Hall Soft
  • Dry/Wet control
  • 3-band EQ, with sweepable mid +/-15 dB gain/attenuation
  • 128 program memories
  • Two Audio outputs
  • One Monitor input
  • One Headphone output
  • One Control pedal input
  • One Sustain pedal input
  • One Rotary Speaker speed switch pedal input
  • MIDI I/O
  • USB
  • Included accessories: User manual, power cords, Nord DVD-ROM
  • DIMENSIONS
  • Nord Electro 3 61: 35.4" x 3.9" x 11.8"; Nord Electro 3 73: 44.1" x 3.9" x 11.8"
  • Weight: Nord Electro 3 61: 15.3 lbs.; Nord Electro 3 73: 18.2 lbs.

The Nord Electro 3 packs a ton of impressive sounds and features into a lightweight 73-key pro keyboard!

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Specification Detail
Number of Keys 73
Type of Keys Semi-weighted Waterfall
Other Controllers Drawbar Controls
Manufacturer Presets 128
Polyphony 40-60 Notes
Effects Yes
Sequencer No Sequencer
Number of Pedals 0
Number of Speakers 0
Amplifier No Amp
Number of Audio Inputs 1
Audio Input Types 1 x 1/8" (Monitor In)
Number of Audio Outputs 3
Audio Output Types 2 x TS, 1 x TRS (Headphone)
MIDI I/O In, Out
Pedal Inputs 1 x Sustain Pedal, 1 x Control Pedal, 1 x Rotar Pedal
Height 3.9"
Width 44.1"
Depth 11.8"
Weight 18.2 lbs.
Manufacturer Part Number AMS-NE373

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based on 6 reviews

nord electro 73

by Kraig Greff from baltimore MD
February 7, 2012
Music Background: musician, recording
Exactly what I wanted

Nord Electro 3 In a nutshell

by Mark Hazzard from Eugene, OR USA
October 1, 2009
Music Background: Professional Musician
This Keyboard is Great. Be prepared to spend a little time setting it up. You need to tell it what types of pedals you use. ie, sustain, volume. You can adjust the details of leslie upper and lower ro... read more [+]tor's, etc. It is worth sitting down with the manual and getting to know the keyboard. The sounds are better that the electro 2 and the reverb alone makes it worth the upgrade. The extra sounds are nice to have. close [-]

The best keyboard I've ever bought! By far.

by Paul from Covina, CA, USA
May 3, 2009
Music Background: musician with over 30 years of gigging experience, live and studio engineer
This keyboard is amazing. Amazing.

It's the only one I've ever had (and I have eight of them) where people came up and admired it for its sound and (of all things) the look of it.
... read more [+]>
The Hammond can growl. The acoustic piano has a low end that really punches when needed, yet can provide subtle delicacy. The Mellotron sounds are something that I've wanted for a very long time! The electric pianos make you really want to "dig in".

The response time of the keyboard is amazing - you feel really "connected" to the instrument, which is extremely important to me.

The effects, although a bit limited in their programmability, sound great. The Leslie is wonderful!

This is the first keyboard where I just plugged it in and played without needing to fiddle with eq settings etc. It just WORKS with a band. It BLENDS, it fits in the mix.

The keyboard action is a wonderful compromise between that needed for playing Hammond, acoustic piano, and electric piano.

It runs really cool, and weighs almost nothing!

Nord gives you free system updates and samples. Plus you can use your own samples. What more can you ask for?

This thing is a bargain. Buy it!!! close [-]

The Nord Vintage Sounds Can't Be Beat, Great Board!

by Charles Kropewnicki from Phoenixville PA
December 1, 2011
Music Background: Blues, R&B, 70's pop, Jazz & Classic Rock
This instrument has amazing organ and electric piano sounds to say the least. The B3 organ sound is very close to my Hammond XK3 which is known to be the best digital organ in the business.
... read more [+]r /> The Fender Rhodes Mark I, II, III & IV Models are amazingly accurate to the real ones, I know since I have played a Mark II and compared both boards, and in fact the real one needed some work and didn't sound as good. The Rhodes Mark II, & IV used with the tremolo effect is simply over the top and will impress anyone who loves the real Rhodes Pianos, especially other musicians.

The Clavinet and sound effects are incredible, the wah-wah effect really sounds good when used in conjunction with the Clavinet and can really get quick attention in a rock band. The guitars can take a long break when a good player knows how to use these effects, sorry guitar players.

The Farfisa and Vox especially can really shrill and make the hairs on your neck stand up, and for people under 40, this organ will be an education.

The Wurlitzer sounds acceptable but falls a bit short, night quite as meaty as the real deal but can still git-r-done in a band setting.

The acoustic piano patches are the achilles heel of this board and Nord needs to continue their efforts on this. I downloaded a 9' Steinway-D Concert Grand from the Nord site and it did not come close to my Yamaha P250 Stage piano over a PA system or powered monitor, it lacks the realistic sound and is not convincing in this department.

This board overall however is very satisfying since I bought it for the vintage sounds and light weight and it certainly can't be beat in those categories. All the functions are intuitive and geniously thought out for ease of use, Yamaha needs to take notes in this area since they are clueless.

Great Board!! I recommend it to anyone who is looking for the real deal vintage sounds that will impress all musicians and is extremely portable, good job Nord! close [-]

I hate to knock this one at all, but...

by CRGMP from California
November 22, 2010
Music Background: keyboardist
... I don't know what Nord was thinking when they took off the program selection section that they had on the Electro 2. Instead of six or seven banks of eight programs, you now have sixty-four banks ... read more [+]of two and the live buffer. I am so disappointed by that. This keyboard is way, way harder to use than the Electro 2 was, and that seems to go against the best part about most Nord keyboards - how easy they are to use!

But... that said, if you take the time and plan out what sounds you're going to be performing with, you should have all the sound you need ready to go at your fingertips. It's a pain, but the sounds you get out of this thing make up for the inconvenience. The tone is simply stunning. Definitely an improvement over my Electro 2. The Electro 3 sounds so much more organic and real. Yeah, they made it harder to use but... whatever. I'm still happy with the Electro 3 and will be even happier when I get it dialed in better.

And, all that said, it's still the best for the job, in my opinion. If you only buy one keyboard, I think this should be it. I get compliments every single time I play it for the look and the sound - even from non musician types. Great value, amazing sound, lightweight, and so very versatile. close [-]
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