Nord Electro 3: Multi-timbral?

[mahinty]

I was always under the impression that the NE3, like the NE2, is mono-timbral, but I went to a gig last night (First Aid Kit nice Swedish folk girls), and the keyboard player had an NE3 which sounded like it had a few splits points going on (bass in the left hand, Mellotron in the middle, and possibly a third sound (say, piano) at the top).

 

Can you have multiple sounds across the NE3 keyboard?

 

Incidentally, there was a Nord Stage sitting at the back of the stage I thought it was there as a back-up, as her NE3 had got water-damaged in transit and could have failed during the performance. I suppose she could have been controlling the NS2 via MIDI and used it as a sound source. But that makes no sense youd just play the Stage!

 

If the NE3 is multi-timbral, that would easily justify an upgrade for me.

 

[AnotherScott]

nope, monotimbral.... though its ability to load custom samples means that you could theoretically create a sample patch that had different sounds over different areas of the keyboard.

[JeffLearman]

Bingo. And a limitation of the custom samples is no velocity layers, unfortunately. Otherwise I'd be more geeked about upgrading from my NE2. Although, the NE2's piano should be enough to do that!

[ELP71]

nope, monotimbral.... though its ability to load custom samples means that you could theoretically create a sample patch that had different sounds over different areas of the keyboard.

 

This. There are a couple vids up on YouTube of guys doing just this.

[mahinty]

nope, monotimbral.... though its ability to load custom samples means that you could theoretically create a sample patch that had different sounds over different areas of the keyboard.

Cool. That's good to know.

Thanks!