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My post is mainly addressed to NE5-Users:
I’m really content with my NE5 but two weeks before i saw Jeff Young with his band in concert playing on his nord stage a wonderful layer sound with different pianos. Especially the combination for covering the old Dylansong „I shall be released“ was great (I think a combination of an acoustic piano with an EP4 MarkV?) and I thought what a s*** that I don’t have the money to buy a Stage.
To play a similar sound on my NE5 I made a Sample of the E-Piano4 Mark V to layer it with the intern acoustic piano and find a fuller and warmer and more floating sound like a pure piano.

The sample first didn’t convince me but cranking rather strong and unusual with the EQ (B:8 Freq:546 Gain: - 2,6 Tr: - 13,4/ only for the synth-part!!) and effects (a little bit vibe - eventually very less of Drive) and with the right balance between both pianos the result for me is not perfect but very satisfying. I choose the silver grand because it cuts through the mix in the trebles. I adjusted the balance so that with a soft attack you hear more of the epiano and with a strong attack more of the brilliance of the acoustic piano is audible. With the Sample you find a NE5-program-file with my adjustments.
The mp3- demo starts with the layer, 0:18 only silver grand, 0:28 only EP4 MarkV, 0:38 layer of both

• Layer Silver Grand - Mark V.mp3

Has anyone of you nsmp- samples of E-pianos which are combinable with acoustic piano or clavinets of the Nord electro.

What’s your opinion? I would be thankful for tipps and improvements.

Very nice. most of my best piano sounds on my NS2 are layers of different pianos (with perhaps a nice synth sample layered it as well). Nord has stock program one called Rhodlitzer that I particularly like. It has a component of Rhodes, Wurlitzer and a little bit of pad synth with some pan and chorus effects.

I have a sound on my NE5 where I've layered one of the piano sounds with a piano sample tuned to a higher octave and it works really nicely together. Per the other poster, on my NS2, I love to double up pianos - actually the CP80 and acoustic piano sounds go really nicely together.

nice one, Eric! I hadn't thought of trying CP80 layered into acoustic...

Hi Rudi,

sounds really good! Thanks for posting.

I have set the decay to 7s, because the sample is looped.

And I have changed the silver grand's velocity to 1.
Now it works fine for me.

Leo

Thank you all for your ideas und suggestions.

To change the velocity of the silver grand to 1 in my program sounds really better.
The combination acoustic piano with an cp80 on NE5 is possible with the Nord sample "ElGrand CP80" of the sample library http://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libr ... 2-0/pianos (When I have more time I try to make a better sample in stereo maybe added with a little bit pad).
It would be great if someone could make a nsmp-sample of the Rhoditzer-Program for the Nord electro Users which was mentioned by jfenton.

Rolf

Beautiful sounds...Thank you!

• Grand-CP80-Pad Layer.mp3

Now I had the time to sample a special Pianopad-Layer: CP80-Pad.
The pad is very gentle in the background; In the attached mp3 I have combined it with the silvergrand piano.
Used settings: keyboard touch 3 for piano
and for the sample switch on filter vel , a little bit reverb and cranked EQ-settings for the sample (for NE5- Users the program-file is attached.
Maybe the sample is useful for someone.

@eibinger: a reminder that the languange of the forum is English and you agreed to it when you joined. Please make sure that everybody is able to understand what you post. Thank you.