Electro 5d 73 question and 1st impression

[cvselman]

I have NE5 SW and a Roland RD800. When playing ant piano sound on NE5 usibg its own keybed the response of the keybed for dynamics is poor. When midi'd and using the Roland keybed to play the NE5 the piano sounds are mych more responsive to dynamics. Roland make a big deal about how many levels of midi response the keybed us able to transmit. This leads me to believe that the fatar keybed in the NE5 SW has been calebrated so that the 20% of the midi velocity has been bumped up. Its this very quiet end of the responsiveness that is most noticeable. The top end us also 'flatened'.

I know there are a selection of velocity curves. Its not this that Im talking about.

[emartin149]

>Because it is a very specific sound different from Rhodes with its own merits<

Well....sure, everything has a specific sound, and "merits" are in the ear of the beholder. That doesn't mean that a Farfisa is equal in usefulness to a Hammond (it isn't). Also I'm not sure that the specificity of the Wurlitzer is that noticeable to the crowd in the bar.

I know there are Wurli fans and yeah, when you cover Supertramp if you want to sound exactly like the track I suppose you'll want one. Whether you should even try to sound exactly like the track is another debate

[harmonizer]

For me there is a pleasing cheesiness to the Wurli sound, which I like as a change of pace. The Amped Wurli sound just seems to fit when we cover "Summer In the City". I would not want to play the Wurli on a lot of songs, though.

[benny ray]

To me there is no cheesiness in the Wurly sound. Rhodes and Wurlis have their own place in music. One is not better than the other. It is of personal choice
I have had both keyboards back in the day.

[emartin149]

Short fun list:

http://www.hallofelectricpianos.co.uk/whoplayed.html

I wasn't aware Richard Carpenter used one. My regard is going up (yea, I think the Carpenters are the stuff!) Here he is on both boards:

> “The Fender Rhodes has a nice tremolo if one controls it properly, and it breaks into stereo which would fill out some of the recordings. I first noticed the full effect in 1975 in ‘Only Yesterday’ – there also is some Wurlitzer on that, a fill that breaks out of the sax solo and into the guitar solo. Every now and again, like on ‘Those Good Old Dreams’ and some of the others, I would use the Wurlitzer. But for an actual backing in the rhythm for the chords the Rhodes has a fatter or prettier sound, whereas the Wurlitzer for certain breaks and fills has a funkier or rastier sound."<

I think "rastier" is a typo on the website...

[emartin149]

> One is not better than the other.<

I know that in our current age of everything is awesome, and opinions are all relative, it's no longer cool to rank things. But I'll go out on the fun limb and say the Rhodes IS better than the Wurlitzer, all things considered...and if money is the great leveler, then resale prices are supporting my argument.

Just like a Hammond B3 IS better than a Vox Continental. I'm not saying the Vox isn't a load of fun, but it ain't no B3.

[Arjan P]

I like to rank things too: My argument is better than yours.

[musicially]

Today i joined Nord Electro 5 community i have played Korg Kronos for several years however my first impression E5 is awesome. i admit that i don't need any synth engine anymore, because of this reason i changed my main instrument. now i m fully satisfied with better keybed, lightweight design, non-deep parameters and red color greetings from istanbul.

[djules]

I have a question about the Nord Electro 5. If I had one of these I would want to play a song with several different sounds stored in the A,B,C, and D buttons. Would it be possible to sustain a note being played from sound A, switch to sound B while still holding the note played with sound A, and have the note from sound B audible only when I play a new note? I don't know what this is called. I think it might be auto sustain. I think I read that the Kronos 2 does this. I know an old Roland XP-30 I had many years ago could do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I realize you can split with the NE5, but I play in a band where I would still need to be switching 4 or 5 sounds around in order to be able to cover all my bases.

[pablomastodon]

...(blah, blah, rhodes vs. wurli...blah, blah)
Whether you should even try to sound exactly like the track is another debate

That sounds like a fun debate, too! I quickly tire of someone obsessing over dialing in the exact precise sound of the studio recording, especially when the original band isn't so hung up on it themselves and you hear later live recordings with the same lines voiced differently.

As for the rhodes vs. wurli thing, yes the sounds are different, and I like rhodes much much more. Personally, I would always prefer a rhodes over wurli. yes, gotta have wurli for supertramp. That's one of my wife's favorite bands from back in the day, but I'm two years older and my brain had already headed into a different by then (Mahavishnu, etc.). Their incessant chord banging never impressed me greatly, though the writing was very clever. How ironic that much of my keyboard playing now is incessant chord banging.

djules, you will not get that to happen on your Nord Electro. Changing programs will always interrupt audio.

bless, pablo