You see Nords everywhere now.
The designers got the weight right so I am able to move this keyboard around by myself and still have a good piano action.
I am older and appreciate that - after having lugged around B-3's and CP-70's and Kurzweil Midiboards .. I've done the heavy lifting and found who my friends were at the end of the night. I appreciate the Nord size and weight. A lot
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I do a range of gigs and the Nord Stage can handle them all. While there truly has never been "one keyboards that does it all" - the Stage comes very close.
For Blues and Rock gigs I have piano, organ, clarinet and electric pianos. For other gigs I have a world of useable, playable synth sounds at my fingertips.
I can tweak sounds on the fly which helps out the live sound man or woman. The sounds are all over recordings now, so me and the band sound contemporary and usually signature keyboard sounds can be closely duplicated.
In the studio for recording I can go sonically anywhere and am still discovering where the Synth section can take me. Adding another keyboard or module is easy.
I've been around keyboards my whole life and the Stage is a true INSTRUMENT in the way the Minimoog is an instrument.
Anyway, wanted to just give my thanks and appreciation. I had a Nord Rack before which was quite good. The Stage 88 EX is astounding. Hadn't it just over a month. Is used, but new to me. Love it.
Plus, nice bunch of people in this forum.
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