Electro 6d Covers Band weddings mostly 80s 90s pop

[AndyN353]

Hi,
I play in a standard wedding band and currently using a Roland Juno DI which I am getting on fine with but looking for a bit of an upgrade. My plan is to sell the Juno and fully switch to an electro 6d 73. My one fear is not having all the synth sounds I need for the array of covers one would normally play in a wedding band.
E,g is there a full poly lead synth sound (think 99 red balloons), you can call me al, give it up, wake me up before you go go. All the cheeses stuff. I know it’s got the piano and organ covered just worried it’s lacking on synth patches but I am basing this off reviews only.

I am not one for creating my own synth sounds. I usually have only enough time to learn the song but not to build a synth sound.

Are there enough synth settings as standard on the electro 6d or will I keep needing to download from the nord library?

I also do piano only drinks receptions so will the semi weighted keys be weird here?

Thanks in advance. Total noob to Nord here and synths for that matter

[M_a_c]

I´m thinking about...

First: One of my work is Cover Band for Wedding too... I used to take my Working horse - the Yamaha PSR-SX900 - with me,
because it has ALL the requested sounds for everything.
No premium Clone Wheel? No Piano Hammer Touch feeling under my hands? No cool red key to show? - Well - no problem!
This is a Job and it’s not me to be satisfied, but the newlyweds and their guests. Don´t ask for, what you want...
(maybe not once again this"Il ragazzo della Via Gluck"- but to be honest - I like it...)

To the Nord Samples:
You can find hundreds of good (Synth and other) Sounds on the Nord Library. You can even find (charged) Sound-Packs in addition.
If you want a special Sound, you´ll surely find it anywhere. (i.e. patchfoundry.com, synthonia.com or narfsounds.com a.s.o.)

The very special thing on the Nord Key is the Sampling Option, that let you get every Sound YOU like,
as far as you have the original Instrument to be sampled on hand - I APPRECIATE THIS...

...BUT a Sound is a very personal thing and you need to tweak it to get it your way.
For sure you can find a ready-to-use Patch somehow, but on a Nord Electro are always some settings to do:
Attack, Release and the Effects need to be set to YOUR way and there is the EQ in addition, what shapes the Sound too.
I would say, that it is necessary to put yourself in front of the board and program YOUR patches.
But this must not be a bad thing! The Sample Editor, Program Manager (free of charge) and the simple interface at the Nord Electro makes fun.

In summary:
I think the Nord Electro is everything but not a Rompler with all Sounds ready to go inside.
If you want most of the popular Sounds onhand, I would take a MODX or FANTOM.
For the Nord Electro, there is some work to do. But I love the Nord Concept
that let me change the Sounds in my key and form my own Instrument-Database.
It gives my Nord a very personal Note and let me have only MY requested Sounds on Stage.
My Nord with my Samples inside is like no other...

So I´m not sure, if you can get lucky with the Electro instead of the Juno.
If you have been happy with the Juno-Di, you could thing also about a Juno-D or even a FANTOM-06.
These keys will surely offer lots of uptodate Top100-Sounds ready out of the box.
the Electro will surely nedd some "love&understandings"...

[cphollis]

Is the NE6D the right board for your 80s/90s wedding covers? That depends on the setlist and how far you need to go.

There are plenty of polyphonic samples of classic synths to download, so you're pretty well covered there. A great monophonic lead sound is much harder to come by. Also no pitch bend, morph. etc. The sounds themselves are great but you won't be creating your own.

Playing a piano gig on an unweighted keybed? Some do it routinely, but I would need a weighted keybed unless I spent serious time relearning how to play everything.

[M_a_c]

Is the NE6D the right board for your 80s/90s wedding covers? That depends on the setlist and how far you need to go.

There are plenty of polyphonic samples of classic synths to download, so you're pretty well covered there. A great monophonic lead sound is much harder to come by. Also no pitch bend, morph. etc. The sounds themselves are great but you won't be creating your own.

Playing a piano gig on an unweighted keybed? Some do it routinely, but I would need a weighted keybed unless I spent serious time relearning how to play everything.

He comes from the Juno-Di. So there are surely some things, he´ll gonna miss at the Electro - at least the Pitch/Mod and the 16xMulti-Layer.
@AndyN353 - maybe you should make yourself a list of things you like / need / expect from your Key. Especially the things you won´t like to miss...