Nord Stage 3 88 Stage Keyboard

The Nord Stage 3 is the fifth generation of a successful Stage series continuing a vision of the ultimate instrument for the performing musician. This outstanding new flagship instrument features Nord's latest award-winning technologies including the Nord Lead A1 Synth Engine with sample playback, an acclaimed Nord C2D organ, a greatly enhanced Piano Section and extensive hands-on Effects - all in one exceptional performance keyboard.

The Nord Stage 3 has three sound generating sections; Piano, Organ and Synthesizer, all of which can be used simultaneously. Furthermore, the Nord Stage 3 has 2 separate slots allowing you to have 2 Pianos, 2 Organs and 2 Synths plus Effects at the same time for massive sonic flexibility. The Nord Stage 3 features automatically seamless transitions when changing sounds or programs while playing.

A new Song Mode lets you easily organize a group of Programs for each specific song in the list. Each song can consist of up to 5 different Programs, freely assignable from your existing Programs. You can create unique Song Lists for different bands or situations and the names and order can be easily customized on the fly without connecting it to a computer. The super clear new OLED display offers excellent overview when selecting sounds and editing programs.

The Nord Stage 3 also features 3 Split Zones and a new Split Point Crossfade functionality. Choose among 3 different crossfade widths (Small, Large or Off) indicated by different LED colors. A new Split Point Editor Mode lets you easily organize and set up Split Points using the OLED display giving you a great overview of the assigned sound sources for each Split zone.  

The Nord Stage 3 Factory Bank features a very extensive selection of the Nord Piano Library but you can easily add or replace any of these sounds using the Nord Sound Manager. The exclusive Nord Piano Library is constantly updated with new exclusive world class sounds.

The Nord Stage 3 Organ section features an award winning Nord C2D organ including the extremely authentic B3 Tonewheel simulation with four different tone wheel settings, ranging from factory new, clean to leaky old vintage. The Organ section also features impeccable simulations of the classic 1960’s Transistor Organs, Vox Continental and Farfisa Compact with all the classic settings. The Organ section also contains two different new Pipe Organ models. Pipe 1 is a pure Organ with few harmonics. Pipe 2 is a recreation of metal pipes that commonly make up the backbone of a pipe or church organ, with a special detune mode when enabling Vibrato/Chorus.

The Lead A1 Synth Engine is renowned for its analog-modelling warmth, and utilizes brilliant Smart Oscillator Configurations to deliver stunning results with little programming. There are both Single oscillator setups including Pitch and Shape modes, and Dual oscillator setups including Detune, Sync, Waveform, Bell and Noise Mix modes, FM and Ring Mod. The Synth section also provides 3 Unison modes, without reducing voice polyphony.  The Nord Stage 3's new Oscillator section features 5 oscillator categories: Classic, Wave, Formant, Sample and brand new Super Wave (S-wave).

The Nord Stage 3 wouldn’t be a master keyboard if it couldn’t control external devices with ease. The Extern section is designed solely for this purpose, so that any MIDI-connected gear gets seamlessly integrated with the Nord Stage 3’s built-in instruments. Zones, splits and layers are handled exactly as if the external equipment was a part of the Stage 3 itself. All settings are saved together with a Program so advanced setups can be immediately recalled in real-time during a performance.

• OLED-displays for Program and Synth section 
• Seamless transitions when changing programs 
• Extended Split functionality with optional Crossfade
• Song List Mode 
• Extended Morph Destinations 

• Doubled memory (2GB) for the Nord Piano Library 
• Greatly expanded polyphony (120 voices)
• Creative Filter presets 
• Layer category

• Nord Lead A1 Synth Engine with Sample playback 
• Dedicated OLED display for Oscillator functions 
• Expanded Memory (480 MB) for the Nord Sample Library 3.0
• Extended Polyphony 
• Super Wave category (S-wave)

• Nord C2D Organ Engine
• 2 new Pipe Organ models 
• Model 122 Vintage Rotary Speaker - available per Slot
• Physical Drawbars for Nord Stage 3 Compact 

• Improved Delay with added Feedback filters and Analog Mode 
• Filter Mode with Resonance  
• Separate Compressor per Slot with Amount and Fast mode
• Separate Reverb per Slot with Bright mode