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Organ section
Piano section
Synthesiser section
Layer effects
With the Nord Stage 4 88, Clavia presents the fourth generation of the popular stage piano in an eye-catching chimney red colour. Thanks to its high-quality workmanship, clearly structured control panel and sparing use of double assignments, the Nord Stage 4 is a guarantee for live-ready playing and unerring access to the desired sound. The excellently playable 88-key keyboard with hammer action is equipped with Triple Sensor technology for sensitive playing and aftertouch. The instrument is sevenfold multitimbral, so seven parts or layers can be used at the same time! The parts are made up of two organ, two piano and three synth parts, with the number of voices varying per section. On top of this, there is an extensive effects processor with a layer structure that can spice up and/or bend each sound with up to six effects simultaneously. The fact that the Nord Stage 4 is a real workhorse for stage and studio is evident from the assignable keys for direct access to programmes, three split zones including crossfades for distributing sounds across the keyboard and scene morphing, which enables soundsets to be changed as unobtrusively as possible.
The organ section features Clavia's excellent simulations of B3 Tonewheel, B3 Bass, classic Vox and Farisa organs as well as two pipe organ models. The central control element in this section is the nine drawbars with LED bars. To prevent the sound from accidentally changing on stage, you can switch between Live and Preset mode, the latter deactivating the faders. Elementary sound nuances such as vibrato/chorus and percussion have their own controls and are directly accessible without the shift function. The popular rotary effect is sufficiently adjustable with slow/fast/stop and distortion and gives jazz organs in particular the necessary funkiness. Two layers/parts can be played simultaneously.
The Piano section of Nord Stage 4 features a new and expanded collection of grand pianos, uprights and electric pianos from Clavia's exclusive Piano Library, combined with new features such as Dynamic Compression and Unison. The piano section's memory holds 2GB of piano sounds, which can be exchanged with the Nord Sound Manager on the computer if required. With 120 voices, the Polyphony is high enough to ensure that no decaying notes are cut off even when playing at high speeds. Two layers or parts can be used simultaneously. Details such as adjustable touch dynamics, switchable string resonance or soft release and five different timbre variants provide the player with everything they need to achieve the desired piano sound in the shortest possible time.
The synthesiser section of the Nord Stage 4 goes into more depth than the minimalist control panel would suggest. Primarily, this section offers three layers or parts that can be used simultaneously, share an impressive 46 voices and access the 1GB Nord sample library. In terms of sound generation forms, everything that musicians need most is available: Virtual Analogue (classic waveforms including shaper, hardsync and noise), samples, FM and wavetables. The digital filter sounds simply outstanding and offers a choice of six filter modes with switchable drive: Moog lowpass, 12/24db lowpass, bandpass, highpass and combined LP/BP shape the sound as desired. Of course, the classic modulation sources are not missing either. Three ADR envelopes for Pitch, VCF and VCA as well as an LFO that can be routed to Pitch, Osc Ctrl or Filter provide a wide variety of sounds. The voice distribution can be set individually for each patch with polyphonic, mono, legato or unison. Vibrato can also be triggered from one of five modulation sources. The synthesiser section is rounded off by a complex arpeggiator which, in addition to the usual playback patterns with various patterns, also has a special poly mode and a gate mode that is perfect for 90s trance/hard trance melodies, among other things.
Clavia's most comprehensive effects processor to date is implemented in the Nord Stage 4. The name Layer Effects almost gives it away: the effects structure can be activated separately for each sound-generating section. There are two effect blocks that primarily cover modulation effects such as chorus, flanger, phaser, rotary, ring modulator, spin or wah. Amp Simulator / EQ more than fulfils its task and adds lowpass and highpass filter options instead of the mid-band. This effect block is essential for characteristic organ sounds! The delay is widely adjustable, can be synchronised to the clock and is even capable of very short delays, which were used in vintage effects units for chorus or ensemble effects, among other things. The reverb scores with six reverb effects ranging from a small room to a cathedral and even includes a spring reverb for the iconic Schepper reverbs. The sound character can be switched between bright and dark. The 2-parameter compressor concludes the effects section; percussive sounds and the sum (global) in particular benefit from this simple way of adding more punch. With the exception of the compressor, each effect or effect block is equipped with a variation, which ultimately means twice the number of available effects.
