Nord Organ 3
The acclaimed Nord Organ is back - reborn and reimagined as the all-new Nord Organ 3. The latest generation of our Organ series featuring massive improvements to sound, design and performance. With a greatly enhanced organ engine, added modulation effects and a new exceptional-sounding rotary speaker emulation, the Nord Organ 3 offers an unsurpassed level of detail and realism.
Highlight features
General
- New panel design with OLED display
- Triple sensor keybeds
- LED indicators for preset drawbar settings
- Per program Transpose function
- Bass to lower manual option
- Aux output with routing options for Bass/Pedal drawbars and more
- 11-pin Leslie connector
- High level output
B3 Organ
- Enhanced B3 organ model
- New and improved Chorus/Vibrato
Transistor and Pipe Organs
- Improved Farfisa and Vox organ models
- Pipe Organ emulation
- Soft B3
Bass Models
- Authentic B3, Vox and Farfisa Bass
- Synth Bass options based on classic pedal synthesizers
Rotary and Amp modeling
- Brand new Rotary Speaker emulation
- Multiple options for microphone placement
- Fixed Stop Angle feature
- 3 Drive Type options
- New British amp and speaker emulation
Effects
- Brand new Spring reverb
- Expanded Reverb section with Pre-Rotary option
- Delay with new Analog mode and Feedback filters
- New Modulation effects including Phaser, Tremolo, Ring Mod, Flanger and Chorus.
- Equalizer with sweepable middle band
Organ models
The Nord Organ 3 features meticulously crafted emulations of iconic tonewheel and transistor organs with hands-on controls. Each model is the result of detailed analysis of carefully selected vintage instruments, capturing every nuance of the legendary organ sounds.
B3
The B3 model features three different tone wheel modes ranging from the clean sound of a factory new unit to a road worn vintage character with increased tone wheel cross talk and leakage.
Key Click is an important characteristic of the B3 sound and is recreated in great detail on the Nord Organ 3. The three options are selectable from the panel and allows for quick fine tuning of the Key Click level.
The B3 Percussion effect includes a Poly mode, which enables polyphonic use of the Percussion even when holding chords or playing legato. The DB9 Cancel setting allows for deactivating the 9th drawbar when Percussion is turned on, as on the original instrument.
Vox
The iconic sound of the Vox organ has been refined even further for the Nord Organ 3, with revamped waveform shapes and filters as well as updates to both the key click and vibrato character.
Farfisa
The new generation Farfisa model conveys the character of the original tone generators and filters with great precision, including the complex filter interactions when combining registers.
Soft B3 and Pipe
The Soft B3 model is based on the B3 tone wheel organ, but without the key click and other artifacts, for a softer and more mellow sound. The Pipe model faithfully recreates a set of principal pipe organ ranks; the metal pipe registers that commonly make up the foundational sound of a pipe organ. The Pipe organ chorus mode switches to a model tuned with less precision, adding further realism to the sound.
Vibrato and Chorus Scanner
Reworked from the ground up, the new vibrato and chorus captures the unique qualities of the original instruments, offering either the gentle character of a '50s B3 chorus scanner or the deep modulation of a '70s instrument.
Bass Models
The Bass Model section of the Nord Organ 3 provides matching bass models for all the organ types and includes a range of classic synth bass sounds, greatly expanding the sonic possibilities of the instrument. The bass can optionally be routed to a dedicated audio output, for separate treatment of organ and bass manuals on stage or in the studio.
Rotary Speaker emulation
With a brand new approach to recreating not only the classic rotary sound, but also the characteristics of both the amp and speakers, the Nord Organ 3 features an exceptional Rotary Speaker emulation with multiple microphone perspectives.
Choose from three distinct Drive types capturing the various aspects of Rotary Speaker overdrive with a great deal of nuance and variation.
Rotor speed and acceleration rates can be customized and the Sound menu offers a wide range of settings enabling even more detailed and nuanced sound shaping.
The Fixed Stop Angle feature allows fine tuning of the exact stop position of the rotary horn.
Microphone perspectives
The Nord Organ 3 offers several microphone positioning options corresponding to popular ways of reproducing the classic rotary speaker sound, both on stage and in the studio. These variations in microphone placement affect both the perceived movement as well as the tonal character of the rotary speaker, ranging from punchy and present to smooth and open.
Close microphone placement gives a direct and detailed tone, while adding more distance slightly softens the treble and adds body. With microphones placed further apart, for example on the corner or even opposite sides of the cabinet, the sense of rotation becomes more apparent, creating a rich, immersive stereo image. In contrast, a tight microphone placement creates a highly focused sound with a narrower stereo field. In addition, the bass rotor has a wide setting for low end stereo effect.
The illustration below shows the selectable configurations for the Nord Organ 3 “Mic Pos” feature.
Reverb and Delay
The Reverb section features 6 different types including a brand new Spring Reverb as well as Booth, Room, Stage, Hall and Cathedral options.
The Pre-Rotary setting allows the reverb to be placed before the Rotary Speaker, like a reverb equipped organ connected to a Rotary Speaker. With Pre-Rotary turned off, the reverb is placed after the Rotary Speaker emulating a room or other ambient environment.
The Delay Effect includes a vintage-style Analog mode as well as three different feedback filters for creative shaping of the delay feedback tail. Optionally, the delay can be set to Upper Manual only.
Modulation effects
The Modulation effects include classics such as Chorus, Phaser and Flanger - all modeled on legendary hardware units - as well as Ring Modulation for a variety of creative and experimental sounds and a versatile Tremolo effect. The Modulation effect can be assigned to the upper manual only, keeping the lower and pedal manuals clean.