Nord Grand 2 with Kawai Hammer Action

Full Description

High-end Kawai hammer-action keybed for unmatched playability

The Nord Grand 2 showcases a new and enhanced Kawai responsive hammer keyboard with triple sensors, ensuring precise tracking of hammer movement. This keyboard maintains the user-friendly nature of the original Nord Grand while introducing dual layers of Piano and Synth, allowing for more versatility in performance and sound creation.

With its well-balanced and responsive triple sensor keybed, equipped with an advanced hammer mechanism, the Nord Grand 2 provides extraordinary control throughout the entire dynamic range. This feature allows for an unparalleled playing experience, ensuring that every subtle nuance and expression is accurately captured.

Equipped with a new panel design featuring LED faders, the Nord Grand 2 offers intuitive and easy-to-use performance controls. Each layer of the keyboard has dedicated LED faders, along with knobs and buttons for essential functions required during live performances. Whether you need to create layers and splits, add effects, or transpose the instrument, these tasks can be executed instantly.

Layering and splitting

The dual Piano and Synth engines of the Nord Grand 2 can be combined in a layer or split across the keyboard to expand your musical possibilities. Each layer comes with its own dedicated effects section, enabling you to shape and customize your sound to suit your musical vision. Additionally, the Nord Grand 2 offers 7 split points with LED lights, ensuring smooth transitions between two split zones. You can choose from three different crossfade widths, indicated by different LED colours, to further enhance your performance.

Piano section

The Nord Grand 2 includes an extensive collection of Grands, Uprights, and Electric Pianos from the exclusive Nord Piano Library. This collection is complemented by new features such as Dynamic Compression and Unison, which enhance the expressiveness and realism of the instrument.

Utilising state-of-the-art sampling techniques, the Nord Grand 2 captures the nuances and unique character of each sampled instrument, delivering an authentic playing experience. The Advanced String Resonance and Dynamic Pedal Noise features further contribute to the realism, providing stunning string resonance and lifelike pedal noises.

With a large collection of Uprights, Grands, Electric Pianos, and more, the Nord Grand 2 gives you a wide range of sounds to choose from. The addition of Dynamic Compression and Unison allows for enhanced dynamic control and rich ensemble-like sounds. The Creative Timbre option gives you the flexibility to experiment and shape the tone of your sound.

Sample synth section

The Nord Grand 2 boasts two independent Sample Synths with expanded memory, offering a diverse range of new and updated sounds. From wind, brass, strings, and basses to classic analog leads and basses, the Nord Grand 2 covers a wide sonic territory. It also includes a selection of samples from the Symphobia and Swing libraries by ProjectSAM.

The Sample Synth section provides two fully-featured and independent Layers, each equipped with intuitive controls for attack, decay/release, and dynamic velocity response. The Soft and Bright settings enable you to quickly shape the tone of the sound to suit your preferences.

Thanks to the Grand 2 Sample synth engine, you can now enjoy new features such as Unison, which combines multiple sample voices for rich ensemble-like sounds. The "Tru-Vibrato" accurately models the unique vibrato characteristics of various wind, brass, and string instruments, while the round robin functionality adds natural-sounding fast repetitions. Vibrato can be controlled via button, pedal, or the preset delay setting. The Sample Synth section also includes Mono and Legato modes with adjustable Glide rate, providing further control over your sound.

Effect section

The Nord Grand 2 features a powerful new effect section per Layer. The extensive range of effects includes brand new types of Reverb, Delay, Amps, and Modulation effects. With a dedicated effect section per Layer, you can easily enhance and shape your sound to your liking. The modulation effects come with adjustable Rate and Amount, allowing you to fine-tune your sound further.

Additionally, the Nord Grand 2 offers a Global Reverb with send per Layer, Pre-Delay, Chorale, and Bright/Dark mode. New Spring, Booth, and Cathedral Reverbs offer different sonic environments to suit your musical style. The improved Delay now includes Filter, Flam, and Ping-Pong options, enabling you to add depth and dimension to your sound. Furthermore, the Compressor and Amp with Tone variations complete the effect section, providing a wide range of options to craft your desired sound.

Features

• Next-generation, high-end Kawai hammer-action keybed for fluid playability
• New panel design with LED faders
• Updated effect section with new reverb styles, improved delay and new 'Spin' effect
• Two independent synth layers with doubled sample memory
• Enhanced samples with tru-vibrato, unison and round robin
• Wide range of uprights, grands, EPs and other piano styles

• Advanced layering options (2 pianos and 2 sample synths)
• Individual 'Split' settings per layer (with optional crossfades)
• Nord Piano Monitor support
• Complete with Nord Triple Pedal 2 for maximum expression

• Two independent piano layers
• 120-voice polyphony
• Dyno filters - soft, mid and bright
• Dynamic compression for glueing your sounds
• Three keyboard touch options
• Advanced string resonance
• Soft release

• Dedicated effect section per layer for sound shaping
• Modulation effects with 'Rate' and 'Amount'
• Global reverb with send per layer, pre-delay, chorale and bright/dark mode
• Compressor
• Amp with tone variations

• 2 independent Sample Synth layers
• Expanded memory for Nord Sample Library
• Soft and Bright option
• Unison for rich, ensemble-like sound
• Tru-Vibrato with real time control
• Round robin for natural sounding repetition
• Mono and Legato modes with Glide
• Attack, Decay/Release and Dynamic controls

Specifications

Specifications

• General:
  • Dual Piano and Dual Synth Layers
  • OLED Display
  • Seamless Transitions
  • Split Point Crossfades
  • 12 banks with 36 programs - 432 locations
  • Organize for programs
  • Live Mode - 6 Live programs
  • Global Transpose: +/- 6 semitones
  • Program Transpose: +/- 6 semitones
  • Fine-tune: +/- 50 Cents
  • Kbd Touch: 3 velocity response curves
  • 88-note Kawai Responsive Hammer keybed with Triple Sensors
  • Selectable split point with LED indication
  • Nord Triple Pedal 2 included
  • MIDI over USB
• Piano Section:
  • 2 GB memory for Piano sounds
  • All sounds can be replaced using Nord Sound Manager (Mac/Win)
  • 120 Voice Polyphony
  • Categories: Grand, Upright, Electric, Digital/Layer, Clav/Harpsichord and Misc
  • 3 Selectable Keyboard Touch Curves (Heavy, Medium, Light)
  • Piano Timbre controls with custom settings for Electric Pianos and Clavinet
  • String Resonance for acoustic Grand Pianos and Uprights
  • Selectable Soft Piano Release
  • Pedal Noise when used with Nord Triple Pedal 1, Nord Triple Pedal 2 or Nord Single Pedal 2 on select acoustic and electric pianos
  • Dynamic Compression
  • Unison functionality
  • 2 independent Layers
• Sample Synth Section:
  • 1 GB memory for Samples
  • 40+ Voice Polyphony
  • Amp envelope with Attack and Decay/Release controls
  • Bright and Soft options
  • Vibrato with Rate/Amount, Delay, button or pedal
  • Unison with 3 amounts
  • Mono, Legato and Glide
  • Octave transpose: -1/+1 (-6/+6 in Split mode, depending on Split position)
• Effects Section:
  • Mod 1: Tremolo, Pan 1 (Soft), Pan 2 (Hard), Spin, Wah, Ring Modulator (controllable via optional pedal)
  • Mod 2: Phaser 1, Phaser 2, Flanger, Chorus 1, Chorus 2, Vibe, Spin. Stereo/Mono options for each effect
  • Equalizer: Per Layer or Global, 3-band with sweepable mid (200 Hz - 8 kHz)
  • Amp: Twin, JC and Small. Each with Alternate Tone option
  • Compressor: Per Layer or Global, Amount control
  • Delay: Per Layer or Global, Tempo, Feedback and Mix (Dry/Wet) controls, Ping Pong with 3 amount options, Tap-Tempo, Feedback Filter (HP/LP/BP), Flam
  • Reverb: Global Reverb with Dry Wet amount optionally controllable per Layer. Spring, Booth, Room, Stage, Hall and Cathedral Reverb types, each with optional Pre-Delay, Chorale and Bright/Dark modes
• Connections:
  • 2 Audio outputs L & R - ¼", 6,35 mm jacks, unbalanced
  • 1 Monitor input - 1/8", 3,5 mm stereo jack
  • 1 Headphone output - ¼", 6,35 mm stereo jack
  • 1 Sustain Pedal input - ¼", 6,35 mm jack. Use the included Nord Triple Pedal or a momentary pedal.
  • Triple Pedal - 5 pin DIN connector. Compatible with Nord Triple Pedal 2
  • 1 Control/Volume Pedal input - ¼", 6,35 mm TRS stereo jack
  • MIDI In, MIDI Out - 5 pin DIN connectors
  • USB - type B connector - for transferring sounds and USB MIDI
  • IEC C14 power connector
• Dimensions: Nord Grand 2: 1286mm(50,6”) x 396mm (15,6”) x 174mm (6,8”)
• Weight: Nord Grand 2: 21,3kg (47lbs)
• Product Code: NOR0042