Nord C1 Combo Organ

Nord C1 Combo Organ Description

Some distinct organ sounds have remained popular throughout the decades of pop and rock & roll music - soulful sounds that breathe and growl as found only in heavy, bulky vintage instruments. Apart from difficulties in sourcing, restoring, and maintaining these vintage organs, their sheer size and weight make them anything but ideal for the gigging musician - especially when you add out-board effects, amplifiers and speakers.

Now Clavia brings you the very best of those classic setups in a single package. The dual manual Nord C1 Combo Organ comprises three types of vintage organs: a classical tonewheel, Vox* Continental and Farfisa* Compact Deluxe, all carefully modeled from their originals. Also featuring our famous tube style overdrive, rotating speaker simulation, delay, reverb and 3-band EQ effects, the Nord C1 will tailor sounds for your body, mind and soul.

The original mechanical tonewheel design as well as the Vox* and Farfisa* transistor designs result in diverse interactions between the different parts involved in the sound generating process. Modern sampling technology is able to play back the result of these interactions, but cannot duplicate the dynamic and random processes involved. Without these crucial steps represented, the response and feel of actually playing the instrument is inevitably lost.

The solution is a real-time, DSP-based model describing the construction and interaction between each part involved. The Nord C1 Combo Organ offers three different organs - all carefully modeled from vintage originals - with the sonic result of each part of the tonewheel and transistor designs recreated faithfully.

Specifications

• General
  • Master Level Control
  • 100 Program Locations
  • 2 Live Buffers
• Organ Section
  • Classic Tone Wheel Organ-, Vox Continental- and Farfisa-models with full polyphony
  • 20 Digitally Controlled Drawbars
  • 6 Drawabar Presets per Program Location
  • Percussion Controls
  • Vibrato / Chorus Control
• Effect Section
  • 3-band Equalizer
  • Overdrive
  • 3 types of Speaker Simulations - including Rotary Speaker with selectable speed (slow - break - fast)
  • Delay - with feedback and tap-tempo function
  • Reverb - 5 algorithms
• Keyboard
  • 2 x 61 Medium Weighted Waterfall Keys
• Connections
  • Stereo Headphone Output
  • 2 Line Level Audio Outputs
  • High Level Outputs:
    • 11-pin Leslie* Standard Connector
    • Quarter Inch Connector
  • Sustain Pedal Input
  • Rotor Pedal Input
  • Swell Pedal Input
  • MIDI In
  • MIDI Out
  • Bass Pedal MIDI In
  • USB
• Measurement
  • 950 mm (37.4"), 163 mm (6.4"), 445 mm (17.5")
• Weight
  • 15kg (33lbs.)