I've tested the Nord quite a bit at West LA Music. I like it, very good sounds but still as a full go-to keyboard it's too limited plus as good as the Nord's B3 is, I don't like the led "drawbars" I need something physical. I've been to Nord's website and checked out their library of downloadable sounds and again good but limited. For the money I think the v2.0 PC3 offers way more considering Kurzweils library of on board sounds.

I know you're an organ guy like I am, go online and find some PC3 videos also look for Daniel Fisher's "Big Fat Leslie" PC3 organ patches. He's with Sweetwater but they're freely available for download. Killer organ, and it certainly puts it in the same category as the other B3 clones. They're all slightly different from each other but remember real B3's have quite a bit of differences too. I remember one session I did way back where the studio had a B3 all set up ready to go and the thing was like brand new, not a scratch. It was way to clean sounding and turning up the Leslie didn't help, there was none of that normal overdrive in it. I was wondering if some tech had serviced both the B3 preamp and Leslie amp, made them too perfect and took all the character out of it. I hated it but since I wasn't the producer I couldn't go into the control room and tell the engineer to try to fatten it up with some post processing. I was hired to just go in, lay down some stuff and go home but that B3 sucked and any of these modern clones would have blown it away.

Bob

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