Specifications

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DIGITAL DRAWBARS & SWITCHES
The fabulous sound aside, some areas of the original instrument’s
design were up for improvement. For instance, the ability to store
your favorite sounds and quickly recall them as you play. This gets
hard, as the original switches and drawbar levers physical position
will not match the stored sound setting. The Nord C1 Combo Or-
gan’s digital drawbars features LED segments that instantly light up
to show the current setting. The digital drawbars are just as fast as
their physical counterparts, and setting up your sound from scratch
– even live – is done in no time at all.
3RD SET OF DRAWBARS
No two manual organ would be complete without the ability to play
bass notes on a pedal board. The Nord C1 Combo Organ includes
two additional bass register drawbars with selectable timbre from
either vintage tonewheels or a synth bass. The bass can be con-
trolled with any MIDI-enabled bass pedal board, or by splitting the
lower manual.
LIVING EFFECTS
The built-in 3-band equalizer along with three types of speaker
simulations and an extremely powerful overdrive offers you total
tonal control of your sound. Add a feedback-delay with tap-tempo
functionality, and several types of reverberation and you have an
all-in-one effect section with stunning sound right out of the box.
ROUND AND ROUND
The rotary speaker simulation from NORD’s award winning Nord
Stage and Nord Electro series has been further improved, and now
features an even more life-like experience. The Nord C1 Combo Or-
gan’s rotary speaker simulation incorporates the acoustic variations
that occur as a physical rotating speaker spreads the sound around
in a room, providing the full experience of moving the air around.
Optional Half Moon Switch accessory
BEST FRIENDS
Even though our rotary simulation is nothing less than amaz-
ing, we are the first to acknowledge that the C1:s best friend
in the pursuit of sonic excellence is an external rotary cabinet.
Connect the C1 to a quality cabinet with the standard 11-pin
Leslie* connector and use the Half Moon switch or the C1
panel buttons to control the rotary speed. The Leslie* inter-
face on the C1 uses a high voltage output which is vital to
experience the true soul of a screaming, or for that matter, a
whispering organ. This high level output is also available on a
1/4" jack on the C1 back panel.
AMPLIFY AND TESTIFY
You can divide the stereo line output to separate tonewheel
and transistor organ outputs, and connect them to separate
amplifier set-ups.
SUPERIOR RESPONSE
An ultra low trigger-to-sound response time in the Nord C1
Combo Organ offers superior performance compared to any
hardware and software products. Also, like the vintage origi-
nal, the sound generation is started the very instant a key is
pressed, not like conventional digital keyboard action, where
the sound begins when the key has hit bottom.
MORE THAN VOLUME
One type of input from the player is often neglected, and
yet it plays a vital part of your performance; the swell pedal.
Without the proper response of the pedal you can easily
lose focus when expression is called for. It is more than just
volume control - the frequency response characteristics are
also modeled. Furthermore, a wide array of expression pedal
manufacturers are supported to give you the perfect volume
swell in every situation.