amazing, if u enjoy electronic/minimalistic, also does great vangel type pads/scapes.... just buy the engine version and a voice expansion board and a midi controller keyboard with some knobs, and blow the rest of the money you would of spend on the NMG2X on some c*cain

well, its build is heavy duty, but the pitch stick is not meant to be f*cked with by hard playing types. it is very sensitive and you only need 2 f*ck with it a little to get just the right vibrato

Clavia's nord products are great, they use top quality boards for there keyboards, and the electronics inside them is military grade sh*t (spec)

I graded the value a little lower because I think that the engine version with the voice expansion board is worth the money, but the keyboard is allot more than the engine price wise and I think the engine holds it's value better than the keyboard versions G2, think about it..... break a key on the G2 keyboard, the price for shipping that bad boy is allot trust me... but the engine has no keys, just plug in a cheapo midi board and snap those keys off on stage and throw them at the p*ssed off crowd of people

email support from these sweden guys is a bit lag, but remember Clavia is a small company with not very many people to answer all of our bullsh*t questions...... but they always support OS updates like there life depends on it (and it does)

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electronic type, weird blips and blips and errgGGGGgssss

Super sounds!!! Very flexible synth. You can literally make any sound that you want to with it. Very warm and fat.

One of the most useful features that I have found is the ability to tweak a single patch or sound and store up to 8 variations of that patch without taking up additional patch/program slots. This is really cool. Suppose you have a patch that you really like but you want to add a little reverb reverb. You add it, like it and then store it as a 2nd version all within the same patch designation. Add some filtering, store it in position 3. Tweak the osicaltors. Position 4. Add delay, Positon 5. This is so handy to have. Any other synth, it would be taking up another program slot.

This is a Clavia Nord synth. which means it is built like a rock. All metal. No plastic. The knobs feel great and are of high quality. I love the LEDs that surround all of the knobs. This is a very well built synth with a great deal of quality and thought put into all aspects of it.

You get what you pay for. This is a quality well built synth so it is worth the money. It is slightly higher then some others but within the price range of what it does, it is averaged priced. Clavia holds their value well too. It won't depreciate quickly.

I haven't had any actual dealings with Clavia, simply because the unit has functioned fine since I bought it. As I would expect it to do, since it is built with quality in mind. But judging them by there website and the vast amount of information that they provide you, I would expect all aspects of their customer service to be of the same high quality. I give them a 10 for that.

I presently cut alot of gear out of my base of equipment. I had a otn of stuff and wanted to cut back to just 6 to 8 keyboards. this made the cut where others didn't. Doesn't tell you much does it? What might matter more is that I kept it instead of any of the following; Access Kb, Novation K Station, Juno 106, Juno 60, Korg MS-20, Korg PolySix, Jupiter 6, Oberhiem Matrix 12, Korg Karma, Triton Rack, Alesis A6. These are all big name synths that are held in high esteem by many. The fact that I kept the G2 instead of any of these tells you a lot.

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