market . I ’ m very passionate about worship and with a grateful heart I ’ ve been able to tour with bands like Generacion 12 , Marco Barrientos and others playing keys . We can sometimes spend a lot of time focusing on playing but with all the other stuff I mentioned before it ’ s easy to feel like we are missing “ that sound ”. Unlike guitar players , we have it relatively easy . They have to plug in a bunch of cables to connect , while we just flip a switch and are ready to rock . Across my journey to find out how to get “ that sound ”, I played a lot of keyboards and there ’ s plenty of options today . I came across Nord keyboards for the first time in 2014 while opening a show for Hillsong Young & Free . The keyboard they had requested for the backline was a Nord Stage 2 . Though at the time and while I was playing guitar with the other band , I did need a keyboard for a prayer moment in the concert and I looked at the Nord panel like , “ What are all these knobs ?” Has this ever happened to you ?
So , like back in the 90 ’ s , I looked for a piano patch and just used that one sound . It was an upright piano that felt and sounded beautiful . It was just that . I noticed a knob at the far right of the keyboard labeled “ Reverb ” and my instinct told me moving that knob would be a good thing … and it was ! I realized that everything I wanted to do was just a knob away . No menu diving or guessing . It was all in front of me , everything I wanted to do available at my fingertips . From then on , I was hooked and I decided to get one for myself . That ’ s how I started my current season with Nord not just as an artist , but as a real believer .
So now , I see a lot of churches using Nord . Sometimes they end up being used as very expensive controllers for Mainstage but if you haven ' t given it a chance , today I want to give you some very useful tips to get the best out of your hardware and understand why it ’ s possibly the best hardware solution you will ever use . So here I go : 1 . The Stage series and most of the Electro and Piano models are designed as a semimodular system . This means that the