From cwsg2@sevush.com Fri Jan 19 11:57:05 2007
Subject:closeup of new panel

http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/namm/2007/ClaviaNordC3-Panel.jpg

If this holds up in production, there are a few nice features I can spot.
The drawbars are separate for lower, upper and pedal. There appear to be
three "presets" for each set of drawbars (upper and lower). The CV selection
is still awkward, but the actual CV on/off switch is found in each drawbar
set.

Percussion and rotary simulator (possibly Leslie controls on the 11 pin
output) are in reasonable locations.

There's also a decay and release label on the drawbar controls for the
pedal. I would guess that's for the bass "pluck"

On actual street price, using the Stage Compact's retail of $3600 vs actual
$2800, and the Stage 76 retail of $3800 vs. $3000 actual, I see a 20%
discount. If C3/C1 retail is $3200, I'd expect to see it drop eventually to
$2600.

That would make it the lightest, smallest and least expensive double manual
clone - with pedal support - to date.