Nord has announced the next generation Electro - the Nord Electro 3.
Key new features of the Electro 3 include a new organ section, a new piano section, new effects and a cool new feature that allows the Electro 3 to use any samples from the Nord Wave library.

Eighth in an ongoing series of live sound & visual improvisations by Abre Ojos, using a modular synthesizer, Dave Smith Evolver, Nord Micro Modular and Quartz Composer on a MacBook Pro.
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Nord has introduced a new line of stage keyboards, the Nord Stage EX.
The EX models have internal memory capacity extended from 128 to 256 MB. This allows users to add more pianos from the Nord Stage piano library, to bring an even greater selection of sounds to each and every performance.
The EX units will also [...]

This video, by abre ojos, is third in an ongoing series of live sound & visual improvisations using a modular synthesizer, Dave Smith Evolver, Nord Micro Modular and Quartz Composer on a Macbook Pro.
Artists comment:
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Clavia has announced an update to the OS for its Nord Stage family.
The Nord Stage family will receive a minor cosmetic make-over, due to one new function that is activated from the front panel. A new label on the panel will direct users to the new feature, but the other revisions of the Stage (rev [...]

Clavia has released the Nord Wave Manager, an application that allows Nord Wave users to create Sample Instruments from any standard audio file and download these to the Nord Wave synthesizer through its USB interface.
Highlights:

Creates mono or stereo samples from an audio file (.wav format)
Easy to map samples across a keyboard range
Graphical interface for setting [...]

Clavia has released a demo version of the Nord Modular G2 demo software.
According to Clavia, the demo only hints at the possibilities of the G2 itself:
In our view, only hardware can offer rockstable and trouble free operation in a ’single box solution’. In other words; real musical instruments that you just pick up and take [...]

Clavia has announced two updates to the Nord Modular. In July, it will release version 1.20 of the Nord Modular G2 software. It also will be releaseing the G2x, a 5-octave version of the Modular G2 keyboard.
New G2 OS v1.20

Supports Mac OSX
New graphics
Supports the new 5-octave model G2X
Some new modules have been added:

Metallic Noise Oscillator [...]