NAMM 2025: Viscount has released the Legend One, a new stage keyboard with a dedicated organ section with 61 and 73 keys.
NAMM 2025 officially begins in a few days. Even though I won’t be there this year, news coverage is in full swing. A trend is emerging for this NAMM in news articles that have already been published or will be published soon. As it looks now, many manufacturers are showing stage keyboards and workstations.
See Korg with the new Kronos or Nord with the Piano 6 or Organ 3. If you look at leaks, then another one will be coming soon. This also applies to Viscount from Italy, who will also showcase at NAMM 2025 a new stage keyboard, the Legend One.
Viscount Legend One
Legend One is described as an all-in-one portable keyboard but is primarily an organ. It will be available in two versions: one with a 61-key and another with a 73-key semi-weighted “waterfall” keyboard.
Viscount has designed the Legend One keyboard with an extensive “Legend Soul” engine, three independent parts (upper, lower, and pedals), and four independent sound layers (organ, sound 1, sound 2, and pedals).
The organ section is based on their Tonewheel Modeling technology with up to 91-tone wheels/polyphony. You can choose between various modeled organs, including B3 (1938), C3 (1955), B3 (1967), BC (1936), B3 (1956), A100 (1961), Baroque Pipe, Romantic Pipe, Symph Pipe, Farf Organ, and Vx Organ.
Indeed, there are plenty of organ models that you can play with. Part of it is also a rotary speaker emulation and a vibrato/chorus. In the middle, the user has full control over the individual drawbars (nine upper, nine lower, and two pedals).
Stage Keyboard & Pedals Sounds
The sounds 1 and 2 sections feature the non-organ sounds. Among these 119 multi-sampled sounds, you can find pianos, e-pianos, synths, pads, strings, choirs, brass, guitars, chromatic percussion, bells, keyboards, and more.
Massive sound modifications like those in a deep Synthesizer are impossible, but Viscount has built classic features into the Legend One, which allows you to do essential sound design tasks. You can change the octave shift, apply a filter, tweak the cutoff and resonance, work with an ADSR envelope, and more.
The last sound source is the bass pedal engine, powered by Viscount’s Tonewheel Modeling Technology (TMT) and high-definition sampling.
It ships with 22 tweakable bass models, including T.Wheel Bass, Baroque Bass, Romantic Bass, Symph Bass, Farf Bass, Vx Bass, DX bass, Acoustic Bass, and more. And, of course, you can split and layer these organ and non-organ sounds.
To add the finishing touch to the sounds, the engine offers two insert FX slots and a master effect with 14 effect types, including 13 reverb types, ring mod, delay, flanger, phaser, chorus, and more.
It is great to see that Viscount has implemented a lot of hardware parameters on the Legend One and does not rely on a large menu-diving adventure.
Connectivity
On the back, Viscount has not skimped on I/O connectivity with the Legend One.
It has a rotary speaker input, an analog in, five audio outputs (2x AUX, pedals, and main out), various pedal inputs (rotary switch, foot switch…), a 5-pin MIDI interface, USB port and USB host, and an AC in port for the built-in power supply.
Viscount Legend One First Impression
I am not an organ expert, but it looks like a neat package. Visually, I also like the design of the Viscount Legend One very much because it offers a very analog way of programming sounds. The price is very competitive compared to the new Nord Organ 3, which costs twice as much.
Viscount Legend One is ready for pre-order for $1790 for the 61 keys version and $1990 for the 73 keys version.
More information here: Viscount
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