Nord User Forum

1. Values when changing the Non-rotary Potentiometers: SOunds like a great idea wartaler to have both the actual and previous value when turning one of them! +1 for sure

2. Sustain&PitchBend Response when one instrument is not assigned to the keyboard!!
I just came across this "feature/bug", probably its actually none of them! But when I work with a sequencer to control various sounds of the Stage at a time I record some instruments and then assign them NOT to the keyboard to respond only to MIDI messages. HOWEVER, they still respond to Sustain & Pitch Bend!! OK, I could deselect pitchbend&sustain for them but that is kind of annoying each time I switch to another instrument to record I have to select it than shift+sustain & shift+Pitchbend on the instrument I just recorded and the same for the one I switch to. That is, a lot of keypresses. IMHO, it would be more "natural" that if you don't assign one instrument to the keyboard that it ALSO doesn't anymore respond to pitch bend & sustain pedal! That is, once you disentangle a instrument from the keyboard, the sustain&pitchbend LED should also be switched of and go back to its previous status only once the instrument is assigned to the keys again.
Not sure if you understand what I mean or what do you think?

Oh, I almost forgot: A simple but yet great feature would be for the ANalogue Synth Section:

DETUNABLE Square Waveform, or -even better-

make the (simple) triangular, square, and sine waves detunable using the TIMBRE potentiometer!!!
Like this, one could easily create patches requiring two OSCs with freely detunable pitch of the two oscs!!! - which s needed for emulating many natural instruments!

And the cutoff frequency, any chance to make it continuous??

NS 88 Classic owner.

OS wishlist:
~ I'd like the "drawbars" to be a little less sensitive- hard to adjust them precisely, they jump so quickly to their new values.
~ +1 on being able to load other types of samples!

Hardware / next Stage:
I love this board and play it alot and applaud most design decisions made (quality + simplicity). But does anyone know why they didn't include half damper capability? (It requires a stereo TRS plug and Stage only accepts a standard mono plug). Even low end boards these days have that, and it makes it hard to do quiet, exposed solo piano without that capability. And it's useful and wonderful used on other sounds as well. I'm imagining they didn't have it figured out when they came out with the Stage.

I also would love to have a mic input with top panel volume and fx controls!!!

Hello everybody!
there is something that I don't understand.
Why make two keyboards that almost do the same thing?
why not make only one board with all the features?
I'm talking about the Nord Stage and the Nord Electro.
Making only one board with split points, C1 engine, sample, maybe 1gb memory, and the layout for the organ-piano-synth like the NS, it's all we need for the next Nord Stage, and stop making the Electro.
I think this would sell more.

@Randelph
Having a mic-phantom powered input would be genius!! Even better would be a stereo in phantom power (with a phantom power switch of course). With the ability to route it through some of the reverbs, it could prove a powerful addition to the weakly implemented external section, which can only send a very limited amount of controls. Although having the ability to simply split it throughout the keyboard is in most cases more than enough. That, plus the C2 engine and the sample managing capabilities would make a killer NS2.

I hope that someday us NS classic users will get the string resonance ability and I hope that someday the organ engine can be upgraded to the C2.

Gustavo

Did you ask this question really for a new OS or for a new Nord Stage? :)

probably allready been said, but...

- the ability to set TRANSPOSE settings per PROGRAM would be veeeery useful!

More leakage in those beautiful Hammond sounds. Would LOVE polyphonic portamento.

Mellotrons on the Stage!
And programmable pitchbends!