anotherscott wrote:I agree, knobs are poor drawbar controllers. But knobs or faders, all these Yamahas are poor for this. None of them have 9 faders, none of them have real drawbar organ tone generation built in. But then, that's probably what you have your Nord for!
I end up using the MO6's organs much of the time due to the HP keybed on my Electro. There's one patch where the four sliders are something like 16+8, 5 1/3+4, 2 2/3+2, all the rest. A/B-ing the Nord wins of course, but within a band there's surprisingly little in it.
What I'd really like for a top board is a 61-note, waterfall, cut-down-and-simplified Nord Stage 2 - think something that could go on top of a Nord Piano. Something that can do organ well, add in some piano for emergencies (say 256MB) with all the clavinet samples, add in a synth section (simple, just virtual analogue single VCA, single LFO, arpeggiator, no need for FM/wavetable to confuse things) with sample memory (say another 256MB), and Electro-style effects. Give it the capability to do one split (anywhere) OR one layer (possibly max of one piano and one synth at once, but two Hammonds, to keep down DSP power requirements), add in pitch-bend range, lose the Extern section, aftertouch and multiple outputs (apart from Electro-style).
Call it something like the Nord Combi and price it about where the Electro/Piano HP are.
Won't happen, but I can dream!
Al