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Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby dkernohan » 29 Jan 2018, 18:11

I'm wondering if any of the features announced for the NE6 will make their way over to the NE5?

Obviously three part multi-timbral and seamless transitions are likely to be hardware limitations, but there's a few non-showstoppers that might show up in an OS update...

* split point crossfades would be very nice indeed.
* the new "organise mode"?
* a new pipe organ? Yes please.
* maybe "bright mode" will replace "soft mode" for reverb? (the 6 doesn't have soft mode...)
* The "dual organ" mode would be handy...
* and those "piano" (clav!) filters would make a lot of people very happy indeed...

and the big one...

Will the NE5 get the version 3 samples?

Any thoughts?
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby cgrafx » 29 Jan 2018, 18:43

Its unlikely that any of these things will be brought to the NE5.

The only two that I see as remotely possible are changes to the organize and maybe the clav filters.

I'm about 99% sure everything else would require different hardware than exists in the NE5.
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby PScooter63 » 30 Jan 2018, 03:16

Nord seems to space their Electro models about three years apart (at least over the last three iterations).

If you look at the OS update history for the E4, and correlate that with the debut date of the E5, you'll see that there was only one more E4 update after the E5 became available for purchase: a bugfix and sample compatibility release... no enhancements. So yeah, E5 development is mostly in the rearview mirror at this point.

And who can blame them? If Clavia are busy improving legacy products, the new ones (the ones in the pipeline, that we haven't even sniffed yet) will get short shrift, because there's a finite amount of work hours available.

I prefer they keep their development focus forward (new products) rather than backward, AND keep adding to that stable of compatible/free samples we can ALL use.
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby Spider » 30 Jan 2018, 12:45

No.

Maybe sample v.3 compatibility (older Electros HAVE been made compatible with v.2 samples, after all), for sure no seamless transitions or split crossfades, which require hardware changes.
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby Mr_-G- » 30 Jan 2018, 23:28

I guess that from a marketing perspective, porting back seamless transition is like shooting yourself in the foot - it removes the desire of buying a new instrument. But I wonder if that really requires different hardware. Maybe it does, maybe not.
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby analogika » 30 Jan 2018, 23:56

Mr_-G- wrote:I guess that from a marketing perspective, porting back seamless transition is like shooting yourself in the foot - it removes the desire of buying a new instrument. But I wonder if that really requires different hardware. Maybe it does, maybe not.

Absolutely. Do you think the Electro 5 has unused capacity that they could allocate to producing sound and effects while playing a new one that they’ve been wasting all these years???
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby Mr_-G- » 31 Jan 2018, 01:49

I do not know and with all respect, I do not think such detail is widely known either, so assuring that a given function *requires* new hardware is just guesswork (unless you hear it from the designers).
All these instruments are programmable microprocessors, so it could be a different, more efficient software architecture running on more or less the same hw. Let's agree that we just do not know. ;-)
But in any case I doubt we will see backports of features. At most maybe the sample format 3, just because we've seen it some time ago when the sample format 2 came out (that would make a lot of people happy).
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby hammondking » 01 Feb 2018, 02:42

Those of us who had NE1 boards will remember that Nord actually provided a full upgrade to NE2 software when the NE2 came out, complete with a downloadable template to tape over the existing graphics to indicate the new functions.

I would guess that the NE5 hardware could handle some of these new functions, and now that the NE has the larger OLED screen, some of them could be implemented in the UI without the changes to buttons as seen on the NE6. Of course, some of them probably require more hardware, but I would bet that they could implement the soft splits and a few other things if they wanted to.

It seems Nord has gotten away from upgrading older boards, but given that the NE6 seems to be an early replacement in the cycle, it wouldn't surprise me if they offered some NE5 improvements. There are certainly enough people saying "damn, I wish I'd waited" that it would help their customer sat.
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby criss » 01 Feb 2018, 10:21

I hope to see, at last, scrolling Banks with the Shift button.
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Re: Will any new NE6 features come to the NE5?

Postby dkernohan » 01 Feb 2018, 16:19

hammondking wrote:Those of us who had NE1 boards will remember that Nord actually provided a full upgrade to NE2 software when the NE2 came out, complete with a downloadable template to tape over the existing graphics to indicate the new functions.


Yes, I have an original NE too - that's what I was thinking of.
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