cgrafx wrote:you can't program what actually gets sent out of the NE5 or NS3 on program change
Yes, you can do that on the NS3 (as well as all previous models in the Stage series), that's what the EXT function is for.
cgrafx wrote:It was much more effective for me to setup a Mac mini with Touch OSC on it and just setup normal program buttons. At the moment I only have 20. But this gives me instant one button access to those NE5 patches. You have to try it to see just how liberating it is to touch a single button and have the program change to the correct patch rather than trying to dial a knob 19 clicks in the middle of playing a song.
I agree that direct patch access is a huge benefit, and an area where Nord lags. Much of my use of the NE5 involves one sound at a time, so I did find something of a workaround... as I described in an earlier post in the Electro forum:
I like to have super-quick access to a handful of my most used sounds. So I've set up a Set List "song" in location 1 called "Pno Rhd Wrl B3" which gives me 4 buttons for (surprise!) piano, rhodes, wurli, and B3; and then one "knob click" away, "song" #2 ("Hps Clv Vb Str") gives me harpsichord, clav, vibes, and strings. So that's 8 sounds pretty much immediately available, either with just a button press, or with a quick knob-click and a button press. The display above the buttons always reminds me whether I'm on song 1 or 2 and tells me what sounds are currently assigned to the four buttons.
When I had the NS2, I used the Bank buttons to give me fast access to 20 programs (A:1-5, B:1-5, C:1-5, D:1-5) with no scrolling or knob turning at all, just one or two button presses to get to any of my top 20 sounds. That's one of the few ways I find the NS3 to be a step backwards from the NS2.
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