Nord User Forum

Hi all.

First thread here but surely not the first time I come to read your advices.
Small introduction to my question.
I currently use a laptop with a sh***y midi keyboard when I’m playing live. I use Ableton and control everything with a Behringer FCB1010. I like that kind of config because the possibilities in Ableton are limitless and having everything controlled with my foot keeps my hands on the keybed, where they belong.
For a bunch of reasons, I’d like to get rid of the computer and have everything on a single keyboard.

I have been considering the NS2ex 76 for a long time but something always kept me away from the purchase button. For most of the songs I play, I don’t need complicated program lists. One or two sounds per song. No fancy multi sounds programs. And I can make my own prog/split/layers/sounds if needed with the sample editor.

For some songs though…
Let’s take an example: I start with a synth on left hand, another one on right hand. While the left hand hold the last note, I switch to the next program and I have a piano on the right hand. The synth note is still there. Switching again (always with the foot as both hands are playing) I have another synth left hand and another sound right hand. One of the two expression pedal on the FCB1010 then controls a filter. Then again, diff sounds, diff effects for the same control pedal. Then again… You get the picture. 10 diff sounds on 5-6 diff programs for only one song. No free hands and no time to dig into banks. Everything programmed beforehand so that hitting one button with my feet gives me everything I need and going through the 5-6 programs goes flawlessly.

I’m afraid this will be trickier on the Nord… if not impossible.

It would hurt to put the money on the table to realize afterward that I would still need to use the computer for some songs (and the NS as a midi controller). That’s not the point.

How do you deal with more elaborated program lists for more demanding songs?

Thanks a lot for helping me finally buying (or not !) another red beast. (I already have the NL2X that stays home. No more live use)

Ludovic

This thread includes discussion of what happens when you change programs on a Stage:
post81053.html?hilit=program%20change#p81053

Thanks. I had seen this thread. Looks like changing programs demands several manipulation or button pressed. No "on the fly" things. Between songs I don't mind but when playing it can be annoying.


Concerning the sound that cuts when changing patches, I remember having seen something about slot A and B. Going from one to the other one would not cut anything. Is it correct? Could be a solution for at least two sets of sounds then. That's already something.