emelenjr wrote:I'll say it: Nord keyboards (and this forum) are really only for people who are buying their second etc. Nord keyboard. New to Nord? GTFO noob.
Tell me again how this forum isn't basically hostile toward new users. "Search the forum!" "Why didn't you do your research before you bought it?" "Why on earth did you upgrade the OS on your computer?"
That's not to say there isn't a strong community here of people sharing samples and gear recommendations and such. Not everyone here is being jerks to each other. But one thing I've learned from participating here is that if you don't ALREADY understand and love everything about your Nord and the company that made it, good luck to you.
I truly disagree. I bought my Nord Stage 2 after having been out of music for 10 years.... And my first post was about how to make it connects to my computer via midi when I thought I knew enough about midi due to my former midi studio based on an Atari 1040!!!
There were 10 pages of people trying to help me to figure out it, taking pictures of their screen etc, even on stuff that were not even Nord.... And to discover that I had inverted a midi in onto a midi In.... On the patchbay...
I think it was my first post and the longest one too....
But for retailers, I don't know but here in canada, there is always 2 or 3 stores, big ones who have always the Nord.... I was just passing by long and Mac Quade tonight and they have a stage 3 compact, a Nord Grand, an electro and a Nord stage 88...All in display but all other versions are in stock!!! When I was in France, and I know it's still the case because I See the ads of store in French magazine that were existing 40'years ago, you have in every correct middle town, one or two retailers with a school... Like a local conservatory, at 75E the yearly rate to learn everything, dance and music included, plus free concert of Marcus Miller in a 250.000 habitants town, music day and several little stores specialized on pedals, or keys, or studio etc.... Like you have a butcher and a baker.... You have a music store....
In Edmontonv there is 6/7 Long and Mac Quade plus 3/4 other stores? In Winnipeg, 5 great stores... Etc.... So, don't put that on the retailers, put that on the general level of culture and willingness to give that music culture from the governments/institutions/habitants etc....
I could bet you that they is way more people stuck in front of their TV for a simple basket ball game or for a football game in USA than you have people going to a 20$ concert at the philharmonic orchestra....
Some countries are more barbecue, beer and football than dance, music and theatre, so, the level of the retailers and their professionalism is just following the tendency/trends of the country they are in....
And I don't speak about countries that I have visited like Germany or Austria.... Check the kids at 10 years old in any piano store on a Saturday afternoon who play like crazy good on a big 6/7' concert Piano.... They are at the music store, not in the mall on the Saturday afternoon and they are not "just browsin" and fighting for a TV during a Black Friday ....