cgrafx wrote:The issue here going forward is that technology has moved on. Obviously there would need to be a redesign of the architecture, but m.2 SSD storage is blazing fast and could easily be used as primary storage and then transfer everything to RAM. You can easily transfer 8GB of data from SSD to RAM in under 10 seconds.
I imagine they will do a ground-up redesign at some point. It's tricky, in a low volume industry... a costly redesign has to last through a good number of years in order to pay for itself. So there's a built-in motivation to try to get as most mileage as you can out of a design. (And it's not like people aren't buying them as it is, either.) As for your particular design suggestion, keep in mind that you're talking about not just the cost of the SSD, but the cost of the 8 GB of RAM, as well as whatever else is required to handle the data transfer from one to the other, in terms of hardware, or hardware capable of running the necessary software.
Lewthepianoguy wrote:With reference to AnotherScott's comments of RAM and polyphony. Yes, I've been there with piano polyphony drop off and a few others have as well, I had that with the stage 2 and that crippled me at times.
I was not talking about the Stage 2 (40-60 polyphony, though still worked fine for most), my question was "Do you know anyone who has ever run out of polyphony at 120 on a Nord?" i.e. one of the newer models, which you were saying is still inadequate.
Lewthepianoguy wrote:I'm only trying to show where some customers look at the 1GB of Piano storage against the 2GB on the stage 3 and ask Why?
I suspect that the reason is that they were able to inexpensively upgrade the Nord Piano 3 to the Nord Piano 4 (no price increase, IIRC) by repurposing the board they were already building for the new Electro.