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Re: Why the memory limitation?
Well, that's the reason I sold my Kurzweil Forte with FlashPlay and 19GB of sample memory. I spent endless weeks with browsing and checking all the samples, countless nights to figure out how to master out all possibilities...then I bought the Stage 3 and only enjoyed the playing for I had no time before. Sometimes less is more.
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ChillOnTheSun - Posts: 67
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
It’s just a matter of workflow. If you need just two or three sounds the stage is perfect. If you want to go deeper in sounds and sound Design you’re stuck quite fast. A workstation needs much more work but can do much more as well.
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Duplobaustein - Posts: 290
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
Duplobaustein wrote:It’s just a matter of workflow. If you need just two or three sounds the stage is perfect. If you want to go deeper in sounds and sound Design you’re stuck quite fast. A workstation needs much more work but can do much more as well.
True, yes: the inherent structural limitations of the Stage series means it can get away with a lot less, as its whole approach offers (and thus requires) a lot less complexity.
If you need that much sample capacity, you’re probably going to want to layer a bunch of one-shot samples on single notes, along with various effect synths and other such things. The Stage series simply isn’t your product. A Kronos is. (Or, in my case, as I dislike the Kronos’ interface, it’s a Stage for everything i can get away with, and a MacBook Pro running Mainstage for everything else.)
The Nord giveth; the Nord taketh away…
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The Drawbars — off jazz organ trio
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analogika - Posts: 3289
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
analogika wrote:Duplobaustein wrote:It’s just a matter of workflow. If you need just two or three sounds the stage is perfect. If you want to go deeper in sounds and sound Design you’re stuck quite fast. A workstation needs much more work but can do much more as well.
True, yes: the inherent structural limitations of the Stage series means it can get away with a lot less, as its whole approach offers (and thus requires) a lot less complexity.
If you need that much sample capacity, you’re probably going to want to layer a bunch of one-shot samples on single notes, along with various effect synths and other such things. The Stage series simply isn’t your product. A Kronos is.
Or any other workstation.
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Duplobaustein - Posts: 290
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
Lol. Dave Smith now offers 150GB of ROM content, plus 50GB for user samples. Nothing to add...
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Duplobaustein - Posts: 290
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
I think you read wrong. 150 GB on board, then you can *buy* another 50 GB, but there is no info on what would be the user sample space.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
Duplobaustein wrote:Lol. Dave Smith now offers 150GB of ROM content, plus 50GB for user samples. Nothing to add...
A year later, and 4000€.
The Nord giveth; the Nord taketh away…
"The Angels of Libra are in the European vanguard of the [retro soul] movement“ (Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Funk)
The Drawbars — off jazz organ trio
"The Angels of Libra are in the European vanguard of the [retro soul] movement“ (Bill Buckley, Soul and Jazz and Funk)
The Drawbars — off jazz organ trio
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
Mr_-G- wrote:I think you read wrong. 150 GB on board, then you can *buy* another 50 GB, but there is no info on what would be the user sample space.
This information obviously changed.
Still it crushes everything to pieces that claims single digit GBs are state of the art.
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Duplobaustein - Posts: 290
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
analogika wrote:Duplobaustein wrote:Lol. Dave Smith now offers 150GB of ROM content, plus 50GB for user samples. Nothing to add...
A year later, and 4000€.
So? It isn't roughly a hundred times more what Nord offers? In a Synth...
It seems as the 50GBs are for additional or user samples. This is really huge.
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Re: Why the memory limitation?
I rather they use the Korg SSD Sample Streaming technology (ala Kronos). You wouldn't be bound by memory at all.
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