NI Noire

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Very rarely am I tempted to venture beyond what my Stage 3 can do, but this is extremely interesting, especially the particle engine:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p ... eys/noire/

The particle engine is a type of sound I've been searching after for a while, I'm tempted to get it just to add those sounds to the Nord pianos. Has anyone tried this, or found a simpler way to get these kind of organic, piano-like ethereal sounds added in with a piano? I've definitely played with the synth section arpeggiator on RND with some of the samples, but I've never been able to achieve anything like what Noire sounds like.

[LewTheKeysGuy]

I have Noire as well, it's an interesting beast to say that. For the stage / electro / grand to pull this off, it would be really a case of processor and firmware upgrading, unless you sampled certain elements of the Noire engine to the stage / electo / grand.

I'm actually getting back to being a nord owner after a long time of missing my gear. Had a new stage 3 88 last week, defective and damaged, so sent back, new one arrived today with dust cover as the other was missing it. yuck. I am so in love with my stage 3.

I do wish Nord would release some different pianos to the grands and uprights we have today, be a bit imaginative, like Spectrasonics did with keyscape and omnisphere. come up with some rather sexy etherial uprights / grands. Remember when Yamaha released a Glass piano as a design ethic? If hans and his team could find more intriguing and interesting pianos and instruments to sample, that would be something to really blow our socks off.

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yes! Agreed, I feel like my basic needs for grand and upright pianos are very well met. I'd love some more interesting stuff. The Chris Maene stuff was definitely a cool example, some very unusual piano sounds in there by modern standards. The put a CP-80 pickup in real piano and sampled it like 15 years ago, that was really cool. They're even venturing out with the vibes and marimbas, hopefully they'll keep adventuring out into more interesting territory

[LewTheKeysGuy]

Haven't had chance to play with the Chris Maene libraries but will do. What I'm going to do is sit down, plan out my sound needs and format the stage 3, start building from scratch exactly how I want it. back it up, create a few different systems for different needs. Might offer them up here as complete restore files at some point. just have to stop telling myself stop being nervous of this project. there's a bit to do and I genuinely love this rig. I'm trying to raise funds to replace my lead 4 and lead a1, I just wish Nord didn't kill off the rack versions which would have been easier for me for space, but I suppose either buy used rack versions or bite the bullet and buy the new keyboards which I used to own.

It would be interesting to see what Clavia could do for sound design for new instruments. I'd love for them to properly sample a church / cathedral organ and sample either "per stop" or "per registration" to give more character for a pipe organ.