Davey Nordy wrote:I was kind of thinking the same thing, except that I also use the Hammond, As well as top 40 pop stuff, funk, and R&B… So want to be sure I’m covered.
Ok, so definitely a Stage is the way to go. For what is worth, I also do cover band stuff so I need a little bit of everything, and I find the NS2EX more than good enough. For me, I don't really care about the additional memory in the NS3, it's not really an issue as I can already load in the NS2EX pretty much every piano and sample I need, and then some. A big difference would be the more-than-doubled polyphony in the sample-synth section: in the 2EX, I run into voice stealing when playing dense arrangements with big chords of sustained notes (typical use case: sampled horn or string sections).
All other improvements in the 3 are nice, sure, but for me that would be the main selling point. I really experience no other big shortcomings in the 2EX... or at least, none that the NS3 addressed (I'd love having 4 synth-sample layers instead of two, but that didn't change).