Ns3. New os When ??

[anotherscott]

I would have dual kb in ns3 works like ns2 :panel b(Organ,piano and synth) . Non only Organ. And change section on the fly like ns2.

Have you tried doing what you need with the Panel MIDI feature? Then the second keyboard can trigger any combination of organ/piano/synth (however you have Panel B set up), and you can change those sections on the fly.

[anotherscott]

PENDING LOAD. !! It is vitally important for live use. Being able to change song or prog on the fly. this is because you do not always have an a prior song list.

I received my NS3 here in USA in early October of last year and it sits ideal because NORD has dropped Pending Load

Pending Load was cool, but with seamless sound transitions, more often than not, I think you can achieve the same thing. You can play something, hold it, call up your next sound (without cutting off your held notes), and then begin playing your next sound whenever you're ready. What you lose is the ability to continue to play new notes with the old sound once you've navigated to the new sound. But what you gain is that, even when you start playing the new sound, you won't have to worry about cutting off the tails of the notes of the previous sound. To me, you gain more than you lose. Much of the reason you needed Pending Load before is that you had to wait until the last possible moment to invoke a new sound, so as to minimize cutting off the previous sound. Now you don't have to worry about that.

Also, the numeric pad feature gives you another way to get to your commonly used sounds quickly. Since you may be able to get to the sounds you need more quickly than you could by scrolling on the NS2, you may not always need as much advance time to locate and invoke the sound as you used to, potentially further reducing the need to depend on a Pending Load feature. Though it would be nice if they added an option for the number pad function where it would have a longer (or no) time-out between the first button and the second, which would better duplicate the Pending Load function (first keypress essentially readies the sound, second keypress makes it happen).

[Frantz]

"Pending Load" is freedom I do not like that song-patch bound very much.
I prefer to browse and chose my sound while playing.
By design, Nord boards are an invitation to modify the sound on the fly.
"Pending load" was part of that idea, for browsing among sound variations.

[anotherscott]

I prefer to browse and chose my sound while playing.

You can still do that, but only while *holding* notes from your previous sound, not while continuing to play more notes from your previous sound.

But there is another workaround, if you have an iPhone or Android smartphone. Use an app that lets you scroll through sounds while you play (like Set List Maker, for example). Then you can browse through the sounds as you play, and just like pending load, leave the desired sound name "on the screen" until you are ready to start playing it, and that's when you tap to initiate the new sound.