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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby CountFosco » 23 Aug 2019, 13:18

LewTheKeysGuy wrote:Why not release a more updated version as a 3 manual and expand the pipe organ setup, include general and divisional piston buttons below each manual for quick changes but still keep that sexy C2D design and sound.


I honestly think you guys are thinking too small. Nord have really dropped the ball by not developing a 5 manual keyboard with a weighted 88 on the bottom, dual SW waterfall manuals with 8 sets of drawbars, a synth action combining the functionality of all the Lead models and also bringing in the best features from all the other synth I've ever played, and also from the ones I haven't, and on top a full featured workstation with premapped controls for existing DAWS and also for as yet non-existing DAWS. I just think they lack vision.

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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby pablomastodon » 23 Aug 2019, 16:22

Spider wrote:When they tried something radically different (Nord Modular) it was abandoned.


Apparently, in spite of wowing critics and developing a cadre of hard-core devotees, it was not sold in sufficient numbers to make continued development along those lines economically viable. My guess is that the wider instrument-buying public did not want to work that hard at learning/programming an instrument. Perhaps Clearly Nord was ahead of their time, judging by the current wave of interest in hardware modular systems. I consider the Nord Modulars to be the Studebakers of the keyboard industry.

Nord is seemingly traditionalist about many things, but has broken some of their own "rules" in the past. Electros are no longer monotimbral. And the Kawai keybed and slanting front panel of the Nord Grand are departures from longstanding practice.

It would seem reasonable to expect that the lesson learned from their modular experience would be to design/build things with broad-based appeal to have a wider market demographic. 4x4 pad matrices, aux set of 8 faders, step sequencer, looper, etc. would perhaps each make a subset of people happy, but that would be a small subset and not sufficient to justify the effort/expense of developing/producing them.

Besides, the front panel of the Stage is already fairly crowded. My NS3 Compact barely has enough room for my beer, cellphone, burger, frites (curry mustard!), ashtray and shot glass. The greatest thing about the Grand is that there's room for an entire Smörgåsbord. :D

PS -- still waiting for cellphone charger port and combo hot/cold plate for beer/coffee. Also, a lighter would be convenient for those windy outdoor gigs.

In the words of the venerated Count Fosco, clearly the designers at Nord lack vision.
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby CountFosco » 23 Aug 2019, 22:51

pablomastodon wrote:My NS3 Compact barely has enough room for my beer, cellphone, burger, frites (curry mustard!), ashtray and shot glass.

:lol:
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby analogika » 23 Aug 2019, 23:11

Sorry, but that must be a small beer. German sizes, I get a beer and my cellphone on the NS3c, and that’s it.
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby Schorsch » 23 Aug 2019, 23:53

analogika wrote:Sorry, but that must be a small beer. German sizes, I get a beer and my cellphone on the NS3c, and that’s it.


:lol: Cologne beer (“Koelsch”) leaves some room for a (small) burger :D
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby analogika » 25 Aug 2019, 11:32

That’s not Beer.
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby Spider » 25 Aug 2019, 12:54

My Stage 2 EX can comfortably hold a liter of Radler on hot summer gigs, does that count?
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby maxpiano » 25 Aug 2019, 13:44

CountFosco wrote:
pablomastodon wrote:My NS3 Compact barely has enough room for my beer, cellphone, burger, frites (curry mustard!), ashtray and shot glass.

:lol: maybe one at a time, Pablo? :mrgreen:
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Re: Advice to Nord for Nord Stage 4 or new Nord Workstation

Postby Schorsch » 25 Aug 2019, 14:47

analogika wrote:That’s not Beer.
:lol:

Don't tell this to anybody when you are in Cologne .... :silent:
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Re: Is a Nord Stage Lead possible?

Postby alecgargett » 30 Aug 2019, 09:27

On second thought, I think the best option would be to add a new product called something like the "Nord Stage Lead" which would have an expanded synth section instead of the organ section to include all of the controls or most of the controls that are found on the Nord Lead.
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