List of Nord Stage 3 known issues/bugs

[Elias]

I recently noticed something happening every once in a while: The pitch bend is off on organ, but it still bends up and down by two semitones. I have only just started noticing this behaviour so I'll see where this goes... Not really a big issue but strange nonetheless.

[zedogas]

Hi everyone. Please watch my video, and help if u can. I talk in brazilian portuguese but u you will notice the bizarre error/bug in nord stage 3 ha 88 brand new acquired less than 3 months. 2.54 software formatted and I put the factory sounds. thank so much...

[baekgaard]

Hi everyone. Please watch my video, and help if u can. I talk in brazilian portuguese but u you will notice the bizarre error/bug in nord stage 3 ha 88 brand new acquired less than 3 months. 2.54 software formatted and I put the factory sounds. thank so much...

I dont speak Brazilian Portuguese, so I have no idea what you're saying. But if your Nord makes the sounds in the video, it is broken. It is surely not a normal or well known problem, and could maybe even be a hardware issue.

Contact your local Nord support and send them the video and I'm sure they can help you.

If you think this is particular to the settings you use, you need to share with us the program you're using so that we could test under the same conditions.

But I would strongly recommend you talk to your local Nord support.

[zedogas]

Hi everyone. Please watch my video, and help if u can. I talk in brazilian portuguese but u you will notice the bizarre error/bug in nord stage 3 ha 88 brand new acquired less than 3 months. 2.54 software formatted and I put the factory sounds. thank so much...

I dont speak Brazilian Portuguese, so I have no idea what you're saying. But if your Nord makes the sounds in the video, it is broken. It is surely not a normal or well known problem, and could maybe even be a hardware issue.

Contact your local Nord support and send them the video and I'm sure they can help you.

If you think this is particular to the settings you use, you need to share with us the program you're using so that we could test under the same conditions.

But I would strongly recommend you talk to your local Nord support.

Ok,

[zedogas]

Does that happen only with that ballad piano sound? I wonder if it is a corrupted file. Have you tried deleting it, load a different piano and test again? If everything OK, load the ballad piano but from the Nord site.

[zedogas]

Does that happen only with that ballad piano sound? I wonder if it is a corrupted file. Have you tried deleting it, load a different piano and test again? If everything OK, load the ballad piano but from the Nord site.

Formatted ALL tabs of NS3 with Nord Sound Manager then restored with fACTORY nord sounds. 2.54OS How to do a self test? I heard this around there... and

Not only ballad Ep1. Bambino upright too, ballad ep2... I didnt test all samples... seems a memory problem, static, I dont know...

UPDATE: I tested now. Problems only in upright bank and misc. the others play perfect....

[zedogas]

Hi everyone. Please watch my video, and help if u can. I talk in brazilian portuguese but u you will notice the bizarre error/bug in nord stage 3 ha 88 brand new acquired less than 3 months. 2.54 software formatted and I put the factory sounds. thank so much...

Unfortunately here in Brazil they denied the warranty because passed more than 3 months (I bought it new 3 months and 15 days ago). And the problem found is in the mainboard, where the flash memory is located, which must cost more than ONE thousand dollars. I am very sad with the Clavia brand.

Here in Brazil the official seller (OPMAT - very rude by the way) just told me that it's a very rare error/bad function occurred. Obviously this bad funtion was hidden on the motherboard when it was manufactured, proving that worked well so little time. The central Clavia ​​in netherlands didn`t answer to me yet

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[zedogas]

I think you should contact Clavia directly via their website and explain the situation of how their representative is treating you. Three months warranty is absolutely ridiculous.

[Hlaalu]

I am sorry to hear about zedogas problem... I hope not to steal any attention from it; I just wanted to report a software bug that I haven't found being discussed anywhere.

NS3 88 here. Hope Clavia is reading this, and I'll be adding this to the Google sheet anyway. Vox nd Farfisa organs have some issues with the Vibrato/Chorus scanner. This is going to be long-ish, but I believe an accurate description of the bug is important.

A couple of notes first:

1) In this post I'll use terms like A-I and B-II, to refer to for instance Panel A Preset I and Panel B Preset II respectively, and so on.

2) What I am talking about here is the ON/OFF switch for the Vibrato/Chorus scanner, NOT its actual setting (C1, C2...). Per manual, these have to be the same for both panels, and for both Presets of each panel. Actually this holds for all the five organ types -- although the manual doesn't necessarily specify this each time.

First of all, while V/C can be ON for A-I and OFF for A-II (or vice-versa), this does not hold for Panel B. Here, B-II is always a copy of whathever settings are there on B-I.

Now, if you are on A-I and jump to B-I, you'll be able to turn V/C ON from B-I as well -- and this of course will turn it on immediately for B-II (being this a copy of B-I) AND A-I (A-II is indipendent) -- BUT NOT from B-II. On B-II, the V/C switch will just not work.

Viceversa, if you jump to B (I or II) while being in A-II, now it's going to be the V/C switch from B-I which won't work. It's as if Panel A "controlled" from which Preset of Panel B you can switch things ON and OFF. Since we left Panel A while being on Preset II, now Panel B's Preset II is the only one which becomes operable.

All of the above has made me conclude that, despite you can have four total drawbar Presets per Program (A-I, A-II, B-I and B-II), ANY switching ON or OFF of the V/C scanner HAS to be made from Panel A, either I or II -- the V/C scanner is going to be applied simultaneously to both Panels anyway. If you try operate it from Panel B, depending which Preset you left Panel A from, the button may not work, and if B-II happens to be the one operable now, switching it OFF will affect B-I and A-II as well, totally messing up your Program and your sound.

Controlling V/C from Panel A only may have well be what Clavia intended the machine to be operated as, but without stating it clearly on the manual, this becomes extremely confusing.

Having four separate V/C scanners (at least its ON/OFF settings) for each Preset of each Panel would of course be the best (like the B3 is already), but if this is too cumbersome for Clavia, then I'd suggest at least deactivating the V/C ON/OFF switch on Panel B altogether, to avoid confusion.

[Y-Lnordist]

Great description of a big problem this section has. Totally Agree