NS4 Wish List for Future Stage 4 OS Updates

[Mattms]

The purpose of categories is to group instrument types. Preset categories are therefore very useful. Program categories, on the other hand, are much less so, as they are more often used to combine sounds, not just a single type. Adding category types for programs, such as "Band 1", "Band 2", etc..., would be very helpful. I don't find the Nord Stage 4 very practical for sorting songs, but it would greatly help to quickly switch between setlists.
What do you think ?

(The best thing would be to be able to create and name a category)

[brevis_bounce]

Hello there,

thank you for putting this together - I would like to make a suggestion to add to the Future Stage 4 OS update wishlist.

Adding a "Midi only" State for each layer or some way to turn off the keyboard control for each layer, so they can be played individually by an external Keyboard or Sequencer. This opens a lot of options when working with DAW and also Sequencers because you could put each layer on its own midi channel (that is already possible) and sequence them independently whiles playing another layer live with the internal keyboard.
It's a no-brainer given the fact that this was possible in the NS 3 and the NE 6D. It would make the NS4 a powerhouse not just for live performance, but also production and the intersections of both.

I really really hope they update this, because I have found a lot of people to be frustrated with this clearly unnecessary limitation, giving the fact that midi sequencing is sort everywhere these days, and we obviously also want to use the full potential of all those layers.

Thank you in advance!

(btw. i already added it to the bug list and contacted nord - everybody who's resonating with this should also send a request to them, maybe that helps to bump it a bit)

[brevis_bounce]

Hello there,

thank you for putting this together - I would like to make a suggestion to add to the Future Stage 4 OS update wishlist.

Adding a "Midi only" State for each layer or some way to turn off the keyboard control for each layer, so they can be played individually by an external Keyboard or Sequencer. This opens a lot of options when working with DAW and also Sequencers because you could put each layer on its own midi channel (that is already possible) and sequence them independently whiles playing another layer live with the internal keyboard.
It's a no-brainer given the fact that this was possible in the NS 3 and the NE 6D. It would make the NS4 a powerhouse not just for live performance, but also production and the intersections of both.

I really really hope they update this, because I have found a lot of people to be frustrated with this clearly unnecessary limitation, giving the fact that midi sequencing is sort everywhere these days, and we obviously also want to use the full potential of all those layers.

Thank you in advance!

(btw. i already added it to the bug list and contacted nord - everybody who's resonating with this should also send a request to them, maybe that helps to bump it a bit)

I am pretty sure this was already in the list, long time.

[jazzmonger]

The KB Hold button should apply to each individual synth, not all 3 at the same time. Seems like an oversight. How else would you trigger a sample and play a different synth over it without all notes sustaining as you play?

Spreadsheet updated.

[jazzmonger]

The KB Hold button should apply to each individual synth, not all 3 at the same time. Seems like an oversight. How else would you trigger a sample and play a different synth over it without all notes sustaining as you play?

Spreadsheet updated.

This is what the EXCLUDE function is for. Each part can be excluded from the KB HOLD individually.

[jazzmonger]

Well... every other layer function is enable or controlled when the specific layer is selected. I wonder what corporate genius decided that one button should operate differently than all the other buttons that affect the layer?

I tried to find a description of that button in the manual but could not. Searched the online PDF and there it was. Thanks for pointing it out.

Should I retract that "feature request"? I still feel it would be more intuitive to include specific layers for kb hold that to have to exclude them.

[maxpiano]

Include or exclude, it would be anyway a per-program setting; I would also think, as you, that keeping as default the existing standard of NS2/3 (where it is per-slot) woild have been better.

[brevis_bounce]

I have to say that making the „global“ setting put reverb post-fader and the Leslie pre-rotary is a great addition. Sounds don’t cut off when morphing or pulling a fader down. Furthermore, I think before 1.60 turning off an engine also cut the reverb tail, now with 1.6x it fades off like expected.

It is definitely a step in the right direction and keeps my hopes up for a future OS v2.0

Still, MIDI and External implementation is limited to a high degree, as many of us have pointed out since Stage 4 came out.

I‘ve shared an Email addressing my concerns 1 1/2 years back.

1) Advanced mode for Extern mode (internal synth sounds and external midi simultaneously with separate zone assignments)

2) MIDI channel assignments per program and per Instrument layer, like back with Nord Stage 2. Stage 2/EX imho had a great MIDI implementation.