Nord User Forum

Mr_-G- wrote: ↑30 Dec 2024, 15:39 It is quite easy, but unrealistic, to ask for imaginary VSTs (running under a similarly imaginary OS) to do things that are architecturally quite complicated.

Here in the forum there are various posts from several people (if I remember correct one was an embedded systems programmer) explaining that writing to that kind of RAM is slow, while reading is really fast and that is non-volatile. It seems that the USB stick-style drives cannot be used for the instrument RAM.

However if the sounds are not to your taste, that is a different matter. Is it all pianos that sound 'spiky'? What is your routing and amplification setup?

Then change the type of Ram. Igb for a dozen l pianos is bordering on futile. It’s not beyond the wit of man to have 1tb or more of RAm .

z

ZeroZero wrote: ↑30 Dec 2024, 16:30 Then change the type of Ram. Igb for a dozen l pianos is bordering on futile. It’s not beyond the wit of man to have 1tb or more of RAm .

z

This is not a realistic ask as it would require a completely different hardware architecture. It's not one of those "computer-like" workstations. One of the benefits of a Nord is the extremely fast startup time, and at least I don't want to miss this. I'm also very much satisfied with the size of the Piano sample memory on my NS3, nothing I miss in terms of additional piano sounds.

Schorsch wrote: ↑30 Dec 2024, 17:15

ZeroZero wrote: ↑30 Dec 2024, 16:30 Then change the type of Ram. Igb for a dozen l pianos is bordering on futile. It’s not beyond the wit of man to have 1tb or more of RAm .

z

This is not a realistic ask as it would require a completely different hardware architecture. It's not one of those "computer-like" workstations. One of the benefits of a Nord is the extremely fast startup time, and at least I don't want to miss this. I'm also very much satisfied with the size of the Piano sample memory on my NS3, nothing I miss in terms of additional piano sounds.

My laptop loads faster than my Nord Stage 4. I would never worry too much about start up anyway - you only start it once on a stage. It's the sound that is paramount and that is lacking to my ears.

Anayway - you may all disagree... fine.

Z

I get your point, don't get me wrong, but please note that it's not disagreement here, it's because we know that Nord uses a very special type of flash memory which cannot be compared at all to standard RAM which is used in computers and some keyboards/workstations.

What you are looking for is having the same hardware architecure on a Nord which you are used to from your laptops and some workstations (like Kronos for example). That might happen at some point of time but I very much doubt it. And starting just once on a stage is the ideal situation, but I for myself had several occasions where power went down for whatever reason shortly, and then had to get my instrument up and running very quick. It was annoying seeing my Motif XF starting up slowly, have never been annoyed since I am on a Nord as it‘s up and running within seconds compared to minutes, and the show could go on very soon

I would really like a 'catch' setting when moving slider/knobs/wheel in the general settings. I've broke my ears so many times while moving a slider or a cutoff per example. But that's not the biggest pro, i mean, for stage performance, you surely don't want your slow gentle pad to go crazy because your knob wasn't in the right position for this preset.
A simple OS update could do the job

I really wish the various Nord models had a Reverse delay option.
Has this ever been requested?

What I would hope to see in the next Nord Lead:

Improvements

Voice allocation - No stacking of voices upon retrigger of the same note on the same layer (like an analog polysynth).

Midi transmit - Arp and mod wheel transmit midi messages.

Additional features

Audio rate modulation - Something akin to poly-mod.

Audio in - Allow external audio to be fed in.

Midi looper - Something akin to the Yamaha Reface.

Tuned feedback - For acoustic synthesis that adds sympathetic harmonics.

With these features, the Nord Lead A1 would be the perfect instrument in my eyes

Velocity curve
At least for piano and grand
A morphing function with a simple knob to replace the 3 fixed settings and possibly fine tune our preference.
Plus maybe a button "wide" with 3 intensity setting.
That would be a perfect curve edit interface in nord style

Transmit MIDI PC message for EXTERN devices on Layer 1 / Layer 2 toggle. With two sets of PC data, one for each layer. I find the layer function much better than using program up/down. You can only ever be one button push away from the right part - less stressful on stage!

Song Mode for NS4. Or NS4EX. Or NS5.