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look here:http://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libr ... orda-gm753
and you will see what pablo says.

Thanks Tomzi,

I had a good listen to the sounds. Some of them had BR and PH written after them? Not sure what these terms mean?

Paul

these things are discussed on the front page of the Sample Libraries under heading entitled "Descriptions in the file names"

Pablo

monsterjazzlicks wrote:Thanks Tomzi,

I had a good listen to the sounds. Some of them had BR and PH written after them? Not sure what these terms mean?

Paul

Here it is:


Descriptions in the file names:
We use certain abbreviations in the last part of the file names, to give us (and you) information about certain qualities of a sound. Here is a brief description of some of these naming conventions that you can find in these files:

Vib - Vibrato
HighVib - more pronounced vibrato
ste - This indicates that the Sample Instrument is in stereo
Marc - Marcato
SR - these samples are licensed from Sonic Reality
KH - these samples are licensed from Kirk Hunter Studios
PS - these samples are licensed from Precision Sound
ST - these samples are licensed from Sample Tekk
BR - these samples are licensed from Back in Time Records
PH - these were made for us by Pontus Henrikson

Hi,

Thanks a lot guys. Sorry, I missed it first time round and with the new re-design of the site.

Best,

Paul

RE: Continuation from thread - Nord Stage 2 88 vs. Nord Stage 2ex 88. I do not want to detract from the OP's subject matter so I thought it best to relocate to this here (old and pre-existing) thread of mine.

Hi guys,

In hindsight 5 x years ago, I should have bought the NSC EX. It is my most biggest regret to be quite honest. But at the time, I thought that 128MB would be enough, and I was also assured that it would be!

What I don't get though, is why are 90% of the RHODES samples so damn SMALL? They sound ok, but would they not be better if they at least tripled the SIZE? For instance, to include more VELOCITY LAYERS, or whatever?

Do you think it would be wise and also permissible on eBay to place a NSC at a BUY IT NOW price of 1100GBP, and a STARTING BID (also) at 1100GBP?

Cheers,

Paul

Spider wrote:yeah I don't see that many NSC on ebay, in Italy there's a specialistic website for musical instruments that sees much more traffic, I suppose there will be something similar in the UK (it's in Italian only and many buyers-sellers don't do international shipping, but anyway if you want more info feel free to PM me)

I fully agree that if you have to make the jump, a used or discounted Stage2 is the best choice, the ClassicEX is only a marginal improvement, while the 2EX is awfully expensive. The 2 gives you the best bang-for-buck right now, by far.

1 x LARGE grand, 1 x the LARGEST CP80, 1 x the LARGEST WURLI, plus the CLAV and a couple of RHODES (the latter two are both under 10MB each).

large grand = 80-100 Mb
CP80 = 60 Mb
Wurli 2 amped = 24 Mb
Clav = 6 Mb
Rhodes = 10-15 Mb each (only #7 is significantly larger at 30 Mb)

The total of your wishlist is 200-230 Mb, barely half of the Stage2's piano memory.
You can fit all you want, add all the other Rhodes models, AND still have room for an XL piano (or two Large, or 3-4 Medium...)!
You can breathe freely, you definitely don't need the 2EX dude!

monsterjazzlicks wrote:Do you think it would be wise and also permissible on eBay to place a NSC at a BUY IT NOW price of 1100GBP, and a STARTING BID (also) at 1100GBP?

You can set whatever prices you like, but...um...why would anybody bid above 1100 if they can buy it now for 1100?

Based on my selling experiences you need to set the starting (bid) price well below the going rate to encourage people to bid. If the starting price is too near the BIN price, it puts people off. People often set their bid starting price too high because they are naturally afraid that the item will sell far below what they were hoping to get. However the key to attracting bids and bidders is to set a very low starting bid (or none at all).

It's down to psychology: when people are searching for a particular item to bid on, the number of bids is what attracts them to bid in the first place. If there are several of the same item available to bid on, they will always go to the one with the most bids. They presume there is something special about that particular one; perhaps it's in better condition, perhaps it comes with extras, and so on. An auction with plenty of bids is just more exciting, and is far more likely to start a bidding war, which is exactly what you want.

I have never set a starting price for anything. When you're selling specialised music gear, serious bidders know the market value very precisely and everything I have sold has always gone at the actual market price or above, with the following exception: anything that I advertised as "buyer collects" because the item is to big or heavy and I couldn't be bothered to pack and post it, has always gone at a noticeably lower price, usually disappointingly low. Lesson learned: be prepared to pack and post anything, or suffer the consequences.

Setting no starting price (I think it defaults to 99 pence or something) requires a certain amount of "intestinal fortitude", but always pays off: you will get a lot of lowball bids very quickly - people bidding five pounds or something for a keyboard worth a grand or more - "hope springs eternal" and all that - but those early bids will make your item stand out and the serious bidders will come. And people looking to actually buy are not fools: they know that to win the bid for a desirable item they will end up having to pay around the true market value and they're ok with that.

If you're worried that you might end up selling a valuable item for a disastrously low price, don't be; the number of people looking to buy on ebay is staggeringly huge, and there are plenty of serious musicians looking for serious gear all the time. They're just looking to buy at a fair second-hand market value rather than pay the markup from buying second-hand from a retailer.

Having said all that, in your case - where you need to get the right amount of money - I would consider selling it for a fixed price and not bothering with an auction at all. It will probably sell before you can draw breath. However, if you have a BIN and an auction, it's possible that someone willing to pay the BIN might actually hold off to see if they can get it cheaper in the auction. Either way, I think you'll be fine.

Hi RL,

RedLeo wrote:

monsterjazzlicks wrote:Do you think it would be wise and also permissible on eBay to place a NSC at a BUY IT NOW price of 1100GBP, and a STARTING BID (also) at 1100GBP?

You can set whatever prices you like, but...um...why would anybody bid above 1100 if they can buy it now for 1100?

Whoops, I meant 1000GBP as the STARTING BID. My typo!

Cheers,

Paul

Lol I kind of knew that, I was just taking the mickey

Hi,

I was wondering please: the NSC has a wonderful little BANK in the SYNTH panel called BASSES. There are about 99 x BASS sounds and I really do find this useful (as I play a lot of LH BASS style gigs). I could quite literally talk forever about how useful this particular feature is . . . !

However, I played on my friends NS2 last week and (from memory) I do not remember there being such a BANK on his instrument? It seemed to me that one would download/install BASSES from the NORD SAMPLE LIBRARY and use these. I do remember there was a SYNTH BANK but it was more randomly filled with all sorts and also, these SYNTH sounds were not in any logical order?

Thanks in advance for any clarification.

Ta,

Paul