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NEW brass and sax sounds from Nord available now at:

http://www.nordkeyboards.com/main.asp?t ... Wind/Brass

Enjoy

Thanks for being so quick with the info Cbas!
Finally the wait is over.
Let the word be spread... :delivery:

Interesting that I think this is the first time Nord has offered a downloadable sample with a built-in split function, the first official non-organ keyboard split you can implement on an Electro 3. It would be nice if they came out with other useful common split samples, as Korg did with their add-on voices for the SV-1. Though the Nord still has some clear limitations in terms of what they can reasonably do in this respect, in that they don't support velocity-based multisampling in the downloadable sample library engine, and they don't have any way (so far, at least) to restrict the sustain pedal to affecting only certain notes (making it hard to do a bass/piano split, for example).

I really wish you could velocity morph between samples in two different slots on a Nord Stage 2. I believe you can do that on the Wave. That would be really nice, for example, with these Nord samples that sample brass at mf and f.

It wouldn't even have to be a full-blown morph function. Just a simple recallable parameter that ties slot triggering to velocity. That might be more add-able in a software update, as there are no "morph" buttons to spare, and that would probably be the most useful thing one could do with a velocity morph that you can't currently do some other way.

Hanon_CTS wrote:Thanks for being so quick with the info Cbas!
Finally the wait is over.
Let the word be spread... :delivery:

Yeah I just checked the Nord site at the right time by coincidence.

@Anotherscott I agree with you. It would really be nice to have multi velocity in this regard. Or controllable by morph as you suggest.

You can get pretty nice patches by morphing slot a and b with the modwheel.
Set the morph on one slot from min to max volume and the other slot the opposite way. Now you can crossfade seamlessly between the slots..

NordPH wrote:You can get pretty nice patches by morphing slot a and b with the modwheel.
Set the morph on one slot from min to max volume and the other slot the opposite way. Now you can crossfade seamlessly between the slots..

Nice idea, and that can certainly be useful too. But velocity would certainly have its benefits, like not losing a playing hand, and affecting only the notes being played hard instead of all the notes being played or held around the same time. And I think velocity also would just feel more natural for some of these kinds of things

Alternatively to Nord providing that ability, I wonder if they might ever enhance the sample library spec to permit two-velocity-layer samples, and if it even could be done in such a way that it would work on the existing instruments.

Hi, you can also morph using the control pedal.
Diego