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I am buying the NORD STAGE 3 but i don't want the investment and I rather wait if the nord stage 3 ex or nord stage 4 is coming out. PLEASE HELP SOMEBODY

abepiano wrote: PLEASE HELP SOMEBODY

Help is on the way: Here is the phone number of nord headquarter in Sweden
+46 8 442 73 60
Nobody else knows.

A warm welcome to this wonderful forum. Stay tuned.

Cheers from Germany

abepiano wrote:I am buying the NORD STAGE 3 but i don't want the investment and I rather wait if the nord stage 3 ex or nord stage 4 is coming out. PLEASE HELP SOMEBODY

What does the S3ex or S4 do that you feel is missing from the S3?

CountFosco wrote:

abepiano wrote:I am buying the NORD STAGE 3 but i don't want the investment and I rather wait if the nord stage 3 ex or nord stage 4 is coming out. PLEASE HELP SOMEBODY

What does the S3ex or S4 do that you feel is missing from the S3?

The EX or the 4

This question is asked weekly, always on a new thread, never providing any new information...

NO ONE KNOWS .

CountFosco wrote:

abepiano wrote:I am buying the NORD STAGE 3 but i don't want the investment and I rather wait if the nord stage 3 ex or nord stage 4 is coming out. PLEASE HELP SOMEBODY

What does the S3ex or S4 do that you feel is missing from the S3?

I guess market value: I too would wait if I were in their shoes. Also, memory. The Stage 3 offers 480 MB for the Sample Library: depending on your use, they might prove to be way too little (I, for one, rely on Mellotron samples a lot, which are pretty heavy by Nord's standards). Even the Electro 6 has a bit more space with its 512 MB. I understand that Nord's business model's based around incremental upgrades, but such tiny amounts of memory feel out of time: I mean, the Kronos already shipped with a 30 GB SSD back in 2011, which became 60 GB the following year, with the possibility to install a second drive. Clavia works much harder on compression and efficiency, but I feel that 4 GB for the Piano Library and an equal amount for the Sample Library should be the bare minimum for a flagship keyboard in 2021 (especially if you want it to be future-proof).

StrangeAeons wrote:especially if you want it to be future-proof).

...and your next gig's in 2027. Yes, under those circumstances I'm inclined to agree.

abepiano wrote:I am buying the NORD STAGE 3 but i don't want the investment and I rather wait if the nord stage 3 ex or nord stage 4 is coming out. PLEASE HELP SOMEBODY

Hello, and welcome to the Forum! The two options I would consider would be to either wait for the Stage 3 EX and continue using your current keyboard(s), or look for a used Stage 3 which will not drop significantly in value (depending on what you spend) when the Stage 3 EX is released. It is very possible that once the Stage 3 EX is released, you'll look at all that you are able to do with your Stage 3 and decide that the move to a Stage 3 EX is not needed or worth the difference. What we don't know is whether Nord will break tradition and jump straight to a Nord Stage 4, which reinforces the thought of waiting, or buying used. Good luck to you!

Nord always keeps any secrets for future product releases extremely well guarded.
Even if Nord were planning to announce a major new keyboard product just 1 day from now, you will not hear about it ahead of time here.
I have been a participant on this forum for 8 years, and I cannot remember one case where a major new keyboard hardware announcement was leaked here ahead of time.

Great insights here and one more long-time Nord user, as well as long-time forum member. I have had tangential connections with Nord over the years, having written several product reviews and also interacting with them at NAMM shows and it's true - there are no leaks of information ahead of time and no one but Nord knows about if/when a NS3 EX or NS4 will hit the market. Even if they announced it tomorrow, it would probably still be at least 6 months before available.

I wouldn't hold off awaiting an unknown announcement, if you need a new keyboard and the NS3 meets your needs. I was a NS2 user for a long time and even had a couple of NS2 EX that I used until well after the NS3 was available. What I saw in the first 1+ year of the NS3 being out is that a number of bugs and features were still being worked out and it made less sense for me to upgrade until the platform was stable. I waited something like 2 years before I got a NS3 and was perfectly happy with the NS2 in the meantime. I still have one of my NS2 and wouldn't hesitate to use it, even though I also have two NS3 Compact units that I like very much.

If and when there is a successor announced, I would likely wait a little while before getting it. Not to mention the time involved with learning a new instrument and creating sounds on it. That was non-trivial when I moved from NS2 to NS3.

In terms of investment, Nords hold their value VERY well, so I wouldn't worry to much about that.