Nord Stage 4 - Keybed and Synth Section
Posted: 09 May 2023, 16:58
Hello together,
yesterday I picked up my new Nord Stage 4 HA and here are my observations:
Keybed Action
I ordered a Stage 4 Compact and went to the store (Thomann - they usually have everything stock ) to pay and pick it up. While the guys from the warehouse were processing my Stage 4, I saw that they had a Stage 4 HA 73 standing around for trying. I decided to kill time and tried it out and was immediately blown away. I was always tempted to get a HA version but always feared that the Piano action would be too tough for me (Organ, Synth). For me, the HA works great. It's piano action, quite crisp and immediate but not overly heavy. If the triple sensor is a game-changer I don't know as I have no real reference, but I was surprised that i easily managed to perform some decent organ and synth play. I called the store manager over, cancelled my order immediately, they called the warehouse to pull my Compact back and got the 73 HA on the spot. Additional 300 EUR spent. So what! Hope I don't regret it.
Synth Section
The Nord Wave 2 engine is still a kind of head-scratcher for me. I got used to the quite intuitive way of the NS3 which I still find appropriate (selecting waveforms and a modulation source, i.e. an additional bell or other waveform sound). I am still struggeling to find out an efficient way to get from the section out what I want from it, I guess there is a learning curve, Rome wasn't built in a day. Let's see. In any case, the visualizations of e.g. filters or the envelope is quite useful, however, to figure out how things work together will still require some efforts and I still feel kind of lost.
Any comments / remarks on these topics?
I know there is a lot of topics ongoing and I didn't want to spam the forum with the same topics again and again, but I didn't find a dedicated discussion on the keybed and synth and so decided to open this up. Hope you're not mad at me.
Rock on!
yesterday I picked up my new Nord Stage 4 HA and here are my observations:
Keybed Action
I ordered a Stage 4 Compact and went to the store (Thomann - they usually have everything stock ) to pay and pick it up. While the guys from the warehouse were processing my Stage 4, I saw that they had a Stage 4 HA 73 standing around for trying. I decided to kill time and tried it out and was immediately blown away. I was always tempted to get a HA version but always feared that the Piano action would be too tough for me (Organ, Synth). For me, the HA works great. It's piano action, quite crisp and immediate but not overly heavy. If the triple sensor is a game-changer I don't know as I have no real reference, but I was surprised that i easily managed to perform some decent organ and synth play. I called the store manager over, cancelled my order immediately, they called the warehouse to pull my Compact back and got the 73 HA on the spot. Additional 300 EUR spent. So what! Hope I don't regret it.
Synth Section
The Nord Wave 2 engine is still a kind of head-scratcher for me. I got used to the quite intuitive way of the NS3 which I still find appropriate (selecting waveforms and a modulation source, i.e. an additional bell or other waveform sound). I am still struggeling to find out an efficient way to get from the section out what I want from it, I guess there is a learning curve, Rome wasn't built in a day. Let's see. In any case, the visualizations of e.g. filters or the envelope is quite useful, however, to figure out how things work together will still require some efforts and I still feel kind of lost.
Any comments / remarks on these topics?
I know there is a lot of topics ongoing and I didn't want to spam the forum with the same topics again and again, but I didn't find a dedicated discussion on the keybed and synth and so decided to open this up. Hope you're not mad at me.
Rock on!
