I am very lucky to have received my brand new Nord Stage 3 HP76 while so many people are still waiting for their instruments. Now it's been few weeks with my new baby and here's what I feel about it:
Quick pros and Cons:
+ 76-model is suprisingly good keyboard for its very light weight, it's just 12,5 kg (27.5 lb)! It has enough key weight and precision for a piano player and it's also mechanically very quiet.
+ Those extra GigaBytes of piano and sample memory really make things different. Nord Piano and Sample libraries are great collection allready and continuously developing. Now you can have so many of your favorite pianos (sampled with XL-size) inside your Stage.
+ Two bright OLED-displays make things much more usable (compared to older Nords).
+ new synth has lot of power and high quality sound
+ nice little extras here and there (new filter effects and new morphing capabilities for example)
- Firmware bugs. Users have found quite a lot of problems and anomalies (some of them are minor, some more critical). Just read this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
- Sample Library incompatibility and lack of (fully functional) Sound Manager or Sample Editor. New Stage 3 is using a new format for samples and (on 30th August) we're still waiting for editor and conversion software. At the moment NS3 cannot use neither sample library sound nor user's own samples. This frustrates me most.
- Synth. NS3 synth was advertised as having Lead A1 engine. As a A1 owner this seems little overstatement. NS3 feels little limited compared to A1. (On the other hand there are some features you cannot get from A1: Sample playback obviously but also Superwaves).
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