Why do Nord Do this - even to the stage ?

[zerozero]

There is something  I just dont understand about Nord. They are a top of the range product and tehy only fit 500 meg of memory into their flagship Nord Stage 2 - why not a terrabyte (or two)?
Then I go to their site to take a look at their paino download site and I find they are supplying their pianos lin small med large and XL - presumably because there is not enough space in the memory in all cases for all painos

 Why shoot yourself in the foot?


I am going to buy one soon so its an important puzzle to me

[nystul]

There is no stage instrument with anywhere close to a terabyte of memory.  You are talking about streaming off a hard drive here.  If that's what you want, use your laptop.

[toner22]

I wonder if you could use an external HDD with light speeds on a stage piano. Either way I don;t think id be that hard to slap more memory in weather it was disk or processed. Hell look at that they throw inside those lil micro phones.

[ionian_tinnear]

I have had many synths over the years. Roland, Yamaha, Kurzweil, etc.  Currently I have a Kurzweil K2600sx which also has a limitation on how much memory you can install.  Worse, that memory isn't any of the newer memory chips pc's use nowadays.  And, yes, these synths are just pc's with a better keyboard than the qwerty type..

I am also a software engineer (it pays for the music equipment addiction).  From working in the two worlds, the way I understand why there's what seems to be sever limitations is that these computers, er, synths, run on an operating system that doesn't know how to access large memory arrays.  In computers, a 16-bit OS cannot address memory the same amount of memory as a 32-bit, or 64-bit OS.  Even my fancy, and expensive, Kurzweil can only use a 2-gig SCSI partition, ridiculous, but understandable from a pc hardware point of view.

To make the machine run as fast as possible, and be responsive enough to play live, the manufacturer's want to use memory chips that 'fit' the OS and CPU's they use.  But this still irritates me too.  With the speed of more current processors, why haven't they tried a little more to keep up and use more up-to-date technology.  Must be a cost thing.

For me, the answer was to not host all my sounds on a keyboard, but in rack-mount sound modules, most notable a Muse Receptor.  That still leads to a question..  If Muse can do it, why can't Roland, Kurzweil, Nord, etc.?  Keyboards are pretty much a sound module built into a keyboard.  For years now I've used mostly just a controller keyboard (no sounds in it at all) and connected to a rack of modules, and leave the Kurzweil home.  It's big and heavy..

The major manufacturers need to step up and get out of the 80's and 90's tech, PLEASE!