Quick changes to favorite patches

[fishtaco]

Newbie to the forum here. Just got my Electro 6 73 this week.

I'm a little disappointed as to the ability to save favorite patches (or are they called 'Programs'?) that I can call up at a button press in live performance. Toggling through hundreds of patches from A11 to 044 is not exactly the way to make a quick change.

The only feature I am seeing for this is Live Mode feature where I can save a whopping 8 presents. (I have a $600 KORG synth that lets me save ten.)

And there's two drawbacks that come with Live Mode:
1. Any change I make on the fly gets saved forever (because the real purpose of Live Mode is as a scratchpad)
2. Limited in what the Program panel shows me...just A1/B2, etc, names of the patches comprising the hybrid...but not the preset letter name (H23, B12, etc) that was the point of departure.

The one remedy i can think of is to have a laptop on stage with me running the Sound Manager, and click on the saves I have made in in slots P11 and above. Are there any other possible remedies?

Also, maybe I bought the wrong Nord. Are there other models with more flexibility on custom saves? (I've seen a video about "songs", but for Stage models; Electro hasn't got that.)

Thank you,
(remember....newbie)

[maxpiano]

Hi and welcome to NUF,

having said that a keyboard specs are public and can (should?) be read before buying as I guess you did, so it should not be a surprise to not find what is not there, why don't you just sort your Programs with Nord Sound Manager and put your favorites in the first Bank/Locations (as it is has been the case with any keyboard not managing favorites or Song Lists).

The alternative of a computer/tablet or even just a smartphone with a SetList app that can also send Program Changes over USB MIDI is of course also OK and even more flexible, at the cost of an additional piece of equipment of course.

[Tasten-Bert]

Hello fishtaco

and a very warm welcome to this wonderful forum of nord enthusiasts. I hope you‘ll love it here - and your nord. I am in a similar situation as you are, having an electro 5D with only that one dial knob to switch between more than 50 programmes, and having a korg X50 on the other hand which offers me the 10 favourites at one fingerpress as you mentioned.

Firstly I tried the app „Program Changer“ on my iPad, no success. Then I found out that my app „Set List Maker“ allows me to add MIDI program change commands which can jump directly to any nord programme. So if I for example switch to my song sheet Runaway which I play with my nord program 1:28 it sends the MSB LSB Program code 0-0-27 to the keyboard, and there it changes as from ghost‘s hand to the according program.

If that‘s an option for you …

Cheers from Germany