Dear All,
Coming in a bit late with this as iI've been very busy recently (VEMIA auction coming soon...) but I did try the NordWave and if you took some of the extra synth mangling off the presets the looped versions of the Mellotron weren't that bad. Interesting that the unlooped versions are now available. Clavia are using some sort of proprietary encoding that reduces storage so looped versions are about 5M and unlooped are about 10M.
I am quite interested in the Electro 3 but note that the sample memory on that is restricted to 68M and 50 samples (shame), the other 160M is restricted to pianos.
I suppose in normal use you would probably only use 3 violins, 8 voice and flute so that isn't such an issue.
My ideal version would be the Electro with the Wave engine built in, but I'm weird.
Will probably go for the Electro 3 (once the Fairlight has sold) as the piano / organ angle is of more use than "yet another synth" and I've already got the Nord Modular G2 which is one of the most useful synths I've ever had.
All the best,
Norm