Nord User Forum

[dprmcgnar]

Does the midi out on the nord mean that I can get a mid ikeyboard like this that has midi out/in and use it?
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... gJ72PD_BwE

Also what effects from the nord go over to the new keyboard. Will the rotary still be on the second keyboard if I put it on, will the drawbars work?
Or does it just take the sound and the other keyboard has to put effects on it?

[cgrafx]

MIDI only sends control information (key presses, knob turns, program changes), it doesn't send audio. The Midi controller you have listed is just that, a "Controller".

You could use it to control the Nord but all sounds will only come out of the audio output jacks on the Nord.

[Tasten-Bert]

Hmm. Going from the nord's MIDI out to the MIDI in of a controller keyboard which has no sounds onboard doesn't give you anything! Would only make sense in the other direction. If you then seperate the MIDI Channels between the two keyboards you can even play two different sounds at once. Maybe worthwhile looking in the manual for details. Or just wait here for more detailled infos, I unfortunately have to leave now.

[analogika]

MIDI does not transmit any sound at all. It is purely information used to play and control other instruments — sort of like how music notation contains all information needed to play a piece. If you hold up the paper to your ear, it doesn’t sound anything like an orchestra.

So assigning part of the manual to MIDI doesn’t do anything to the sound of the Nord, and it doesn’t do anything at all unless you hook up another sound generator.

[anotherscott]

Does the midi out on the nord mean that I can get a mid ikeyboard like this that has midi out/in and use it?
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... controller?

As ha been mentioned, that would be pretty pointless. The MIDI Out on the Nord does indeed allow you to send MIDI to the Behringer, but since the Behringer isn't capable of making any sounds, I can't think of anything really useful you could accomplish. However, if you connect the Behringer, not to the Nord's MIDI Out, but rather to the Nord's MIDI *IN*, then you might find interesting things to do, like play piano from your Electro 5's keys, while also playing the Nord's organ from the Behringer's keys. Or possibly play "dual manual" organ, with the Behringer's faders controlling the organ sound for one manual while the Nord's faders control the organ sound for the other. (I'm not SURE that would work, depending on the MIDI implementations of the boards, but it might.) I think the Behringer's pitch wheel would also allow you to bend pitch on Nord sounds.

Also what effects from the nord go over to the new keyboard. Will the rotary still be on the second keyboard if I put it on, will the drawbars work?
Or does it just take the sound and the other keyboard has to put effects on it?

To expand on some of the other replies, the Behringer would be used to trigger sound that are in the Nord. The sounds will be identical as if you played them from the Nord itself, including all the effects. The Behringer merely send instructions to the Nord. It generates no sound or effects of its own.

What you might do is experiment with Split on your Electro, and look at what you can do in terms of splitting two organ sounds, or splitting a piano and a synth sound, whatever. And then imagine that you could use the Nord's full 61 or 73 keys to play one of the two sides of the split, and use the Behringer's 49 keys to play the other, so you wouldn't be at such grea risk of running out of keys for one part or the other. That would be the big benefit of adding a controller, basically any other board that has a MIDI Out jack. (The additional fader/drawbar controls and the pitch bend wheel could be a bonus of using this particular board.)

[BuckW]

MIDI does not transmit any sound at all. It is purely information used to play and control other instruments — sort of like how music notation contains all information needed to play a piece. If you hold up the paper to your ear, it doesn’t sound anything like an orchestra...

...unless you are Ludwig Von

[Arjan P]

Well, since he was deaf, Ludwig Von would have had to hold the paper up to his eyes..

[analogika]

Well, since he was deaf, Ludwig Von would have had to hold the paper up to his eyes..

Exactly. But Beethoven didn't turn deaf until he was around thirty.

In any case, if you look at a sheet and hear the music in your head as you read the notes, as many of us do, it's your head creating the music, not the paper.