Nord User Forum

[michavo]

Hi.
I have a short question.
I have a NORD Piano. Excellent Piano Sounds. But just Piano sounds. Is there some how a possibility to layer for example some string pads to the Piano sound?
Is it possible to load such Piano+Layer-sounds? Or is the only way to MIDI another soundmachine (laptop, soundexpander, ....) ?
I would be glad someone give me a helpful advice.
God bless, Michael

[mjbrands]

Hello Michael,

You can do something like this on the newer Nord Piano 2, but not on the original Nord Piano. The fact the NP2 can play samples is nice for pads like this, but apart from that it is fairly limited so you're not actually missing that much in my opinion

You can definitely use some external sound source via MIDI (as you describe), but you might also need a small mixer to mix the piano and the pad sound. If you use a laptop, you could record the piano sound, have the laptop add the pad (a soft synth) and output it again, but the delay this adds might be high enough to be rather annoying to play with.

If you have an iPad, you could plug the NP via USB into the iPad (for the MIDI connection) and run some synth (I like Sunrizer and Animoog) or something like SampleTank on the iPad. I did something similar with my NS2 connected to an iPad.

I don't know if you gig or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are decent enough free (or very cheap) soft synths available for your laptop that do what you want; you can certainly test this with a trial version of a soft synth. Since the NP does MIDI over USB, at least you won't need an external MIDI interface.

[sAELonica]

hello guys if i conect my nord 2 piano with ipad ,how can i conect my 3,5mm jack to powermate for high quality sound ?and i i i connect my ipad to nord ,the nord it have the orginal sound as well ? i mean i want to play and with midi and the original sounds from nord thanks