tacitus wrote:Yes the Nord pedalkeys 27 does have an expression pedal, but as I say, it's effectively just a separate swell pedal that screws on to the pedalboard casing. There's a captive lead with a TRS plug that goes straight into the swell pedal socket on the back of the C1/C2/C2D. The midi lead from the pedals only sends the pedal actions to the organ via the 'bass pedal' MIDI-in socket on the back of the organ. MIDI and swell are completely separate. So a third-party pedalboard that sends everything as MIDI won't be able to alter the volume on the Nord unless it has an appropriate 'analogue out', for want of a better term, with the right characteristics to connect to the swell input on the organ. You need two cables, period. Which is sort of messy, but it does give more flexibility to use off the shelf swell pedals and pedal keyboards.
I was kind of hoping that the 1/4" socket on the board in Yoshi's photo does provide a 'proper' swell control compatible with the C2 but, unless there's another problem somewhere, it looks as if it doesn't. If only we had some tech info on the circuitry ...
Hi tacitus & guys,
I've recieved an email from the builder in Germany that reads as below; -
For the pedal i think you have all?! It can be that i have forgotten the electronic for the swells srry, see here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing (I'm afraid the description is all in German.)
The plug on the electronic is not an output it is an input. You have swells on the pedal.
The question was if we should put on the swells on the pedal such plugs for qour nord or if we should make midi for future hauptwerk.
So in the moment you can try to work with midi > nord
Or you must make 1/4”” plugs on the cables of the swells
I hope you can understand my bad description...
It sounds like the organ builder is trying to say my system should still work by simply connecting the parts through MIDI devices.
But, I was thinking - if I connect the Potentiometer jack on the MIDI device for swells and the swell pedal jack on the back of the keyboard with a TRS to Dual 1/4" TS cable or something, it may work...
I'll let you know if this works when I get the cable.
If it still doesn't work, I might simply bite the bullet and get a Yamaha's FC7 Volume Pedal or something, and try to directly attach it to C2!
Josh