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Dear

I am close to buy a Nord Drum 2 but not 100% sure if this little unit will meet my needs.
As a ‘one-man’ acoustic guitar player/singer some songs needs a rhythm backing track. I plan to ‘sequence’ ND2 with the iPad (Dum Beat App) or Mac running Ableton LIVE.
I was wondering it’s possible to force Ableton LIVE to send MIDI ‘Program Change’ to individual presets.

Example:
CHANNEL 1: Bank 1, Program 12, Sound from pad 4
CHANNEL 2: Bank 2, Program 3, Sound from pad 2
…. up to six…

As far as I understand, I can can copy/paste sounds from other presets to the user banks (5-8) and send Program Change to load the preset, but my question is different from that.

Thank you for your information.

Best regards
Roman

Hi Roman,

The ND2 can store 400 programs (organised in 8 banks of 50 programs),
A program consists of 6 sounds / channels, eg a drum kit with a kick, snare, hihat, and 3 toms

If I understand your question correctly, you want to know if it's possible to swiftly replace the sound of one, or a couple of the 6 channels, with other sounds.

It is possible to copy and paste a sound from one program to another, 'manually' - but not thru MIDI

However, thru MIDI you can control all sound parameters of each of the 6 channels of the ND2, which might help to achieve what you want. Although I'm not sure how quick the ND2 will respond if you change a lot of parameters to completely reprogram sounds 'at once'

Alternatively you could store several variations of one program. then you'll simply have to send program changes. Might work better..

So I think there are a couple of ways to achieve what you want, how well it will actually work in practice, to quickly do program changes between 2 beats, depends on how quick the ND2 responds, and the tempo of your track, not sure -anyone else?

Cheers,
Albert

Dear Albert

Thank you very much for your detailed Information.
This is exactly what I was asking for and the ND2 should work within my enviroment.
Again, thank you Albert!

Best regards
Roman