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Roland VR-09 drawbars do not send the MIDI CC commands that Nord needs (in fact, they don't send CC at all, they use Sysex). PX5S allows you to program the sliders to send whatever MIDI CC you want, but as you kind of point out, it's a poor action for organ, plus there are only 6 sliders (though there are also some knobs which might be usable as well). You want something where you can define which CC commands a board's sliders will send out (so you can set them to the numbers the Nord needs to see), and preferably, something with 9 sliders. If you want a lightweight low-cost board that also has its own sounds, the Casio XW-P1 should do it. There are also a number of soundless controllers. If you can manage with 8 sliders instead of 9, the Novation SL61 MKII has an action that a lot of people like. The Samson Graphite 49 (9 sliders) also feels pretty nice, though it's only 4 octaves, and the board doesn't have an expression pedal input. There are some other boards that have 9 sliders, you'll have to see what you think about the actions.

ETA: You might be able to use the VR-09 in conjunction with this box, which might work to convert the VR-09 drawbar sysex commands to the desired Nord CC commands
http://www.midisolutions.com/prodepp.htm