Help: Nord 27 pedal working w/ Roland FP-30x

osmiridium · Post by **osmiridium** » 14 Jan 2024, 17:39

Hello forum! I want to make my mostly-new Nord 27 pedals work with my Roland FP-30x. Got them off of Ebay. It appears to work just fine when I plug in the power. Light goes on, and blinks in response to input. So I'm assuming I didn't get scammed.
The trouble is the cables. They seller didn't include the 5-pin midi cables that supposedly come with them, and the FP-30x uses an 8-pin connection. I do have a double 8-pin cable for the Roland, but that doesn't help much. This leaves me with the options of either looking for a 5-pin to 8-pin cable, or daisy chaining.
I haven't been able to find the former, and the latter is tricky because of male vs. female ends and potential compatibility issues. What are your thoughts?

Post by **FZiegler** » 14 Jan 2024, 18:03

You might see in the manual what this Pedal2 jack is for. In any case, it is not fro MIDI. The FP30x doesn't feature DIN-MIDI connections.

I'd guess the pedal is useless for you. But you might ask a Roland specialist. As far as I've heard, the Nord pedal will send on MIDI ch 3. The rest is to be sorted out on the Roland side.

Post by **FZiegler** » 14 Jan 2024, 18:11

And even if you would be able to connect the pedal - I'm not that sure that you can use a split configuration for the pedal sound.

Post by **wartaler** » 15 Jan 2024, 06:43

Apparently the FP30x has MIDI over bluetooth and USB only, perhaps the bluetooth is compatible with the Roland WM-1 wireless bluetooth MIDI receiver (I doubt it), but you should check that with a Roland user forum, or on their website. Hope you get it working, lots of fun playing!
Cheers, Albert

Post by **maxpiano** » 15 Jan 2024, 11:59

That input is for the Roland triple pedal unit, not MIDI (as you can read on its manual).

As others already said the FP30X does not provide a MIDI DIN IN, so you need a USB MIDI Host with MIDI DIN/IN OUT (the famous Kenton, or cheaper ones like this one or similar) which will enable the Nord Pedals to connect directly to the FP30X.

Alternatively, if you have a computer with a MIDI Interface in your setup, you can connect both the FP30X (via USB) and the Pedal 27 (via MIDI DIN) to the computer and use a MIDI Routing app to send pedal 27 data to the FP30X

Post by **Schorsch** » 15 Jan 2024, 12:16

also the FP-30x is a digital piano, not an organ or a hybrid including an organ engine (different from the likes of Nord Electro/Stage, Yamaha YC and others) so I wonder if there is any support at all for an organ midi key pedal like the Nord 27 pedal keys?

Post by **maxpiano** » 15 Jan 2024, 19:40

Schorsch wrote:also the FP-30x is a digital piano, not an organ or a hybrid including an organ engine (different from the likes of Nord Electro/Stage, Yamaha YC and others) so I wonder if there is any support at all for an organ midi key pedal like the Nord 27 pedal keys?

I also struggle to see a 27 pedals organ pedalboard under a Digital Piano, but the OP mileage may vary; anyway since FP30x is 16 parts multitimbral and GM compatible, technically speaking it is not a problem to find some good timbre to assign to the pedals on MIDI CH3 (but timbre selection on that Part will have to be done from a Computer or a midifile, see https://support.roland.com/hc/en-us/art ... X-via-MIDI )

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