JVSalazar wrote:Do you just set your CP73 touch to normal and adjust everything on the velocity converter?
The first thing if considering the MIDIsolutions Velocity Converter is the power question. In my eyes, it's not worth the effort to always plug in a 2nd box with power adapter into the MIDI connection just for power injection. Yamaha has quite a number of units mentioned as 'not working' on this page: http://midisolutions.com/faqs.htm#LED. Maybe you'd need to pay more for a full event processor from another brand to plug in between.
The second thing you need to know is that the MIDIsolutions velocity converter has no button to switch between different velocity curves on a gig or so. The little black box has something like 40 or 50 velocity curves built in plus one for personal customising. And you need to preprogram it via MIDI SysEx or a Windows utility - even for the built-in curves. So you probably need a MIDI connection to you computer, too.
I don't have a Yamaha CP73 but an old CP33 that has only "soft", "normal" and "hard" velocity settings (besides "off") - cf. footer. I adapted my converter to match with the "normal" Yamaha setting and would be able to change the keyboard character a little while changing its own setting. It took 3 or 4 trials to get a velocity curve I'm now happy with. As long as your CP73 transmits all velocities needed into different MIDI values, you'll be able to set a curve that fits the Nord sounds.
My personal plans: If ever I get me an additional NP5-73, it wouldn't be before Nord has published its sound library. I'm a bit interested in the 'round robin' samples and the 'natural vibrato' thing. We'll see. If I opt for 73 keys, it'd be in the sense cphollis mentioned: It's not to be considered to replace a real piano anyway, being only a tool for gigging...