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MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby Buzz_Pickens » 11 May 2019, 20:14

Hi.. I'm a long long time keyboard player but mostly pianos (ac and electric) , standard organs with the once in a while horns and strings, a few synth leads here and there.. etc.. I just purchaced a floor model demo Nord Electro 5D 73.. I'm going over the manual and a couple of tutorial videos. I don't see a way to assign a MIDI RECEIVE to a single program. What I'd like to do is, use my Nord mostly for the organ and left hand horn stabs .. whatever but, once in a while, MIDI OUT of my Roland 88 piano into the Nord to use one of the really nice electric piano patches that I'll build. (I LOVE the way I can assign tremolo and amp modeling to the Worlys and Rhodes patches).. so if I could, for instance, assign the GLOBAL MIDI RECEIVE to channel 3 and use one or two of the individual programs to recieve MIDI CHANNEL 1 ?? Thanks for any input.. I'm looking forward to playing both live and studio with this new (for me anyway) Nord 5D 73!

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Re: MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby anotherscott » 11 May 2019, 23:26

You can only play two sounds at once, regardless of whether you are triggering them from the E5's own keys or from an external board over MIDI. So you can't do an organ+brass stab split on its own keys while playing EP from other keys... that would be three sounds, and the electronics in the Nord cannot produce more than two. You would need an E6 or Stage series board to do three.

However, you CAN play one sound (say, organ) on the E5's internal keys while triggering another sound (EP) from an external board. Use MIDI Upper Receive mode. Assign the organ sound to Lower, assign the EP to Upper. In this case, Lower and Upper do not refer to physical locations. The internal keys will play organ and the external keys will play EP, regardless of which board is your upper board and which is on bottom (which, of course, the Nord has no way of "knowing").
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Re: MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby Buzz_Pickens » 12 May 2019, 02:57

Thanks but that's not what i meant.. What i want to do is occasionally, use my Roland as a controller and play the Nord's E Piano program.. I want to plug a MIDI cord into the Nord "Midi In" but only use it when i pull up a certain program.. I'll play a live gig with my Roland as my piano, my Nord as my organ or synth.. but use the Nord E Piano once in a while instead of the Roland piano.. I just like the weighted keys of the Roland 88 better.. can I program a separate midi receive channel on a separate program without changing the global midi settings?
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Re: MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby maxpiano » 12 May 2019, 08:05

That's what the MIDI Upper Receive mode mentioned by anotherscott is for.

From the NE5 manual

It is also possible to use KB SPLIT to allow PART UPPER to be addressed by an external controller, or to send MIDI only from the upper half of the keyboard. These features require that an Upper Split channel is defined in the MIDI menu. You can read more about possible MIDI setups in the MIDI chapter on page 15.

then see Scenario 3 at page 15 for required MIDI menu settings (use a different channel for Global and Upper Receive).
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Re: MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby anotherscott » 12 May 2019, 13:10

Buzz_Pickens wrote:Thanks but that's not what i meant.. What i want to do is occasionally, use my Roland as a controller and play the Nord's E Piano program.. I want to plug a MIDI cord into the Nord "Midi In" but only use it when i pull up a certain program.. I'll play a live gig with my Roland as my piano, my Nord as my organ or synth.. but use the Nord E Piano once in a while instead of the Roland piano.. I just like the weighted keys of the Roland 88 better.. can I program a separate midi receive channel on a separate program without changing the global midi settings?

So your question was not about how to trigger Nord EPs from your Roland while playing other things on the Nord, but rather how to do it some of the time but not all of the time? The info was still in there... As Max confirmed for you, it's all about MIDI Upper Receive mode. Create some Nord presets with that mode enabled, and some without, and call up whichever preset you need when you need it, to trigger a Nord sound from your Roland or not. You cannot "program a separate midi receive channel on a separate program" but there's no need to be able to do that, to accomplish your goal. While you can't create different programs that respond to different MIDI channels, you CAN create different programs some of which respond to external MIDI input and some that don't, which sounds like more precisely what you want anyway.
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Re: MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby Buzz_Pickens » 13 May 2019, 05:54

Thanks so much! I got the keyboard just a couple of days ago but between sessions in the studio and a gig (just with my Roland piano) today, I haven't had a chance to really delve into the Nord. tomorrow I'll get into it further.. So you're saying I can enable the Upper Midi receive mode in SELECT programs? That should accomplish exactly what i need!!. Thanks again
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Re: MIDI RECIEVE SETTINGS ??

Postby anotherscott » 13 May 2019, 13:39

Buzz_Pickens wrote:So you're saying I can enable the Upper Midi receive mode in SELECT programs? That should accomplish exactly what i need!!

Yup. It's a program-specific "split" setting.
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