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hey just bought the nord 3p. i have a cable midi to usb.i connect midi in to nord out and midi out to nord in.
when i connect to my iPad with the nord app its work well.
but when i connect it to my mac its not working. i can't get and receive midi sign to my daw\ nord manager app.
what i doing wrong? i try to setting the midi on mac(saw some videos on youtube for example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7JSr404tX8 (
maybe i need to setting something on nord 3p ? i read the menual and try change the midi setting on the nord but no success
please help me! i have a gig tomorrow and i need to use the nord as a midi controller from ableton.

thanks!

Hi p3p3p3p3, welcome to the forum!

If you are able to get it working with your iPad, I think the basic MIDI settings of your 3p are fine, I think it's the settings in Ableton / your Mac that you need to check. I don't have a Mac, no experience with Ableton, so I cannot help you.

Just some general tips/remarks:
-Your USB-MIDI interface ('cable') is a MIDI device, I think in Ableton you should be able to select it and use the same MIDI channel as in the app, so that's probably MIDI channel 10 if you didn't change anything on the 3p.

-The 3p (only) outputs the 6 notes as set in the MIDI settings, so if you want to control sounds or trigger other stuff by playing the pads, check the note numbers that Ableton receives, couple them to whatever you want to trigger.

-If you want to use the 3p as sound module, send the mentioned notenumbers on MIDI channel 10

Hope this helps,
Albert

hey thanks for the answer. i still not fix that. maybe i buy another cable midi and try again

update: i buy another cable and it send midi in and out for my daw .
but now the problem is only with the nord drum managare 3 its didn't work. i search read that the problem is a cheap midi cable.
so i need now to buy more quality cable..

-With the manager software you need to connect both MIDI in and out, but if that's not the problem and the software is unable to see the MIDI interface, maybe something is wrong indeed. Perhaps try another MIDI port, the interface is preferably directly connected to your computer. Very cheap brandless MIDI interfaces can be unreliable, it's not just a cable you see, and even if it were, some manufacturers would still manage to mess it up. If you're performing you want to have reliable gear.
Check here for some suggestions: nord-drum-forum-f27/nord-drum-2-updating-problem-t11675.html?

updateL https://www.thomann.de/gb/miditech_midilink_mini.htm its work well !!! only 14 $