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questions about rotor pedals/switches

Postby playsabadguitar » 28 May 2022, 20:42

I have a nord electro 6d. But I imagine this is the same for any nord with an organ.

Can the nord do anything besides stop, slow and fast? Can you control the speed of the rotary with a certian pedal?

What is STOP mode?

Why is the half-moon switch 250 dollars if all it does is give you a switch for something you can do with a button?
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Re: questions about rotor pedals/switches

Postby FZiegler » 29 May 2022, 00:38

In Europe, you'll get the Nord Half Moon switch for around 150 EUR. Which is maybe because of a small series of handcrafted gear. And is pretty much enough. No idea why it's 100 EUR more over the Atlantic ocean.

After all, it's an additional controller anyway, and I assume it's much more sturdy. Get it if you switch rotary tempo more than 5 times in a piece of music. You might prevent a support issue for the button. Or use a much less expensive foot switch (only 2 positions: slow/fast).
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Re: questions about rotor pedals/switches

Postby taxman » 29 May 2022, 11:42

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Re: questions about rotor pedals/switches

Postby taxman » 29 May 2022, 11:45

There athere are various diy solutions for this. I spent about 30 euros on my halfmoon switch. For the footswitch I spent about 13 Euros.
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Re: questions about rotor pedals/switches

Postby Tasten-Bert » 29 May 2022, 15:54

playsabadguitar wrote:
What is STOP mode?


In STOP mode the button switches between stop (no rotation at all) and fast whereas in normal mode it switches between slow and fast rotation.

And why is the half-moon that expensive? If you look at it from the point that the half-moon is an optical reminiscence to an original Hammond accessory and that there seem to be people who pay much for all what looks like the idol then nord seems to be in the position they can ask high prices for these gimmicks. I don‘t use it, but mainly because it doesn‘t fit in the bag easily.

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Re: questions about rotor pedals/switches

Postby StrangeAeons » 30 May 2022, 11:02

Without a half-moon switch, you can only switch bewteen slow and fast using a standard keyboard footswitch. Nobody can fathom why Nord's half-moon switch's so expensive, especially since a much smaller company like Crumar sells theirs for "just" 70€! Taxman is right, you can build your own spending less than 30$. Buy a three-way guitar switch, a short three-pole (this is crucial, otherwise you'll miss one of the three positions) jack cable and repurpose a small box you've got laying around. It's pretty easy even if you're not that skilled with your hands, since you only have to strip the cable, connect it to the guitar switch, throw a bit of electrical tape in there and pack everything tight. Use velcro to make it stick. This is mine by the way:
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