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Hi - Has anyone tried using a K-Board Pro 4 to control the synth in a 5 or 6d so you can use the pitch bend, aftertouch and other options?
thanks,
leon ...

The Electro doesn't have a real synth, just a sample player 'synth section'. So I think, there's little use for a K-Board pro 4.

The only thing an Electro 6 responds to is pitch bend on the 'extkbtolow' part. Won't work with the internal part. There's no mod wheel or aftertouch support, either. (nord-electro-forum-f9/use-of-external-midi-pitchbend-controller-t22752.html)

I don't know anything about pitch bend on the Electro 5, though. You may verify with the manual's MIDI table and the update history of the OS.

You may be able to map some controller MIDI data to an existing effect on the Electro. Cf. to the MIDI CC table of your Electro.

I know it's not a real synth but I was thinking along the lines of the videos by "My Keys To Music" - https://youtu.be/YRYJf2J4fO4 and https://youtu.be/cQD6X1kVDr8. He uses an external keyboard in one and the Touche in the other to get pitch bend.

I'm thinking the K-board would be like having an individual Touche on each key.

Just ran across the videos and an ad for the K-board and thought I'd ask. It can be very hard to find a store that has some of the products available to demo.

leonzak wrote:I know it's not a real synth but I was thinking along the lines of the videos by "My Keys To Music" - https://youtu.be/YRYJf2J4fO4 and https://youtu.be/cQD6X1kVDr8. He uses an external keyboard in one and the Touche in the other to get pitch bend.

I'm thinking the K-board would be like having an individual Touche on each key.

Just ran across the videos and an ad for the K-board and thought I'd ask. It can be very hard to find a store that has some of the products available to demo.

Using a K-board pro 4 on NE5/6 would be a waste imo, NE (but most keyboards) cannot handle MPE MIDI i.e. per key controls such as PitchBend or other, it would work for single note playing or as global PB but not more; that type of controllers in general is best used with MPE capable instruments (virtual or HW)

leonzak wrote:I know it's not a real synth but I was thinking along the lines of the videos by "My Keys To Music" - https://youtu.be/YRYJf2J4fO4 and https://youtu.be/cQD6X1kVDr8. He uses an external keyboard in one and the Touche in the other to get pitch bend.

I'm thinking the K-board would be like having an individual Touche on each key.

As FZiegler said about the pitch bend, "The only thing an Electro 6 responds to is pitch bend on the 'extkbtolow' part." It cannot respond to pitch bend on a note-by-note basis, nor on its upper part sound, nor does it respond to modulation/aftertouch (either by part or by note)... it basically can't respond to anything you would want to attach a kboard for.

Well I got a K-Board and connected to my Electro 6d. It worked fine as a regular external midi controller and I could take advantage of some of the other features. I could set up K-Board key movements to do the same things possible with a control pedal - for example - control the wah effect with key movement.

I didn't have the board long enough to do a lot with it but using the software that came with it you can map CC to the different keyboard movements and then simulate the control pedal inputs to pretty much anything that responded to a control pedal.

Being able to control the wah with finger movements was pretty interesting - using the synth guitar sounds with it especially interesting.