Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

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Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

Post by Bjarne_Mattila »

1) My Nord Electro 3 suddenly stopped playing sound. I changed mixer and loudspeaker - but no sound, not even from the headphones.
2) When the sound stopped, I was not changing settings .. I just played the keyboard.. and then .. no sound ?
3) Then I updated the Keyboard OS - and the connection to the keyboard is working fine.. but still no sound ?
3) Now I need a plan for where, who and how I'm going to get the keyboards fixed ?
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - Ingen lyd ?

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Hi. This is an English language forum (and you agreed to this when you joined). If translating is difficult for you, please use an online translation site. Thanks.
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - Ingen lyd ?

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Google translate (which is getting very good these days):

After a year break from band I found my Nord Electro 3 again .. put it to a mixer and played for 5 min .. after which suddenly no sound came out of Nord Electro 3?
I subsequently found that neither other speakers nor headphones got sound. There are lights in all panels - but no sound. When I experienced the above - it was not in
connection with changes to setup etc. .. but just JUST SUDDEN that no sound came out of the keyboard. The keyboard is stored in an associated Nord Electro bag and
has not been exposed to dust, shocks or blows .. and still stands as new .. that is, except that no sound comes out of it. ? .. What should I do in the future?
Who and where can you get the keyboard checked? .. and possibly repaired it? .. or is there something I can do myself?
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - Ingen lyd ?

Post by Bjarne_Mattila »

I actually wrote my posting in english .. but the the text was translated into danish .. don't know why .. but that was - what happened.

1) My Nord Electro 3 suddenly stopped playing sound. I changed mixer and loudspeaker - but no sound, not even from the headphones.
2) When the sound stopped, I was not changing settings .. I just played the keyboard.. and then .. no sound ?
3) Then I updated the Keyboard OS - and the connection to the keyboard is working fine.. but still no sound ?
3) Now I need a plan for where, who and how I'm going to get the keyboards fixed ?
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

Post by Bjosko »

Could you by accident have set it to local off ( there use to be a setting for that in the system or midi menu).
After all, this is an old instrument.

This site are not affiliated with Nord, so my best guess are that you try to find a local store that are dealing with new Nords ( ther are a lot of them, now when 4Sound are closed), and from there ask for a repair shop they might recommend.
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

Post by Bjarne_Mattila »

Hi Bjørn, Thank you for your answer. I did not change anything on the keyboard while playing - and I don't even know how to set it to "local off" ?

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unplug all the cables from the keyboard (peddles, usb cable, etc), except for a single output cable (either left or right). make sure the volume, including the master volume is up and see if you get any output from the keyboard.
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

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1) Unplug all cables - chek
2) One output cable connected - chek
3) Voluse set incl. master volume - chek

Still no sound

I can get in contact with the keyboard using the Nord-manager etc. .. and the keyboard is showing all the lights and numbers perfectly .. but no sound.
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

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Not sure there is anything you can do on your own at this point. Its possible that an internal cable has come loose. If you feel comfortable opening up the keyboard yourself, you could check. Otherwise you'll have to take your Nord into a repair shop. Any competent repair guy should be able to diagnose the problem.

Its incredibly unlikely that there has been any significant failure/damage as that would generally have caused other symptoms.
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Re: Nord Electro 3 - No sound ?

Post by PauloF »

I know that you tried almost everything, but by chance did you try to connect a Volume/Expression pedal and see how it behaves while moving it ?

One other thing that might cause this is a CC07 being forced as "000", but that would need a MIDI controller/device of some sort always forcing that condition, which is not your case as you disconnected everything...
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