Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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Hi friends,
I've bought a Wave 2 today. I know there is one Midi In and one Midi Out.
Can I use the Midi Out as Midi Soft Thru? :?:
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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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NW2 does not support Soft Thru (if you check its manual you won't find any reference to it in fact), you need an external Thru box or use a different MIDI cabling/routing configuration of your devices.

What is setup and why would you need that Soft Thru? If you give more details maybe we can suggest other alternatives.
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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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Thank you maxpiano for your answer. It is quite complicated.
I play with two Stages (NS2 and NS3) and use their extern sections to build a daisy chain and the Lead 3 (I use 4 expanders in addition).
It is working very well. But I replaced my NordLead 3 with the NordWave 2 and knew about Midi in and Midi out socket, but I didn`t know there is no Midi thru functionality. hm, still thinking how I best to integrate the Wave2.
But thanks for your help!

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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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Klangwerk wrote: 09 Dec 2024, 11:46 Thank you maxpiano for your answer. It is quite complicated.
I play with two Stages (NS2 and NS3) and use their extern sections to build a daisy chain and the Lead 3 (I use 4 expanders in addition).
It is working very well. But I replaced my NordLead 3 with the NordWave 2 and knew about Midi in and Midi out socket, but I didn`t know there is no Midi thru functionality. hm, still thinking how I best to integrate the Wave2.
But thanks for your help!

Ciao
Helmuth :thanx:
Well, if you want to keep the schema you had with NL3, as said you need a THRU box, otherwise in general you should put MIDI devices not having a THRU (like the NW2) at the end of the chain :)
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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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does anybody know, to send a transpose command to the nord wave2 by midi?
I can't see a command in the implementation chart.
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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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I don’t believe the nord wave (or any Nord) supports transpose through MIDI (you could use a MIDI monitor App to check by seeing if the wave generates a MIDI command when you transpose the wave)

two alternate options

1. you can either store a program on the nord that is transposed

or

2. you transpose the notes from the sending midi device
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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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Thank You cgrafx.

I almost thought so.
BTW, do you know, if I can set sustain pedal on/off for each layer like the NS2/3?

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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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I don't have a wave, so unfortunately I don't know the answer to that question.
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Re: Midi Out/ Soft Thru

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thank you anyway
I'will put in the forum as a new topic.

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