Nord User Forum

Hello,

can someone tell how well a HX3 organ module (build by Carsten Meyer/Keyboardpartner in Germany) can be controlled from the Stage 3 Compact, and does the HX3 respond to all of the Nord’s control elements of the B3 engine, like drawbars, vibrato and chorus buttons, percussion buttons etc?

Is it also possible to control the HX3 Leslie sim from a half moon switch connected to the Stage?

Also which limitations have to be expected when controlling the HX3 from a NS3 compact?

Thanks a lot for any kind of feedback

I've no experience with the HX3 but it seems like it can be programmed to map incoming ccs as required.

All of the organ controls on the Stage will only be transmitted on the Stage's Global Channel so you would only have one set of drawbars etc.

Also all note on/off messages are always transmitted on the GC so that would cause problems for splits or for patches where you want to use the Stage's onboard sounds and not the HX3.

If you could find a way to filter out the note on/off messages on the GC and move the cc messages from GC to an External channel you could use the Stage's 2 External sections to control 2 manuals of the HX3 and with drawbar controls etc for one of the manuals (presumably upper). Some kind of exernal midi processing is required.

Agree on what changearound wrote + adding another remark related to triggering: if I remember well the NoteOn is always generated when the full key press is completed, even if Organ Trigger is set to "HIGH". Just to be aware of that