Octave Shift via MIDI or pedal?

[dannymo]

I bought the Stage 4 HP73 version because I really value the portability, but I do occasionally miss being able to access the very lowest register available on the 88 key version. For me at least it would combine the best of both sizes if I could simply perform an temporary octave shift by stepping on a foot switch. I tried to get close by using "Piano Octave Shift" MIDI command (CC35) but unfortunately this only will shift the currently selected piano layer, whereas I like to layer both pianos as well as synth and organ and would want to shift them all.

Is there some other way to achieve a temporary global octave shift using a foot pedal (short of a custom arduino solution)? If not then I suppose this is a feature request. Would anyone else use such a feature? In my dreams this would be assignable to one of the triple pedal functions, but I'd settle for being able to use a MIDI CC command, ideally with 0 being "no shift" so that I could use a MidiSolutions footswitch controller to implement it.

[mobil]

Page 66 of NS4' manual lists midi CC

Basically, you need to send a CC for each section

[dannymo]

Page 66 of NS4' manual lists midi CC

Basically, you need to send a CC for each section

Yeah I tried that but it doesn't shift all layers, just whichever layer is selected. So for example if you have 2 pianos, it only shifts the one that is selected. Is this potentially a bug?

[maxpiano]

If you send the CC on Global, that is the correct behaviour as it acts like the panel button, but if you assign a distinct MIDI channel to each layer and send the CC on those you should be able to control each of them, even if not selected; look at the MIDI chapter of NS4 manual where it explains Layer level MIDI control.

[dannymo]

If you send the CC on Global, that is the correct behaviour as it acts like the panel button, but if assign a distinct MIDI channel to each layer and send the CC on those you should be able to control each of them, even if not selected; look at the MIDI chapter of NS4 manual where it explains Layer level MIDI control.

Oh hey that worked, thanks for the tip!!!

(It's still a little kludgey for my use case b/c it overrides preset octaves instead of incrementing them, but it's still waaay better than nothing... Nord, if you're listening, global octave shift would still be a useful feature!)