I'm very limited in my knowledge of MIDI but I used to own a Roland Fantom X8 with a built in sequence and tracks, etc. It could record various tracks with different patches (programs) and then drive the keyboard to play them back.
I'm now using just a NORD GRAND 2 and got Cakewalk DAW and was able to record a piano track. All I want to do is play it back to the NORD GRAND 2 (which I've managed to do), but want to play something live on the keyboard (different program/instrument) while the MIDI sequence is being played back from Cakewalk. No matter what I do (local control off, etc.) my live playing is the same settings as the MIDI playback. I've tried to change the controls on the keyboard live and then the MIDI playback is affected.
I read that if local control was OFF, I should be able to playback live a different sound while the DAW drives the originally recorded playback with a different sound.. but the more I read, I'm not sure the NORD GRAND is capable of this.
Any help is appreciated.
HELP: MIDI, a DAW and the NORD GRAND 2
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Re: HELP: MIDI, a DAW and the NORD GRAND 2
Hi,
as you can read on NG2 manual (Chapter 8 MIDI-Local OFF) you can put the Nord Grand 2 in Local OFF to disengage its sound engines from the keyboards/pedals and then use them as a master keyboard for Virtual Instruments on the PC/DAW (but not of course some different internal sounds as NG2 can only play 1 Program at a time).
If you want to play NG2 sounds on top of a recording of other NG2 sounds, you should rather record them as Audio not MIDI (or record as MIDI track, edit/fix it then bounce the MIDI track to an Audio track and playback the latter only).
PS: a "hello" when making the first post on a new forum is appreciated too
as you can read on NG2 manual (Chapter 8 MIDI-Local OFF) you can put the Nord Grand 2 in Local OFF to disengage its sound engines from the keyboards/pedals and then use them as a master keyboard for Virtual Instruments on the PC/DAW (but not of course some different internal sounds as NG2 can only play 1 Program at a time).
If you want to play NG2 sounds on top of a recording of other NG2 sounds, you should rather record them as Audio not MIDI (or record as MIDI track, edit/fix it then bounce the MIDI track to an Audio track and playback the latter only).
PS: a "hello" when making the first post on a new forum is appreciated too
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Re: HELP: MIDI, a DAW and the NORD GRAND 2
Of course, the Fantom is multitimbral: It can play multiple sounds at the same time. It's a workstation that needs to provide that feature.
While the Grand is a piano centered instrument. Only dual timbre: 1x piano engine, 1x synth engine. Where you can't trigger those layers separately via MIDI. No MIDI channels per layer. There's only one global MIDI channel.
No problem to play audio back to the Nord Grand 2 from the PC through an audio connection and Monitor-in. No audio through USB.
While the Grand is a piano centered instrument. Only dual timbre: 1x piano engine, 1x synth engine. Where you can't trigger those layers separately via MIDI. No MIDI channels per layer. There's only one global MIDI channel.
No problem to play audio back to the Nord Grand 2 from the PC through an audio connection and Monitor-in. No audio through USB.
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