Midi Controller

[WORSHIP_KEYS]

I recently upgraded to the Nord Electro 6HP. My church has a Nord stage 3 with an amazing pad, but it's semi weighted. How do I use my Electro as a midi controller for the stage, and I'd like the sound to come out of the NS3 audio outputs. I'd like to know specific chords and settings I need to use. Thanks!

[FZiegler]

You probably mean cords you need for connection: A (5-pin) DIN-MIDI cable is what you need as hardware.

There are multiple options for you to play the NS3 audio engines from the Electro:
a) Global MIDI will allow you to play on the Electro whatever you can also play on the NS3 -- match the Global MIDI channel of the NS3 with the MIDI channel of your Electro;
b) match Panel A or Panel B MIDI channel on the NS3 with your Electro's -- that way, you externally only control the engines active on that very panel; but they play from the NS3's keys as well;
c) use DualKB as a per-programme setting: That way, you can select for each single programme if you want to play either piano, organ or synth from Panel B externally or control full Panel B externally. To achieve that, you need to both match the DualKB channel on the NS3 with your Electro's and activate DualKB on that programme (on the NS3).

You may need to do some experiments concerning the controllers and pedals you can use from the NS3 or need to use externally. In short, there is a tendancy that you may need to use external controllers for version c) whereas the controllers connected to the NS3 may be good for method a) and b). Which is logical because only in method c) you fully transfer the control to the external keyboard.

I only use method c) because that way, you can independently play both keyboards at the same time via the NS3's sound engines.

[maxpiano]

Which is the pad of the NS3? Maybe it is based on a Nord Sample that you could load on the NE6 or (if not) you may also sample it from the NS3 and use it in the NE sample synth section, to keep all in a single board.