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Hey there folks, recently upgraded from my trusty old NE2 to an NE3!! Was wondering if its possible to run the sound manager and sample editor on the Ipad? mostly wondering about the interface?...I dont have the ipad yet and I am under the assumption that the only "IN" is the "APPLE" do everything usb type cable. If any one knows I would greatly appreciate some help.
Thanks
Jim

jorr92 wrote: Was wondering if its possible to run the sound manager and sample editor on the Ipad? mostly wondering about the interface?...I dont have the ipad yet and I am under the assumption that the only "IN" is the "APPLE" do everything usb type cable.
Jim

No, there is no IOS version of the Nord apps. Only Mac and Windows. The limitation is not the interface (you can adapt the iPad for standard MIDI jacks), it's that you can't run Mac or PC software on it.

Oh yeah, that makes complete sense...thanks for your help.

If I connect my electro 3 61 to an ipad using midi cables to use a piano app on the ipad, can i switch back to the electro internal organ and piano sounds on the fly usisng a switch on the board or must i decide to either use the electro as a midi controller or not.

Thanks,

Mike T.

ccr4evr wrote:If I connect my electro 3 61 to an ipad using midi cables to use a piano app on the ipad, can i switch back to the electro internal organ and piano sounds on the fly usisng a switch on the board or must i decide to either use the electro as a midi controller or not.

MIDI is always active, so you can always use it as a MIDI controller for the iPad, regardless of what sound you have selected on the Electro. You'd switch by selecting either the sound coming out of the Electro, or that of the iPad (presumably with something like a mixer).

What might also work is the following: set instrument 1 on the Electro to make sound but to be silent on the iPad and set instrument 2 on the Electro to be silent and to make sound on the iPad. You could then switch between the Electro and the iPad by going either to instrument 1 or two on the 2 Electro. By default the Electro will send program change messages (which the program you're using on the iPad may or may not follow, probably depending on how your configure it); you can turn it off though by setting Program Change Mode (see page 16 of the manual) to Off or Receive Only.

Alternatively, you can turn Local Control off (also page 16); this will stop the keyboard from sending MIDI to the sound engine built into the Electro 3. You can't stop it from sending MIDI to the iPad, though you might be able to change the MIDI channel the Electro 3 is sending on to something the iPad isn't responding too.

I use an older version of this Radio Shack A/B switch (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index ... Id=3964910) to provide a low-tech and reliable way to switch quickly between two sound sources (my Electro and an external sound module). Using this required that I purchase a few cables which have a 1/4 inch male plug at one end and an RCA plug at the other. I think the ipad has a 1/8 stereo headphone output jack, and if this is the case, you would need a cable to go from there to RCA input jacks on the A/B switch.

harmonizer wrote:I think the ipad has a 1/8 stereo headphone output jack

3.5 mm, but this may have been what you meant. 1/8" is just under 3.2 mm. Unlike it's bigger brother the 1/4" (6.35 mm) it's a metric size.