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Hello!

First post in Nord forum

Bought a used NP2 really cheap and LOVE the keybed and sounds!

I am quite new to the midi side of things. But I was wondering if I have the option to connect my Dave Smith Tetra to the Nord Piano 2 via midi?

What I would like is to play my NP2 and possibly have one part of my key-bed for the tetra analog sounds.

Is this even possible?

Regards Arnold

Hej Arnold!

That might work? Almost?

Suppose you want the piano and Tetra on specific parts of the keybed:
Set a split and turn the sample knob down to 0.
Then you'll have piano on only one part of the keybed.
Connect the Tetra, set the MIDI channels right ... can you then filter out specific MIDI keys with the Tetra, or will you need an outboard filter gadget?
(Like a laptop with a filtering MIDI software in between. http://www.subtlesoft.square7.net/MidiPipe.html )

I suppose you can not select what MIDIkeys you want to transmit with the NP2?

Hmmm ...

/Vänligen
Michael in Scania

Hmm sounds complicated!

Any possibility for The tetra to use all keys on np2 88?

With lets say, a midi switcher (i can have It on one of The sides for instant switching?

Regards Arnold

Hi Northersun,

The territory into which you are wanting to venture IS complicated, so you'll need to be prepared to study/learn details about midi if you wish to navigate those paths successfully. Not to scary you off or anything -- it ain't brain surgery and mere mortals can do this, but you'll want to be able to wrap your brain around it, as opposed to having it wrap around your brain.

And yes, an external device can make many possible setups much easier to switch around. Twenty-five years ago the industry standard device for this was DMC MX-8. There are probably newer devices available which can do the same or similar things. One nice thing about the MX-8 is that they are built like tanks and last forever, and can sometimes be had very inexpensively on ebay (~US$50). And they can do LOADS of fun tricks, like four-zone splits, midi echo (by ms or bpm), etc.

Bless,

Pablo

Bless,

Pablo