User manual

About the MIDI implementation
The following MIDI messages can be transmitted and received from the
Nord Electro 4 HP/SW:
Note On/Off
• Note On and Note Off messages are transmitted and received.
Controllers
In the MIDI Menu (see page 18) you can select if the Nord Electro 4 HP/
SW should transmit and/or receive Control Change messages.
• If you have a control pedal connected to the control pedal input, this
is transmitted as Controller 11 (Expression).
• If you have a pedal connected to the sustain pedal input, this is
transmitted as Controller 64 (Sustain Pedal).
• If you have a pedal connected to the rotor pedal input, this pedal is
transmitted as Controller 90.
• Almost all other controls (knobs and buttons) on the front panel are
also transmitted (and received) as Control Change messages. This
can be used to record your actions on the front panel into a MIDI
sequencer. For a full list of which parameters correspond to the Con-
troller numbers, see the MIDI Controller list on the next page.
Keyboard velocity
The Nord Electro 4 HP/SW can transmit and receive keyboard velocity
messages. Organ sounds will always be played back at nominal level
regardless of incoming MIDI Velocity data. Release velocity is also
transmitted.
Program change
In the MIDI Menu (see page 18) you can select if the Nord Electro 4 HP/
SW should send and/or receive Program Change messages.
When you select a Program, a Program Change message is transmit-
ted via MIDI. If a Program Change message is received on the selected
MIDI Channel, the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW will change Program accord-
ingly.
The 128 Program locations send and respond to MIDI Program
Change values 0-127.
MIDI Sysex (System Exclusive)
Individual Programs or all Programs can be transmitted and received as
a System Exclusive dump.
With a sequencer
Connections
1 Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW to the MIDI In
on your sequencer.
2 Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the
Nord Electro 4 HP/SW.
Local On/Off
Local Off may be used when you use a sequencer to record and
play back from Nord Electro 4 HP/SW. If the sequencer echoes back
incoming MIDI data, the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW may respond twice to
every note and other message/action if for example the keyboard and
the sequencer sends the same MIDI information to the unit. Local On/
Off is set on the MIDI menu, see page 18.
MIDI Channel
The MIDI channel(s) that the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW uses are set up in
the MIDI menu - see the MIDI menu on page 18. If you use the Organ
model in the split/lower manual configuration, the lower manual can
receive on a separate MIDI channel.
Program Change
Usually you select a Program Change value for a track in the sequenc-
er track settings. The 128 program locations send and respond to
Program Change values 0-127.
If you want to record a Program Change message, activate recording
in the sequencer and simply select the program on the Nord Electro 4
HP/SW.
Controllers
When you record actions with knobs and buttons, make sure that the
sequencer “echoes” the changes back on the correct MIDI Channel, or
your changes won’t have any effect.
About controllers and “chasing”
Consider a situation where you record a Controller message, e.g. a
Drawbar adjustment, in the middle of your sequencer song. Then you
“rewind” the sequencer to a position before the recorded Drawbar ad-
justment. The problem is that the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW’s Drawbar will
remain as after the adjustment, although it really should be as it was
before you recorded the change.
To solve this, you could record a “snapshot” of all Controller settings of
the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW Program at the beginning of your sequencer
song. See “Sending MIDI Controller dumps” on the next page.
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