Specifications

NORD STAGE Eighty Eight V1.1x 13. MIDI functions: Using Nord Stage with a sequencer
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MIDI S
YS
E
X
(S
YSTEM
E
XCLUSIVE
)
Single Programs or all Programs can be transmitted and received as a System Exclusive dump (see “Sending
Program dumps” on page 68).
USING NORD STAGE WITH A SEQUENCER
C
ONNECTIONS
1. Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Stage to the MIDI In on your sequencer.
2. Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the Nord Stage.
L
OCAL
O
N
/O
FF
Local Off should be used when you use a sequencer to record and play back from Nord Stage. When using
a sequencer, you connect the MIDI Out of Nord Stage to the sequencer’s MIDI In. Then, from the se-
quencer’s MIDI Out back to the Nord Stage MIDI In. Since the sequencer echoes back incoming MIDI
data, Nord Stage will respond normally to your playing and knob tweaking via the MIDI “loop”. If you
use Local On with a sequencer setup as described above, this would cause “double-triggered” notes when
you play; both from the keyboard internally and via the MIDI “loop”. Therefore, always use Local Off when
used in this way together with a sequencer.
Local On/Off is set on the “MIDI menu” on page 62.
MIDI
CHANNEL
Nord Stage can be set to respond to 6 individual MIDI channels. This is set up on the MIDI menu - see
“MIDI menu” on page 62.
P
ROGRAM
C
HANGE
To record a Program Change message, activate recording in the sequencer and simply select a new Bank
(1-21) and Program (1-6) by using the P
AGE -/+ buttons and the PROGRAM
buttons, respectively. The
126 Program locations send and respond to Program Change values 0-125.
C
ONTROLLERS
When you record knob movements and button presses, make sure that the sequencer “echoes” the changes
back on the correct MIDI Channel, or your changes won’t have any effect.
S
OME
NOTES
ABOUT
C
ONTROLLERS
AND
“C
HASING
Consider a situation where you record a Controller message, e.g. a Drawbar opening, in the middle of your
sequencer song. Then you “rewind” the sequencer to a position before the recorded Drawbar opening. The
problem is that the Nord Stages Drawbar will remain opened, although it really should be as it was before
you recorded the opening. To solve such problems, several sequencers include a function called “Controller
Chasing”, which keeps track of Controller changes and tries to adjust the settings on the instrument ac-
cording to the current position in the sequencer song.
However, in our example this wouldnt help much, because the Drawbar opening was the first Controller
message recorded in the song. The sequencer has no information about the Drawbar setting before the re-
corded change, and therefore cannot “chase” the settings properly. To solve this, you could record a “snap-
shot” of all Controller settings of the Nord Stage Program(s) at the beginning of your sequencer song. See
"Sending MIDI Controller dumps” below.