From las8323@rs175174.ks.boeing.com Wed Aug 22 07:02:00 2001
Subject:Re: My new Nord ELectro

Geez, Bruce,
No wonder you write code...
Reading all that made my brain hurt....

I'm afraid if I was the one that was left to figure out how to set all that
up, I'd just take up the bagpipes :-)

Larry
off to find some chocolate

> Dave,
>
> >I own a V5, not a V3, but my guess is that the V3 window is showing the upper
> >manual patch and the lower one is being accessed via midi. So a lower manual
> >change won't up on the screen. Am I wrong??
>
> You're right about the V3: The Lower channel changes patches just like the
> Upper channel does, only there's no readout available to track the
> progress. When the V3 is turned on, it sets the Lower and Pedal patches to
> the default settings (in the Global section). After that, any patch
> changes seen on the Lower or Pedal MIDI channels will cause patch
> changes. Unfortunately, there are no visuals to go with the audible
> effects, due to the V3's small size.
>
> To answer the original question in more detail:
>
> If your second keyboard allows disabling the sending of MIDI Patch/Program
> Change messages, then turn them off and you're all set. If not, and you
> still don't want the V3's Lower channel to change with the other sounds you
> use, you need to add a filtering box in the line between the second
> keyboard's OUT and the V3's IN. I've used a MIDI Solutions Router to do
> this kind of thing for several years, and I couldn't live without it. In
> addition to removing or rerouting Patch Change messages, it can do a couple
> of other neat "MIDI glue" tricks:
>
> ex: I use the TX Channel switch on my AN1x -- very easy to find on a gig
> -- as both a two-manual organ selector and an 'octave transpose' button for
> my Alesis S4. I program one S4 sound on CH2, and the same sound an octave
> lower on CH1. I set my CX-3 to receive CH3 for the lower manual and CH5
> for the upper manual. When all of this is done, the AN1x now sends info
> like this --
>
> CH1 -- S4 octave down
> CH2 -- S4 normal
> CH3 -- CX-3 lower manual
> CH4 -- AN1x only
>
> I still want to be able to change sounds on the S4 at any time,
> though. So, I program the Router to change CH1 and CH3-CH16 Patch messages
> to CH2 Patch messages, leave everything else feeding through directly, and
> send that to the S4. That way, the S4 responds to upcoming changes while
> the keyboard is being used for organ or synth, or when it's transposed.
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
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> Bruce Wahler
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