From venattboy26@yahoo.com Sun Sep 30 17:11:08 2012
Subject:Re: OT: Numa Compact Piano

The only purpose I would connect the Numa Organ to may Motif (via MIDI) would be to play piano sounds on it, taking advantage of the Numa 72 keys which are enough range for playing piano, and as I understand they are sensitive and I supposed the Numa organ has a sustain pedal input ???. Other sounds like synth sounds and other sounds would be played on the Motif. However on the Motif itself you can make up to 16 splits and you can assigned which midi channels will be affected by sustain which won't. Lets supposed I choose 3 motif sounds on channel 1 that would be played on the Numa Organ, I can program one of them to be afected by sustain and the other two to not have sustain or whatever I want. I tell you this because I have done this with my Nord Lead 3 and Motif.

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De: ccmacdon
Para: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Enviado: Domingo, 30 de septiembre, 2012 9:36 A.M.
Asunto: Re: [CWSG] OT: Numa Compact Piano


 

Huberto and Ken,

Just for your awareness there are (or were when I owned my Numa) some quirks with the midi implementation..

The quirks are mostly evident when playing in flashing mode, organ plus external synth module. I often used this mode and layered organ over acoustic piano using a sonic cell, and what I discovered is that there was no way to separate the modwheel and sustain pedal from the midi stream.. The end result was that if/when I used the sustain pedal to sustain a piano voice on my external synth, the Leslie would always switch (because in organ mode that's what the sustain pedal does). Similarly if I wanted to use the modwheel to add modulation to my external synth, I could not do it without triggering the organ Leslie speed switch as well.

When I had my Numa the manual didn't have any information on the flashing mode at all... NOTHING.. Which was one of the reasons that I returned it. For my purpose if I could not play organ and send controller info without the ability to turn certain information off/on it was no use to me.

This may have been fixed, and the documentation may be much better now, so take what I am saying with a grain of salt.

Ken, perhaps you can try this and see how your Numa behaves. Maybe it's fixed, maybe there are some new editable parameters. However, I would be cautious using the Numa as a controller if this behavior has not been resolved.. As a stand alone organ, no issues, but as a controller there are a few quirks ( or there were when I owned mine)

Craig

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