Nord stage 4 external midi synth

[korgolo]

Hi folks, I connected my Nord rack 3 to the Nord stage 4, and I'd like the expander to play only when a synth extern layer is ON. But the MIDI signal is always sent to the external module, even if all piano, organ and synth sections are OFF. I cannot find any related argument in the manual. How can I turn off globally sending midi to extern interface? So I can activate it from synth section? Thank you

[Heatha05]

Hi,

Your best option is to set the receive ch. on the rack 3 to (example) channel 11. And then in the MIDI menu of Stage 4 set EXTERN A to 11. Then in Synth layer A you can use the EXTERN mode to play the Rack 3. Each program can transmit a program change to the rack, if you select Send on Load from the EXTERN menu (per program). Hope this helps

[korgolo]

Thank you for your answer, but my synth layer with extern rack is ok. The problem is that when synth is off, the expander continues to play. How can I avoid to send midi signals when synth is OFF?

[FZiegler]

To explain it the other way round: You should probably not receive the Stage's Global MIDI channel on your Rack 3 - but instead the respective Extern MIDI channel. The Rack 3's Receive channel and the Stage's Extern layer channel need to match, the Stage's Global channel should have another channel number.

[korgolo]

Thank you very much! I turned OFF the global channel and set the extern channel. Thank you!

[korgolo]

You are right, I want the global midi completely off, so the rack can play only if a extern synth layer is active.
Turning off global and setting a channel for extern was the way
Thank you all!