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The following MIDI messages can be transmitted and received from the 
Nord Electro 3:

Note On and Note Off messages are transmitted and received .

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In the MIDI Menu (see page 23), you can select if the Nord Electro 3 
should transmit and/or receive Control Change messages .

Incoming MIDI Controller 7 controls the overall volume of the Electro 3 .

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Incoming MIDI Controller 10 controls the panning of the Electro 3 . 

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If you have a control pedal connected to the control pedal input, this 

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is transmitted as Controller 11 (Expression) . 

If you have a pedal connected to the sustain pedal input, this is 

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transmitted as Controller 64 (Sustain Pedal) .

If you have a pedal connected to the rotor pedal input, this pedal is 

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transmitted as Controller 90 .

Almost all other controls (knobs and buttons) on the front panel are 

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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 implementation on the next page .

The Nord Electro 3 can transmit and receive keyboard velocity mes-
sages . Organ sounds will always be played back at nominal level 
regardless of incoming MIDI Velocity data . Release velocity is also 
transmitted . 

In the MIDI Menu (see page 18), you can select if the Nord Electro 3 
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 3 will change Program accordingly .

The 128 Program locations send and respond to MIDI Program 
Change values 0-127 .

Individual Programs or all Programs can be transmitted and received as 
a System Exclusive dump .

Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 3 to the MIDI In on your 

sequencer .

Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the 

Nord Electro 3 .

Local Off may be used when you use a sequencer to record and play 
back from Nord Electro 3 . If the sequencer echoes back incoming 
MIDI data, the Nord Electro 3 may respond twice to every note and 
other message/action if e .g . 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 .

The MIDI channel(s) that the Nord Electro 3 uses are set up in the MIDI 
menu - see “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 .

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 3 .

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 .

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 Electro 3’s Drawbar will remain 
opened, although it really should be as it was before you recorded the 
opening . 

To solve this, you could record a “snapshot” of all Controller settings of 
the Nord Electro 3 Program at the beginning of your sequencer song . 
See “Sending MIDI Controller dumps” below .