program-nord-electro-6

Nord Electro 6 Program Manager

Manage program presets on a Nord Electro 6 keyboard connected over USB using the nord CLI tool.

Prerequisites

• Hardware: Nord Electro 6 connected via USB
• Binary: Compiled nord CLI in this skill's directory (<skill-dir>/nord)

All commands below assume you are cd'd into this skill's directory (the one this SKILL.md lives in). cd there once at the start and stay for the duration of the skill.

Build the CLI

make

Run Tests

# Unit tests (no hardware needed)
make test

# Integration tests (requires Nord connected via USB)
make test-integration

CLI Commands

List Programs

nord list                  # List populated banks (Program partition)
nord list -a               # Include empty banks
nord list -d               # Show sample dependencies
nord list -v               # Verbose (per-slot sizes, metadata)
nord list A                # Show all 16 slots in bank A
nord list -p 5             # List Live partition instead of Program

Output marks the active bank/slot with > and shows program names in quotes:

Nord Electro 6 — Program (partition 4)

  > A:1:1  "Grand Piano"
    B:2:3  "Rhodes Warm"
    C:1:1  "Organ Perc"

  3 populated / 26 total banks
  Active: Bank A

Per-bank view (nord list A) shows all 16 slots (4 pages x 4 programs):

Nord Electro 6 — Bank A

  > A:1:1  "Grand Piano"
    A:1:2  (empty)
    A:1:3  (empty)
    ...
    A:4:4  (empty)
  Active: A:1:1

Status

nord status    # Firmware version, protocols, partition summary

Copy

nord copy A F            # Copy A:1:1 -> F:1:1
nord copy A:1:3 F:2:1    # Copy bank A page 1 prog 3 -> bank F page 2 prog 1

• Fails if destination is not empty (status=4). Delete first or pick an empty slot.
• Firmware auto-assigns a unique name if the source name conflicts.

Move

nord move A F            # Move A:1:1 -> F:1:1 (source becomes empty)
nord move A:1:3 F:2:1    # Move specific slot