Nord electro as evb3 controller

Hi: I'm trying to improve my EVB3 tracks and at the same time buy an organ clone to gig with. I'm attracted to the nord electro because of its size and versatility. Does anyone use one of these to trigger the evb3? How well do the drawbars (?) and other controllers work?
Thanks, JP
power mac g5 2x2 Mac OS X (10.4.8) logic 7.2.1 4.5 gigs Ram

Went ahead and bought the electro and it interfaces well with the evb3

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Pancenter,
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Tristan...
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http://www.alesis.com/usbmidicable
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MUYconfundido wrote:
Pancenter,
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Pancenter,
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As far as I know, there are no other programs running in the background (except for Airport). I checked "About This Mac" and there were a bunch of programs that seemed to launch at startup of my system, but I wouldn't know which ones are safe to delete from that list and how to do that AND (more important): if that would make any difference at all...
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