User manual

Program Bank buttons
Select a desired Bank by pressing a Program Bank button. The cur-
rently active Program Button’s LED will start to flash to indicate that
you need to select a Page (optional) and a Program to enter the Bank.
Each Bank holds 20 Pages, with 5 programs in each Page.
Organ Piano Synth Init
These buttons can be used together with the Shift button to initialize
the current program. The “Inits” provides a quick way to activate a
single instrument on the Stage 2 and to route all effects to it, while turn-
ing off the other instruments. The settings that the activated instrument
is initialized with, come from the stored settings in the active program.
 Even if an instrument is not active in a Program; all its settings are
still stored in the Program.
Organ Split
The Organ Split Init creates a split keyboard setting that emulates a
dual manual organ setup. The lower part of the Stage 2’s keyboard will
use Slot A and the upper part Slot B.
Program Page buttons
The Program Page 3 and 4 buttons are used to select one of the 20
available program pages. Every Page holds 5 programs, every Program
Bank holds 20 Pages. Pressing a Page button will immediately load the
program number on the new Page.
Pending Load
If you want to navigate with the Bank and/or Page buttons and wait
with the loading of a new program until you press a program button,
this can be set in the System Menu - set the Program Loading Mode
to Pending. Read more on how to change settings in the System Menu
on page 42.
Sort Mode
Hold Shift and press Page 3/Cat Sort to select the Category sort
mode, hold Shift and press Page 4/Abc Sort to select the alphabetical
sort mode. These modes affect the presentation of programs when you
turn the Value Dial.
The Cat Sort will display the programs in a category. To change the
Category, hold Shift and press either Page button. There is a list of
categories on the previous page 17.
The Abc Sort will display the programs alphabetically, based on their
names. To change the initial letter, hold Shift and press either Program
Page button.
M The Program Bank and Program buttons are not affected by
the sort mode. If you e.g. use the Abc Sort to dial up a program
named Betty 1, and this is located in Bank 2, Page 20, Program
3, pressing the Program 4 button on the panel will call up the
Bank 2/Page 20/Program number 4, no matter what that program
name is.
Cursor, Del, Ins
During a Store As… procedure, the Program Page buttons are used to
move the position of the cursor in a Program name, the actual charac-
ter in the position can be set by the Value Dial.
Hold Shift and pressing Del or Ins will delete or insert a character in the
program’s name at the position of the cursor.
Mst Clk
The Master Clock allows
you to synchronize several
components in ths Nord
Stage 2: the Arpeg-
gio, the synth LFO, the Delay and Effects 1 and 2. Not only can you
make these run in synch, you can also select different subdivisions (or
“speeds”) for these units, to create some great rhythmic effects.
Tap the Mst Clk button four times to set the tempo. The display will
show how many taps you have entered in case you get lost.
Hold Shift and press the Mst Clk button to open the Master Clock
menu, where you can set the Master Clock tempo by turning the Value
Dial.
When the Master Clock tempo is set, you can select a subdivison of
that tempo for the various functions that can be synchronized to the
Master Clock. Any changes you make to the Master Clock tempo will
be followed by all the functions in the Stage 2 that are synchronized to
it.
The subdivisions are described in greater detail in the sections that
covers the units that can be synchronized, the LFO, the arpeggio and
the effects.
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