User manual

Installation
USB Driver
M Mac OSX user may skip this section
1 If you use a Windows computer (XP, Vista or 7), locate the Clavia
USB Driver v3.0 Setup.exe on the DVD that accompanies the unit
and double click on this file.
2 Follow the instructions on the screen.
3 After the files have been installed, the driver will be activated when
you connect the Nord unit. Do this by connecting a USB cable
between the Nord instrument and your computer.
4 When the Nord unit is connected to the computer, the driver will
be automatically activated and a confirmation will appear in the
notification area in the Windows task bar.
Sound Manager
1 Windows users: Open the Nord Sound Manager folder on the
DVD, launch the “Nord Sound Manager v5.x Setup.exe” and
follow the instructions carefully. The Nord Sound Manager can be
accessed from the start menu when the installation procedure is
finished.
2 Mac OSX users: Open the Nord Sound Manager folder on the
DVD, double-click on the “Nord Sound Manager 5.x.dmg” and
then drag the Nord Sound Manager application from the virtual
hard drive to your “Applications” folder.
E The files mentioned for the driver and application installations can
also be downloaded from the www.nordkeyboards.com web-
site. Please visit our website from time to time to check for any
updates.
Overview
You can work with the contents of the Piano, the Sample. the Program
and the Synth partitions. These are accessed from the tabs.
If no Nord Stage 2 is connected to the computer, pages, icons and
memory locations will be grayed out.
E The actions that take place in the Nord Sound Manager will affect
the memory in the Nord Stage 2. The Manager is on-line with
a connected Nord Stage 2 at all times; any changes that you
perform in the Manager will immediately be executed in the Nord
Stage 2. If you e.g. delete a piano or a Program from the list in the
Nord Sound Manager, that same sound will also be deleted from
the Nord Stage 2 Flash memory.
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Nord Sound Manager
The Nord Sound Manager is the application that allows you to organize the various memory areas, the partitions in the Nord Stage 2. It is also used
to download pianos or programs to the Nord Stage 2 or to upload any of these items - called sounds - from the Nord Stage 2 memory to the com-
puter hard drive. The Nord Sound Manager provides access to various methods to download the sounds to the unit and a function to backup and
restore the entire Nord Stage 2 memory.
System requirements
The Nord Sound Manager is compatible with computers running Mac OSX 10.4 or later, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. If you run the
Nord Sound Manager on a Windows computer, you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 3.0 or later installed.
M Nord Stage 2 OS Updates, USB drivers and instructions on how to install these are available at the www.nordkeyboards.com website and on
the DVD that accompanies this unit.
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