User Manual

4. Editing Programs: What’s a Program? NORD ELECTRO 2 V2.2x
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4. EDITING PROGRAMS
WHAT’S A PROGRAM?
A Program in Nord Electro 2 consists of a selected Instrument (an Organ sound or a specific Piano sound),
the settings you have made for the instrument, e.g. Drawbar, Percussion and Chorus/Vibrato settings for
Organ sounds or Presence settings for a Piano sound, Octave Shift settings plus all the settings of the Ef-
fects section. For Piano based sounds this means that a Program does not contain any samples - only the
parameter data that affects the selected Piano type. This is important to bear in mind when performing a
MIDI Sysex dump of a Piano based Program (see “Dump” on page 38).
EDITING A PROGRAM
Actually, how to change a programmed sound can be described in one
sentence: “tweak the knobs and press the buttons”. It is as simple as
that! Don’t be afraid to edit and overwrite the factory Programs. If you
want to restore any of the original factory programs later, you can fetch
them at http://www.clavia.se and download to your Nord Electro 2 as
MIDI Sysex files. To indicate that a Program has been edited (changed
from the stored version), a dot is shown to the right of the Program number in the D
ISPLAY:.
THE KNOBS
All KNOBS on the Nord Electro 2 are of potentiometer type. This means that
when you begin to edit a Program the values of the parameters can be totally dif-
ferent from the K
NOBS physical positions. As soon as you begin turning a KNOB,
the parameter value will ‘snap’ to the K
NOB’S physical position. This could gen-
erate drastic changes to the sound but that’s normal.
THE BUTTONS
There are three types of buttons for editing sounds on the Nord Electro 2:
S
ELECTOR BUTTONS
Press the SELECTOR button repeatedly to select between functions printed next to the
corresponding triangular LED (see figure to the right).
O
N/OFF BUTTONS
The ON/OFF buttons have a LED next to them to indicate the status.
D
RAWBAR BUTTONS
The DRAWBAR buttons are special in the way that they auto-increment/decrement the corresponding pa-
rameter when held. I.e. if you hold a D
RAWBAR button the corresponding drawbar parameter will continue
to increment or decrement (within its range) until you release the button.