User's Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 6
Thank you! ........................................................................................................6
Features .............................................................................................................6
Nord Online ......................................................................................................6
About the User Manual ..............................................................................6
Reading the manual in PDF Format ...................................................................6
Restoring the factory presets .............................................................................6
OS upgrades .....................................................................................................6
Free sounds ......................................................................................................6
Custom samples ...............................................................................................7
Disclaimer..........................................................................................................7
2 OVERVIEW ......................................................................................... 8
Organ section ..................................................................................................8
Piano section ...................................................................................................8
Nord Piano Library .............................................................................................8
String Resonance ..............................................................................................8
Nord Triple Pedal ...............................................................................................8
Pedal Noise ..................................................................................................9
Piano and Clav Timbre ......................................................................................9
Program section ............................................................................................9
Synth section ...................................................................................................9
Extern section .................................................................................................9
Effects section ................................................................................................9
3 GETTING STARTED ................................................................10
Hooking it up .................................................................................................10
Programs .........................................................................................................10
Select a program .............................................................................................10
Panel controls ...............................................................................................11
Dials and knobs ..............................................................................................11
Buttons ...........................................................................................................11
The Shift button ...............................................................................................11
List view ...........................................................................................................11
Edit a program ..............................................................................................11
Select a new piano sound ...............................................................................11
Turn off Memory Protection ....................................................................12
Store a program ...........................................................................................12
Live Mode .......................................................................................................12
Activate an effect .........................................................................................12
The two panels .............................................................................................12
Create a split ...................................................................................................12
Assign the Piano to the upper zone .................................................................13
Set the Synth to the lower zone .......................................................................13
Load a Synth preset ..................................................................................13
Create a layer ..................................................................................................13
Activate both panels ...................................................................................13
Set up a Split cross-fade (Split Width) .........................................................14
Morphs .............................................................................................................14
The Synthesizer ............................................................................................15
Loading and adjusting a Sample Preset ...........................................................15
The Arpeggiator ...........................................................................................16
4 ORGAN .................................................................................................17
On/Off, Level and Zone Select .........................................................................17
Octave Shift .....................................................................................................17
Pstick and Sustped .........................................................................................17
Drawbars and buttons ..............................................................................17
Selecting an Organ model ...............................................................................18
The B3 model................................................................................................18
B3 drawbars....................................................................................................18
Percussion ......................................................................................................18
Key click control ..............................................................................................18
The Vox model ..............................................................................................19
Vox drawbars ..................................................................................................19
Vibrato ............................................................................................................19
The Farf model..............................................................................................19
Farf registers ...................................................................................................19
Vibrato ............................................................................................................20
Pipe Organ......................................................................................................20
Pipe 1 ..............................................................................................................20
Pipe 2 ..............................................................................................................20
Pipe 1&2 registers ...........................................................................................20
Organ Preset I & II .......................................................................................20
Drawbar Live (Compact model) .......................................................................20
Swell pedal .....................................................................................................20
Rotary Speaker ............................................................................................20
5 PIANO ...................................................................................................21
On/Off, Level and Zone Select .........................................................................21
Octave Shift .....................................................................................................21
Pstick and Sustped .........................................................................................21
About the Piano sounds ..........................................................................21
About Piano size .............................................................................................22
Piano Select ...................................................................................................22
Type and model ............................................................................................... 22
About the Clavinet ......................................................................................22
List view ..........................................................................................................22
KBD Touch .....................................................................................................22
Piano Info ...................................................................................................22
Soft Release / String Res / Pedal Noise ..........................................22
Soft Release ....................................................................................................22
String Resonance ............................................................................................23
Pedal Noise .....................................................................................................23
Nord Triple Pedal .........................................................................................23
Sustain and half pedaling .................................................................................23
Sostenuto ........................................................................................................23
Soft pedal ........................................................................................................23
Timbre ...............................................................................................................24
Acoustic Piano Settings ...................................................................................24
Electric Piano settings .....................................................................................24
Clav Settings ...................................................................................................24
Layer Detune .................................................................................................24
6 PROGRAM ........................................................................................25
Morph Assign ................................................................................................25
Morph indicators .............................................................................................26
LED encoders .............................................................................................26
Morph LEDs ...............................................................................................26
Drawbar LEDs ............................................................................................26
Clearing a Morph ........................................................................................26
Mst Clk .............................................................................................................26
External sync ...................................................................................................26
(KBS) Keyboard sync .......................................................................................26
Transpose On/Set .......................................................................................26
Prog Init ...........................................................................................................26
Split ....................................................................................................................27
Keyboard Split settings ..................................................................................27
Choosing a split position .............................................................................27
Split Width settings .....................................................................................27
Store ..................................................................................................................27
Storing and naming a program or song ...........................................................27
Store As .....................................................................................................27
Song Mode .....................................................................................................28
Song Edit ........................................................................................................28
Storing a song .................................................................................................28