Clavia Nord C1 User Manual
USER MANUAL
Part No. 50300 Nord C1 Combo Organ OS V1.0X Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2007
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Nord C1 Combo Organ
OS V1.0X
INTRODUCTION ..................................... 4
Thank you!.............................................................................. 4
Development goals ............................................................ 4
Features .................................................................................. 4
About this User Manual..................................................... 4
OVERVIEW ............................................. 5
The Front panel.................................................................... 5
Master Level knob ............................................................... 5
The Keyboard........................................................................ 5
About knobs.......................................................................... 5
About buttons ...................................................................... 5
CONNECTIONS ....................................... 6
The Rear panel...................................................................... 6
Audio connections.............................................................. 6
MIDI connections ................................................................ 6
USB connection.................................................................... 6
Pedal connections............................................................... 6
THE PROGRAM SECTION ........................8
What is a Program? ............................................................. 8
Loading a Program ............................................................. 8
Storing a Program ............................................................... 8
THE ORGAN SECTION ............................. 9
The Drawbars........................................................................ 9
Preset buttons ...................................................................... 9
The Split Function ............................................................... 9
Selecting Organ Model ..................................................... 9
The Tonewheel model..................................................... 10
The Electric-V model ........................................................ 11
The Electric-F model......................................................... 11
The Synth Bass model...................................................... 12
THE EFFECT SECTION ........................... 13
Delay ...................................................................................... 13
Drive....................................................................................... 13
EQ............................................................................................ 13
Speaker ................................................................................. 13
Unison ................................................................................... 14
Reverb ................................................................................... 14
SYSTEM FUNCTIONS ............................ 15
About System Settings.................................................... 15
Changing System Settings............................................. 15
The System Menu.............................................................. 15
The MIDI Menu................................................................... 15
The Sound Menu ............................................................... 16
MIDI IMPLEMENTATION ...................... 17
MIDI implementation chart........................................... 17
MIDI Continuous Controller list.................................... 17
HOW-TOS ............................................. 18
Connecting a bass pedal unit ....................................... 18
Setting up the Half Moon Switch ................................ 18
Adjusting the pedal polarity ......................................... 18
Adjusting the swell pedal span .................................... 18
Playing an external sound source ............................... 18
Recording MIDI in a sequencer .................................... 19
Installing the USB driver (Windows only) ................. 19
Upgrading the OS ............................................................. 19
ABOUT program Sysex dumps ..................................... 19
INDEX .................................................. 20
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Introduction User Manual
Introduction
THANK YOU!
We would first like to thank you for purchasing the Nord C1
Combo Organ! We hope you will find it to be everything
you wished for and that you’ll have many hours of great
fun with your new instrument.
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
First some history: at the time of designing the Nord C1
Combo Organ, Clavia had already been developing digital
tonewheel organ models for a decade. The first model featured in the Nord Electro series of instruments was designed to fit comfortably in a multi electro-mechanical
instrument along side various piano implementations.
With focus given to fit several mechanical instruments into
a single package, you are always forced to make some
compromises. We never intended the Electro to be the perfect vintage tonewheel organ replacement, but it turned
out to be one of the more popular units on the market,
much due to it’s high quality of sound, portability and attractive price.
Though not surprised we were definitely thrilled when the
Electro started to appear in different magazine’s tonewheel clone tests and shoot-outs. It was included for its
fabulous sound that some found to be better that far more
expensive hard core clone units. However, due to its single
manual and additional piano samples, it was generally included “out of contest”.
With the Nord C1 Combo Organ we wanted to design an
instrument without having to find the right blend of
things; like piano vs. organ keyboard action, or multi-effects suited for a wide array of sounds. We wanted to focus
on the things needed for killer organ sounds, and those
things only.
Also we had developed some great transistor organ models for the Nord Stage series of instruments. An obvious
choice was to include these as well for the ultimate threein-one lightweight vintage organ package.
Some areas we knew were up for improvement prior to the
start of the project, others were found along the way. What
really paid off was focusing on each of the components involved in the sound generating process, rather than just
the sounding outcome. After spending thousands of man
hours leaving no detail untouched - no matter how small
and seemingly insignificant - we believe we have not only
reproduced the perfect tonewheel sound but also the
proper response and feel of playing the original instrument.
FEATURES
The Nord C1 Combo Organ features high quality simulations of three vintage organs, a bunch of effect pedals as
well as several amp and speaker cabinets combinations in
a single lightweight package.
The dual keyboards, bass pedal input and high level outputs allows you to use the instrument in the exact same application and set-up as with the vintage originals - and
several more!
By focusing on each individual component involved in the
sound generating process you get not only a vintage
sound experience but also spot-on response and feel of
playing the original instruments.
The Nord C1 Combo Organ has the following features:
• 1 model of a vintage Tonewheel organ
• 2 models of vintage Electric-V and Electric-F transistor
organs
• 3 Amplifier models
Featuring simulations of the gain and frequency characteristics of two popular combo amps as well as a
rotary speaker cabinet.
•Overdrive
Offering a gentle to massive amount of tube-style distortion.
• Vintage-sounding delay
With tap-tempo function and possibility to limit operation to upper manual.
•3-band EQ
5 types of Reverberation
Room, Stage and Hall-types with variations
• Dual manuals with 2x61 waterfall keys
Featuring high trigger point for the optimal organ keyboard feel and response time.
• Bass pedal board input
Dedicated MIDI connector for use with any MIDI note
sending pedal board.
• High level outputs
Featuring quarter-inch as well as 11-pin Leslie standard
connectors you can connect directly to rotary speakers.
When using the 11-pin connector controls for rotation
speed are transferred as well.
ABOUT THIS USER MANUAL
This manual is arranged mainly as a reference manual. In
many cases you’ll get tips on how to practically use functions. In this manual, references to knobs and buttons on
the unit is printed
The LED-display is referred to as the
there is a reference to the ‘keyboard’, that reference also
applies to incoming MIDI note messages.
LIKE THIS, e.g. ‘press the STORE button’.
DISPLAY. Whenever
We hope this instrument will give you as much fun to play
as it has given us to develop.
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Nord C1 Combo Organ Overview
OS V1.0X
Overview
THE FRONT PANEL
The Nord C1 Combo Organ front panel consists of 3 sections:
Organ section
The Organ Section features three different organ models,
and this is where you select what model to play and make
model specific adjustments. Please refer to “The Organ
Section” on page 9.
Effect section
The Effect Section is where you set and adjust settings for
delay, drive, EQ, unison, reverb and speaker simulation.
Please refer to “The Effect Section” on page 13.
THE KEYBOARD
The Nord C1 Combo Organ keyboards have a fast trigger
response which closely mimics the feel and response times
of a real organ. The fast trigger response is not velocity sensitive, which might not be preferable when using external
sound sources. Please refer to “Playing an external sound
source” on page 18.
ABOUT KNOBS
The knobs are of potentiometer type. Except for the
that when you load a Program the values of
the parameters can be totally different
from the knobs physical positions. As soon as you begin
turning a knob, the parameter value will ‘snap’ to the
knob’s physical position.
MASTER LEVEL knob, this means
ABOUT BUTTONS
Buttons have different behaviour depending on their functionality:
Program Section
The Program Section is where you store and recall sound
settings into Programs, and also adjust system specific parameters. Please refer to “The Program Section” on page 8.
MASTER LEVEL KNOB
The MASTER LEVEL knob controls the overall
output level for all audio outputs, including
HIGH LEVEL OUTPUT and HEADPHONE out-
put. The
tion is always the same as the output level.
MASTER LEVEL knob’s physical posi-
Selector buttons
Press the Selector button repeatedly to select between options printed next to the
corresponding LEDs. Note that some options are selected by lighting several LEDs
simultaniously.
On/Off buttons
The On/Off buttons have a LED next to
them to indicate the status.
Shift Button
Some buttons have a secondary
function, available by holding
while pressing the button. The
name of the secondary function is
printed just below the button.
SHIFT
Panic button
By pressing the SHIFT + UNISON MODE buttons all sounding
notes will be silenced.
Note: equipment connected via
MIDI OUT is not affected.
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Connections User Manual
Connections
THE REAR PANEL
AUDIO CONNECTIONS
The Nord C1 Combo Organ has three types of audio connectors:
Main stereo output
The main stereo output consist of the LEFT OUT and RIGHT
connectors. These are unbalanced line level outputs.
OUT
Headphone output
Stereo output for connecting headphones.
High level output
The HIGH LEVEL OUTPUT consist of a quarter inch and 11-pin
Leslie standard connector. The
RMS high level and unbalanced, and are only intended to
be used directly connected to a rotary speaker cabinet
with built in amplifier. Any other form of use might result
in damaged equipment.
It is possible to route the tonewheel organ to
HIGH LEVEL OUT, and transistor organs to RIGHT OUT. Please
refer to “Output Routing” on page 15.
General guide for audio connections
• Make all connections before turning on the power to
your amplifier.
• Turn on the power to your amplifier last.
• Turn off the power to you amplifier first.
• Make sure you properly align the guide pin when using
an 11-pin connector.
HIGH LEVEL OUT are 14V
LEFT OUT and
BASS PEDAL
To play the Nord C1 Combo Organ’s dedicated bass registers, connect MIDI OUT of your external controller (preferably a bass pedal board) to the
bass registers will respond to all MIDI note messages received regardless of MIDI channel.
Please refer to “Connecting a bass pedal unit” on page 18
for detailed instructions.
BASS PEDAL connector. The
USB CONNECTION
The USB connector is used for upgrading the system OS.
Please refer to “Upgrading the OS” on page 19.
PEDAL CONNECTIONS
The Nord C1 Combo Organ has three pedal inputs:
Swell Pedal input
Used for controlling the swell level of the selected organ
model. Please note that the pedal must have a stereo output jack, and you must always use a stereo cable (Tip-RingSleeve). Pedals from different manufacturers have various
span characteristics but this can easily be adjusted in the
system menu.
Please refer to “Swell Pedal Type” on page 15, or “Adjusting
the swell pedal span” on page 18 for detailed instructions.
MIDI CONNECTIONS
MIDI transmit and receive behaviour is adjustable via the
MIDI menu. Please refer to “MIDI Implementation” on
page 17 for more information.
The Nord C1 Combo Organ has three MIDI connector ports:
MIDI OUT
Both manuals, all knobs and buttons (SHIFT, STORE and MAS-
TER LEVEL
PEDAL
Please refer to “Playing an external sound source” on
page 18, and “Recording MIDI in a sequencer” on page 19
for more information.
MIDI IN
Used for receiving MIDI messages.
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excluded), pedal connector ports as well as BASS
input send messages via MIDI OUT.
Rotary Control input
Used for controlling the rotary speaker’s speed. You can
use any standard sustain pedal, switch pedal or the Half
Moon Switch accessory. When using the Half Moon Switch
accessory you will have to configure the Control Pedal
Type in the system menu.
Please refer to “Rotary Pedal Mode” on page 15 or “Setting
up the Half Moon Switch” on page 18 for further instructions.
Note: when using the Half Moon Switch accessory, the
TARY SPEAKER
controls of the front panel are disabled.
RO-
Sustain Pedal input
Used for sustaining notes. You can use any standard sustain type pedal. The polarity can be adjusted in the system
menu.
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