Clavia Nord Electro 3 61 User Manual

User Manual

Nord Electro 3

OS Version 3.x

Part No. 50316 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2011 Print Edition 3.1

CAUTION - ATTENTION

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT OPEN

RISQUE DE SHOCK ELECTRIQUE

NE PAS OUVRIR

CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK).

NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE.

REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL.

ATTENTION:POUR EVITER LES RISQUES DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE, NE

PAS ENLEVER LE COUVERCLE.

AUCUN ENTRETIEN DE PIECES INTERIEURES PAR L´USAGER.

CONFIER L´ENTRETIEN AU PERSONNEL QUALIFE.

AVIS: POUR EVITER LES RISQUES D´INCIDENTE OU D´ELECTROCUTION,

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Instructions pertaining to a risk of re, electric shock or injury to persons.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

Warning - When using electric products, basic precautions should always be followed, including the following:

1) Read these instructions.

2) Keep these instructions.

3) Heed all warnings.

4) Follow all instructions.

5) Do not use this apparatus near water.

6) Clean only with dry cloth.

7) Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

8) Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat

registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including ampliers) that

produce heat.

9) Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other. A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong

are provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not t

into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet.

Additional Safety Information

No naked ame sources, such as lighted candles, should be placed on

the apparatus;

Do not use the apparatus in tropical climates.

WARNING: To reduce the risk of re or electric shock, do not expose

this apparatus to rain or moisture.

The apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and that

no objects lled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on the

apparatus.

The maims plug is used as the disconnect device and shall remain readily operable.

The lightning ash with the arrowhead symbol within

an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated voltage within the products en-

closure that may be of sufcient magnitude to constitute

a risk of electric shock to persons.

Le symbole éclair avec le point de èche à l´intérieur d´un triangle équilatéral est utilisé pour alerter l´utilisateur de la presence à l´intérieur du coffret de ”voltage dangereux” non isolé d´ampleur

sufsante pour constituer un risque d`éléctrocution.

The exclamation mark within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the product.

Le point d´exclamation à l´intérieur d´un triangle équilatéral est employé pour alerter l´utilisateur de la présence d´instructions importantes pour le fonctionnement et l´entretien (service) dans le livret d´instructions accompagnant l´appareil.

10) Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus.

11) Only use attachments/accessories specied by the manufacturer.

12) Use only with the cart, stand,

tripod, bracket, or table specied by the

manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus. When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combination to avoid injury from tip-over.

13) Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long periods of time.

14) Refer all servicing to qualied service personnel. Servicing

is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

Il convient de ne pas placer sur l´appareil de sources de ammes nues,

telles que des bougies allumées;

L´appareil n’est pas destiné á étre utilisé sous un climat tropical.

L´appareil ne doit pas étre exposé á des égouttements d´eau ou des éclaboussures et de plus qu´aucun objet rempli de liquide tel que des vases ne doit étre placé sur l´appareil.

Lorsque la prise du résau d’alimentation est utilisée comme dispositif de déconnexion, ce dispositif doit demeuré aisément accessible.

Trademarks: The Nord logo is trademark of Clavia DMI AB. All other trademarks mentioned in this publication are the properties of their respective holders.

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1 Introduction

Thank you! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

OS and internal memory . . . . . . 4

Factory presets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Restori ng the facto ry pres ets . . . . . . . . 4

OS upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2 Overview

Knobs & buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Knobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Selec tor button s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

On/Of f buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Shif t button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Drawba rs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3 Connections

Audio connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Headph ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Left Ou t and Righ t Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Monitor I n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

USB Conn ection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

MIDI Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

MIDI Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

MIDI In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Pedal Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Sustai n Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Rotor Peda l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Control P edal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4 Getting Started

About the programs . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Select a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Select a program . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Edit a program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Storing a program. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Live buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Octave Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Adding effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Let’s try th e wah effe ct . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Activate a n ampliﬁ er emulat ion . . . . . . . 9

Selecting a piano or a sample 10

Using the Organ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

The Rotar y effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

The Delay Electro 3 HP. . . . . . . .10

5 Nord Electro 3 Reference

Master l evel knob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Organ section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Organ Mo del but ton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The B3 mo del . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The VX m odel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

The Far f model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Rotar y Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Vibrato/C horus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Percus sion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Preset /Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Using an a ddition al keyboa rd . . . . . . . .12

The draw bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Organ Pr esets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Store your o wn organ pr eset. . . . . . . . .13

Piano section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Clavin et sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Pick-up ty pe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Pick-up Type De scriptio n . . . . . . . . . . .13

Clav EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Samp Env . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Piano Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Piano section Electro 3 HP . . . . 14

Acousti cs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Dynam ics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Program section . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Up/Dow n buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Displa y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Store/Sto re Org. Pres et . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Prog A - Prog B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Instru ment sele ctors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Shif t. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Octave Sh ift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Program section Electro 3 HP 16

Live Mod e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Effec t 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Effec t 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Speake r/Comp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Delay / Re verb Elec tro 3 HP . . . . . . . . .17

Feedba ck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Ping Pong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Tempo Tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

6 The Menus

System Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Memor y Protect – O n, Off . . . . . . . . . . .18

Output R outing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Fine Tune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Sustai n Pedal Pola rity . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Sustai n Pedal Con ﬁguratio n . . . . . . . . .18

Rotor Peda l Polarit y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Rotor Peda l Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Ctrl Ped al Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Ctrl Ped al Type Electr o 3 HP. . . . . . . . .19

Ctrl Ped al Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Organ Trig Mo de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Drawba r Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

MIDI Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

MIDI Cha nnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Lower Cha nnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Local Co ntrol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Control C hange (CC ) Mode. . . . . . . . . .19

Progra m Change Mo de. . . . . . . . . . . . .19

MIDI Spl it Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Send CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Dump On e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Dump Al l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Sound Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Treble Horn S peed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Treble Horn A cceler ation. . . . . . . . . . . 20

Bass Roto r Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Perc. Slow D ecay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Perc. Nor m Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Perc. Sof t Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tonewheel M ode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Perc Draw bar 9 Canc el . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Key Click L evel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

7 Nord Sound Manager

System re quireme nts . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

The Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

The Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Parti tion Memo ry Indi cator . . . . . . . . . .21

File For mats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Transfer pia nos to the Ele ctro . . . . . . . 22

Deleti ng a piano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Downlo ad a new soun d . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Upload s ounds fro m the Elect ro 3 . . . 22

Upload a c omplete pa rtitio n . . . . . . . . 23

Downlo ad sounds to t he Electro 3 . . . 23

Organi ze the progr am part ition . . . . . . 23

Search B ox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Updates a nd sampl es . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Nord Sample Editor. . . . . . . . . . . 23

8 MIDI functions

About th e MIDI imp lementa tion . . . . . .24

Keyboar d velocit y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Progra m change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

MIDI Sys ex (System E xclusive) . . . . . . .24

Nord Ele ctro 3 with a se quence r. . . . . .24

Conne ctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Local O n/Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

MIDI Cha nnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Progra m Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Control lers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Control lers and “c hasing” . . . . . . . . . . .24

Progra m and Contro ller dum ps . . . . . 25

Sendin g program d umps . . . . . . . . . . 25

Sendin g MIDI Cont roller du mps . . . . . 25

Recei ve MIDI Sys Ex dumps . . . . . . . . 25

MIDI Con troller l ist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

MIDI Imp lementa tion Char t. . . . . . . . . 26

9 Index

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

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Introduction

Thank you!

We’d ﬁrst like to thank you for purchasing the Nord Electro 3. Our goal when we developed the Nord Electro instruments was to create the best emulations of traditional electromechanical keyboard instruments on the market, and to make these instruments compact and lightweight. With the Electro 3 we have taken our commitment a step further, by upgrading the organ, the piano and the effects sections and also by introducing the ability to use sampled instruments from the Nord Sample Library in the Nord Electro 3.

The new addition to the series is the Electro 3 HP with a keybed that has a weighted hammer action in a very light-weight package and some additional features.

This allows us to e.g. include some of the fabulous Mellotron sounds in the factory sound bank. Each and every piano and sample in the Nord Electro 3 can be replaced by you, using the free Nord Electro 3 Sound Manager application. New pianos and other sounds are found on the enclosed Nord DVD and on the www.nordkeyboards.com web site.

No compromises, just a good selection of outstanding, classic keyboard sounds with true feel, from a natural keyboard response to the authentic sound quality – that is what we have been pursuing during the development. To make a great tool you have to put all the focus on a few things and that is exactly what we tried to achieve. We hope that you will have as much fun owning and using the instrument, as we had developing it.

About this manual

OS and internal memory

The operating system, programs and pianos and samples in Nord Electro 3 are stored in a Flash memory. A Flash memory keeps the data also when the power is turned off. Another big advantage is that you can replace data in the Flash memory at any time. This means that you will be able to download OS upgrades, pianos and samples and programs to your Nord Electro 3 from a computer. The Nord Electro 3 features a USB port for quick and easy download of new piano and/or instrument samples.

Factory presets

The internal sound memory of Nord Electro 3 consists of 128 programs. In addition there is the Live buffer memory, which will continuously store any changes as they are made, and remember these settings after the power is turned off.

All of the 128 factory Programs of Nord Electro 3 can be replaced. To make sure you don’t accidentally overwrite Programs you want to keep, it’s a good idea to back up your sounds regularly on a computer using the Nord Sound Manager application.

Restoring the factory presets

The factory Programs are available as Nord Sound Manager backup ﬁles for download at the Nord web site at www.nordkeyboards.com or on the included Nord DVD.

You are probably very eager to start using your new instrument, and we sure don’t want to keep you from having fun. We will try to cover all the essential aspects on how to use the Electro 3 in the very ﬁrst few pages of this manual. After that follows the reference section where all the functions are explained in detail.

The Electro 3 HP, the Electro 61 and the Electro 73 versions share most of the features. The sections in this manual that explains the additional Electro 3 HP features will be indicated with the Logo you see here.

Disclaimer

All trademarks and brand names mentioned in this manual are the property of their respective owner’s and are not afﬁliated or associated with Clavia. These trademarks and brand names are only mentioned to describe the types of sounds reproduced by Nord Electro 3.

OS upgrades

The latest OS version for Nord Electro 3 series is available for download at the www.nordkeyboards.com website.

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Overview

The front panel of the Nord Electro 3 has four main areas, Organ, Piano, Program and Effects. We’ll familiarize ourselves brieﬂy with the panel here and describe the functions in detail in the following chapters.

On the left part of the panel is the Master Level knob, the organ model selector and the Rotary Speed section. The Master level controls the entire instruments output level at the two output jacks and the headphone output. This control is not programmable, that particular functionality is instead available in the effects section with the Gain control.

The Organ section is lit and active when the Organ selector in the Program area is activated.

Moving towards the middle of the panel, the Piano section behaves just as the organ. The controls are lit when the Piano selector is active.

The Program section contain the parameters and functions that are used to select and store programs, to set the System, MIDI and Sound functions and to select the instrument to be used with the Organ or Piano selectors. We’ll describe the functions in this area in greater detail starting at page 15.

The Effect section contains the functions of the effects. Please refer to page 16 for more information.

The functions and settings of the System, MIDI and Sound menus are conveniently printed to the right on the panel.

Selector buttons

Selector buttons are used to activate one setting in an array. Selector buttons have a set of round or triangular LEDs to indicate the current setting. Press the button several times to cycle through the possible options.

 Holding Shift and pressing a selector button (with the exception

of the Type button) will cycle through the settings in a counter clockwise fashion.

On/Off buttons

On/Off buttons are used for activating a parameter or a group of parameters such as effects.

Shift button

Some buttons have a secondary function, which will be available if you hold down Shift while pressing the button. The name of the secondary function is printed below the button. Shift is also used together with the Up/Down buttons when you want to change a setting in the System, MIDI or Sound menus.

Knobs & buttons

Knobs

The knobs control the continuously variable parameters in the Nord Electro 3.

M A parameter value can be totally different from the knob’s physical

position when you load a Program. As soon as you start turning the knob, the value will ‘snap’ to the knob’s physical position.

Drawbars

The nine drawbars of Nord Electro3 are represented by up/down buttons and LED chain graphs instead of ordinary mechanical drawbars. This gives you a big advantage; when you change presets, the correct drawbar settings are shown immediately by the LEDs.

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Connections

Audio connections

Headphones

This is where you connect a ¼" stereo connector from a pair of headphones.

Left Out and Right Out

The left and right line level outputs from the Nord Electro 3 are unbalanced. Use ¼" connectors to connect the Nord Electro 3 to an ampliﬁer or recording equipment.

The Nord Electro 3 is a stereo instrument, with separate signal paths for the left and right audio channels. To properly experience the Electro 3, use both outputs in a stereo operation.

The System functions allow you to separate the pianos/samples and the organ sounds in the left and right outputs. Read more about this functionality on page 18.

General guide on audio connections:

• Make all the connections before you turn on the power to your ampliﬁer.

• Turn on the power to your ampliﬁer last.

• Turn off the power to your ampliﬁer ﬁrst.

E Playing at a high volume level can result in hearing impairments

such as permanent hearing loss.

USB Connection

The USB connection is used for the Nord Electro to communicate with a personal computer in order to update the OS or to add or replace any of the piano and/or sampled sounds. The computer can run the Nord Sound Manager application, or be used to transfer the operating system if the unit needs to be updated.

M Computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems need

a driver for the USB connection to work. The driver can be found on the enclosed Nord DVD, or at the www.nordkeyboards.com website.

MIDI Connections

MIDI Out

MIDI connection used for sending keyboard and panel generated MIDI data from the Nord Electro 3 to other equipment such as sound modules or computers.

MIDI In

MIDI connection used to receive MIDI data to the Nord Electro 3 from other equipment such as keyboards or computers.

Monitor In

Use this to connect and monitor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at the Nord Electro 3’s headphone output. This allows you to e.g. rehearse with the Electro 3 to pre-recorded music.

M Signals connected to this input will not be processed with the

Electro 3’s effects or appear at the Electro 3’s left and right output jacks.

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Sustain Pedal

Pedal Connections

¼" connector for a switch type pedal. When a connected pedal is operated, the notes you play will be sustained.

Rotor Pedal

¼" connector for a switch type pedal. When a connected pedal is operated, the rotary speed will change.

M Two types of pedal polarities can be used with these inputs; you

select the one that applies to each pedal, in the System menu which is described on page 18.

 It is possible to use only one pedal connected to the sustain pedal

input to control sustain for piano sounds and rotary speed selection for organ sounds (see "Sustain Pedal Conﬁguration" on page 18 for details on how to conﬁgure this).

Control Pedal

¼" stereo connector for a pedal of the potentiometer type (also known as expression pedals). A connected pedal can be used as a swell pedal for the organs, a volume pedal for pianos and samples and also as a

The Nord Electro 3 has three pedal inputs; one for a sustain pedal, one for a pedal to control the rotor speed and one for a control pedal (an expression type pedal), which can be used to control various parameters.

controller for two of the effects: the P-wah and the ring modulator (RM).

When connecting an expression pedal to the Control Pedal input, you should use a stereo cable with a Tip-Ring-Sleeve connector. Please note that the pedal must have a stereo output jack. The resistance range of a control pedal should be 10 or 50 kOhm. To simplify setup, the most common pedal models (Roland, Yamaha, Ernie Ball and Fatar) are pre-conﬁgured in the Nord Electro 3, and you simply select the type of pedal which you want to use in the System menu. The System Menu is described on page 18.

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Getting Started

Let’s take a few minutes to get familiar with the Electro 3. The user interface is designed to be as intuitive as possible, and to perform as well as you do in a live situation. We hope that you soon will feel conﬁdent in using it, and by following this short chapter, we will go through most of the functions.

About the programs

Complete sound settings are stored in the Program memory of the Nord Electro 3. This memory area has 128 locations that are numbered 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc up to 64B.

The Electro 3 HP organizes the memory in 32 banks with 4 programs each.

Every program can be edited and replaced as you wish. A complete set of the factory programs are available on the Nord DVD that accompanies the unit and on our website.

Select a program

Press the Up or Down button repeatedly until you’ve selected the desired program number. The program will be loaded immediately.

Select a program

Use the Up/Down buttons on the Nord Electro 3 HP to select the bank and the program buttons 1 ~4 to select the programs within each bank.

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Press the Prog A or Prog B buttons to quickly switch between the program number A or program number B. Press Shift and Up/Down to scroll continuously in the program bank.

Edit a program

Editing a program is just as easy as grabbing a knob and change a setting, or press a button to select a different setting. The knob’s physical position isn’t always as the stored setting in the program that is active, but as soon as you start turning a knob, the parameter will snap to the knob’s position.

When you have edited a program, a dot will appear in the lower right display corner next to the program number. This will alert you to the fact that the program has been edited but not yet saved. If you select a new program without saving, any edits you have made will be lost and the program will have its original settings the next time you select it.

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Storing a program

If you are happy with an edit that you have made, you should probably save or Store the program.

M There is a Memory Protect function that

is set to On when the Electro 3 leaves the Nord Factory. This has to be turned Off in the System Menu before you can save a program.

M The setting of the memory protection will be remembered even if

the Electro 3 is turned off.

1 Press Shift + System and use the Up/Down buttons to select

the Memory Protect Option – this is the very ﬁrst option in the System menu. Set the memory protection to Off by pressing and holding Shift and the Up or Down buttons. Exit the System menu by pressing the Prog A / System button again.

2 Press the Store button.

The program number LEDs starts ﬂashing.

3 Select a new location where you want to store the program.

Use the Up/Down buttons and the program buttons to navigate to a new program location if you do not want to overwrite the original program.

4 Press the Store button a second time to conﬁrm your choice.

The edited program has now replaced the previous one in the location you speciﬁed.

M To cancel the procedure, press the Shift button before you press

Store the second time.

M With Memory Protect set to Off, a double tap on the Store button

will store a Program in its original location.

Octave Shift

Press either of the Octave Shift buttons to shift the pitch up or down in whole octaves within the instrument’s note range. Each instrument has a ﬁnite note range, read more about this in “Octave Shift” on page 15.

Adding effects

1 Select a program, e.g. number 1A

which is a Grand Piano with a hint of reverb.

2 Turn on Effect 2 (the On LED should

be lit) and press repeatedly on the Effect 2 selector.

The effect options are indicated with the selector LEDs and changes in a cyclical, clockwise fashion for each time the selector is pressed.

Some of the effects have three options that indicate the depth of the effect. Flang1 is the shallowest version, Flang 2 is a more pronounced effect and when both Flang 1 and Flang 2 LEDs are lit, you have selected the most dramatic tremolo effect.

3 Turn the effect rate knob.

This changes the rate of the active effect.

4 Hold Shift and press repeatedly on the effect selector.

This allows you to reverse through the effect selections.

5 Turn off the effect.

The Live buffer

The special Live buffer can be described as a “live program memory”. If you activate the Live button, all changes to the panel settings you make will be continuously saved. If you switch the power off, or select another program, the settings are still stored in the Live memory, so when you power up next time (or return to the Live memory) all settings will be exactly as they were when you left them.

If the Live memory is selected and you decide you wish to store the settings permanently as a program you can do so using the standard methods (see above). You can also store programs into the Live memory location, in which case the program settings will replace the current Live memory settings.

If you now continue to press on the effect selector after the effect is turned off, the effect setting will change even though the effect is not active.

 This method can be used to select a certain effect setting while

playing, without affecting the sound until you actually activate the effect.

Let’s try the wah effect

1 Turn on Effect 1 and activate the A-Wa.

The A-Wa is a dynamic Wah-wah effect. It will affect the sound depending on the volume of the signal.

2 Play a few notes with varying velocity while turning the Effect 1

knob.

 The P-Wa is a manual Wah-wah effect that can be controlled

manually by turning the knob while playing or by using a control pedal connected to the Control Pedal input on the rear panel.

Activate an ampliﬁer emulation

1 Press the Speaker/Comp button to activate the Amp emulation.

The Speaker/Comp LED will be lit.

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