Clavia NORD Stage 2 SW73 User Manual [ru]

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User Manual

Nord Stage 2 HA/SW

OS Ve rsion 1.7x

Part No. 50361 Copyright Clavia DMI AB

Print Edition: J

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5) Do not use this apparatus near water.

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the apparatus;

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readily operable.

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1 Introduction

Thank you! .....................................5

Features ........................................5

About the User Manual.........................5

Readin g the manual i n Adobe Acroba t Reader............5

Nord on the Internet ...........................5

Restoring the factory presets .........................5

OS upgrades......................................5

Free sounds ......................................5

Disclaimer ........................................5

2 About the Nord Stage 2

The Organ section..............................6

Piano Librar y v5................................6

Small, M edium & Larg e..............................6

String Resonance...............................6

Nord Triple Pedal ...............................7

Pedal Noise.....................................7

The Synth Section..............................7

3 Getting Started

Hook it up ......................................8

Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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

The Shift Button ...................................8

Sort Mode ........................................9

The Kno bs .......................................9

The Buttons.......................................9

Edit a program .................................9

Select a new piano sound............................9

Turning the Memor y Protection Off ..........10

Storing a Program.............................10

Live Mode .....................................10

Activate an effect .............................10

Activate another instrument .........................11

The Slots ......................................11

Create a Sp lit ....................................11

Set the Pia no to the Upper zo ne .....................11

Set the Sy nth to the Lower zone ......................11

Load a Synth sound...........................12

Create a La yer....................................12

The Morph.....................................12

The Synthesizer ...............................13

Arpeggio clinic ................................13

Master Clock ..................................14

4 Program Section

Transpose On/Set .............................15

Slot Buttons A & B ............................15

Mono Output.....................................15

Dual KB.........................................15

Shift / Exit button .............................16

Live Mode .....................................16

Program Buttons ..............................16

What is a pr ogram?................................16

System, S ound, MIDI, Ex tern ........................16

Panic ...........................................16

Store, Store As…...............................16

Storing a P rogram .................................17

Naming a program ................................17

Categories.......................................17

Value Dial .....................................17

MIDI Indicator .................................17

Program Bank buttons ........................18

Organ Pi ano Synth Ini t .............................18

Organ Split ......................................18

Program Page buttons ........................18

Pending Load ....................................18

Sort Mode .......................................18

Cursor, Del, Ins ...................................18

Mst Clk .......................................18

External Sync ....................................18

Morph Assign .................................19

Morph Destinations................................19

Clearing a Morph..................................19

KB Zones ......................................19

5 Common features

Instrument & Extern Controls .................20

On/Of f buttons ...................................20

KB Zone Select buttons ............................20

Creatin g a split ...................................20

Settin g split point s to change Zone r anges .............21

Layering instruments...............................21

Octave Shift......................................21

Note Rang e......................................21

Latch Ped & K B Gate ..............................21

Output Routing ...................................21

Using an e xternal key board (Dual K B)..................22

Using multiple keyboards ...........................22

Master level ...................................22

6 Organ

Drawbars and buttons.........................23

Selec ting The Orga n Model .........................23

The B3 Model .................................23

B3 Drawbars ..................................24

Vibrato & Chorus..............................24

Percussion.....................................24

Key click control ..................................24

Organ Preset I & II ............................24

The Vox Model ................................25

Vox Drawbars..................................25

Vibrato.........................................25

The Farf Model ................................25

Farf Registers..................................25

Vibrato.........................................26

Swell Control.....................................26

Rotary Speaker ................................26

7 Piano

The Piano sounds .............................27

Piano Select ...................................27

Typ e............................................27

Info ............................................27

Model ..........................................27

Clavinet .........................................27

Dynamics .......................................28

Acoustics .....................................28

String Resonance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Long Release ....................................28

Pedal Noise......................................28

Nord Triple Pedal ..............................28

Half pedaling.....................................28

Sosten uto .......................................28

Soft Ped al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Slot Detune/Clav EQ...........................28

Clav EQ ........................................28

Slot Detune ......................................28

8 Synth

Basics .........................................29

Oscillator .....................................29

Shape ..........................................29

Shape Mod ......................................30

Waveform selector button...........................30

Analog style waveforms ............................30

Triangle .........................................30

Sawtoo th........................................30

Pulse ...........................................30

Oscillator Sync waveforms ..........................30

Frequency Modulation .............................31

FM Algorithms....................................31

Wavetables ......................................32

Samples ........................................32

Skip Sample Attack................................32

Load Sound......................................32

Filter Section .................................32

Filter button......................................32

Low Pass - LP 24 & LP 12 ..........................32

High Pas s - HP ...................................33

Band Pas s - BP ..................................33

Notch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Filter Fre quency ..................................33

KB Track ........................................33

Resonance ......................................33

Freq Mod 1 - LF O .................................33

Freq Mod 2 ......................................33

The Envelopes.................................33

Mod Envel ope ...................................33

Amp Envel ope ...................................34

The LFO .......................................34

Velocity .......................................34

Voices section ................................34

Voice Mode Mono.................................34

Voice Mod e Legato ................................35

Glide ...........................................35

Unison .........................................35

Vibrato .........................................35

Storing Synth Sounds..............................35

Arpeggiator ...................................35

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4 | Nord Stage 2 USer MaNUal oS v1.7X

9 Effects

Overview ......................................36

About mono/stereo and effect routing .................36

The Slot effects ...............................36

Activati ng Slot effe cts ..............................36

Makin g settings fo r Slot effec ts.......................36

The Focu s button .................................37

Mst Clk .........................................37

Effect 1 ........................................37

A-Pan (Au to Pan)..................................37

Tre m (Tr emo lo) ...................................37

RM (Ring modulation) ..............................37

Wa-Wa..........................................37

A-Wha 1 & 2 (Au to-Wah) ...........................37

Effect 2 .......................................38

Phaser 1 & 2 .....................................38

Flanger .........................................38

Vibe ............................................38

Chorus 1 & 2 .....................................38

Delay .........................................38

Amp Sim/Equalizer ...........................38

Amp model ......................................38

Drive ...........................................38

EQ section.......................................39

Global Effects .................................39

Compressor .....................................39

Reverb..........................................39

Rotary Speaker ...............................39

About th e Rotary ef fect’s signa l routing ................39

Rotary parameter .................................39

10 Extern Section

Extern section ................................40

Setting up .......................................40

Using the Extern section ......................40

Activating........................................40

Keyboard Zones ..................................40

Octave Shift......................................40

Activating Pitch Stick/Sustain Pedal messages ..........40

Extern Parameters.............................41

Volume .........................................41

Prog Cha nge ....................................41

MIDI CC ........................................41

Send On Lo ad....................................41

Extern Section and MIDI re-routing....................41

11 Menus

System Menu ..................................42

Global Transpose .................................42

Fine Tune........................................42

Output Routing ...................................42

Organ Au dio A/B Ou tput............................42

Piano Au dio A/B Out put . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Synth Au dio A/B Out put ............................42

Organ Key board Trig Point ..........................42

Sustain Pedal Type ................................42

Sustain Pedal Func ................................42

Rotor/Latch Pedal Type.............................42

Rotor/Latch Pedal Func ............................42

Ctrl Ped al Type ...................................43

Control Pedal Gain ................................43

Control Pedal Func . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Swell Ped al Type..................................43

Swell Pedal Gain..................................43

Swell Pedal Func..................................43

Memory Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Sound Menu ...................................43

Organ Key C lick Level B3 ...........................43

Organ Tonewheel Mode ............................43

Piano Pedal Noise Level ............................43

Piano St ring Res Leve l .............................43

Synth Vibrato Rate ................................43

Synth Dl y Vibrato Amo unt...........................43

FX Rota ry Speaker H orn Speed ......................43

FX Rota ry Speaker H orn Acc ........................43

FX Rota ry Speaker R otor Speed ......................43

FX Rota ry Speaker R otor Acc ........................43

FX Del ay Mode ...................................44

MIDI Menu.....................................44

MIDI Con trol Local ................................44

MIDI Global Channel...............................44

MIDI Slot A/B Channel .............................44

MIDI Organ A/B Channel ...........................44

MIDI Piano A/B Channel ............................44

MIDI Syn th A/B Chan nel ............................44

MIDI Dua l KB Channe l..............................44

MIDI Ctr l Change Mod e ............................44

MIDI Prog Change Mode............................44

Send MID I Ctrl....................................44

Dump Program ...................................44

Dump Synth .....................................44

Extern Menu...................................45

Exter n MIDI Mode .................................45

Exter n MIDI A/B C hannel ...........................45

Exter n MIDI A/B Vol ume ............................45

Exter n MIDI A/B Pr og Change .......................45

Exter n MIDI A/B B ank Sel cc 00 ......................45

Exter n MIDI A/B B ank Sel cc 32 ......................45

Exter n MIDI A/B C C Number ........................45

Exter n MIDI A/B C C Value ..........................45

Exter n MIDI A/B S end Wheel ........................45

Exter n MIDI A/B S end A.Touch.......................45

Exter n MIDI A/B S end CtrlPed .......................45

Exter n MIDI A/B S end Swell .........................45

Exter n MIDI A/B Vel C urve ..........................45

Exter n MIDI Send on L oad ..........................45

Exter n MIDI Soft T hru ..............................45

12 Nord Sound Manager

Nord Sound Manager ..............................46

System requirements ..............................46

13 MIDI

Using MIDI ....................................47

Global ..........................................47

Slot A/ B.........................................47

Extern ..........................................47

Instrument MIDI...................................47

Playing/Controlling outboard gear with the

Extern section .................................48

Controlling the Stage 2 with an external key-

board or MIDI device..........................48

Dual Kb .........................................48

Slot MIDI control ..................................49

Global MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

External Sync ....................................49

Extern Section and MIDI re-routing....................49

Recording a Stage 2 performance to a MIDI

sequencer .....................................49

Program Change..................................49

Using the Stage 2 as a sound source with a

sequencer .....................................50

MIDI Input Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Messages......................................50

Panic ...........................................51

USB MIDI........................................51

MIDI Controller list ............................52

MIDI Implementation Chart ...................53

I Appendix: Connections

Audio connections.............................54

Headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Audio Ou tputs 1-4.................................54

Monitor In .......................................54

USB Connection ...............................54

MIDI Connections..............................54

MIDI In ..........................................54

MIDI Out ........................................54

Music Stand ...................................55

Connecting Pedals.............................55

The Org an Swell inpu t..............................55

Using a Roto r Speed ped al..........................55

Using a L atch pedal ...............................55

Sustain pedal ....................................55

Nord Triple Pedal .................................55

II Appendix: Factory Presets

Factory Presets and OS .......................56

Internal memory ..................................56

Factory presets ...................................56

Restoring the factory content ........................56

OS upgrades.....................................56

III Index

Index ...........................................57

Thank you!

We’d ﬁrst like to thank you for purchasing the Nord Stage 2! Our goal

when developing the Nord Stage 2 was to create a ﬂagship stage

instrument encompassing the whole range of our company’s accumu-

lated expertise. Building on the success of the original Nord Stage, the

Nord Stage 2 incorporates the best emulations of electromechanical

and acoustic keyboard instruments on the market as well as a syn-

thesizer section designed for maximum ease of use, yet offering wide

sonic possibilities.

The Nord Stage 2 features outstanding classic keyboard sounds

with true feel, from natural keyboard response to authentic sound. A

medium weighted hammer action 88/76 note keyboard, or a 73 note

semi-weighted waterfall keyboard makes this instrument the biggest

in the Nord range, yet it weighs only 18,5/16,5/9,7 kilos which is an

achievement in itself.

Features

The Nord Stage 2 has the following main features:

•Organ section with faithful reproductions of three classic organ mod-

els; B3, Vox and Farf (Farﬁsa).

•Piano section with acoustic grand and upright pianos, tine-based

electric pianos, Wurlitzer electric pianos, Clavinet, and Electric Grand.

The memory capacity for the Piano section in the Stage 2 is approxi-

mately 500 megabytes.

•Synth section with sample playback, FM, analog-style and digital

waveforms in a subtractive synthesis architecture.

•Comprehensive effects section.

•A medium weighted hammer action 88/76 note keyboard with

aftertouch, or a 73 note semi-weighted waterfall keyboard with

aftertouch.

•An Extern section for controlling external MIDI instruments.

•A powerful Morph feature for applying multiple parameter changes to

a sound with controllers.

•Splits and layers are easily set up by assigning instruments to Key-

board Zones.

But that’s not all. There are two independent Slots “A” and “B”, each

containing a full setup of the Stage 2 instruments. This means that you

have access to six instrument sections and two independent effect

sections! Amongst other things, this allows for “dual manual” B3 organ

emulation, and easy setup of all kinds of instrument layering and splits.

About the User Manual

The manual is arranged mainly as a reference manual. In many cases

you’ll get tips on how to practically use the functions, alone and also

together with other functions.

Reading the manual in Adobe Acrobat Reader

This manual is also available in the digital PDF-ﬁle format. It can be

downloaded, free of charge, from the Nord web site at

www.nordkeyboards.com. With Adobe Acrobat Reader it is possible

to use special navigation features like hyper links. This means that you

can click with the mouse on a word or sentence and automatically get

to the location indicated by the word/sentence.

Nord on the Internet

If you have access to the Internet, you’re very welcome to visit

www.nordkeyboards.com. There you will ﬁnd the latest information

about the Nord Stage 2 and other Nord products. You can also down-

load new Nord Stage 2 sounds and software upgrades, free of charge.

Restoring the factory presets

The factory programs, samples and pianos 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.

OS upgrades

The latest OS version for Nord Stage 2 is available for download at the

www.nordkeyboards.com website. Please visit our website from time

to time, to make sure you have the latest version in your unit.

Free sounds

Since the Nord Stage 2 is designed as an open system, each and

every piano and sample in the Nord Stage 2 can be replaced by you.

This is done using the Nord Sound Manager application.

The Nord Stage 2 is compatible with the continuously expanding Nord

Piano Library and the Nord Sample Library. These sounds are included

on the DVD that accompanies the Stage 2. When new sounds become

available, you can download these for free from the

www.nordkeyboards.com website.

Disclaimer

Any trademarks and brand names mentioned in this manual are the

property of their respective owners 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 Stage 2.

Introduction

Chapter 1 INtrodUCtIoN | 5

Great sounds and maximum expressiveness are two essential features

in the Nord Stage 2. To make a great tool we believe that you have to

put all the focus on a few important things and that is exactly what we

have tried to achieve. Let’s have a look at some of the key features:

The Organ section

It’s over ten years since we made our ﬁrst digital model of a tonewheel

organ. The Stage 2’s dedicated organ section now uses our third gen-

eration B3 Organ model as found in the acclaimed Nord C2 Combo

Organ.

Considered by many the most accurate emulation of the B3 ever, the

Stage 2’s organ model is based on the analysis of the signals from

each of the 91 spinning discs inside several original instruments and

painstaking work on understanding exactly how all the components

interact with each other. The virtual circuitry reacts not only to the set-

tings on the panel but also during the real time performance. The Stage

2 will faithfully reproduce the important foldback and energy robbing

characteristics; the latter will produce the gentle compression effect

that makes those lovely smears absolutely wonderful. There are 3

tonewheel modes that allow you to switch from a clean, factory spec’d

instrument to a worn and battered workhorse with some 40 years

worth of touring.

We also created carefully modelled emulations of two of the most

famous transistor organs from the 1960’s, the Vox Continental and

the Farﬁsa Compact. Alongside the organ’s themselves, the Stage

2 features our very latest rotary speaker simulation derived from the

Nord C2. Incorporating the acoustic variations that occur as a physical

rotating spreads the sound around in a room, they bring the Stage

2’s organs to life with remarkable realism In terms of control, “Draw

buttons” and LED bar graphs have replaced the original mechanical

drawbars. This gives you the advantage of always having the correct

drawbar settings after changing preset.

Piano Library v5

The Nord Stage 2 is compatible with version 5 of the Nord Piano

Library. We have spent a lot of time and effort in creating our best piano

sounds ever, to match the features available in the Nord Stage 2.

The piano sounds are included on the DVD and are organized in cat-

egories and in some cases available in various sizes (for the acoustic

grand pianos and uprights). New sounds will be available free of charge

on the www.nordkeyboards.com website.

Small, Medium & Large

The acoustic grand pianos and uprights are available in several sizes;

X-Large, large, medium and small. The large, medium and small sizes

share the same amount of velocity layers, and the same number of

zones that are mapped across the keyboard. This means that you can

rely on a consistent quality in regards to the playability and expres-

siveness in the basic sound of every piano, no matter what size you

choose to install into your Nord Stage 2 (or any other Nord Piano

Library compatible unit).

Small (Sml) is the version that uses the least amount of space in the

piano memory, but still carry a big and powerful punch. This version

does not contain any String Resonance samples at all. If an Sml piano

is selected in the Nord Stage 2, the String Resonance feature will be

disabled.

The Medium versions have pedal-down String Resonance samples in

the important middle region of the range, but omit these in the lowest

and the highest areas. This gives you a good ratio of functionality and

size.

The Large versions have the pedal-down String Resonance samples all

across the keyboard, providing you with the fullest of sounds, but also

the largest size.

Some pianos are available in XL versions which means that they are

fully mapped across the keyboard which increases the size a bit.

String Resonance

String resonance is the acoustic phenomenon which occurs inside

every acoustic piano when strings, or parts of strings, resonate at their

fundamental or harmonic frequencies when other strings are played.

When playing any of the medium or large v5 pianos in your Stage 2

with this functionality is turned on, all notes you play will affect each

other to reproduce the wonderful acoustics that occur inside an acous-

tic grand or upright piano.

String resonance is also very noticeable when you use the sustain

pedal with the String Resonance feature enabled (again, on medium

and large acoustic pianos only). With the sustain pedal held down, any

notes you play will have a beautiful and familiar sound quality to them,

enhanced by the un-dampened strings resonating in sympathy with the

notes you are playing.

Another thing that the String Resonance produces is a crescendo

effect. If you play the same key repeatedly with the same force, the

sound will change. This is originally caused by the hammers hitting the

vibrating string in various phases, and creates a nice, gentle ﬂuctuation

in volume and timbre in the Nord Stage 2.

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Nord Triple Pedal

The Nord Stage 2 is compatible with the accessory Nord Triple Pedal

(not included, sold separately) which offers an unprecedented function-

ality. The Piano Pedal adds dynamic control of the mechanical noise

during operation, and the ability for you as a player to use half pedaling

and “release and catch again” techniques.

E If you have purchased a Nord Triple Pedal, you need to select this

pedal type in the System Menu.

1 Hold Shift and press the System/Program 1 button beneath the

LCD to enter the System Menu settings.

2 Press the Program Page 4 button above the Value Dial until you

reach the Sustain Pedal Type setting.

3 Turn the Value Dial to select “Triple”. Press Shift to exit the menu

and attach the Tripe Pedal to the Nord Stage 2.

The right pedal is the sustain pedal. If you operate this, all the notes that

you play will sustain until the pedal is released again.

The left pedal is the soft pedal, also known as the Una Corda. When

you press this pedal, all the notes you play will be slightly lower in vol-

ume and also have a slightly more subdued tone quality.

The middle pedal is the Latch/Sostenuto. In order for this functionality

to be used, it has to be activated in the instruments. Read more about

this in the section “Latch Ped & KB Gate” on page 21.

Pedal Noise

When the sustain pedal is operated on an acoustic grand or upright

piano, many different sounds are produced by the mechanical com-

ponents of that instrument’s pedal mechanism. Your Nord Stage 2

reproduces many of these natural sounds. When the sustain pedal is

pressed down, lifting the dampers from the strings, a beautiful sizzle

can be heard.

When the pedal is released, the dampers are returned to the strings,

which creates a different, muted type of sound. The Nord’s sustain

pedal is dynamic, allowing you to experiment with varying forces both

for pressing the pedal down and also releasing it. If you allow your

foot to “slip” off the edge of the pedal, it will spring back with full force,

creating an obvious sound.

The “ﬂoor sound” is heard when the pedal reaches the bottom of its

travel. You can experience this in isolation if you press down the pedal

completely, then lift it less than halfway back up and then press down

again.

If you lift the pedal and immediately press it down again, a very rich

sound will be heard. Another big sound is The Stomp, which requires

you to start with your foot above the actual pedal, in order to be able to

reach the high velocity that is required to get this sound.

The Synth Section

The Stage 2’s powerful synthesizer engine was built from the DNA of

the Nord Wave. Capable of classic analogue synthesis, three operator

FM synthesis, Wavetable synthesis and, crucially, compatibility with the

Nord Sample Library.

The Nord Sample Library not only gives Stage 2 owners access to the

huge free library of world-class sounds, including the famous vintage

Mellotron and Chamberlin samples previously only available to Nord

Wave and Nord Electro 3 users, but thanks to the included Nord

Sample Editor for Mac and PC, allows user-created samples to be

loaded into the instrument thus opening up a whole new creative world

of sound.

The Synth engine itself features classic analogue synthesis with dual

saw, hard sync and pulse wave modulation, three-operator FM synthe-

sis with 32 different modulation frequencies, Wavetable synthesis with

62 waveforms and Sample based synthesis. A new great sounding

multimode ﬁlter features 12 and 24 dB low pass, high pass, band pass

and notch ﬁlters. And with an Amp envelope, Modulation envelope, an

LFO, and Unison control, the Stage 2’s synth capabilities are hugely

powerful, delivering amazing on-stage sound.

The Synth section also features a new Arpeggiator which can be

synchronized to either external clock or the Stage 2’s Master Clock for

perfect timing with several elements of the Stage 2, including its effects

and the synth LFO.

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Hook it up

1 Connect the Nord Stage 2 power cord to the unit and a mains

power supply, connect the sustain pedal and a set of headphones

or a sound system.

2 Make sure to turn on the Stage 2 ﬁrst, before the sound system.

Please be careful with the output volume.

For more information on all the connections on the Stage 2, look in the

Connections chapter on page 54.

Programs

The Program area is the part of the panel that is located in the center

of the panel with the display in the middle. Complete settings of every

parameter on the panel are stored in the program memory of the Nord

Stage 2, with enough room for 400 programs.

This is organized into 4 banks; each bank contains 20 pages of 5 pro-

grams each, all of which can be edited and replaced as you wish.

E The 100 programs in the D bank when the unit is shipped from

the factory are duplicates of the programs in the A bank. This

means that you can immediately start to save any edits you do

in either the A or D bank without risking to overwrite any of the

factory programs until you have decided which ones you want to

keep.

A complete set of the factory programs are available on the enclosed

Nord DVD and on our website, you can always get back to the state of

the program memories when the unit was new.

Select a program

1 Programs are selected by pressing the ﬁve Program buttons,

located below the display. An alternate method is to turn the Value

Dial located to the right of the display.

2 The Pages are accessed by pressing the Program Page 3/4

buttons repeatedly, located above the Value Dial.

M Some of the programs are labeled with MW or AT. This indicates

that the Mod Wheel or AfterTouch has an active part in the sound

and invites you to use these performance features.

3 The Banks are accessed with the Bank buttons A. B, C and D,

above the display.

A new program is immediately activated when you press a Bank,

Page or Program button. If you want to navigate with the Bank

and/or Page buttons and wait with the loading of a new program

until you press a program button, this can be acheived by activat-

ing the Pending Load setting (Shift + Program Page 3button.

 Press and hold either of the Program Page buttons to continu-

ously scroll through the Pages.

The Shift Button

Many buttons on the Stage 2 have a

secondary function, which is printed

immediately below the button. These

additional functions and/or parameters

are accessed by ﬁrst pressing and hold-

ing Shift while pressing that respective

button.

M The Shift button is also used to Exit from a menu or to cancel an

ongoing Store operation.

Getting Started

Let’s spend a few minutes to get acquainted with your new Nord Stage 2. In order to make you feel conﬁdent in using the Stage 2, this chapter is

written as a guided tour. We will show you the fundamental aspects of the unit in as few steps as possible. We know you’d rather play than read.

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Sort Mode

There are three Sort modes in the Stage 2 that are used if you change

programs by turning the Value Dial. The default mode is numerical - by

turning the Value Dial, the programs are accessed in a numerically

sorted order. (Bank A, Page 1, Program 1 to 5, Bank A, Page 2, Pro-

gram 1 to 5 etc). Let’s look at the alternate sort modes.

1 Press and hold Shift....

2 and then press the Program Page 4 button.

This activates the alphabetical sort mode, which

will display the programs in an alphabetical

order when you turn the Value Dial.

3 To change the initial letter, press the Pro-

gram Page buttons.

4 Hold Shift and press the Program Page 4

button again to select the Category sort

mode; programs will be displayed alpha-

betically within the selected category.

A program can be assigned to a category when

it is saved or by using the Nord Sound Manager

applications. Read more on categories on page

17.

5 To change the Category, press the Program Page buttons.

6 Hold Shift and press the Program Page 4 button a third time to

revert to the numerical presentation.

M The sort modes will only affect how the programs are accessed by

turning the Value Dial. Pressing Bank, Page and Program buttons

will select programs in the numerical fashion.

The Knobs

There are two types of knobs on the Nord

Stage 2. The Value Encoders are surrounded by

LED indicators; these provide a visual indication

of that setting’s current value. These parame-

ters can be controlled using the Morph function.

The potentiometer-type knobs shown to the right are

used, for example, in the Synth and Effect sections.

As you scroll through programs, the physical posi-

tions of these knobs will not necessarily correctly re-

ﬂect the active parameter values, but as soon as one

of these knobs is turned, that respective parameter’s

value will immediately “snap” to the knob’s position.

 Hold Shift and turn a knob to view the stored

setting of a parameter in the display, without

changing it.

The Buttons

Selector buttons are used to select one setting in an array. They have a

set of round or triangular LEDs to indicate the current setting. Press the

button several times to cycle through the possible options.

The On/Off buttons are used for activating a function or a group of

functions such as effects and have a LED close to them to indicate the

on/off status and sometimes also the source or zone.

M The on/off buttons of the Effect’s shown here, also have a selector

functionality. Press once to turn the Effect on, and press immedi-

ately again to select the “next” source.

Edit a program

Editing a program is as easy grabbing a knob or pressing a button to

change an existing setting; go ahead and give it a quick try.

1 Dial up bank A, page 1, program 1 (the Imperial Grand Piano

program) for this exercise.

The controls for the Piano instrument are located immediately to the left

of the Program/Display area on the panel. Notice that the Grand type is

the current type in the program.

Select a new piano sound

2 Press repeatedly on the Piano Type selector to browse the 6

types. Each piano type can hold several models.

3 Press repeatedly on the Piano Model button, located beneath the

Model LED and play on the keys to listen to the different sounds.

This will cycle through the models that are available in the selected

piano type.

Note that changing any parameter on your Stage 2’s panel will

immediately cause an asterisk to appear next to the current program

number in the display.

This is provided for you as an indication that the program has been

edited/changed, but not yet saved into memory. If you select a new

program prior to performing a Store operation, your edits will be lost

and that program will have its original settings the next time you select

it.

A : 01 : 1 Grand

Grand Imperial

A : 01 : 1* Grand

Grand Imperial

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Turning the Memory Protection Off

When the Nord Stage 2 is shipped from factory, the memory protect is

turned on to prevent you from accidentally overwriting any of the

original programs. This memory protect feature can be turned off by

toggling a setting located in the System menu.

1 Hold Shift and press the Program 1/System button below the

display.

2 Look in the display and scroll through the System Menu functions

with the Program Page 3/4 buttons until you see the Memory

Protect setting.

3 Change this setting to Off by turning the Value Dial.

4 Press Shift to exit the System menu.

Read more on the Menu settings, starting at “System Menu” on page 42.

Storing a Program

1 Press the Store button to the left of the LCD once, to initiate the

process of storing the edited program.

2 The Store LED will begin to ﬂash on and off and the display will

ask you for the location to where you want to store the program.

3 If you want to store the edited version in the same location, re-

placing the original, simply press Store again. If not, use the Bank,

Page and/or Program buttons to select a new location.

E The program which resides in the selected location will become

active on the keyboard to allow you to play it and verify that you

will not be overwriting something which is important to you.

4 When you have found a suitable location for your program, press

Store again to store your edited program.

M Press Shift/Exit once to abort an ongoing Store process if you

change your mind.

Read more about Store and Store As, renaming a program and assign-

ing it to a category in the Program chapter, on page 17.

Live Mode

Nord’s Live Mode feature provides you with ﬁve temporary program

buffers, any one of which will automatically save program edits for you

on the ﬂy without having to perform a Store operation.

1 If you press the Live Mode button to turn Live Mode on, all chang-

es to the panel settings you make will be continuously stored.

2 If you switch the power off, or select another program, the set-

tings you made are still stored in the 5 Live Mode programs, so

when you power up next time (or return to that particular Live

Mode program) all settings in that Live program will be exactly as

they were when you left them.

If the Live Mode is selected and you decide you wish to store the

settings permanently as a program instead, you can do so using the

standard methods (see above).

You can also store programs into anyone of the ﬁve Live Mode memory

locations, in which case the program settings will replace that current

Live Mode memory setting.

Press the Live Mode button again to exit the Live Mode and get back

to the normal Programs.

Activate an effect

1 Activate the reverb by pressing the Reverb

button.

2 Adjust the Dry/Wet balance with the knob

above the reverb selector.

3 Activate the Delay by pressing the Delay

source button once.

4 The indicator shows the instrument that is

routed to the effect. If the Piano source LED isn’t lit, press repeat-

edly on the delay source button until it is lit.

5 The two Value Encoders in the ef-

fect section control the rate/tempo

and the amount of the effect in

focus.

Memory Protect

O f f

A : 01 : 1 Grand

Grand Imperial

A : 01 : 1 Grand

Grand Imperial

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If you have more than one effect activated in a program, you can shift

the focus by pressing the Focus button between the encoders. Focus

will automatically be set when a new effect is activated.

 Hold Shift and press an effects source button repeatedly to

quickly cycle through the sources.

Activate another instrument

1 With the piano still active, press the On/Off button located below

the Synth Value Encoder. This will turn on the synthesizer and its

sound will be layered on top of the piano.

All the synthesizer parameters on the panel can be adjusted if you want

to edit the sound. An in-depth description of these parameters can be

found in the reference chapter, starting at page 29.

 To view a parameter setting without changing it, hold the Shift but-

ton and turn the parameter’s knob. The setting in the program will

be presented in the display.

The Slots

The Slot A and Slot B buttons below the Program buttons gives you

instant access to two complete setups of the features on the Stage 2’s

panel. You can have one complete Organ/Piano/Synth/Extern/Effects

setup on Slot A, and another complete setup on Slot B.

This allows you to switch in a seamless fashion between two different

sounds, or to create huge programs with organs, two different pianos,

two different synthesizers in layer or split keyboard setups. Let’s do a

split and then expand this with an additional layer combination.

 If you press and hold a Slot button, you can copy the settings of

any other Slot in the memory, by turning the Value Dial until you

ﬁnd the sound you wish to copy. Release the Slot button and the

settings of the selected source will be copied to the edit buffer. Do

not forget to save the new settings if you want to keep them in a

Program.

Create a Split

1 Make sure that only Slot A is active. Hold Shift and press the Bank

C/Piano Init button.

This activates the Piano and sets all the effects to be routed to the

Piano as well. Using an Init is a great way to quickly get a foundation

when you want to create a program.

2 Press the 2 KBD Zones button, located above the Value Dial.

This divides the keyboard into two zones, with the split indicated with

a green LED that lights up above the keyboard. Pressing the 3 KBD

button creates three zones with two split points, each indicated by a

green LED.

Set the Piano to the Upper zone

3 Hold Shift and press the Piano

Zone Select button repeatedly until

the UP-HI LED’s are lit and the LO

LED is off.

This assigns the Piano to the upper

zone of the keyboard. Feel free to use

the Octave Shift buttons if you want to

transpose the piano.

Set the Synth to the Lower zone

4 Hold Shift and press the

Synth Zone Select button until

the LO LED is lit and the oth-

ers are off. This will activate

the synth and assign it to the

lower half of the keyboard.

 Hold Shift and press repeatedly on the Set Lo or Set Hi Split but-

tons to move the split points.

A : 01 : 1 Piano

Imperial Large

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Load a Synth sound

1 Hold Shift and press the Load Synth button. Let go of the buttons.

This allows you to select any of the 300 synth patches that are stored

in the Synth memory area in the Nord Stage 2.

2 Turn the smaller Dial under the LED display in the Synth section to

select the sound you want. The sound will immediately become

active in the Synth.

3 Press Shift again to exit the Load Sound mode.

Create a Layer

Let’s add a third sound to the piano-synth split we’ve just created.

1 Activate Slot B by pressing

the Slot B button. This gives

you access to another set

of organ, piano, synth and

effects,

2 Hold Shift and press Bank D/

Synth Init.

This will activate the synthesizer,

and route all effects to the synth

for Slot B.

3 Hold Shift and press the Load Synth button, and use the Osc Dial

select a sound that could be appropriate to layer on top of the

piano-synth split.

Activate both Slots

4 Press and hold Slot B and

press Slot A to create the layer

with both Slots controlled by

the keyboard. Slot A will be

the split program and Slot B

will be layered on top.

The ﬂashing slot LED indicates

which slot is currently active for

editing on the panel. Press the

other slot button if you want to shift

this focus to the other slot.

Any combination of instruments, splits and layers is possible, with one

exception: you can use only one organ model for both Slots A and B

(B3, Vox or Farf), although you are still able to use separate and distinct

settings for that one organ model on the different slots (to create, e.g.,

a traditional dual-manual organ setup).

 The Extern section can also be part of a split or layer scenario,

e.g. if you wish to control an external unit from just one zone.

5 Turn off a Slot combination by holding the slot button you wish to

keep and press the other slot button.

The Morph

By setting up a Morph, you can use a physical controller like the Wheel,

an attached control pedal or the aftertouch on the keyboard to adjust

one or several parameters, while you are playing. Let’s try this out:

1 We will Morph the drawbars with

the wheel, so start by holding Shift

while pressing Bank B, the Organ

Init button.

2 Make sure that the B3 model is

active and “pull out” the ﬁrst three

drawbars on the left (Sub, Sub3 and

Fund) by pressing the correspond-

ing lower drawbar buttons.

If you need to push in a drawbar, use the

upper drawbar button.

3 Press and hold the

Wheel button in the

Morph Assign group,

above the display.

4 Pull out the four right-

most drawbars all the

way. The indicators

will show single LEDs

to indicate how much

the Morph will affect

the parameter.

5 Let go of the Morph

Wheel button. Play a

few notes or chords,

while moving the modulation wheel.

As the wheel moves, the drawbars are pulled out and the sound

changes accordingly.

 One Morph source (Wheel, Control Pedal or Aftertouch) can con-

trol several parameters at once.

 A Morph source can increase one parameter’s value while

decreasing the value of another at the same time. This makes it

possible, for example, to crossfade between instruments.

Read more about the Morph functionality on page 19.

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The Synthesizer

Let’s have a look at some of the features in the Stage 2 Synthesizer.

1 Hold Shift and press the

Bank D/Synth Init but-

ton above the display.

2 Press the Oscillator but-

ton until the sawtooth

waveform is selected.

3 Play some keys and

adjust the Freq dial in

the ﬁlter section.

4 Turn the Oscillator selector dial beneath Osc LED display to

audition the other waveforms that are in the sawtooth category.

5 Make sure that “dtn” is se-

lected; this is a dual sawtooth.

6 Turn the Oscillator Shape dial

to detune the two waveforms in

semitone steps.

M The Shape and the Freq dials

in the Synthesizer section have

the LEDs surrounding them,

which indicates that they can

be Morphed.

 The Shape parameter have different duties, depending on the

waveform selected. It controls for example the pulse width on

some of the pulse waveforms; on some other waveforms it has no

effect at all.

7 Press the Oscillator button until

Samp is selected. This is the

sample playback feature.

8 Select which sample by turning

the Oscillator dial.

This is the method to use if you

have added samples from the Nord

Sample Library or samples that you

have made yourself with the Sample

Editor.

Those samples are ﬁrst selected in the oscillator. Then you can use the

other synth parameters to sculpt the sound with the ﬁlter, envelopes

etc.

 You can store individual synthesizer sounds, by pressing Shift

and the Vibrato button. There are 300 memory locations for synth

sounds.

Arpeggio clinic

Are you ready for some action? Let’s try the Synth arpeggio.

1 Make sure that only the Synth section is turned on. Set the attack

times to 0, the decays to 250 ms, select a sawtooth waveform

and open up the ﬁlter a little bit. This will produce a percussive

sound.

Add some Mod Env control of the Filter Freq if you want to in-

crease the pleasure.

2 Press the Arpeggiator On/Off button, play a chord on the

keyboard and turn the Arpeggiator Rate knob. This will play the

notes you hold down, one after the other in a repeating fashion.

3 Keep holding the keys and press the Arpeggiator Direction/Range

button to select a different direction.

When no direction

LED is lit, the direc-

tion is Up, from the

lowest key and up

to the highest and

then it starts over

again. The other di-

rections are down,

up and down and

random.

4 Hold Shift and press the Arpeggiator button repeatedly to select

a range.

When none of the range-LEDs are lit, the range is exactly the keys

you hold down. A setting of 2 extends the range by transposing

the arpeggio one octave up and plays this octave after the initial

octave, 3 adds yet another octave and 4 adds four octaves to the

keys you play.

5 Press the Arpeggio Hold button if you want to lift your ﬁngers off

the keys and have the arpeggio continue to play.

There are some programs in the Factory setup that utilizes the arpeggio

with the synthesizer on its own or together with the other instruments

in the Stage 2 just watch for an “ARP” in a program’s name or the

Arpeggio category.

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Master Clock

Now that we have an arpeggio going, let’s try the Master Clock feature

to synchronize the arpeggio and to bring in an effect as well.

1 Hold Shift and press the Arpeggiator button to lock the arpeggio

to the Master Clock, the Mst Clk LED lights up.

Don’t worry if the music stops, we’ll have it back on again soon.

Keep those keys or sustain pedal down.

2 Hold Shift and press the Mst Clk button to dial in a tempo with the

Value Dial. The display will indicate the BPM. Set this to 120 BPM

for this exercise. Press Shift again to Exit.

 Tap four times on the Mst Clk button to set the tempo on the ﬂy.

3 Turn the Arpeggio rate knob to select the meter subdivision (or

note values) that the arpeggio should play, look in the LCD while

turning the knob. Notice how 1/4 are half the “speed “ of 1/8. T

after a numerical value indicates triplets. Set the subdivision to

1/8.

4 Turn on the delay and make sure that the Synth is the source to

the delay by pressing the source button repeatedly until the Synth

LED lights up.

If you carefully adjust the delay time, you could match it to ﬁt the

rhythm of the arpeggio, but there is another way. Let’s synchronize

the delay to the same clock as the arpeggio.

5 Hold Shift and press the Focus/Mst Clk button between the effect

dials, the Mst Clk LED lights up.

6 Turn the effect Rate/Tempo dial and look in the LCD to select the

subdivison for the delay.

7 Try 1/16, which will be half the note value or twice the “speed”

of the arpeggio. Turn up the Amount knob up to but not beyond

12 o’clock to hear the delay taps together with the arpeggiated

notes.

The arpeggio, the LFO on the synth, the delay and the 2 effects can be

synchronized to the Master Clock in this fashion.

And there is more, the Master Clock operates on both Slots simultane-

ously so you can control arpeggios, LFOs and effects on both Slot A

and B.

There are many subdivisions and combinations to try out, do not forget

to show yourself to your friends or family from time to time.

Some of the units have division settings that are larger than 1/1 that

allows for sweeps that are longer that one bar. And you can of course

synchronize some functions, while leaving others freewheeling if you

like.

This completes our brief tour of the Stage 2. We hope that you

now have the basic knowledge and the conﬁdence to operate

most of the functions on the front panel of your new instrument.

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The program section gives you access to performance functions such

as recalling and storing of programs, system/menu pages etc. The four

menus and their settings are covered in a separate chapter - starting

on page 42. We’ll explain the features in this chapter, starting with the

buttons in the program section’s lower left corner.

Transpose On/Set

You can transpose the Nord Stage 2 in semitone steps, with a range

of +6/-6 semitones. Hold the Transpose button and set the transposi-

tion by turning the Value Dial. Press the Transpose button again to

de-activate a transposition.

This feature is programmable; it will be saved and recalled as part of a

program.

Slot Buttons A & B

You have two independent Slots for each program; A and B. Each Slot

contains independent instances and settings of the three instrument

sections and effects.

Both Slots can be activated if you want to use two instruments of

the same type at the same time, like two Piano instruments or a Split

Organ setup (read more about this feature on page 18).

You activate both Slots by simultaneously pressing both slot buttons.

You have access to six instrument sections and eight effects sections

(Effect 1 & 2, Delay and AmpSim/EQ x 2) when both slots are active.

One of the Slot buttons will ﬂash to indicate edit “focus”, that is which

(of the two) Slot’s settings that are currently shown and available to be

tweaked. To switch edit focus to the other Slot, press the correspond-

ing Slot button. To get out of a dual slot situation, hold the button of the

slot that you wish to remain in focus and press the other one.

Copy settings from a slot

Press and hold one of the Slot buttons and turn the Value Dial. This

action allows you to copy the settings from another Slot to the current

Slot. The display will indicate which Slot of the Stage 2’s entire program

memory will be copied to the current Slot.

Mono Output

Hold Shift and press the Slot A/Mono Output button to set the outputs

of the all the Stage 2 sound sources and effects to mono. This is a

global setting, it will affect all the programs until it is deactivated or the

Stage 2 is turned off.

M Not all sound sources will be stereo just because the Mono

Output is not active. The organ is always mono source, as are

some of the pianos, and the synthesizer’s analog, FM and digital

waveforms. Samples may be in stereo.

M Routing a stereo sound source to a mono effect will produce a

mono output. Read more in the Effects chapter on mono and

stereo effects.

Dual KB

The Dual KB feature allow you to control Slot B with an external MIDI

keyboard, connected to the MIDI Input on the Stage 2.

The Stage 2 keyboard will control Slot A and the external keyboard will

control Slot B. It is not possible to activate both Slots to be played by

the Stage 2’s keyboard in this mode.

This feature is ideal for live situations when you have a second key-

board in your rig and would in certain circumstances like to use the

keyboard to play the Nord Stage 2 as a “second manual”.

Program Section

A : 01 : 1 Grand

Grand Imperial

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By activating Dual KB you can quickly switch between these modes

without having to bother with MIDI menus. Having this function easily

accessible on the front panel makes it simple to quickly enable and dis-

able the mode, effectively switching your external keyboard in and out

of the Stage 2’s internal sound engines.

Another advantage with the Dual KB mode is that you can access the

knobs and parameters for either panel from the Nord Stage 2, while the

internal keyboard is always playing Slot A, and the external keyboard

controls Slot B. For example, you can keep on playing Slot A with one

hand on the Stage’s keyboard while you simultaneously adjust the

drawbars played with the second keyboard on Slot B.

The Dual KB setting is saved with a Program, together with all other

Slot settings. This makes it easy to access any complicated keyboard

setup with the push of a button - ideal for live situations.

M The MIDI Channel for the Dual KB feature is set in the MIDI Menu

on the Stage 2. Read more on this on page 44.

Shift / Exit button

Many buttons have secondary functions that you can access by hold-

ing Shift and pressing the button. The Shift activated functions are

always printed below the corresponding button. For example, holding

Shift and pressing the Program 3 button will allow you to access the

MIDI Menu parameters.

In a few cases, the shift functionality can be achieved without holding

the Shift button, but instead by double-clicking a button. This works

primarily with Keyboard Zone selections and Effect source selections.

 Hold Shift and turn a knob to view the stored setting of a param-

eter in the display without changing the parameters value.

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

the Piano Type button) will cycle through the settings in a counter

clockwise fashion.

The Shift button also acts as an Exit button,

which can be used if you want to exit a

menu, or cancel a Store operation.

Live Mode

The special Live Mode can be described as “program memories that

automatically and always save everything”. If you activate the Live

Mode, all changes to panel settings you make will be continuously

saved. If you switch the power off, or select another program, the set-

tings are still stored in the Live memory location, so when you power

up next time (or return to that Live memory) all settings will be exactly

as you left them. Having 5 Live memory locations means that ﬁve inde-

pendent setups can be “saved” in this way.

If a 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 below).

You can also store Programs into the Live memory locations, in which

case the program settings will replace the current Live memory set-

tings. Note that when you store a program into either of the Live mem-

ory locations, the stored settings will be “transferred” to Live memory,

any changes you make will be stored continuously, and you will not be

able to revert back to the exact settings as they were when “stored”.

Program Buttons

The 5 Program Buttons give you immediate access to all the 5 pro-

grams in a selected Program Page.

What is a program?

A program basically stores everything (except System functions which

are mostly global). To understand the internal architecture in Nord

Stage 2, keep the following in mind:

•For each Slot, settings for all three Instruments, the four Effects,

and the Extern section are independent (except the choice of organ

model, which is always shared between the two slots).

•A program stores the settings for both Slot A and B, it contains in-

dependent settings for six instruments, eight effects, and two Extern

setups.

•A program also stores all settings from the Extern menu, except the

Extern A & B MIDI channels and the Send on Load setting (read

more on this in the Extern Menu chapter on page 45), and the output

routings for each instrument (read more on this on page 42).

•The Global effects (Compressor/Reverb) and the Rotary effect affect

both Panels, and the settings for these are stored with the program.

•Splits, layers (Keyboard Zones) and Morph assignments are also part

of a Program.

System, Sound, MIDI, Extern

The Program buttons are also used to enter the 4 menus, if you press

any of the ﬁrst four while holding the Shift button. The settings in the

menus are described in the Menu chapter that begins on page 42.

Panic

Hold Shift and press the 5th Program Button to execute an internal All

Notes Off message and reset of some of the performance parameters.

This can be used if notes gets stuck and sounds all the time during a

MIDI- or live performance.

Store, Store As….

The Store button is used when you want to store an edited program,

when you want to rename a program or when you want to change a

program’s category. Storing a program will overwrite the existing pro-

gram in the selected memory location.

M When the Nord Stage 2 is shipped from factory, Memory Protect

is set to “On”. To be able to store Programs, you need to change

this to “Off”, read more on how to do this on page 10. The Memory

Protect function does not affect the Live Mode memories.

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Storing a Program

To store a program without changing its name or category, proceed as

follows:

1 Press the Store button once. The Store button and the currently

selected program button indicator starts blinking, and the display

will read “Store to X: X : X” (the current Bank, Page and program

number), and the program name.

2 Next step is to select a Bank/Page/Program location to store the

edited program to. Use the Bank, Page and the Program buttons

to select a location, or browse by turning the Value Dial. You can

also store a Program to one of the 5 Live memories. The settings

in the programs that you browse will become active, which allows

you to verify by playing on the Stage 2 that it is safe to overwrite a

program.

E To cancel an ongoing Store operation, press Exit (Shift).

3 When you have found a location for your new Program, press

Store again to conﬁrm your intentions. The display conﬁrms with a

“Program Stored!” message for a short duration.

Naming a program

Naming a program and/or changing a program’s category is done with

the Store As… procedure:

1 Hold Shift and press the Store As... button once. The Store button

indicator starts ﬂashing, and the upper row in display will read

“Name”, the current category to the right and the current name on

the lower row.

2 Turn the Value Dial to change the category.

3 Press the Page 4button to move the cursor to the ﬁrst character

in the name.

4 Use one of the following methods to name your program:

•You can move the cursor position left or right by using the Program

Page buttons.

•When the cursor is at the position where you want to enter/change

a character, you can use the Value Dial to scroll through all available

characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, space and a hyphen “-”).

•By holding down Shift and pressing the Ins (Page 4) button, you

enter a blank space at the cursor position.

•By holding down Shift and pressing the Del (Page 3) button, you

erase the character at the cursor position.

•Alternatively, you can press and hold down the KB Zones 2 or 3

button. This will bring up the characters in the display with the focus

on the character the cursor was last on. Use the Value Dial to select

a character at the current cursor position. When you release the KB

Zone button the cursor automatically moves to the next position.

5 Press Store again and then use the same methods as outlined in

“Storing a Program” above to store your name with the program.

E To cancel an ongoing Store operation, press Exit (Shift).

 Naming Programs and setting categories can also be done with

the Nord Sound Manager.