Nord Electro 4D User Manual

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User Manual

Nord Electro 4d

OS Version 1.x

Part No. 50384 Copyright Clavia DMI AB Print Edition 1.1

CAUTION - ATTENTION

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

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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.

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PAS ENLEVER LE COUVERCLE.

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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 enclosure 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 a trademark of Clavia DMI AB. All other trademarks mentioned in this publication are the properties of their respective holders.

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Nord Electro 4D Table of Contents

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

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

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

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

USB Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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

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

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

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

4 Getting Started

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

Selecting programs . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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

Selecting pianos, samples . . . . 8

Using the Organ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Rotar y effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Memory Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Storing a program. . . . . . . . . . . . .10

The Live buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Octave Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Adding effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Activate a n ampliﬁ er emulat ion . . . . . . .10

The Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

5 Nord Electro 4D 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 /Drawb ar/Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Additio nal MIDI ke yboard . . . . . . . . . . .13

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

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

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

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

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

Clav EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Acousti cs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

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

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

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

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

Program section . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Up/Dow n buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Displa y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Live Mod e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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

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

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

Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

EQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Effec t 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Effec t 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Speake r/Comp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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

Delay / Re verb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Feedba ck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Ping Pong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Tempo Tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

6 The Menus

System Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

1 - Memor y Protect – O n, Off . . . . . . . . 17

2 - Output R outing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

3 - Transpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

4 - Fine Tune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

5 - Sustai n Pedal Pola rity . . . . . . . . . . .17

6 - Rotor Peda l Polarit y . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

7 - Sustai n Pedal Mod e. . . . . . . . . . . . .17

8 - Rotor Peda l Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

9 - Ctrl Ped al Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

10 - Ctrl Peda l Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

11 - Organ Trig Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

MIDI Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

1 - Local Co ntrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

2 - MIDI Inte rface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

3 - MIDI Cha nnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

4 - Lower Cha nnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

5 - Control C hange (CC ) Mode . . . . . . .18

6 - Progra m Change Mo de . . . . . . . . . .18

7 - MIDI Split M ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

8 - Dump On e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

9 - Dump Al l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

10 - Send CC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

B3 Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

1 - Tonewheel M ode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

2 - Key Click L evel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

3 - Key Bounc e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

4 - Perc. Fast D ecay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

5 - Perc. Slow D ecay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

6 - Perc. Nor m Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

7 - Perc. Sof t Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

8 - Perc Draw bar 9 Canc el . . . . . . . . . .19

Rotary Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

1- Rotary Mo del . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

2 - Balanc e Bass/ Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

3 - Treble Horn S peed. . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

4 - Bass Roto r Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

5 - Treble Horn A cceler ation . . . . . . . . .19

6 - Bass Roto r Acceler ation . . . . . . . . .19

7 Nord Sound Manager

System re quireme nts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

USB Dri ver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Sound Ma nager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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

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

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

Right-C licking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

File For mats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

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

Transfer pia nos to the Ele ctro 4D . . . . 22

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

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

Replac e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Relink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Downlo ad Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Upload s ounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Progra m Bundles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3

Upload a P rogram Bu ndle. . . . . . . . . . .24

Downlo ading a Bun dle . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Organi ze the progr am part ition . . . . . . 25

Search B ox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Auto Sele ct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Sound Manager reference . . . . 26

Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

File Me nu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Edit Men u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

View Me nu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Piano – Sa mp Lib - Prog ram - Synth . 29

Search B ox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Loc - Locat ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Categor y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Ver – Versio n Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Note. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0

Footer Ar ea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Parti tion Memo ry Indi cator . . . . . . . . . 30

Cancel B utton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Progres s Bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0

Messa ge/Text Ar ea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Updates a nd sound s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0

8 MIDI functions

About th e MIDI imp lementa tion . . . . . .31

Keyboar d velocit y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Progra m change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

MIDI Sys ex (System E xclusive) . . . . . . .31

With a sequencer. . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Conne ctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Local O n/Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

MIDI Cha nnel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Progra m Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Control lers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

About c ontrolle rs and “cha sing” . . . . . .31

Program and CC dumps . . . . . . 32

Sendin g program d umps . . . . . . . . . . 32

Sendin g MIDI Cont roller du mps . . . . . 32

Recei ve MIDI Sys Ex dumps . . . . . . . . 32

MIDI Con troller l ist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

MIDI Imp lementa tion Char t. . . . . . . . . 33

9 Index

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Introduction

Thank you!

We’d ﬁrst like to thank you for purchasing the Nord Electro 4D. 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 4D we have taken our commitment a step further by adding physical drawbars, upgrading the organ and the piano and the effects sections and also by the ability to use sampled instruments from the Nord Sample Library .

This allows us to for example include some of the fabulous Mellotron sounds in the factory sound bank. Each and every piano and sample in the Nord Electro 4D can be replaced by you, using the free Nord 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.

The physical drawbars and the improved B3 engine on the Electro 4D are the icing of a splendid cake. We sincerely hope that you two will have a lot of fun together!

OS and internal memory

The operating system, programs and pianos and samples in Nord Electro 4D 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 4D from a computer. The Nord Electro 4D 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 4D consists of 128 programs. In addition there is the Live buffer memories, 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 4D 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.

About this manual

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 4D in the very ﬁrst few pages of this manual. After that follows the reference section where all the functions are explained in detail.

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 4D.

OS upgrades

The latest OS version for Nord Electro 4D series is available for download at the www.nordkeyboards.com website.

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Overview

The front panel of the Nord Electro 4D 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, B3 and Rotary menu settings 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 14.

The Effect section contains the functions of the effects. Please refer to page 15 for more information.

The functions and settings of the System, MIDI, B3 and Rotary 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 4D.

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 on the Nord Electro4D allow you to sculpt the organ sound in real time. Their positions will be stored in the programs, for immediate access.

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Connections

CONTROL

PEDAL

ROTOR PEDAL

SUSTAIN

PEDAL

MIDI MIDI MONITOR RIGHT LEFT OUT

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 4D are unbalanced. Use ¼" connectors to connect the Nord Electro 4D to an ampliﬁer or recording equipment.

The Nord Electro 4D is a stereo instrument, with separate signal paths for the left and right audio channels. To properly experience the Electro 4D, use both outputs in a stereo operation.

ININOUT OUT MONOUSB

HEADPHONES

MIDI Connections

MIDI In

MIDI connection used to receive MIDI data to the Nord Electro 4D from other equipment such as keyboards or computers.

MIDI Out

MIDI connection used for sending keyboard and panel generated MIDI data from the Nord Electro 4D to other equipment such as sound modules or computers.

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 17.

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.

Monitor In

Use this to connect and monitor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at the Nord Electro 4D’s headphone output. This allows you to e.g. rehearse with the Electro 4D to pre-recorded music.

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

Electro 4D’s effects or appear at the Electro 4D’s left and right output jacks.

USB Connection

The USB connection is used for the Nord Electro 4D 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.

The Nord Electro 4D can also transmit and receive MIDI data via the USB interface, read more about this in the MIDI chapter.

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.

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Sustain Pedal

Pedal Connections

CONTROL

ROTOR

SUSTAIN

PEDAL

MIDI MIDI MONITOR RIGHT LEFT OUT

ININOUT OUT MONOUSB

HEADPHONES

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 17.

 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 page 17 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 controller for two of the effects: the P-wah and the ring modulator (RM).

The Nord Electro 4D has three pedal inputs; a sustain pedal, a pedal to control the rotor speed and a control pedal (an expression type pedal), which can be used to control various parameters.

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, Korg and Fatar) are pre-conﬁgured in the Nord Electro 4D, and you simply select the type of pedal which you want to use in the System menu, see page 17.

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Getting Started

Let’s take a few minutes to get familiar with the Electro 4D. 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.

4 Press the Up button to get to the next acoustic piano.

About the programs

Sound and effect settings are stored in the Program memory of the Nord Electro 4D. The Electro 4D organizes the memory in 32 pages with 4 programs in each page, making this a total of 128 programs.

Every program can be changed 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. This allows you to get back to the factory settings, should you wish to do so, using the Sound Manager. The chapter about the Nord Sound Manager begins with a separate tour, on page 22.

Selecting programs

Use the Up/Down buttons to the left of the LED display to select the page and the program buttons 1 ~ 4 to select the programs within each page. The page and program number will be displayed in the LED.

When the Electro 4D leaves the factory, the ﬁrst 16 or so pages are organized to make it easier for you to quickly check out sounds from speciﬁc instrument groups. The 1st programs in each page are organs, the 2nd programs are acoustic pianos, the 3rd program are electric pianos and the 4th programs are sample based instruments.

You can of course organize the programs in any order you want. Such a process can be done quite easily by using the drag and drop features in the Nord Sound Manager.

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.

Selecting pianos, samples

1 Press the Program 1 button to listen to a B3 organ program, 1.1.

2 Press the Up button to get

to the next organ program,

2.1. Keep pressing the Up button until you are ready for the next instrument group.

3 Press and hold the Down

button to get back to 1.1, and then the Program 2 button to listen to the acoustic grand on the 1.2 location.

1 Select a program where the Piano instrument is active. The LEDs

on the piano section and the Selector LED for the piano will be lit.

2 Press repeatedly

on the Piano Type selector to cycle through the types.

3 Press the Model

buttons to select the various piano models within the selected type.

4 Press the Type

selector again until the Samp Lib is activated.

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Use the Model selector buttons to select one of the samples that are included in the Electro 4D from the factory.

The Rotary effect

5 Press the Samp

Env button repeatedly.

This will cycle through the four options for the sample’s attack and velocity settings.

6 Press and hold

Shift and the Samp Env button.

The rotary effect adds some great sonic drama to the organs, but can of course be used with any other sound as well. The Electro 4D rotary has three available speeds: fast, slow and stop. Stop does not disengage the effect; it only stops the rotating speakers.

1 Make sure that the Speaker/Comp effect is

activated and select the Rotary by pressing the effect selector until both the upper LEDs are lit.

The drive knob now controls the overdrive of the rotary ampliﬁer.

This allows you to select one of the four available release time settings.

M This button doubles as the Clavinet EQ selector, when the Clavinet

type is active.

Using the Organ

1 Press the Organ instrument selector above the program 1 - 4

buttons.

This activates the Organ section.

2 Press the Organ Model selector on the left side of the panel,

below the master level knob, repeatedly to cycle through the three organs – the B3, Vox and Farﬁsa emulations.

The settings for the three organ instruments are made using the drawbars. The Farﬁsa uses these in a switching mode, with only two settings (on or off) for each.

3 Press the Drawbar button and make

a setting with the drawbars to change the sound. When the physical position of the drawbars matches the programmed setting in the program, the drawbar LED will be lit.

4 Press and hold Shift and the Drawbar/Split button.

This activates the organ split mode. The keyboard will be split at C4.

The lower half will use the Lo setting; the upper half will use the Up setting.

2 Press the Slow/Stop button in the Rotary

Speed section to the left on the panel, to cycle between the Fast and Slow speeds of the rotary.

The rotors will speed up and slow down, producing a nice swirly effect without the negative side effects that e.g. alcohol intake might induce.

3 Press the Stop mode button to activate this one-speed mode.

The Stop Mode LED will be lit.

4 Press repeatedly on the Slow/Stop button to cycle between Fast

and Stop.

The rotary will now emulate the functionality of an early, one speed original rotary speaker that had only the fast and the stopped rotary speed options.

 If you connect a foot switch to the rotor pedal input, you can

control the rotary speed with this pedal.

Memory Protection

When the Nord Electro 4D is shipped from factory, the memory protect is turned on to prevent you (or your cat) from accidentally overwriting any of the original programs. Before you can store any of your own programs, this memory protect feature has to be turned off by toggling a setting located in the System menu.

1 Hold Shift and press the Program 1 button to enter the System

Menu.

2 The very ﬁrst item in the System Menu is the Memory Protection.

Use the Down button to get to the ﬁrst item if this isn’t already active.

3 Hold Shift and press the Down button to switch from the On

setting to the Of setting.

 If you press and hold both the Shift and the Preset/Split buttons

for a couple of seconds, the Split LED will begin to ﬂash and you can press a key on the keyboard to set a new split point as long as these buttons are held down. The key you press will be the ﬁrst upper manual key.

4 Press shift to exit the system menu. The memory protection will

now remain in the Off setting until you change it again.

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Storing a program

If you are happy with a change to a program that you have made, you should probably store the program.

1 Press the Store button.

The program number in the LED starts ﬂashing.

2 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.

3 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.

Adding effects

1 Select the program number 1.2 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 the Flang 1 and Flang 2 LEDs are lit, you have selected the most dramatic ﬂanger 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.

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.

The Live buffer

The special Live buffers 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 in the active Live program (1-4). 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.

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.

Activate an ampliﬁer emulation

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

The Speaker/Comp LED will be lit.

2 Press repeatedly on the selector to cycle through the various options.

The knob controls the drive for the three amps and the rotary simulator, and the amount when the compressor is selected.

The Delay

1 Activate the delay/reverb.

2 Hold Shift and press the reverb selector

button. The Delay LED lights up.

3 Tap the desired tempo on the Tempo Tap

button.

4 You can also set the delay time by hold-

ing the Tempo Tap button and adjust the tempo with the Up/Down buttons.

5 Adjust the number of repeats (Dly1, Dly2

etc.) by pressing the selector button repeatedly.

This ﬁnishes our little tour; we hope that you now have the initial knowledge on how to operate most of the functions on the panel. There is another Quick Tour in the Sound Manager chapter.

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Nord Electro 4D Reference

Master level knob

This control sets the overall output level of the Electro 4D, at the line and the headphone outputs. This is not a programmable control. If you want to set an output level for a particular program, this can be achieved with the Gain control.

Organ section

Each drawbar represents a partial with a ﬁxed harmonic interval relating to the played note. Note that the 5 1/3 drawbar is a 5th above the fundamental harmonic although, in most situations it is perceived as sounding below the fundamental harmonic.

 Do not forget to try out the four tonewheel modes that are avail-

able in the B3 menu, see page 19. These will dramatically change the sound of the B3 model from squeaky clean to a battered, old work horse.

The Organ section in the Nord Electro 4D features emulations of three classic organ models; a B3, a Vox Continental II (Vx model) and a Farﬁsa Compact DeLuxe (Farf model).

Organ Model button

You select which organ model to use, with the Organ Model button.

The B3 model

This model is a digital simulation of the classic mechanical tone wheel organ. This simulation utilizes innovative and advanced methods to capture every nuance of the original sound, for example:

• An extremely accurate digital model of the original chorus and vibrato scanner.

• Modeling of the individual random contact bounces for each harmonic.

• Modeling of the unique frequency characteristics of the built-in preampliﬁer which forms the “body” of the sound.

• Simulation of the energy robbing in the tone wheel architecture that creates the typical “compressed” sound.

• Authentic tuning of the tone wheels according to the original design.

• Extremely fast keyboard response.

• Full polyphony.

The VX model

The original instrument is probably the most famous of all the transistor-based combo organs that emerged in the early 60’s. Transistor technology made it possible to manufacture much more compact and portable organ instruments. Compared to the mighty sound of tonewheel organs, transistor organs generally sounded reedier and weaker, but this one had a distinctive, timeless sound and is recreated faithfully in the Nord Electro 4D.

The labels used for the VX model drawbars are printed on the row directly above the drawbars. The drawbars on the Electro 4D’s VX emulation control the level of each available partial, in the same fashion as on a dual manual original Continental. The upper manual uses the 16, 8, 4, II and III registers and the lower manual uses the 8, 4, 2 and IV registers. Each register represents a ﬁxed harmonic interval, or groups of intervals (the II, III and IV) in a relationship to the played note.

The two rightmost drawbars control the sum of all partials in the form of a ﬁltered, soft and dark sounding signal (the sine icon), and an unﬁltered signal with a bright and intense sound (the triangular icon).

M If these drawbars are both fully set to the lowest level, the organ

will produce no sound.

The Farf model

This typical “buzzy” sound of this vintage instrument is one of the most distinct and easily recognizable organ sounds ever created, yet it is actually possible to get quite a wide range of sounds out of the instrument.

The labels used for the Farf model drawbars are printed on the upper row above the drawbars.

The drawbars act as on/off switches, or “Register selectors” when the Farf model is selected.

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Rotary Speed

The rotary speaker speed is controlled with the rotary speed buttons or with an external pedal connected to the rotor pedal input on the rear panel.

Press the Slow/Stop button to change the rotation from Slow to Fast and vice versa.

To stop the rotors, press the Stop Mode button to activate the Stop Mode and then the Slow/Stop button (this does not deactivate the Rotary Speaker simulation - it only stops the rotors). When you press the Slow/Stop button again the rotors will accelerate to the Fast speed setting. This functionality mimics the behavior of an early, one speed original rotary speaker.

A connected pedal can be set to change the speeds only when it is held down or to function like a switch, changing the speed every time you press it. This functionality is set in the System menu, read more on this on page 17.

M The actual rotary simulation is activated at the Effects section, with

the Speaker/Comp selector.

Vibrato/Chorus

The Vibrato/Chorus section mimics the behavior of the original organs, which means that these parameters functionality depends on which model is active. Select the desired vibrato or chorus type by repeatedly pressing the Mode button. The Vibrato/Chorus section is common for both the upper and lower presets, if the split function is active.

B3 – The original tonewheel organ’s vibrato and chorus scanner consists of a tapped delay line in combination with a rotating scanner. For the Vibrato effect, phase shift is applied to the signal. For the Chorus effect, a phase modulated signal is added to the original signal. Three different types of choruses (C1- C3) and three different types of vibratos (V1-V3) are available.

VX - There is only one type of vibrato available for the VX model, which is activated using the ON button in the Vibrato section.

Farf - This model has two basic vibrato modes; “Light” and “Heavy”, with two different rates for each mode.

Percussion

The Percussion effect adds extra attack to the B3 sound by having a single envelope generator controlling either the 2nd or the 3rd harmonic. The envelope “opens up” for a short moment in the beginning of the sound when you press the key(s). The percussion will only affect the upper manual if the Split function is active.

The Percussion is a single-triggered non-legato effect. It is only present when you hit the keys when no other note is sounding. In other words, if you play a note or a chord and then add on more notes without releasing the previously pressed keys, there will be no percussion effect in the new notes. You have to release all keys to be able to play new notes with the percussion effect.

The percussion effect is activated and deactivated by pressing the On button. The Soft/Fast button toggles between normal or soft percussion levels and fast or slow decay times, providing four available combinations. The Third button toggles between using the 2nd or 3rd partial as the source for the percussion effect. The percussion decay times (and levels) can be ﬁne-tuned for Fast and Slow mode individually. Please refer to the B3 Menu on page 19 for details.

M With the original instrument, you could not use the percussion

effect and 9th drawbar simultaneously. However with the Nord Electro 4D you have a choice. You can use the percussion and 9th drawbar together or chose to mimic the original organ behavior by turning off the 9th drawbar whenever the percussion is activated. Read more on the Perc Drawbar 9 setting in the B3 menu on page 19.

Preset/Drawbar/Split

Use the Preset/Lo and Drawbar/Up buttons to store and recall two separate organ settings for each program.

When Preset is active (the LED lit), the drawbar settings in the preset will be used, and the drawbars on the panel will not affect the sound. This allows you to use one setting, and prepare the drawbars on the panel with a new setting to which you can change during the performance.

M B3 Presets will store the Chorus/Vibrato and Percussion settings.

Vox and Farﬁsa Presets will not store the Vibrato settings, these are however stored in the program.

When Drawbar is active, the LED will be lit only if the physical position of the drawbars on the panel matches the settings in the program. If both the Preset and Drawbar LEDs are off, this indicates that the drawbars are active but the position on the panel does not match the settings stored in the program. As soon as you move a drawbar on the panel, the sound will change to reﬂect that drawbar’s position.

Hold Shift and press the Preset/Lo button to save the current drawbar setting on the panel as the Preset. This preset then has to be stored in the program as well. Edit the settings of the Preset by holding the Preset button while adjusting the drawbars.

Press the Shift and the Split button to divide the Nord Electro 4D keyboard in two sections, the Lower and the Upper Manual sections. By default, the split point on the keyboard is between the keys B3 and C4. You can, however, also set the split point manually by holding both the Shift and Split buttons, the split LED starts to ﬂash, then while still holding the buttons, press the desired key. A set split point is saved as part of the parameters in a program.

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Additional MIDI keyboard

You can connect an additional MIDI keyboard to the Electro 4D to use the organ in a dual manual fashion, with the external keyboard operating as the lower manual.

1 Connect the external MIDI keyboard’s MIDI out to the Electro 4D’s

MIDI in.

2 Set the MIDI channel of the external keyboard to the channel that

is set in the MIDI menu, the Lower Channel setting.

The default Lower MIDI channel in the Electro 4D is “2”.

3 Select the #7 MIDI Split option in the MIDI Menu and set this to

On.

Read more on how to change settings in the MIDI Menu on page 18.

4 Press and hold Shift and the Split button.

This will activate the organ split mode, but since MIDI Split is set to On, the Electro 4D’s keyboard will only play the upper part without being split.

Adjust the drawbars for the lower, external keyboard when the Preset/ Lo LED is lit and for the Electro 4D’s keyboard when the Drawbar/Up LED is lit.

Clavinet sound

On an original Clavinet D6 you can select different pick-up and ﬁlter combinations by pressing a number of rocker switches. This functionality is very faithfully simulated in the Nord Electro 4D, which means that you get all the possible original Clavinet D6 sound variations (plus an additional four) by selecting different pick-up and ﬁlter combinations. Here’s how it works:

Pick-up type

A Clavinet D6 has two separate pick-ups, one on the “neck” and one on the “bridge”. By selecting either one pick-up or both in different combinations you can alter the character of the sound quite drastically. When the Clavinet is selected in the Nord Electro 4D, you use the Model button in the Piano Select section to select one of the four pick-up variations:

Pick-up Type Description

Clav Model 1 (CA) Only the “neck” pick-up; a warmer, less bright sound.

Clav Model 2 (CB) Only the “bridge” pick-up; a bright sound. Clav Model 3 (DA) Both pick-ups on and in phase; a very full sound. Clav Model 4 (DB) Both pick-ups 180 degrees out of phase; the

fundamental is almost cancelled out and the sound becomes thin.

The drawbars

The drawbars of Nord Electro 4D behave just like to their mechanical counterparts. With the B3 and VX models you pull out and push in the drawbars to make the settings. The Farf model uses the drawbars as on/off switches..

Piano section

The pianos in the Nord Electro 4D are divided into six different types; each type can contain several instrument models. You can freely add new piano instruments and samples via USB using the Nord Sound Manager utility (see “Nord Sound Manager” on page

20).

Right out of the box, Nord Electro 4D features a ﬁne collection of carefully selected acoustic and electromechanical pianos, harpsichords and sampled instruments. A lot of effort was put in to ensure that the response and sound of the sampled instruments matches every nuance of the real article. Each piano instrument has been multi sampled in a vast amount of velocity levels. That’s one reason why they all sound and feel so authentic.

Clav EQ

The Clav EQ button works as ﬁlter selectors. By selecting different combinations of the Brilliant/Treble and Medium/Soft ﬁlter indicators you can reproduce all 15 possible ﬁlter variations, exactly like on the original D6. Use the Shift button together with the Clav EQ button to access the Med and Soft settings.

Acoustics

Activating the Long Release feature will add a slightly longer release to an acoustic or electric piano. This is equivalent to what happens when you adjust the damper tension in an acoustic or an electromechanical instrument.

M If a piano is selected that isn’t compatible with the Long Release

feature this feature will be disabled. Only pianos of version 5.2 or later are Release compatible.

Turn String Resonance on when you want to include the pedal-down samples in an acoustic piano sound. These samples will then be used when you play and activate the sustain pedal, with a very rich sound.

M The Sml-sized pianos do not include the string resonance

samples.

Hold Shift and press the Acoustics button to playback a selected stereo piano in mono.

The Piano section also includes the ability to use samples from the Nord Sample Library, like the Mellotron or Chamberlin sounds that have been licensed by Clavia.

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Samp Env

When the Samp Lib type is active, the Samp Env LEDs and button can be used to set a desired velocity response and attack and release time behavior that affects the playback of the samples.

When none of the Attack LEDs are lit, the sample playback is not affected by any additional attack from the Electro 4D and it does not respond to keyboard velocity. Slow At – select this when you want to play the samples with a slower attack. Vel Dyn - select this when you want to control the volume and the timbre of the samples with velocity from the keyboard. When both LEDs are lit, both the slow attack and the velocity option are active.

Program section

The Program section is where you select the program, where the Store functions are activated and where you enter the System, MIDI. B3 and Rotary menus. The 128 programs in the Electro 4D are organized in 32 pages with 4 programs in each page.

Press and hold the Shift button and operate the Samp Env button to set the desired release times. When none of the Release LEDs are lit, the sample playback is not affected by any additional release.

Rel 1: Short release Rel 2: Medium release Rel 1&2: Long release

Piano Type

Use the Type selector to choose which piano sound you want to use. Each type may consist of several models; press repeatedly on the model selector to cycle through the models within a selected type.

Category Description

Grand Acoustic and electric grand pianos

Upright Upright pianos

E Piano 1 Electric pianos with tines

E Piano 2 Electric pianos with reeds

Clav/Hps Clavinets and Harpsichords

Samp Lib Samples

Model

Press repeatedly on the model selector to cycle through the available models within a selected type.

M The type of a piano has been set by Mo’ Bones, the company

pitbull. You cannot move a piano from one type to another.

Up/Down buttons

The Up/Down buttons to the left of the display have several functions in the Nord Electro 4D. Press repeatedly to select one of the 32 pages; the page and program number be presented in the display. Press Shift together with Up/Down to scroll through every location (1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc).

If you have activated any of the four menus, the System, MIDI, B3 or Rotary menus, these buttons are used to select a function, and together with the Shift button to change the value of a selected function. Read more about the menus on page 17.

Display

The LED display will show the active program number. If you edit a program, a dot will appear next to the program number, at the bottom right of the display.

If you have activated any of the menus, the setting for each menu item is shown with the LEDs.

Store

The red Store button is used when storing Programs.

1 Press the Store button once and the current program number will

start to ﬂash.

2 Select the desired location with the Up/Down buttons and press

Store again to conﬁrm your intentions and to store the current settings to the selected location.

3 Press any button to abort the store procedure.

M In order to be able to store settings the Memory Protection must

be turned off. Read more about this in “Memory Protection” on page 9.

Live Mode

In addition to the program memories, there are 4 Live locations in the Electro 4D that automatically saves the changes you make to the settings. The 4 Program Buttons are used to access the Live locations when the LIve LED is lit.

If you press the Live button, all changes to panel settings you make will be continuously saved in the “Live Buffer”. 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 you left them.

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Instrument selectors

Press one of the Instrument Selectors to use either the organ or the piano/sample sounds.

 Only the active section will have its corresponding functions lit

and active. It is however possible to e.g. perform with the pianos, and adjust the organ settings, and then quickly activate these by pressing the organ instrument selector.

Shift

Many buttons have a second function, when there is text printed below the button. You access these additional functions and parameters by holding Shift while pressing a button.

Octave Shift

The two Octave Shift buttons can be used to transpose the keyboard two octaves up or down (if the selected instrument supports this). Two Octave Shift LEDs that are lit at the right or left position indicates +/- 2 octaves shift.

 Press and hold Shift and press the Effect selector to cycle through

the effects in a counter clockwise fashion.

This is a 3-band EQ with treble, bass and a sweepable midrange. The frequency ranges can be boosted/attenuated with +/- 15 dB.

Effect 1

Effect 1 offers four different types of effects: Tremolo, Auto-Panning, 2 types of Wah-Wah and a ring modulator (RM).

The tremolo and the auto-panning have 3 selectable depths. Pan1 is less dramatic than Pan2, and Pan 3 (both Pan LEDs lit) is the most dramatic.

The Rate knob control the rate of the effect.

The A-Wa is a wah-effect where a lowpass ﬁlter sweep across the frequency range is controlled by the volume of the signal. This means that you can use the velocity on the keyboard to control the amount of “Quack!” in the sound. The Rate knob sets the frequency range of the sweep.

The P-Wa uses the Rate knob to control a lowpass ﬁlter sweep across the frequency range. If a control pedal is connected, this sweep is instead controlled by the pedal action, and the Rate knob will then have no effect.

Each instrument in Nord Electro 4D has a ﬁnite note range:

• The Organ extends one octave below and one octave above an 88 note keyboard range.

• The Piano and Samples extends one octave below an 88 key range, but not above.

Effects

The Effects section of Nord Electro 4D can be used for processing the organ and piano/sample sounds. It is programmable and you can conﬁgure your effects separately for each program.

 You have the possibility in every program, to store the on or off

setting of the effects, also for the instrument not being used as the active in the program. This allows you to quickly change from for example a piano performance with some effects turned on, to an organ performance with another set of effects turned on, by just pressing the appropriate instrument selector.

Ring Modulation (RM) is a an effect that multiplies two signals with each other. In the Electro 4D, these are the instrument audio signal and a modulation sine wave. The results can be range from a subtle coloring to screaming, inharmonic, bell type sounds. The Rate knob controls the frequency of the sine wave, also perceived as a “modulation rate”.

A connected control pedal will control the amount of the ring modulation. If no control pedal is connected, the amount defaults a medium setting and the Rate knob can be used to produce a manually controlled ring modulation effect.

Effect 2

Effect 2 offers three types of modulation effects: Phaser, Flanger and Chorus.

Each of these effects has 3 selectable depths in the same fashion as the tremolo and pan in the Effects 1 section. The Rate knob control the rate of the effect.

Speaker/Comp

This section contains the speaker/amp emulations, the rotary speaker emulation and a compressor.

Small, JC and Twin emulates three different kinds of ampliﬁer and speaker cabinets. The amount of drive is controlled by the Speaker/ Comp knob .

Rotary simulates a rotary speaker including its built-in ampliﬁer. The knob sets the amount of overdrive of the rotary ampliﬁer; the speed of the rotating speaker is set with the rotary speed controls on the left side of the panel.

Comp is a compressor that will even out the dynamics of what you play, making low level sounds louder and high level sounds lower in volume. This produces a tight, punchy sound and makes the overall level easier to control in a live mix situation. When this effect is active, the Drive/Comp knob controls the amount of compression applied.

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Reverb

The Reverb section simulates the natural sound reﬂections in various acoustic environments. You can choose between ﬁve reverb types with various lengths and densities, indicated by the three LEDs that light up one or two at a time. The Dry/Wet knob sets the balance between the unprocessed and the processed signal.

Delay / Reverb

The Delay effect produces echo effects. The Delay time is set with the Up/Down buttons (20 – 750 ms) while you hold the Tempo Tap/Set button.

The Dry/Wet knob adjusts the balance between the dry signal and the delay repeats.

Feedback

Press the Delay/Reverb button repeatedly to set the feedback, the number of delay repeats. There are 5 feedback settings, indicated by the Dly 1-3 array of LEDs

Ping Pong

Holding Shift and press the Tempo Tap button to light up the Ping Pong indicator, will make the delay repeats alternate between the left and right channels. If short delay times are used, these repeats will be “asymmetrical” and produce delays that are more like early reﬂections in reverb units.

Tempo Tap

You can use Tap Tempo to set a delay time matching the tempo of a song. Simply tap the Tap Tempo button in the tempo you wish the delay to sync to a number of times, and the delay time will be adjusted automatically. As long as the Tap Tempo LED is lit, the tempo is calculated - wait until it goes dark to tap in another tempo. A numerical indication of the delay time will be brieﬂy shown in the LED.

Gain

This is the programmable Gain control which allows you to adjust the output level of each of the individual programs.

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The Menus

Any settings that you change in the System, MIDI, B3 or Rotary menu will take immediate effect on a global basis, and will be stored until you change them the next time. Enter the menus by pressing and holding Shift and the System, MIDI, B3 or Rotary button (Prog 1, Prog 2, Prog 3 or Prog 4). Select a function with the Up/Down buttons and change the setting by pressing and holding Shift and the Up or Down button. Exit the menus by pressing a second time on the Prog 1, 2, 3 or 4 button.

M The only exception to this is the MIDI Local On/Off setting which always reverts to Local On every time the Electro 4D is powered on.

6 - Rotor Pedal Polarity

System Menu

1 - Memory Protect – On, Off

This is set to “On” when the Nord Electro 4D leaves the factory, meaning that you cannot store any changes to the programs. Set this to Off when you wish to store your own programs. The System, MIDI, B3 or Rotary menu settings and the Live memory are not protected by this setting.

Range: On (default), off

2 - Output Routing

If you want to process your sound using external effects or separate ampliﬁer systems, it can be convenient to route organ and piano sounds to separate outputs of the Nord Electro 4D.

Range: St - Stereo Output. All instruments use the left and right outputs (default setting).

Sb - Split Output. Tonewheel organ is routed to the left output. Vx and Farf organs and pianos/samples are routed to right output.

SO - Separated Output. All organs are routed to left output, pianos/samples are routed to the right output.

3 - Transpose

Transpose allows you to globally transpose the pitch of the Electro 4D up or down in semitone steps.

Range: -/+ 6 semitones (default = 0).

This allows you to change the polarity of a sustain type pedal connected to control Rotor Speed, in case the functionality of your pedal is reversed (i.e. when the pedal is up, Rotor Speed is fast and vice versa).

Range: CL - Close (default), OP - Open.

7 - Sustain Pedal Mode

If you’re using a single sustain pedal connected to the Sustain Pedal input you may want to use it for sustain with piano sounds and as a Rotor Speed switch with organ sounds. In this case, select “rt” (rotor toggle) with the Up/Down buttons.

If you’re using two separate sustain pedals: one in the Sustain Pedal Input and one in the Rotor Speed Input you probably want to use the sustain pedal in the Sustain Pedal input for sustain also when using Organ sounds. In this case, select ‘SU’ (sustain).

Range: SU (default), rt.

8 - Rotor Pedal Mode

If you are using a sustain pedal connected to control Rotor Speed this allows you to set how this should operate. “Hold” means that the Rotor Speed is fast for as long as the pedal is down and reverts back to slow when the pedal is released (or vice versa depending on the set pedal polarity).

“Toggle” means that the fast/slow rotor speed is switched each time you activate the pedal, like an on/off switch pedal.

Range: Hd - Hold, (default), tO - Toggle.

4 - Fine Tune

This allows you to ﬁne tune the pitch of the Nord Electro 4D.

Range: +/- 50 cent (default = 0).

5 - Sustain Pedal Polarity

This allows you to change the polarity of a connected sustain pedal, in case the functionality of your pedal is reversed (i.e. when the pedal is up, sustain is on and vice versa).

Range: CL - Close (default), OP - Open.

9 - Ctrl Pedal Type

The Electro 4D accepts many of the most commonly available control pedals the Ctrl Pedal input. Select a setting here that matches the pedal that you use.

 If you operate a connected pedal while this option is active, a

percentage will be displayed from 0 to 100 to indicate the range of the connected pedal. This can be used to ﬁnd a suitable setting for a pedal this isn’t directly supported.

Range: r5 - Roland EV-5, (default) , r7 - Roland EV-7, y7 - Yamaha FC-7, ko - Korg (EXP-2 & XVP-10), Ft - Fatar (& Studiologic VP/25)

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10 - Ctrl Pedal Mode

A connected control pedal can be used to control several things. It can be used as a solitary organ swell pedal (swell is a combination of volume and frequency control), as a combined organ swell/volume pedal for the samples, and ﬁnally as a swell/volume pedal for all the instrument sections (incl. the pianos) in the Nord Electro 4D.

Range: O – Organ swell (default), S – Organ swell/sample volume, P - Organ swell/sample volume, piano volume

M A connected control pedal will always be active if the P-Wa or the

RM effect is activated, regardless of the Ctrl Pedal Mode setting.

11 - Organ Trig Mode

This allows you to change how the Nord Electro 4D keyboard triggers the organ sounds. When “Fast/High” is selected, you will trigger the organ sounds before the key reaches the end of its travel. This mode closely mimics the way a vintage tonewheel organ trigger its notes.

Range: HH - High (default), LO - Low

High trigger point Low trigger point

4 - Lower Channel

This sets the MIDI channel that the Lower Manual of the Nord Electro4D organ section responds to when the organ split and the MIDI split modes are active.

Range: 1-16, OF - off (default = 2)

5 - Control Change (CC) Mode

This setting speciﬁes how the front panel’s knobs and buttons are handled in the MIDI communication with MIDI Control Change messages. You can select if the panel controls and functions should either send or receive, or both or if Control Change messages should be ignored.

Range: Sr (send & receive - default), r (receive only), S (send only), Off

6 - Program Change Mode

Speciﬁes how the Nord Electro 4D should handle MIDI Program Change messages.

Range: Sr (send & receive - default), r (receive only), S (send only), Off

7 - MIDI Split Mode

If MIDI Split mode is On and the Organ is set to a split operation, the lower manual will be exclusively controlled via incoming MIDI information to the Electro 4D’s MIDI input. If you connect an external MIDI keyboard, the Electro 4D can then be used in a dual manual fashion.

Range: On, Off (default)

MIDI Menu

1 - Local Control

This allows you to set if the Nord Electro 4D keyboard and front panel controls should control internal Programs or only send note and controller messages via MIDI. Local On is the normal “mode”. In Local Off mode, the front panel and keyboard action are transmitted via MIDI only and does not control the internal sound(s) directly.

Range: On (default), Off

M Local defaults back to mode On every time the Nord Electro 4D is

powered on.

2 - MIDI Interface

Use this setting to chose if you want to use the MIDI interface on the DIN connectors or the USB-MIDI functionality.

Range: P - DIN MIDI ports, U USB-MIDI (default)

3 - MIDI Channel

This sets the MIDI Channel that the Nord Electro 4D transmits and responds to.

Range: 1-16, OF - off (default = 1)

8 - Dump One

This allows you to perform a MIDI SysEx dump of the currently selected Program. Press the Store button to perform the dump.

9 - Dump All

This allows you to perform a MIDI SysEx dump of all the Programs in the Electro 4D. Press the Store button to perform the dump.

In the MIDI chapter, on page 32 is a description on how the Electro4D receives a Sys Ex dump.

10 - Send CC

You can perform a dump of all the active Program’s parameters as MIDI Control Change messages. Press the Store button to perform the dump

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B3 Menu

1 - Tonewheel Mode

Sets the level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artifacts of the B3 organ model.

M The Vintage 3 mode will create noises from the B3 model even if

you don’t play any keys.

Range: u3 – Vintage 3, u2 - Vintage2, u1 - Vintage1, Cl – Clean

2 - Key Click Level

This sets the amount of Key Click for B3 organ model.

Range: H2 - Higher, HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO - Low

3 - Key Bounce

This turns on or off the Key Bounce feature. When this is on, the key off click can be accentuated if the key is released quickly.

Range: On (default), Off

4 - Perc. Fast Decay

Sets the fast mode decay time of the Tonewheel percussion effect.

Range: Ln - Long, nO - Normal (default), SH - Short

Rotary Menu

1- Rotary Model

There is one rotary model available, with two separate microphone positions. The 122 is modeled with the microphones placed traditionally a bit away from the speaker. The 122 Close have the microphones placed closer to the cabinet.

Range: nO - 122 (default), CL - 122 Close

2 - Balance Bass/Horn

This parameter allows you to adjust the balance between the two separate microphone setups for the bass rotor and treble horn.

Range: H2 - 30 bass/70 horn, H1 - 40/60, nO - 50/50 (default), b1 - 60 bass/40 horn, b2 - 70/30

3 - Treble Horn Speed

Sets the speed setting (in the fast and slow speed modes) of the rotary speaker simulation’s treble horn.

Range: HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO - Low

4 - Bass Rotor Speed

Sets the speed setting (in the fast and slow speed modes) of the rotary speaker simulation’s bass rotor.

Range: HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO - Low

5 - Perc. Slow Decay

Sets the slow mode decay time of the Tonewheel percussion effect.

Range: Ln - Long, nO - Normal (default), SH - Short

6 - Perc. Norm Level

Sets the level of the percussion effect in its normal setting.

Range: HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO – Low

7 - Perc. Soft Level

Sets the level of the percussion effect in its soft setting.

Range: HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO – Low

8 - Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel

If this is set to cancel, the 9th drawbar will be muted when the percussion is activated, to mimic the behavior of an original organ.

Range: C – Cancel, nO – Normal (default).

5 - Treble Horn Acceleration

Sets the acceleration and retardation time of the rotary speaker simulation’s treble horn.

Range: HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO - Low

6 - Bass Rotor Acceleration

Sets the acceleration and retardation time of the rotary speaker simulation’s bass rotor.

Range: HI - High, nO - Normal (default), LO – Low

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Nord Sound Manager

The Nord Sound Manager is the application that allows you to organize the various memory areas, the partitions in the Nord Electro 4D. It is also used to download pianos or programs to the Nord Electro 4D or to upload any of these items - called sounds - from the Nord Electro 4D memory to the computer hard drive. The Nord Sound Manager provides access to various methods to download the sounds to the unit and a function to backup and restore the entire Nord Electro 4D memory.

System requirements

The Nord Sound Manager is compatible with computers running Mac OSX 10.4 or later, Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. If you run the Nord Sound Manager on a Windows computer, you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 3.0 or later installed.

M Nord Electro 4D OS Updates, USB drivers and instructions on how to install these are available at the www.nordkeyboards.com website and

on the DVD that accompanies this unit.

Installation

USB Driver

M Mac OSX users may skip this section.

The USB driver can be installed automatically if the computer is connected to the internet when the Nord unit is connected to it. You can then allow Windows to search for the driver. Here is how to make a manual driver installation:

1 If you use a Windows computer (XP, Vista or W7), locate the Cla-

via USB Driver v3.x Setup on the DVD that accompanies the unit and double click on this ﬁle.

2 Follow the instructions on the screen.

3 After the ﬁles have been installed, the driver will be activated when

you connect the Nord unit. Do this by connecting a USB cable between the Nord instrument and your computer.

4 When the Nord unit is connected to the computer, the driver will

be automatically activated and a conﬁrmation will appear in the notiﬁcation area in the Windows task bar.

Sound Manager

1 Windows users: Open the Nord Sound Manager folder on the

DVD, launch the “Nord Sound Manager v6.x Setup” and follow the instructions. The Nord Sound Manager can be accessed from the start menu when the installation procedure is ﬁnished.

Overview

You can manage the contents of the Piano, the Sample. the Program and the Synth partitions. These are accessed from the tabs.

If no Nord Electro 4D is connected to the computer, pages, icons and memory locations will be grayed out.

E The actions that take place in the Nord Sound Manager will affect

the memory in the Nord Electro 4D. The Manager is on-line with a connected Nord Electro 4D at all times; any changes that you perform in the Manager will immediately be executed in the Nord Electro 4D. If you for example delete a piano or a Program from the list in the Nord Sound Manager, that same sound will also be deleted from the Nord Electro 4D’s memory.

2 Mac OSX users: Open the Nord Sound Manager folder on the

DVD, double-click on the “Nord Sound Manager 6.x.dmg” and then drag the Nord Sound Manager application from the virtual hard drive to your “Applications” folder.

E The ﬁles mentioned for the driver and application installations can

also be downloaded from the www.nordkeyboards.com website. Please visit our website from time to time to check for any Sound Manager updates.

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The Toolbar

The Toolbar gives you direct access to some of the more frequently used functions in the Nord Sound Manager. Clicking on an icon will activate one of these functions, and a dialogue will often appear asking for conﬁrmation or further instructions from you.

The Tabs

Select the partition that you wish to work in with the Tabs. The Piano tab allows you to change the content of the piano partition, the Samp LIb tab allows you to access the sample partition and the Program tab allows you to organize the programs. The individual pianos, samples or programs will be referred to as “sounds” in this manual and in the application itself.

 Press Ctrl+Tab on the computer keyboard to cycle between the

tabs.

The lists can be ordered according to location, name, size, version and date, in ascending and descending order. Just click on a headline to select a preferred view.

Replace (Pianos & Samples)

This feature makes it possible to replace a piano or a sample in the unit with another piano or sample from your hard drive. The process will update all the programs that used the former piano/sample, to use the new one after the replacement has been carried out.

Relink (Programs)

Use the Relink feature if you want one or several selected programs to use another piano or sample instead of the current sound. The sound in question have to be present in the memory of the Nord unit. Relinking can also be used if a piano or sample is absent in the Nord unit, to repair the programs that are missing a component.

Rename

This allows you to rename, and assign a category to a Program. Characters supported are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and a hyphen (-) and the name can contain up to 16 characters. Any other characters will not be displayed in the Sound Manager lists.

M Pianos or samples cannot be renamed, this option will not be

available if you right-click on any of these.

Delete

This will delete the selected sound(s) from the Nord Electro 4D memory.

Partition Memory Indicator

The memory indicator at the bottom of the window indicates how much memory is being used in the selected partition. The dark area shows the used memory, the bright indicates space that is available for new sounds.

Right-Clicking

If you right-click on a sound, a context menu will provide the following options:

Select in Instrument

This will select the chosen sound in the Manager list, to be instantly accessible on the Nord Electro 4D.

Upload

This will upload the selected sound from the Nord Electro 4D to the computer hard drive to a folder of your choice.

Upload To Bundle (Programs)

This will upload the selected program(s) and any piano and/or sample that this program uses, to a Program Bundle ﬁle on the hard drive. Bundles are explained in greater detail on page 23.

File Formats

The Nord Sound Manager creates and/or uses ﬁles with the Nord Electro 4D, with the following extensions:

• .npno - These are the piano ﬁles from the Nord Piano Library.

• .nsmp - These are the sample ﬁles from the Nord Sample Library.

• .ne4p - These are the Electro 4D Program ﬁles.

• .ne4pb - The Electro 4 Program Bundle ﬁles.

• .ne4db - This is the extension used for the Nord Electro 4D backup ﬁles.

Just as any other computer ﬁle on your hard drive, these ﬁles may be renamed, emailed, copied, moved, lost or even stored in a safe location if an evil computer crash suddenly decides to take your hard drive for ride.

Download

This is only available if you right-click on an empty location that does not contain a sound. This allows you to choose a ﬁle on the hard drive, to be downloaded to the location in the Nord Electro 4D.

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The Quick Tour

1 Using the Toolbar or Menu command: Click on the Sound Down

icon in the toolbar. The same command is also available in the File menu: Sound Download (Ctrl-D).

Let’s get acquainted with some of the functions in the Nord Sound Manager.

Transfer pianos to the Electro 4D

When the Nord Electro 4D leaves the factory, the Piano partition is ﬁlled with sounds. In order to be able to download additional pianos, you may have to delete some of the factory pianos. If you ever want to reload any deleted pianos, they are available on the DVD that was included with the Nord Electro 4D, or available as a download from the www.nordkeyboards.com web site, in the Libraries area.

Deleting a piano

3 Connect the Nord Electro 4D to the computer and launch the

Nord Sound Manager.

4 The Piano tab will open and the current content of the piano parti-

tion in the Nord Electro 4D will be displayed.

5 Select a piano to delete and press the Delete icon in the toolbar.

You can also right-click on the sound and choose the Delete option or use the backspace or delete keys on the computer keyboard.

2 Browse to the folder on the hard drive where the desired sound is

located, select it and click Open. The sound will now be added to its bank.

Replace

You can also use the Replace functionality. This action replaces a piano in the Nord Electro 4D with one that you want use from the DVD or one that you have downloaded from the www.nordkeyboards.com website.

Replacing a piano with another will automatically update all the Programs that used the previous piano to use the new piano instead.

1 Open the Piano tab. The current content of the piano partition in

the Nord Electro 4D will be displayed.

2 Select a piano in the list that you wish to replace with a new one

and click the Replace icon in the toolbar.

 You can also right-click the sound and choose the Replace option

or use the Replace command in the Edit Menu.

6 You will be asked to conﬁrm your intentions and then the piano in

the Nord Electro 4D will be deleted.

Download a new sound

1 Using drag and drop: Open the folder on the computer hard drive

where the new sound is located.

2 Make sure that the Sound Manager window and the folder are

visible on the screen.

3 Drag the new sound to the white area in the Sound Manager list.

When the destination location will turn gray, release the mouse button.

4 The Clean Deleted Space process will start to prepare the

memory and then the new piano will be downloaded to the Nord Electro 4D. If there isn’t enough free space, a message will appear in the lower left text area in the Nord Sound Manager.

 If the Organize option is active in the View menu, you can drop

a sound on any free location in the bank. If this function is not active, the new sound will be automatically placed at the ﬁrst free location in the bank. The various locations are selected using the Model selector on the Nord Electro 4D.

The Replace dialog informs you about the action about to take place. Click Browse to locate a new sound on the computer hard drive. The Bright Grand is chosen in the image below.

3 Press Open and then conﬁrm by clicking Replace.

The replacing action will begin by deleting the original piano, then cleaning the memory, downloading the new piano and ﬁnally relinking all the programs to use the new one instead.

 If you use Replace to try a piano and then change your mind, just

replace the new one with the previous one to get back to where you started from.

 The Replace action can be done with samples as well.

M The pianos are categorized and can only be added to the correct

bank; electric pianos can not be added to the grand bank, the grand’s cannot be dropped in the clavinet bank etc.

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Relink

Relink is a powerful feature that makes it possible to change the piano or sample that one or several programs use. Let’s imagine that you have downloaded a new favorite grand piano and want to change the programs that used your previous favorite grand, to the new one instead. Instead of manually changing every program on the unit, Relink can achieve this in the Manager.

Let’s Relink a program, to change what sound(s) the program should use.

1 Open the Program tab and right-click a program in the list.

2 Select the Relink Samp Lib option in the context menu. The menu

will expand to show the sample that is linked to this program.

3 Select the sample and let go of the mouse button. This will open

the Relink dialog where you can choose the new sound that the program should use instead.

Files that are placed in the queue will be displayed in bold.

4 If you wish to cancel an ongoing queue, you can either delete all

ﬁles that are queued or press the Cancel button. During the Clean process the Cancel option is not available.

Files waiting in the queue can be deleted from the queue if you change your mind. Right-click on the queued sound or use the Toolbar or Menu “Delete” command.

 Files already in the unit can be moved or deleted during the pro-

cessing of the queue.

Upload sounds from the Nord Electro 4D

1 Select the desired partition that holds the sounds that you wish to

store on the computer hard drive.

2 Select the bank and the sound. Shift-click will allow you to select

several consecutive sounds; Ctrl-click will allow you to select nonconsecutive sounds. Here we have selected a few of the programs:

4 Click Relink to relink the program to the new sound.

M You can only Relink programs to a sound that is already present in

the Nord Electro 4D.

Download Queue

You can add several sounds, one by one, using the drop method, or with the Toolbar or Menu commands. These sounds will be put in the download queue. The memory will be cleaned if needed and the ﬁles will be downloaded to the unit in the order they were added.

1 Select the desired partition that holds the type of sounds that you

wish to load.

3 Click on the Sound Up tool or right-click on the selected sound(s)

and select Upload. The dialogue will prompt you to browse to the desired destination folder on the hard drive. The upload process may take a few moments depending on the size of the sounds.

Program Bundles

A Program Bundle contains one or several programs, and all the pianos and samples that these programs use, in one ﬁle. Bundles are great to store parts of the memory from your Nord Electro 4D. If you select one program and create a Bundle, the Bundle will be pretty small in size, and the uploading process will be reasonably quick, compared to a complete Backup procedure.

You can also create another Bundle with all the programs you need for a speciﬁc performance, and when you need those programs again, the Bundle functionality will restore them and their sound ﬁles to your Nord unit.

Not all Nord units are compatible with the Bundle feature. Look at the Sound Manager page on the Nord website for further details.

M Pianos and samples that are used by several programs will not be

duplicated in a Bundle, nor will they be downloaded back to the instrument if they already are in place in the instrument.

2 Drag a sound from the computer hard drive to the white area in

the Sound Manager list.

3 Drag another sound to the white area in the Sound Manager list.

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Upload a Program Bundle

1 Open the Program Tab and select one, or several programs. Use

Ctrl-click to make non-consecutive selections like this one:

2 Click on the Bundle Up icon in the Toolbar.

The Program Bundle Upload dialog gives you two choices:

Selection will create a Program Bundle with the selection of programs you made in the Sound Manager program list and the pianos and/or samples that these programs use.

Bank makes a Bundle of an entire Bank that you select with the drop-down. This action will probably take a bit longer and the resulting Bundle will be a bigger ﬁle since there may be many more pianos and samples in this type of Bundle.

3 Choose the Selection option and click on Upload. In the following

dialog, give the Bundle a meaningful name and ﬁnd a location on the computer hard drive.

After the Manager has veriﬁed the ﬁles in the Bundle, the Program Bundle Download dialog will appear.

 Click on Show Details if you want to see what programs, pianos

and samples are in the Bundle.

There are two options when you download a Bundle.

Add to bank will download the program ﬁles and add them to the program bank that you choose in the drop-down menu. The programs will be placed at the ﬁrst available locations.

M If the programs in the Bundle will not ﬁt in the Bank, the process

will not be performed and you will see a dialog. Delete or move some programs from that Bank and try again.

Replace contents in a bank will simply delete all programs in the Bank you choose and download the programs in the Bundle to this bank instead. The programs will be placed at the same locations as they had when the bundle was created.

If a bundle will not ﬁt in a bank, this will be presented in the dialog like in this example where more free locations are needed in the program

bank:

Downloading a Bundle

Here comes the really great part about Bundles. When you download a Bundle to the instrument, any pianos and samples that the programs in the Bundle depend on, are downloaded. They will be placed at the next available location in the piano and/or Samp Lib partition.

M Pianos and samples are not duplicated if these ﬁles are already in

the instrument. The Bundle programs will use the new or existing locations of the pianos and samples, when they are downloaded to the free locations in the program partition.

1 Make sure the Program Tab is open.

2 Press the Bundle Down icon in the Toolbar. You can also use the

Bundle Download command from the File menu (Ctrl+Shift+D).

3 Navigate to the Bundle ﬁle that you wish to download and click

Open.

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Organize the program partition

By using drag and drop, you can organize the content of the Program partition with its 128 programs.

1 Make sure that Organize is turned on in the View menu.

2 Select and drag a program from the destination location to the

desired location.

If you drop a sound on a free location, the sound will be moved from the source location. If you drop on a location that is occupied, the two sounds will trade places.

3 Select a program and press the Ctrl-key on the computer key-

board. If you now drag this selection, the Program will be copied and pasted at the destination instead of just being moved.

Search Box

1 By entering one or several characters in the Search Box, you can

ﬁlter out the content that is presented in the lists.

This provides you with a quick way to ﬁnd duplicate programs, etc..

Auto Select

By clicking on the Auto Select icon in the toolbar, you toggle the Auto Select function on or off.

Restore

When you want to restore the entire content of the Nord Electro 4D, click on the Restore icon in the Toolbar and select a backup ﬁle that you have made. You can also drag the backup ﬁle from the computer and drop it to the Manager window.

The Conﬁrm Restore dialog will appear that requires your conﬁrmation. You can look at the content of the ﬁle if you click on “Show Details”.

There is a Factory Backup ﬁle on the Nord DVD that was delivered in the box with the instrument, that can be used to restore the unit to the content it was shipped with. This ﬁle can also be downloaded from the www.nordkeyboards.com website.

When Auto Select is turned on and you scroll through the Pianos or Program lists using the computer keyboard arrow keys, the sounds will automatically be selected in the Nord Electro 4D.

 Double-clicking on a piano, sample or program in the Manager list

will also select it in the Nord Electro 4D.

Backup

1 Click on the Backup icon to make a backup ﬁle that contains all

the content in your Nord Electro 4D.

The Nord instruments are built to the highest standards of reliability but doing regular backups is always a good thing.

2 Give the backup ﬁle a meaningful name and ﬁnd a suitable loca-

tion on your hard drive.

 If you choose a backup ﬁle that already exists, only the changes

that have occurred in the instrument will be added to that previous ﬁle.

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Sound Manager reference

Toolbar

Info

Activating Info brings up an information area to the right of the list.

The Info area will show if a selected piano or a sample is used in any Programs, or what pianos and samples are used in any selected Programs. This provides you with an excellent way of keeping track of how the content components in the Nord Electro 4D depends on each other.

Rename

This allows you to rename a Program and assign a Category to it. 16 characters can be used, and the supported characters are: a-z, AZ, 0-9 and the hyphen (-). Any other characters will not be displayed in the Sound Manager lists.

M Pianos or samples cannot be renamed so this function is not

available if you have selected any of these.

Delete

Allows you to delete one or several selected sounds. You will be asked to conﬁrm your intentions. You may also use the delete or backspace key on the computer keyboard to perform this action.

M Any Program in the Nord Electro 4D that used a particular piano

or sample that you deleted will not sound at all, since it will be missing an important component.

The space that a deleted piano occupied is not immediately available to other sounds, even though it is gone from the list and its location is free. The Flash memory needs to be cleaned to free up the space where the deleted sounds have been. When you add a new piano the cleaning process will be initiated automatically. You also have the option to manually start the cleaning process with the Clean Deleted Space command from the File menu.

Replace

This allows you to replace a selected piano or a sample with another piano or sample that you have on the computer hard drive.

Let’s say you need to delete some of the factory samples to make room for new samples. By selecting a sample in the Samp Lib partition and activating Info, you can see which of the programs that would be affected by such a deletion (or replacement).

Organize

When this option is active, the lists will show all the available locations in the selected partition/bank and not only the occupied ones. This will for instance make it possible to drag a ﬁle to a speciﬁc free location in the middle of the list. If this is inactive, only the occupied locations will be shown and re-arranging the order is not possible.

Dual View

When this option is checked, the window (if set to display the Program partition) will be divided in two lists. You can make the lists show separate banks with the drop-downs. Rearranging programs is simply a matter of drag and drop. Drag a program from one bank/list to another bank/list in either direction.

This function is not only about replacing the sound ﬁle in the memory, all the programs that used the old sound, will be updated, relinked to use the new sound instead.

Relink

M Not all Nord units are compatible with the Replace and Relink

features, in which case these Icons will be grayed out.

Auto Select

With this function active, scrolling through the piano or program list with the computer keyboard arrow keys will automatically select the sound in the Nord Electro 4D.

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M Flashing LEDs in the Piano Type and Model section indicates that

the piano that the current Program tried to use is not available in the Flash memory. Select another program or download the missing piano to the Nord Electro 4D.

Sound Up

Use this function to upload one or several sounds from the Nord Electro 4D to the computer hard drive.

Sound Down

Use this function to download one or several sounds from the computer hard drive to the next available location in the selected partition.

Bundle Up

This function will upload a selection of programs or an entire Bank to the computer hard drive, and include all the pianos and/or samples that these programs use in a Program Bundle ﬁle.

Backup

This will make a backup of all the pianos, programs, Live programs and the menu settings in the Nord Electro 4D. The ﬁle that is created on the hard drive will have the extension .ne4db. Backing up the entire memory content in this manner will take some time, depending on the sizes of the pianos and samples in the unit.

 Backing up from the Nord Sound Manager is done in an incre-

mental manner. Unless you change the name or the location of the backup ﬁle, only the pianos and/or programs that have been changed since the previous backup will be saved.

The Nord Sound Manager will suggest a location for the backup, the ﬁrst time this function is selected (in My Documents/Nord Sound Manager ﬁles/). If you rather save the backup ﬁle elsewhere, use the browser to pick another destination.

Restore

To restore a previously saved backup ﬁle to the Nord Electro 4D, select this option and browse to a backup ﬁle on the hard drive (ﬁle extension .ne4db) and click Open.

E The restore function will begin after you have clicked Open and

conﬁrmed your intentions in the dialogue. All the content of a connected Nord Electro 4D will then be irrevocably replaced by the content of the backup ﬁle.

The default source will be the currently selected Program(s) or the active bank, but you can choose another bank with the drop down menu.

Click on the Upload button to enter the name of the Bundle and to select the destination on the hard drive. The Program Bundle ﬁle that is created on the hard drive will have a ﬁle extension that ends with “pb”.

Bundle Down

This function will download a Bundle with programs, pianos and samples from the computer hard drive to the Nord Electro 4D. You have a choice if you want the Bundle to be appended to the existing programs in the bank in focus or if the Bundle should replace the contents in an entire bank of your choice.

Programs in a Program Bundle will be downloaded to the locations where they came from if the Replace option is selected.

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time, depending on the sizes of the pianos and samples in the unit.

Menus

In the Nord Sound Manager, the usual Windows and Mac OSX keyboard commands can be used. The menus can be accessed by pressing the Alt key and the underlined letter in the menu bar.

Most of the commands can also be accessed by pressing the Ctrl (on the Mac - Command) key together with the letter shown next to the command name in the menus.

File Menu

Sound Upload (Ctrl+U)

Use this function to upload one or several sounds from the Nord Electro 4D memory to a folder on the computer hard drive.

Sound Download (Ctrl+D)

Use this function to download one or several sounds from the computer hard drive to the next available location in the selected partition.

Program Bundle Upload (Ctrl+Shift+U)

This function will upload a selection of programs or an entire Bank to the computer hard drive, and include all the pianos and/or samples that these programs use in a Program Bundle ﬁle.

 Backing up from the Nord Sound Manager is done in an incre-

mental manner. Unless you change the name or the location of the backup ﬁle, only the pianos and/or programs that have been changed since the previous backup will be saved.

Restore (Ctrl+R)

To restore a previously saved backup ﬁle to the Nord Electro 4D, select this option and browse to a backup ﬁle on the hard drive (ﬁle extension .ne4db) and click Open.

E The restore function will begin after you have clicked Open and

conﬁrmed your intentions in the dialogue. All the content of a connected Nord Electro 4D will then be irrevocably replaced by the content of the backup ﬁle.

Clean Deleted Space

This function will clean up the space where any previously deleted pianos or programs have been. This is done in order to make this deleted memory space available to new additions.

M Cleaning is automatically done if you download a new piano or

program to the Nord Electro 4D, but this menu command makes it possible to manually start the cleaning process.

Format

This is a radical function; it will format the entire partition that is in focus. All the sounds in the partition will be deleted. You will be asked to conﬁrm your intentions.

The default source will be the currently selected program(s) or the active bank, but you can choose another bank with the drop down menu.

Program Bundle Download (Ctrl+Shift+D)

This function will download a Bundle with programs, pianos and samples from the computer hard drive to the Nord unit. You have a choice if you want the Bundle to be added to the existing programs in the bank in focus or if the Bundle should replace the contents in an entire bank of your choice.

Exit (Ctrl+Q)

Exits the Nord Sound Manager application.

Edit Menu

Rename (Ctrl+N)

This allows you to rename a Program or a Synth sound. 16 characters can be used, the supported characters are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and the hyphen (-). Any other characters will not be displayed in the Sound Manager lists.

Renaming also allows you to change or set the category that each program and synth sound can be labeled with.

M Pianos cannot be renamed so this function is not available if you

have selected any of these.

Delete

Allows you to delete a selected item(s) from the Nord Electro 4D memory. You will be asked to conﬁrm your intentions.

Replace (Ctrl+P)

This allows you to replace a selected piano or a sample with another piano or sample that you have on the computer hard drive. This will also change all programs that used that sound, to the new sound instead.

Backup (Ctrl+B)

This will make a backup of all the pianos, samples, programs, the Live programs and the menu settings in the Nord Electro 4D.

The ﬁle that is created on the hard drive will have the extension .ne4db.

Backing up the entire memory content in this manner will take some

Relink (Ctrl+K)

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Select All (Ctrl+A)

Select all items in a bank/partition.

Invert Selection

This will deselect the original selection and then select all the other items in the list.

View Menu

Organize (Ctrl+O)

When this option is checked, the lists will show all the available locations in the selected partition/bank and not only the occupied ones. This will for instance make it easier to drag a ﬁle to a speciﬁc free location in the middle of the list. If this is unchecked, only the occupied locations will be shown.

Dual View (Ctrl+L)

When this option is checked, the window will be divided in two lists. The two lists makes it easy to move programs from one location to another. You can make the lists show separate banks with the dropdowns. Rearranging programs is simply a matter of drag and drop. Drag a program from one bank/list to another bank/list in either direction.

 Press the Ctrl-key on the computer keyboard to copy a selection

to the destination during a drag and drop operation.

Info (Ctrl+I)

Activating Info brings up an information area to the right of the list.

Find Ctrl+F

This is a shortcut to the Search Box. By entering one or several characters in the Search Box, you can ﬁlter out the content that is presented

in the lists.

Auto Select

When this function is active, pianos, samples or programs will be automatically selected in the Nord Electro 4D when you browse through the sounds in the Manager list, with the computer keyboard arrow keys.

Help

About

Brings up the About box with a information regarding the version of the Nord Sound Manager. You will also see a list of compatible instruments and OS versions.

Tabs

Piano – Samp Lib - Program - Synth

Use the tabs to select the desired partition. Type Ctrl+Tab on the computer keyboard to cycle between the tabs. The drop down menu is used to select the desired bank within the partitions. The content of the partition will be presented in the list.

This area will show if a selected piano or a sample is used in any programs, or what pianos and samples are used in any selected programs.

Search Box

Enter a phrase to quickly present any sounds that contains the characters. Press Clear to clear the ﬁltering and show all entries again.

Loc - Location

The banks are organized in locations; the number of locations varies for the different bank types.

Name

The name of the item.

Size

Shows the ﬁle size of the pianos. This may be useful if you need to know how much space e.g. a particular piano occupies in the piano partition. This unit is not shown in the program lists.

Ver – Version Number

This indicates the version number of the actual sound format. Older OS versions may not be able to use sounds in a more recent format.

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Note

This area may contain error information about broken, corrupted or rejected ﬁles, in the unlikely event that something has happened with a particular piano, program or sample in the Nord Electro 4D memory.

Footer Area

The footer area is located at the bottom of the Nord Sound Manager window.

Partition Memory Indicator

This indicates the usage of the selected partition’s memory. The dark area shows the used memory and the brighter area indicates space that is available for additional sounds.

Cancel Button

Use this function if you need to cancel a process that is in progress. Certain functions like e.g. a restore process cannot be cancelled.

Progress Bars

The two progress bars indicate the progress of an ongoing process. The upper bar shows the progression of the individual processes, and the lower indicates the status of the entire task.

Message/Text Area

The left part of the text area will present any conﬁrmations or error messages from the Nord Sound Manager.

The right part will indicate of a Nord Electro 4D is connected to the computer and in communication with the Nord Sound Manager. The OS version of the connected Nord Electro 4D will also be displayed here.

Updates and sounds

Please visit our website at http://www.nordkeyboards.com to download any updates of the Nord Sound Manager and sounds that have been released for the Nord Electro 4D. These items will be available as free downloads in the download area and in the Libraries area.

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MIDI functions

About the MIDI implementation

The following MIDI messages can be transmitted and received from the Nord Electro 4D:

Nord Electro 4D with a sequencer

Note On/Off

• Note On and Note Off messages are transmitted and received.

Controllers

In the MIDI Menu (see page 24), you can select if the Nord Electro 4D should transmit and/or receive Control Change messages.

• If you have a control pedal connected to the control pedal input, this is transmitted as Controller 11 (Expression).

• If you have a pedal connected to the sustain pedal input, this is transmitted as Controller 64 (Sustain Pedal).

• If you have a pedal connected to the rotor pedal input, this pedal is transmitted as Controller 90.

• Almost all other controls (knobs and buttons) on the front panel are also transmitted (and received) as Control Change messages. This can be used to record your actions on the front panel into a MIDI sequencer. For a full list of which parameters correspond to the Controller numbers, see the MIDI implementation on the next page.

Keyboard velocity

The Nord Electro 4D can transmit and receive keyboard velocity messages. Organ sounds will always be played back at nominal level regardless of incoming MIDI Velocity data. Release velocity is also transmitted.

Program change

In the MIDI Menu (see page 24), you can select if the Nord Electro 4D should send and/or receive Program Change messages.

Connections

1 Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 4D to the MIDI In on

your sequencer.

2 Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the

Nord Electro 4D.

Local On/Off

Local Off may be used when you use a sequencer to record and play back from Nord Electro 4D. If the sequencer echoes back incoming MIDI data, the Nord Electro 4D may respond twice to every note and other message/action if for example the keyboard and the sequencer sends the same MIDI information to the unit. Local On/Off is set on the “MIDI menu” see page 18.

MIDI Channel

The MIDI channel(s) that the Nord Electro 4D uses are set up in the MIDI menu - see “MIDI menu” on page 18. If you use the Organ model in the split/lower manual conﬁguration, the lower manual can receive on a separate MIDI channel.

Program Change

Usually you select a Program Change value for a track in the sequencer track settings. The 128 program locations send and respond to Program Change values 0-127.

If you want to record a Program Change message, activate recording in the sequencer and simply select the program on the Nord Electro 4D.

When you select a Program, a Program Change message is transmitted via MIDI. If a Program Change message is received on the selected MIDI Channel, the Nord Electro 4D will change Program accordingly.

The 128 Program locations send and respond to MIDI Program Change values 0-127.

MIDI Sysex (System Exclusive)

Individual Programs or all Programs can be transmitted and received as a System Exclusive dump.

Controllers

When you record actions with knobs and buttons, make sure that the sequencer “echoes” the changes back on the correct MIDI Channel, or your changes won’t have any effect.

About controllers and “chasing”

Consider a situation where you record a Controller message, e.g. a drawbar change, in the middle of your sequencer song. Then you “rewind” the sequencer to a position before the recorded drawbar change. The problem is that the Nord Electro 4D’s drawbar will remain “as changed”, although it really should be as it was before you recorded the opening.

To solve this, you could record a “snapshot” of all Controller settings of the Nord Electro 4D Program at the beginning of your sequencer song. See “Sending MIDI Controller dumps” on the next page.

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Program and Controller dumps

To dump a Program SysEx, or MIDI Controller data via MIDI, either to another Nord Electro 4D or for recording the data into another MIDI device, proceed as follows:

Sending program dumps

1 Connect the MIDI OUT on the Nord Electro 4D to the MIDI In on

the receiving device.

2 Set up the receiving device to accept MIDI SysEx and MIDI Con-

troller data.

3 Press Shift + MIDI and select the “Dump One” or “Dump All” menu

item using the Up/Down buttons.

4 If needed, set the receiving MIDI device to “recording mode”.

5 Press the Store button to send the dump to the MIDI Out of Nord

Electro 4D. The display will stop ﬂashing once the dump has been sent.

M For the programs that use the organ sounds, the complete

settings for the sound will be dumped as MIDI SysEx but for programs using pianos or Samples, all parameters will be sent but NOT the actual instrument samples.

Sending MIDI Controller dumps

1 Set up as in steps 1 and 2 in the preceding description.

2 Press Shift + MIDI and select the ‘Send CC” menu item using the

Up/Down buttons.

3 Press the Store button to send the dump to the MIDI Out of Nord

Electro 4D. The Display will stop ﬂashing once the dump has been sent.

Receive MIDI SysEx dumps

Here is how to receive a MIDI SysEx Dump:

1 Connect the MIDI Out on the transmitting device to the MIDI IN on

the Nord Electro 4D.

2 Initiate the transmission on the transmitting device.

If the dump contained all Programs (All), it will replace all programs currently stored in the Nord Electro 4D. If the dump contained only a single program, it will be temporarily placed in the currently selected program memory location. A dot will appear to in the lower, right corner to indicate an unsaved edit. You will then have to store the program manually to a memory location using the Store function (see ´”Storing a program” on page 10).

MIDI Controller list

The following is a list of the MIDI Controller numbers used for all knobs and buttons on the front panel:

Nord Electro parameter MIDI CC

Drawbars - Preset 2/Upper Drawbar 1 16 Drawbar 2 17 Drawbar 3 18 Drawbar 4 19 Drawbar 5 20 Drawbar 6 21 Drawbar 7 22 Drawbar 8 23 Drawbar 9 24 Drawbars - Preset 1/Lower Drawbar 1 70 Drawbar 2 71 Drawbar 3 72 Drawbar 4 73 Drawbar 5 74 Drawbar 6 75 Drawbar 7 76 Drawbar 8 77 Drawbar 9 78 Organ Model Sel 9 Preset/Manual Sel 3 Perc Decay 88 Perc Level 89 Sustain Pedal 64 Control Pedal 11 Rotary Speed 82 Rotary Stop Mode 79 Vib Mode 84 Vib On/Off UP 85 Vib On/Off LO (B3 model) 107 Perc On/Off 87 Perc Third 95 Samp Attack Sel 33 Samp Release Sel 34 Clav EQ Brill On/Off 103 Clav EQ Treble On/Off 104 Clav EQ Medium On/Off 105 Clav EQ Soft On/Off 106 Inst Sel (Organ/Piano) 13 Clav Select 45 Piano Type 12 Piano Model 44 Piano Mono 83 Acoustics 98 Oct Shift Organ Upper 27 Oct Shift Organ Lower 28 Oct Shift Piano 29 EQ On/Off 115 EQ Treble 113 EQ Mid 116 EQ Mid Freq 117 EQ Bass 114 Gain 7 Effect 1 Rate 63 Effect 1 Sel 60 Effect 1 On/Off 69 Effect 2 Rate 62 Effect 2 Sel 61 Effect 2 On/Off 80 Speaker/Comp Drive 111 Speaker/Comp Sel 81 Speaker/Comp On/Off 86 Reverb Wet/Dry 102 Reverb Sel 96 Reverb On/Off 97 Delay Rate 92 Delay Ping Pong 93 Delay On/Off 94

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MIDI Implementation Chart

Function Transmitted Recognized Remarks

Basic Channel

Default Channel

Mode Default

Message

Altered

Note

Number True Voice

Velocity Note ON

Note Off

After Key’s

Touch Channel

Pitch Bender X X

Control Change O O

Program Change

True#

System Exclusive O O

System Song Pos

Common Song Sel

Tune

System Clock

Realtime Commands

Aux Local on/off

Message All notes off

Active Sense

Reset

Number True Voice

1 - 16

Mode 3

0-127 0-127

O, v= 1 - 127

O, 0-127 O, 0-127

X X X

1 - 16

Mode 3

O, v= 1 - 127

X X X

Mode 1: Omni On, Poly - Mode 2: Omni O, Mono - Mode 3: Omni Off, Poly - Mode 4: Omni Off, Mono - O = Yes - X = No

Model: Nord Electro 4D OS v1.x Date: 2012-05-15

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Index

Append 24

Auto-Panning 15

A-Wa 15

B3 11

B3 Menu 19 Backup 27, 28

Balance Bass/Horn 19

Bank Up 27

Bass Rotor 19

Bundle Down 27

Bundle Up 27

Cancel 30

Chorus 15

Clav EQ 13

Clavinet 13

Compressor 15

Control Pedal 7

Ctrl Pedal 17

Delete 26, 28

Drawbars 13

Drawbar Speed 18

Effects 10, 15

EQ 15

Exit 28

Factory presets 4

Farf 11

Fine Tune 17

Flanger 15

Format 28

Gain 16

Headphones 6

Info 26, 29

Instrument 15

Index

Invert Selection 29

Key Bounce 19

Key Click Level 19

LED 14

Left Out 6

Live 10

Loc 29

Local 18

Lower Channel 18

Lower Manual 12

Master level 11

Memory Protect 17

MIDI 18

MIDI Channel 18

MIDI Controller list 32

MIDI In 6

MIDI Out 6 MIDI Split 13, 18

Model 14

Monitor In 6

Mono 14

Octave Shift 10, 15

Organ Model 11

Organ section 11

Organ Trig 18

Output Routing 17

Partition Memory 30

Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel 19

Perc. Norm Level 19

Perc. Slow Decay 19

Perc. Soft Level 19

Percussion 12

Phaser 15

Piano 13

Piano Type 14

Pick-up 13

Preset/Split 12 Program Bundle 23, 28

Program Change 18

Program memory 8

Progress 30

P-Wa 15

Queue 23

Rel 14 Relink 21, 23, 26 Rename 26, 28 Replace 22, 26 Restore 27, 28

Reverb 16

Ring modulator 15

RM 15

Rotary 15

Rotary 122 19

Rotary Balance 19

Rotary Menu 19

Rotary model 19

Rotary Speaker Type 19

Rotary Speed 12

Rotor Pedal 7

Samp Env 14

Select All 29

Shift 15

Shift button 5

Size 29

Slow At 14

Slow/Stop 12

Soft/Fast 12

Sound Down 27

Sound Menu 18

Sound Up 27

Sound Upload 28

Speaker/Comp 15

Stop Mode 12 Store 10, 14 Sustain Pedal 7, 17

System Menu 17

Third 12

Tonewheel crosstalk 19

Tonewheel Mode 19

Transfer 22

Transpose 17

Treble Horn 19

Tremolo 15

Up/Down 14

Upload 23

Upper Manual 12

USB Connection 6

Vel Dyn 14

Vibrato/Chorus 12

VX 11

Wah-Wah 15

FCC Information (U.S.A.)

1. IMPORTANT NOTICE: DO NOT MODIFY THIS UNIT!

This product, when installed as indicated in the instructions contained in this manual, meets FCC requirements. Modications not expressly approved by Clavia may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to use the product.

2. IMPORTANT: When connecting this product to accessories and/ or another product use only high quality shielded cables. Cable/s supplied with this product MUST be used. Follow all installation instructions. Failure to follow instructions could void your FCC authorization to use this product in the USA.

3. Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment is found to be the source of interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

– Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

– Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

– Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

– Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

(1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and

(2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

Unauthorized changes or modication to this system can void the users authority to operate this equipment.

This equipment requires shielded interface cables in order to meet FCC class B Limit.

For Canada

NOTICE

This Class B - digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.

AVIS

Cet appareil numérique de la classe B - est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY

Compliance Information Statement

Model Name: Nord Electro 4D

Type of Equipment: Digital Organ and piano

Responsible Party: Clavia DMI AB

Address: P.O. BOX 4214. SE-102 65 Stockholm Sweden

Telephone: +46-8-442 73 60

Nord Electro 4D User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Introduction

Thank you!

OS and internal memory

Factory presets

Restoring the factory presets

About this manual

Disclaimer

OS upgrades

Overview

Selector buttons

On/Off buttons

Shift button

Knobs & buttons

Knobs

Drawbars

Connections

Audio connections

Headphones

Left Out and Right Out

MIDI Connections

MIDI In

MIDI Out

Monitor In

USB Connection

Sustain Pedal

Pedal Connections

Rotor Pedal

Control Pedal

Getting Started

About the programs

Selecting programs

Edit a program

Selecting pianos, samples

The Rotary effect

Using the Organ

Memory Protection

Storing a program

Adding effects

The Live buffer

Octave Shift

The Delay

Nord Electro 4D Reference

Master level knob

Organ section

Organ Model button

The B3 model

The VX model

The Farf model

Rotary Speed

Vibrato/Chorus

Percussion

Preset/Drawbar/Split

Additional MIDI keyboard

Clavinet sound

Pick-up type

Pick-up Type Description

The drawbars

Piano section

Clav EQ

Acoustics

Samp Env

Program section

Piano Type

Model

Up/Down buttons

Display

Store

Live Mode

Instrument selectors

Shift

Octave Shift

Effect 1

Effects

Effect 2

Speaker/Comp

Reverb