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Introduction

Thank you!

We would first like to thank you for purchasing the Nord C2 Combo 
Organ! We hope you will find it to be everything you wished for and that 
you’ll have many hours of great fun with your new instrument .

Development goals

First some history: at the time of designing the Nord C2 Combo Organ, 
Clavia had already been developing digital tonewheel organ models 
for more than a decade . The first model featured in the Nord Electro 
series of instruments was designed to fit comfortably in a multi electro-
mechanical instrument along side various piano implementations . With 
focus given to fit several mechanical instruments into a single package, 
you are always forced to make some compromises . 

Though not surprised, we were definitely thrilled when the Electro 
started to appear in different magazine’s tonewheel clone tests and 
shoot-outs . It was included for its fabulous sound that some found 
to be better than far more expensive hardcore clone units . However, 
due to its single manual and additional piano samples, it was generally 
included “out of contest” .

With the Nord C2’s predecessor the C1 Combo Organ we wanted to 
design an instrument without having to find the right blend of things; 
like piano vs . organ keyboard action, or multi-effects suited for a wide 
array of sounds . We wanted to focus on the things needed for killer 
organ sounds, and those things only .

Some areas we knew were up for improvement prior to the start of 
the project, others were found along the way . What really paid off was 
focusing on each of the components involved in the sound generating 
process, rather than just the sounding outcome . After spending thou-
sands of man hours leaving no detail untouched - no matter how small 
and seemingly insignificant - we believe we have not only reproduced 
the perfect tonewheel sound but also the proper response and feel of 
playing the original instrument .

Taking the next step after developing the Nord C1 was looking at the 
classical organ sounds . We sourced a beautiful baroque organ and 
sampled it with the same painstaking effort and focus on quality as we 
do when we create our other instruments . 

And we could not resist the possibility to further tweak the B3 model, 
to take the award winning realism one step further . The key-on and 
key-off clicks have been improved together with the modelling of the 
level and mixes of the individual tonewheels . Enjoy .

Features 

The Nord C2 Combo Organ features high quality digital emulations 
of three vintage organs, a sampled baroque pipe organ, a bunch of 
effects as well as several amp and speaker cabinet combinations in a 
single lightweight package .

The dual keyboards, bass pedal input and high level outputs allows you 
to use the instrument in the exact same application and set-up as with 
the vintage originals - and several more! 

By focusing on each individual component involved in the sound gener-
ating process you get not only a vintage sound experience but also 
spot-on response and feel of playing the original instruments . 

The Nord C2 Combo Organ has the following features:

1 model of a vintage Tonewheel organ

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2 models of vintage Vox and Farfisa transistor organs

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1 sampled baroque pipe organ

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3 Amplifier models, featuring simulations of the gain characteristics of 

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two popular combo amps as well as a rotary speaker cabinet .

Overdrive, offering a gentle to massive amount of tube-style distor-

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tion .

Vintage-sounding delay, with tap-tempo function and a possibility to 

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limit its operation to the upper manual .

3-band EQ

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5 types of Reverberation - Room, Stage and Hall-types with varia-

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tions

Dual manuals with 2 x 61 waterfall keys, featuring high trigger point 

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for the optimal organ keyboard feel and response time . 

Dedicated MIDI connector for use with any MIDI compatible foot  

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pedalboard to play the bass registers . 

High level outputs, featuring quarter-inch as well as a 11-pin Leslie 

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standard connectors allows you to connect directly to rotary speak-
ers . When using the 11-pin connector, the panel controls for rotation 
speed are transferred as well .

About this user manual

This manual is arranged mainly as a reference manual . In many cases 
you’ll get tips on how to practically use functions . 

The LED-display is referred to as the Display . Whenever there is a refer-
ence to the ‘keyboard’, that reference also applies to incoming MIDI 
note messages .

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Summary of Contents for Nord C2

Page 1: ...User Manual Nord c2 OS Version 1 x Part No 50326 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2009 Print Edition 1 1...

Page 2: ...wamp or the like 3 This product should be used only with a cart or a stand that is recommended by the manufacturer 4 This product either alone or in combination with an perfectly capable of producing...

Page 3: ...Program area 15 What is a program 15 Loading a Program 15 Storing a Program 15 Prog Menu Buttons 15 Display 15 Live 15 Effect area 16 Speaker Model 16 Rotary Speaker controls 16 Delay 16 Drive 16 Reve...

Page 4: ...y as we do when we create our other instruments And we could not resist the possibility to further tweak the B3 model to take the award winning realism one step further The key on and key off clicks h...

Page 5: ...feel and response times of a real organ About the knobs The knobs are of the potentiometer type This means that when you load a program the values of the parameters can be totally different from the...

Page 6: ...tained You can use any standard sustain type pedal A polarity setting can be selected in the system menu Read more on this on page 17 A connected sustain pedal will not affect the Pipe organ model M M...

Page 7: ...2 to an amplifier or recording equipment 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 th...

Page 8: ...n save a program Press 1 Shift System and use the Up Down buttons to select the Memory Protect Option this is the very first option in the System menu Change the setting of the memory protection to Of...

Page 9: ...tually activate the effect Activate an amplifier emulation Press the 1 Speaker Model button to activate the Amp emulation The Speaker Model LED will be lit Press repeatedly on the selector to cycle th...

Page 10: ...te Run the Install Nord Sound Manager v5 xx exe and follow the 2 instructions in the setup program The Nord Sound Manager will be installed in the Program Files 3 folder on the hard disk During the in...

Page 11: ...using the drawbar buttons The buttons are special in the way that they auto increment decre ment the drawbar value when held If you hold a drawbar button the corresponding drawbar value will continue...

Page 12: ...hord and then add on more notes without releasing the previously pressed keys there will be no percus sion effect in the new notes You have to release all keys to be able to play new notes with the pe...

Page 13: ...g the Swell Great buttons in the Vibrato section The V3 setting is the one that is modeled after the original instrument The VX models vibrato setting is common for both the swell and M M great manual...

Page 14: ...r the Rotary simulation and the Percussion controls are used to activate the pipe organs couplers instead A coupler allows the stops of one division or manual to be played from another manual This can...

Page 15: ...ate STO to confirm that the program has been stored Press any button if you wish to abort the store procedure The Program section is also where you enter the System MIDI M M and Sound menus Read more...

Page 16: ...time The tap tempo button allows you to set the delay time by tapping the button repeatedly in time The amount knob acts as a effect send control to set the amount of the dry signal that will be rout...

Page 17: ...tion Controls weather the selected organ model should respond to sustain pedal messages or not When a pedal is connected to the sustain pedal input sustain pedal messages are always send via MIDI Out...

Page 18: ...mode the front panel and keyboard action are transmitted via MIDI only and does not control the internal sound s directly If the E mode is active the keyboard of the C2 will transmit velocity Range O...

Page 19: ...the level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artifacts of the B3 organ model Range u3 Vintage 3 u2 Vintage2 u1 Vintage1 default Cl Clean Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel If this is set to cancel the 9th d...

Page 20: ...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 Nord C2 with a sequencer Connections Conn...

Page 21: ...ly stored in the Nord C2 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 i...

Page 22: ...y s Touch Channel X X X X Pitch Bender X X Control Change O O Program Change True O 0 127 O 0 127 System Exclusive O O System Song Pos Common Song Sel Tune X X X X X X System Clock Realtime Commands X...

Page 23: ...ger is compatible with computers running Mac OSX 10 4 or later Windows XP and Windows Vista If you run the Nord Manager on a Windows computer you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 2 14 or later...

Page 24: ...ig 18 Organ Trig Mode 18 Output Routing 17 Ext Rotary Spkr 17 P Pedal Channel 18 Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel 19 Perc Fast Decay 19 Perc Norm Level 19 Perc Slow Decay 19 Perc Soft Level 19 Percussion 12 Pipe...

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