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Overview

You can work with the contents of the Piano, Sample, Organ Presets 
and the Program partitions. These are accessed from the tabs, conve-
niently labeled, Piano, Samp Lib, Program and Organ Presets. 

If no Nord Electro 3 is connected to the computer, pages, icons and 
memory locations will be grayed out.

 

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The actions that take place in the Nord Sound Manager will affect 
the memories in the Nord Electro 3. The Manager is on-line with a 
connected Electro 3 at all times; any changes that you perform in 
the Manager will immediately be executed in the Nord Electro 3. 
If you e.g. delete a piano, sample or a Program from the list in the 
Nord Sound Manager, that same sound will also be deleted from 
the Nord Electro 3 Flash memory.

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 is the sample partition and the Program tab allows you to 
organize the programs etc. The individual pianos, samples, programs or 
organ presets will be referred to as “sounds” in this manual and in the 
application itself.

 

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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.

Partition Memory Indicator

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

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 3. It is also used 
to download pianos, samples or programs to the Nord Electro 3 or to upload any of these items - called sounds - from the Nord Electro 3 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 3 memory.

System requirements

The Nord Sound Manager is compatible with computers running Mac OSX 10.4 or later, Windows XP and Windows Vista. If you run the Manager on 
a Windows computer, you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 2.14 or later installed. The Nord Electro 3 OS has to be v2.0 or later.

 

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Nord Electro 3 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.

 

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Summary of Contents for Nord Electro 3

Page 1: ...User Manual Nord Electro 3 OS Version 3 x Part No 50316 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2011 Print Edition 3 1...

Page 2: ...L B53D2 C85689 562 4 57 29V B 7 2 5635 M3H J2 N 7 NS 8295 M3D985 42 5 97585 52 3 87K N 2B2 5 8 76 K 5 2 7 97 012345 67589 8 7 5 49 A7B C 5D9 6 9 E DE 98 F5 6GE958 6 85 0 E 95906 4E 85 5DE 95908 E 58...

Page 3: ...6 Speaker Comp 16 Reverb 16 Delay Reverb Electro 3 HP 17 Feedback 17 Ping Pong 17 Tempo Tap 17 Gain 17 6 The Menus System Menu 18 Memory Protect On Off 18 Output Routing 18 Transpose 18 Fine Tune 18 S...

Page 4: ...erence section where all the functions are explained in detail The Electro 3 HP the Electro 61 and the Electro 73 versions share most of the features The sections in this manual that explains the addi...

Page 5: ...nd Sound menus are conveniently printed to the right on the panel Knobs buttons Knobs The knobs control the continuously variable pa rameters in the Nord Electro 3 A parameter value can be totally dif...

Page 6: ...tor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at the Nord Electro 3 s headphone output This allows you to e g rehearse with the Electro 3 to pre recorded music Signals connected to this input will not be pr...

Page 7: ...ds and rotary speed selection for organ sounds see Sustain Pedal Configuration on page 18 for details on how to configure this Control Pedal stereo connector for a pedal of the potentiometer type also...

Page 8: ...ograms within each bank Edit a program Editing a program is just as easy as grabbing a knob and change a set ting or press a button to select a different setting The knob s physical position isn t alw...

Page 9: ...ethods 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 Shif...

Page 10: ...lf will use the Preset 2 Up 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...

Page 11: ...hange the sound of the B3 model from squeaky clean to a battered old work horse The VX model The original instrument is probably the most famous of all the tran sistor based combo organs that emerged...

Page 12: ...ound 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 th...

Page 13: ...Organ Preset buttons The display will show the selected preset number 4 Confirm your intentions by pressing Store once more This procedure may be aborted by pressing any button except Store or one of...

Page 14: ...Piano2 Wurlitzer reed based electric pianos Clav Hps Clavinets and Harpsichords Samp Lib Samples Mono If you press Shift Mono when a stereo instrument is selected the stereo samples will be played bac...

Page 15: ...ft button In order to be able to store settings the Memory Protection must be turned off Read more about this on Memory Protect On Off on page 18 Prog A Prog B After you have selected a program number...

Page 16: ...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 Ring Modulation RM is a...

Page 17: ...e 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 T...

Page 18: ...his allows you to change the polarity of a sustain type pedal con nected 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 vic...

Page 19: ...e Range 1 16 OF off default 2 Local Control This allows you to set if the Nord Electro 3 keyboard and front panel controls should control internal Programs or only send note and con troller messages v...

Page 20: ...percussion effect Range L Long n Normal default S Short Perc Slow Decay Sets the slow mode decay time of the Tonewheel percussion effect Range L Long n Normal default S Short Perc Norm Level Sets the...

Page 21: ...o 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...

Page 22: ...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 sa...

Page 23: ...tent of the Program partition with its 128 programs 1 Make sure that Organize is activated in the View menu 2 Select and drag a program from the destination location to the desired location If you dro...

Page 24: ...rams or all Programs can be transmitted and received as a System Exclusive dump Nord Electro 3 with a sequencer Connections 1 Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 3 to the MIDI In on your sequence...

Page 25: ...all Programs All it will replace all programs currently stored in the Nord Electro 3 If the dump contained only a single program it will be temporarily placed in the currently selected program memory...

Page 26: ...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 27: ...5 Organ Model 11 Organ Presets 13 Organ section 11 Organ Trig 18 Output Routing 17 P Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel 19 Perc Norm Level 19 Perc Slow Decay 19 Perc Soft Level 19 Percussion 12 Phaser 16 Piano 13...

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