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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 .

 Press the Store button .

The program number in the LED starts flashing .

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 .

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 .

 

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To cancel the procedure, 
press the Shift button 
before you press Store the second time.

 

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With Memory Protect set to Off, a double tap on the Store button 
will store a Program in its original location.

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 stan-
dard 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 but-
tons 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 on page 
15 . This means that upper keys may become silent if you transpose 
upwards .

Adding effects

Select the program number 1 .1 which 
is a Grand Piano with a hint of reverb . 

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 selec-
tor 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 . 

Turn the effect rate knob . 

This changes the rate of the active effect .

Hold Shift and press repeatedly on the effect selector .

This allows you to reverse through the effect selections .

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 .

Activate an amplifier emulation

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

The Speaker/Comp LED will be lit .

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

Activate the delay/reverb .

Hold Shift and press the reverb selector 
button . The Delay LED lights up .

Tap the desired tempo on the Tempo Tap 
button .

You can also set the delay time by hold-
ing the Tempo Tap button and adjust the 
tempo with the Up/Down buttons .

Adjust the number of repeats (Dly1, Dly2 
etc .) by pressing the selector button repeatedly .

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Summary of Contents for Nord Electro 4 SW

Page 1: ...User Manual Nord Electro 4 HP Nord Electro 4 SW OS Version 1 1x Part No 50385 Copyright Clavia DMI AB Print Edition F...

Page 2: ...flash with the arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated voltage within the products en closure that may be of sufficient magnitude t...

Page 3: ...EQ 15 Effect 1 15 Effect 2 16 Speaker Comp 16 Delay Reverb 16 Feedback 16 Ping Pong 16 Tempo Tap 16 Gain 16 6 The Menus System Menu 17 1 Memory Protect On Off 17 2 Output Routing 17 3 Transpose 17 4 F...

Page 4: ...Electro 4 HP SW 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...

Page 5: ...re conveniently printed to the right on the panel The menus are de scribed in the Menu chapter that begins on page 17 Knobs buttons Knobs The knobs control the continuously variable pa rameters in the...

Page 6: ...ear at the Electro 4 HP SW s left and right output jacks MIDI Connections MIDI Out MIDI connection used for sending keyboard and panel generated MIDI data from the Nord Electro 4 HP SW to other equipm...

Page 7: ...nnected to the sustain pedal input to control sustain for piano sounds and rotary speed selection for organ sounds page 17 Control Pedal stereo connector for a pedal of the potentiometer type also kno...

Page 8: ...he next electric piano 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 progra...

Page 9: ...manual key The Rotary effect 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 4 HP SW rotary has three available speeds fa...

Page 10: ...range Each instrument has a finite note range read more about this on page 15 This means that upper keys may become silent if you transpose upwards Adding effects 1 Select the program number 1 1 whic...

Page 11: ...eel Mode on page 19 These will dramatically change 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...

Page 12: ...e 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 a...

Page 13: ...lly simulated in the Nord Electro 4 HP SW which means that you get all the possible original Clavinet D6 sound varia tions plus an additional four by selecting different pick up and filter combination...

Page 14: ...Rotary menus The 128 programs in the Electro 4 HP SW are organized in 32 pages with 4 programs in each page Up Down buttons The Up Down buttons to the left of the display have several functions in th...

Page 15: ...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 e...

Page 16: ...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 Th...

Page 17: ...t 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...

Page 18: ...e 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 4 HP SW transmits and responds to Range...

Page 19: ...ll be muted when the percus sion is activated to mimic the behavior of an original organ Range C Cancel nO Normal default Rotary Menu 1 Rotary Model There is one rotary model available with two separa...

Page 20: ...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...

Page 21: ...a sequencer Connections 1 Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 4 HP SW to the MIDI In on your sequencer 2 Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the Nord Electro 4 HP SW Local...

Page 22: ...ssion on the transmitting device If the dump contained all Programs All it will replace all programs cur rently stored in the Nord Electro 4 HP SW If the dump contained only a single program it will b...

Page 23: ...ey 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...

Page 24: ...onitor In 6 Mono 13 O Octave Shift 10 15 Organ Model 11 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...

Page 25: ...he 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 f...

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