Clavia nord lead, Owner'S Manual

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Page 70 MIDI
4. If your sequencer requires you to transmit on a certain MIDI Channel (the same MIDI Channel as the slot
receives on), select the desired slot, before recording.
5. If needed, set the sequencer up to record and play back on the desired MIDI Channel.
6. Activate recording and play the Nord Lead.
7. For an overdub with a new sound, either select the next Program slot, or just select a new Track and a new
MIDI Channel in the sequencer.
Which of the two alternatives that is right for you depends on your sequencer, not the Nord Lead.
Program Change
For the Nord Lead to transmit and receive Program Change messages, Program Change must be activat-
ed, see page 59.
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To record a Program Change for a certain Program slot, activate recording in the sequencer and simply
select a new Program for the slot.
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To record a change of Performance, go into Performance mode, activate recording in the sequencer and
select the Performance from the front panel.
When playing back the Performance Program Change message from the sequencer, make sure it gets
transmitted on the Nord Lead’s
Global MIDI Channel (see page 60).
Controllers
For the Nord Lead to transmit and receive Control change messages from the front panel this must be
activated, see page 59. Modulation wheel and pedal, however, are always transmitted/received.
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When you record front panel movements, make sure you have the right Program slot activated, and that
the sequencer “echoes” the changes back on the right MIDI Channel, or your changes will affect the
wrong sound!
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If two (or more) Program slots are set up to receive on the same MIDI Channel, both will be affected by
the changes!
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Please read the note about Controller transmission in Local Off mode on page 58.
Some notes about Controllers and “Chasing”
Consider a situation in which you record a Controller message, e.g. a filter opening, in the middle of your
sequencer song. Then you “rewind” the sequencer, to a position before the recorded filter opening. The
problem is, that the Nord Lead’s filter will remain opened, although it really should be as it was before
you recorded the filter opening. To solve such problems, several sequencers include a function called
“chasing”, which keeps track of Controller changes and tries to adjust the settings on the instrument ac-
cording to the current position in the sequencer song.
However, in our case, this wouldn’t help much, because the filter opening was the first Controller mes-
sage recorded in the song. The sequencer has no information about the filter setting before the recorded
change, and therefore cannot “chase” the settings properly. To solve this, you could record a “snapshot”
of all Controller settings on the Nord Lead panel, at the beginning of your sequencer song. This is best
done by sending an “All Controllers Request” Sys Ex message from the sequencer to the Nord Lead,
which will respond by dumping all its Controller values into the sequencer for recording. The “All Con-
trollers Request” message is described on page 95.