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About the programs

Complete settings of every function on the panel are stored in the 
Program memory of the Nord Piano 2. This memory area has 240 
locations that are organized in 2 Banks (A & B), each Bank with 24 
Pages, with 5 programs in each page. Every program can be edited 
and replaced as you wish. A complete set of the factory programs are 
available on the Nord DVD and on the Nordkeyboards.com web site.

Select a program

Programs are selected by pressing the five Program buttons, 
located below the display. 

Press the Up or Down buttons repeatedly, located to the left of the 
display, to select the desired Page number. When you’ve changed 
the Page, a program will be active immediately.

The Factory programs are organized in the following fashion, which al-
low you to select a program number and then find similar programs by 
changing the page with the Up/Down buttons: 

Program

Description

1

Clean, un-processed pianos.

2

Pianos with EQ.

3

Split programs with pianos to the right.

4, 5

Layers and pianos with more effects.

 

Press and hold the 

Up or Down

 buttons to continuously scroll 

through the Pages. 

Hold Shift and press Up or Down to select Bank A or Bank B.

Edit a program

Editing a program is as easy grabbing a knob or pressing a button to 
change an existing setting; go ahead and give it a quick try.

Use the buttons to get bank A, Page 01, Program 1 for this 
exercise. The display looks something like this: 

The controls for the Piano instrument are located immediately to the 
right of the Program/Display area on the panel. Notice that the Grand 
type is the current type in this program.

Select a new piano sound

Press repeatedly on the Piano Type selector to browse the 6 
types. Each piano type can hold several models. 

Press repeatedly on the Piano 
Model Up or Down buttons, located 
beneath the Model LED and play 
on the keys to listen to the different 
sounds.

This will cycle through the models that 
are available in the selected piano type. 

 

Hold Shift and press the Model 
buttons to transpose the piano one 
octave up or down.

Changing any parameter on the Nord Piano 2 panel will immediately 
cause an asterisk to appear next to the current program number in the 
display. 

This is provided to you as an indication that the program has been 
edited/changed, but not yet saved into memory. If you select a new 
program without performing a Store operation, your edits will be lost 
and that program will have its original settings the next time you select 
it.

A : 01 : 1       
Grand  Imperial 

A : 01 : 1*     
Grand  Imperial  

Getting Started

Let’s take a few minutes to get familiar with the Nord Piano 2. 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 in this short chapter, we will go through most of the functions. 

10  |   Nord PiaNo 2 User MaNUal os v1.1X

Summary of Contents for Nord Piano 2 HA88

Page 1: ...User Manual Nord Piano 2 HA88 Nord Piano 2 HP OS Version 1 1x Part No 50373 Copyright Clavia DMI AB Print Edition D...

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: ...nspose 15 Transpose Clear 15 Kbd Touch 15 Mono Output 15 Kbd Split 15 Synt Pno 15 Pno Synt 15 Set Split 15 Sustped Off 16 Piano 16 Level 16 Acoustics 16 String Resonance 16 Long Release 16 Pedal Noise...

Page 4: ...anized in 2 banks A B each with 24 pages with 5 programs in each page There are also five Live buffer memories which will continuously store any changes as they are made All of the 240 programs in the...

Page 5: ...ross an 88 note keyboard Every key has its own samples String Resonance String Resonance is the acoustic phenomenon that occurs inside an acoustic piano or grand when strings or parts of strings reson...

Page 6: ...the strings which creates a different muted type of sound Since the Nord Triple Pedal is dynamic you can experiment with various forces in pressing and also in releasing the pedal If you just slip yo...

Page 7: ...utton Shift is also used together with the Up Down buttons when you want to change a setting in the System MIDI or Sound menus If you press and hold Shift while turning a knob the parameter value will...

Page 8: ...M Signals connected to this input will not be processed with the Piano 2 s effects or appear at the Piano s left and right output jacks MIDI Connections MIDI In MIDI connection used to receive MIDI d...

Page 9: ...edal If you operate this all the notes that you play will sustain until the pedal is released again The Triple Pedal can also introduce the dynamic pedal noise functionality and it can be used with ha...

Page 10: ...bank A Page 01 Program 1 for this exercise The display looks something like this The controls for the Piano instrument are located immediately to the right of the Program Display area on the panel No...

Page 11: ...the Nord Piano 2 This prevents you from overwriting a program that you want to keep 5 Press the Store button a second time to confirm your intention The edited program has now replaced the previous on...

Page 12: ...ersion Flang 2 is a more pronounced effect and when both Flang 1 and Flang 2 LEDs are lit you have selected the most dramatic flanger effect If you double tap on the Source button the instrument that...

Page 13: ...pright piano Kbd Touch settings The Nord Piano 2 is equipped with three additional Kbd Touch settings Some of the piano instruments in the Nord Piano 2 have very wide dynamic ranges by nature and we w...

Page 14: ...lso display values and settings when you change any of the functions on the panel Press and hold Shift while turning a knob to display the value without changing it Store The red Store button is used...

Page 15: ...will be lit 3 Press the Transpose button again to turn it off The transposition setting will be retained even when the function is turned off M M In the System Menu there is a global transpose that w...

Page 16: ...ivating this you will recreate the mechanical noise that happens when you operate the sustain pedal on an acoustic or electric piano This feature can only be heard if the Nord Triple Pedal is attached...

Page 17: ...may not be silenced at once The actual sound can be made to be gradually faded out with the Release function on the Nord Piano 2 Increasing the release time by turning the Release knob clockwise make...

Page 18: ...lliseconds The delay effect is stereo in stereo out Dry Wet The Dry Wel knob sets the balance between the dry unprocessed signal and the wet processed signal Feedback The Feedback is the number of rep...

Page 19: ...Off M M Local defaults back to Local On every time the Nord Piano 2 is powered on Control Change CC Mode This setting specifies how the front panel s knobs and buttons are han dled in the MIDI commun...

Page 20: ...shown in the display if you operate the pedal This can help you match the performance of a pedal that isn t directly available in this menu Type Roland EV5 default Roland EV7 Yamaha FC7 Korg Fatar SL...

Page 21: ...hods to download the sounds to the unit and a function to backup and restore the entire Nord Piano 2 content The Nord Sound Manager and the user manual for the application can be found on the DVD that...

Page 22: ...in each bank transmit and respond to MIDI Program Change values 0 119 The Live Mode programs use MIDI Program Change 120 124 MIDI Sysex System Exclusive Individual or all Programs can be transmitted a...

Page 23: ...he MIDI Out on the transmitting device to the MIDI IN on the Nord Piano 2 2 Initiate the transmission on the transmitting device If the dump contained all Programs All it will replace all programs cur...

Page 24: ...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 25: ...I Channel 19 MIDI Controller list 23 MIDI In 8 MIDI Indicator 14 MIDI Menu 19 MIDI Out 8 Model 16 Monitor In 8 Mono 15 Music Stand 9 P Pedal Menu 20 Pedal Noise 16 Phaser 18 Piano 16 Piano Type 16 Pre...

Page 26: ...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...

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