Clavia Nord Stage Revision C User Manual Download

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Nord Stage v3.1x

6. The Instruments: The Synth section

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In the Nord Stage, oscillator sync is possible with sawtooth, pulse, triangle and cosine waveforms,
each providing different spectral character.

Summary of Contents for Nord Stage Revision C

Page 1: ...Part No 50250 Nord Stage v3 1x Print edition 3 2 OS Version 3 1x User Manual ...

Page 2: ... cart or a stand that is recommended by the manufacturer 4 This product either alone or in combination with an amplifier and headphones or speakers may be perfectly capable of producing sound levels that could cause permanent hearing loss Do not operate for a long period of time at a high volume level or at a level that is uncomfortable If you experience any hearing loss or ringing in the ears you...

Page 3: ... panel 10 Audio connections 10 MIDI connections 10 Connecting pedals 11 4 Getting Started 12 About Instruments 12 About Programs 12 Activating instrument sections 13 About Panel A B 14 Setting output Level for instruments 15 Adding a Global effect 15 5 The Program section 16 Overview 16 What is a Program 19 Storing Programs 20 6 The Instruments 22 Introduction 22 Common Features 22 The Organ Secti...

Page 4: ...etups 58 9 The Morph Assign feature 60 About Morph Assign 60 Using Morph an example 60 Morph Assignable parameters 61 About setting Morph parameter ranges 62 Clearing Morph Assignments 62 About Aftertouch 62 10 The Extern section 63 About the Extern section 63 Setting up 63 Using the Extern section 63 The Parameter section 64 11 System functions 66 System menu 66 Sound Menu 68 MIDI menu 68 Extern ...

Page 5: ...Nord Stage Manager 72 Overview 72 The Quick Tour 75 Nord Stage Manager reference 79 Tabs 84 14 MIDI functions 86 About the MIDI implementation 86 Using Nord Stage with a sequencer 87 Program Controller and Synth Sound dumps 88 Panic 89 15 MIDI implementation 90 MIDI Controller list 90 MIDI Implementation Chart 93 Index 95 ...

Page 6: ...Table of contents Nord Stage v3 1x 4 ...

Page 7: ...ings and that s what we did with the Nord Stage Think about it the best tool isn t a Swiss army knife FEATURES Nord Stage has the following main features Organ section with faithful reproductions of three classic models B3 Hammond V Type Vox Continental and F Type Farfisa Piano section with concert grand upright acoustic pianos Electric Pianos and Wurlitzer electric pianos Clavinet and Electric Gr...

Page 8: ...e digital PDF file format It can be downloaded free of charge from Clavia s web site at http www clavia se When reading the manual as PDF file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 0 or later This program can be downloaded free of charge at http www adobe com With Adobe Acrobat Reader it is possible to use special navigation features like hyperlinks This means that you can click with the mouse on a...

Page 9: ... section just like the other effects See The Rotor section on page 55 THE ORGAN SECTION The Organ section in the Stage features emulations of three classic organ models a Hammond B3 a Vox Continental II V Type and a Farfisa Compact DeLuxe F Type See The Organ Section on page 24 THE PIANO SECTION The piano section in Nord Stage comprises various multi sampled piano instruments Nord Stage uti lizes ...

Page 10: ...unds See The Effects on page 49 THE KEYBOARD The keyboard of the Nord Stage features 88 76 medium weighted keys or 73 semi weighted waterfall keys for optimal feel and response with piano instruments For organ sounds there is also a fast trigger response option which closely mimics the feel of a real organ The keyboard can be split into three Keyboard Zones to which any instrument section can be f...

Page 11: ...WBAR buttons are special in the way that they auto increment decrement the corresponding parameter when held I e if you hold a DRAWBAR button the corresponding drawbar parameter will continue to increment or decrement within its range until you release the button THE SHIFT BUTTON Many buttons and knobs have a second function printed in darker text just below the button or knob You access these add...

Page 12: ... stereo to your audio equipment you should use CH1 OUT in pair with CH2 OUT You can also route individual instruments to CH OUTPUTS 3 4 either in stereo or as two mono channels This is done on the System page see page 66 MIDI CONNECTIONS If you are using a Nord Stage together with a MIDI keyboard connect a MIDI cable from MIDI Out on the keyboard to MIDI IN on the Nord Stage If you are using Nord ...

Page 13: ... characteristics To simplify setup the most com mon pedal models Roland Yamaha Ernie Ball and Fatar are preconfigured in the Nord Stage and you simply select the type of pedal in the System menu See Ctrl Pedal Type on page 67 for more information about this setting THE ORGAN SWELL INPUT You can connect an expression pedal to the ORGAN SWELL input to control organ swell For the B3 organ the charact...

Page 14: ...ograms also contains settings for both Panel A and B see About Panel A B on page 14 For more details about the Program memory architecture see What is a Program on page 19 SELECTING PROGRAMS The Program memory in Nord Stage consists of 21 Program Pages with each Page holding 6 Pro grams for a total of 126 Programs All Programs can be edited and replaced at any time To select a Program for playing ...

Page 15: ...e deactivate instrument sections in the following ways Pressing the KB ZONE SELECT ON OFF button for an Instrument section so that one or more of the LEDs lights up will activate the corresponding instrument If all LEDs are lit the instrument will play across the whole range of the keyboard Any other active instrument s will in this case be layered with the instrument you just activated Pressing t...

Page 16: ... the other To copy the settings from another Panel to the active Program Panel press and hold one of the Panel buttons and turn the Value dial The display will indicate which of the Panels in the entire Program memory of the Stage that will be copied to the current Program Panel Don t forget to save any new Panel combination that you have created using this method if you want to keep it ABOUT PANE...

Page 17: ...e and amplifier speaker modelling with EQ and a Compressor and Reverb section The Compressor and Reverb effects are global and affect all instru ments routed to the main CH OUT 1 2 jacks The Rotor can process the same instru ment from both panels Organ A B Piano A B or Synth A B The other effects can process one freely selectable instrument per Panel To add a global reverb effect to a sound simply...

Page 18: ... Nord Stage Turn the VALUE DIAL in either direction to scroll through all Programs Program Page focus is shifted as needed Hold SHIFT and press or hold the PAGE buttons to step through the Programs Program Page focus is shifted as needed Press either of the LIVE 1 2 buttons to activate one of the special Live Buffers see About the Live 1 2 Buffers on page 19 PENDING PROGRAM CHANGE Normally a progr...

Page 19: ...wn SHIFT and pressing the button or turning the knob The Shift induced functions are always printed below the corresponding button or knob For example pressing SHIFT PRO GRAM 3 button will allow you to access the MIDI system parameters In a few cases the shift functionality can be acheived by double clicking a button This works pri marily with Keyboard Zone assignments and Effect source selects Th...

Page 20: ...sly See The Morph Assign feature on page 60 PANEL A B BUTTONS For each Program you have two independent Panels A and B where each Panel contains independent instances and settings of the three instrument sections and effects If you activate both Panels you can use two instruments of the same type at the same time e g two Piano instruments or a Split Organ setup see About Split Organ Setups on page...

Page 21: ...o part of a Program ABOUT THE LIVE 1 2 BUFFERS The special Live memory feature can be described as a live program memory If you activate the LIVE 1 OR 2 buttons all changes to panel settings you make will be continuously saved 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 settin...

Page 22: ...rently selected PROGRAM button indicator starts blinking and the DISPLAY will read Store to X X the current Page and Program number plus the Program name 2 Next step is to select a Page Program location to store the edited Program in You can use the PAGE buttons to select a Program Page 1 21 and the PROGRAM 1 6 buttons to select a Pro gram number on the selected Page or the Live 1 or 2 memories Al...

Page 23: ...ll available characters a z A Z 0 9 Space and By holding down SHIFT and pressing the INS PAGE button you enter a blank step at the cursor position By holding down SHIFT and pressing the DEL PAGE button you erase the character at the cur sor position Alternatively you can press and hold down the KB ZONES 2 OR 3 button This will bring up the characters in the DISPLAY with the focus on the character ...

Page 24: ...see About Split Organ Setups on page 29 COMMON FEATURES ACTIVATING THE SUSTAIN PEDAL PITCH STICK FOR INSTRUMENTS You can freely set which instruments should respond to a connected Sustain Pedal and to Pitch Bend To activate the Sustain pedal for an instrument press SHIFT SUSTPED button in the correspond ing instrument section so that the SUSTPED LED lights up below the button You use the same gen ...

Page 25: ...nstrument has a finite note range You can use Octave Shift to shift the pitch up or down within the instruments note range See Octave Shift on page 58 for more information OUTPUT ROUTING The Nord Stage has four audio outputs Each instrument can be freely assigned to output 1 2 de fault or 3 4 in stereo or to output 3 or 4 in mono The output routings can be set for each program or globally for all ...

Page 26: ...anner Modeling of the individual random contact bounces for each harmonic Modeling of the unique frequency characteristics of the built in pre amplifier which forms the body of the B3 sound Simulation of the energy stealth on the tone wheels that results in the typical compressed sound Authentic tuning of the tone wheels according to the original B3 design Extremely fast keyboard response Full pol...

Page 27: ...keyboard the harmonics are being transposed up or down with the fixed harmonic intervals PERCUSSION In the original B3 the Percussion effect is generated by a single en velope generator that controls either the 2nd or 3rd harmonic The envelope opens up for a short moment in the beginning of the sound when you press the key s You activate and deactivate the Percussion effect by pressing the ON butt...

Page 28: ...ed to the signal For the Chorus effect the phase modulated signal is added to the original signal A lot of time and effort have been spent in accurately recreating the chorus and vibrato scanner effect Like on the original B3 Nord Stage offers three different types of choruses C1 C3 and three different types of vibratos V1 V3 Select one of these types by pressing the SELECTOR button You activate a...

Page 29: ...he V Type or gan Note that the 6th drawbar from the left controls three har monics simultaneously 3rd 4th 8th The two rightmost draw bars determine the mix of the two basic waveforms that make up the sound generating source of the organ sound just like on the original You have access to sine soft and triangle bright waveforms which can be freely mixed together If these draw bars are both fully pus...

Page 30: ...ices for the F type also printed on the panel directly over the draw bars are as follows from left to right Note that the voices aren t supposed to replicate the instruments they are named after but rather to describe the basic tonal characteristic of the voice i e flute soft oboe reedy strings bright trum pet brassy Register selector Voice Panel Name 1 Bass 16 BAS16 2 Strings 16 STR16 3 Flute 8 F...

Page 31: ...KER The Rotor section rotary speaker simulation is logically placed next to the Organ section but you can also use it for Piano or Synth sounds just like the other effects The Rotor effect is described on page 55 ORGAN PRESET 1 2 For each Organ Model and separately for Panel A B you can store two organ Presets within a sin gle Program This is a quick way of changing between two sound variations wi...

Page 32: ... authentic ABOUT THE PIANO INSTRUMENTS Since all piano samples are stored in Flash memory you can easily add and or replace the stored piano instruments with new ones supplied free from Clavia When you download Piano instruments these will always automatically be loaded into the corre sponding Category The user can select whether to overwrite an existing instrument in this category or to add it as...

Page 33: ...d pianos E PIANO Electric Pianos WURL Wurlitzer electric pianos CLAV Clavinets Category Type Description Grand 1 Yamaha C7 Concert Grand sampled in stereo Grand 2 Steinway Concert Model D also in stereo with close miking Upright 1 A piano manufactured by Svenska Pianofabriken Swedish Piano Factory It was carefully tuned to sound like a typical parlour piano E Grand 1 Yamaha CP 80 Electric Grand E ...

Page 34: ...ntly selected instrument e g mic placement Close or Ambient and a revision number e g R5 E Piano 3 Electric Piano Mark V Stage Piano 73 built in June 1984 and adjusted to ideal timbre The volume adjustment is set to close The sound of the Mark V offers improved clarity in the upper range better consistency of tone in the low range and increased sustain Wurl 1 Wurlitzer 200A electric piano Clav 1 4...

Page 35: ...the Nord Stage have very wide dynamic ranges by nature and naturally we wanted to capture this as accurately as possible Therefore it could be perceived that it is a little hard to reach the most extreme levels when playing the Nord Stage piano sounds with the default keyboard Dynamics setting This is because the dynam ic response curves have been very carefully adjusted to match each original ins...

Page 36: ...eform with lots of overtones and then shape the color of the sound with a filter usually a low pass filter that removes some of the upper harmonics By modulating the filter cut off frequency while the note is playing dynamic timbres are created The Nord Stage Synth also provides other means to generate dynamic and rich sounds such as pulse width modulation oscillator sync and dynamic control over ...

Page 37: ...t losing polyphony This allows for some really thick sounds TIMBRE The central TIMBRE control is used to shape the sound in various ways depending on waveform and algorithm see below Timbre can be Morph controlled allowing wheel aftertouch or pedal control over the sound For some algorithms the TIMBRE knob is disabled TIMBRE CONTROL This knob governs the amount of modulation applied to the Timbre ...

Page 38: ...llators with adjustable relative pitch Timbre knob and detune Unison knob S Sawtooth synced A sawtooth oscillator with adjustable pitch offset hard synced by a second oscillator P Pulse One pulse oscillator with variable pulse width PF Pulse fixed time One pulse oscillator with adjustable pulse width The pulse width is constant over the keyboard P Pulse synced A pulse oscillator with adjustable pi...

Page 39: ...e wave where the pulse width is adjusted in absolute time values with the TIMBRE knob i e the pulse width is constant over the keyboard This results in a spectrum with fixed formants similar to the character of many acoustic instruments The waveform in itself is not different from the normal Pulse algorithm but it behaves differently over the keyboard range TRIANGLE The triangle waveform has only ...

Page 40: ... hard sync sounds When sync is applied the basic pitch of the oscillator is locked to that of the sync os cillator When you vary the relative pitch of the synchronized oscillator with the TIMBRE knob this will be perceived as a change in timbre with a frequency spectrum with deep resonance in the oscil lator s harmonics Tip When using Oscillator Sync it can be very useful to have the Timbre amount...

Page 41: ...e fre quency of another the carrier The carrier can in turn modulate the frequency of yet another oscilla tor etc There are several different algorithms in the FM category ranging from one up to three oscillators operators modulating each other in series with or without feedback on the first operator in the chain Example 1 a sawtooth wave synced by a sync oscillator The sawtooth wave is restarted ...

Page 42: ...ns available and you have many interesting FM sounds at your disposal When a new wave is selected the MAIN DISPLAY shows for a short dura tion the algorithm together with information on the frequency relations between the operators and whether feedback is used The WAVE DISPLAY shows the modulator s frequency relation to the car rier If an operator uses feedback it is indicated by a dot next to the...

Page 43: ...e a wide variety of timbres The TIMBRE knob does not have any effect in the Digital Wavetable category MOD ENVELOPE The Modulation Envelope is a simple two stage envelope used to modulate the tone col our over the duration of a note e g create a bright attack by modulating the filter in the start of the note The Mod Envelope has three modes Attack Decay ignoring key release Attack full sustain Rel...

Page 44: ...velope Mode The LEDs below the knob will show the selected mode The Attack Decay and Attack Release modes are illustrated below REPEAT In Repeat mode the Modulation Envelope restart directly after the Decay phase creating cyclic mod ulation like an LFO with shapable waveform where you can change the waveshape and cycle time by adjusting the Attack and Decay times A slow looping Mod Envelope can be...

Page 45: ... should take for the sound to reach from zero to full amplitude after a key has been pressed With long Attack settings the sound will gradually fade in RELEASE DECAY When the attack phase is over the envelope drops back to zero level Use the REL DECAY knob to set the time this should take ENV VEL If you hold SHIFT and turn the ATTACK knob so that the ENV VEL indicator lights up the volume of the n...

Page 46: ...by the Mod Envelope FILTER FREQUENCY CUTOFF With the FREQ knob you set the cutoff frequency Simply put if you turn the FREQ knob clockwise the high frequency content in the signal will increase This parameter can be Morph controlled LP FILTER In Nord Stage you can select between 12 dB octave and 24 dB octave 4 pole slopes for the low pass filter Press SHIFT and the 4 POLE button to switch type The...

Page 47: ...or higher notes as indicated in the illustration below At Full tracking both LEDs on the filter frequency tracks the keyboard 100 if you turn up the Resonance parameter to full so that the filter self oscillates and produces a pitch Filter Frequency will track to 12 notes oc tave If 2 3 or 1 3 is selected the filter frequency keyboard relationship is more subtle i e the filter frequency will incre...

Page 48: ... last note will sound If you now release the last key the first one will retrig and start sounding again To activate Mono mode press the SELECTOR button so that the MONO LED lights up LEGATO MODE To activate Legato mode press the SELECTOR button so that the LEGATO LED lights up In Legato mode you can only play one note at a time just like on a traditional monophonic synthe sizer If you play a new ...

Page 49: ...uce natural vibrato effects There are three basic methods you can use to control Synth Vibrato which is set using the SELECTOR button in the Vibrato section If Aftertouch A Touch is selected you can control the vibrato by pressing down held notes on the keyboard See About Aftertouch on page 62 You can also control vibrato using the Mod Wheel There are also three delay Dly 1 3 modes which automatic...

Page 50: ...has been edited a dot is shown after the number to reflect this in the SOUND SELECT DISPLAY STORING SYNTH PATCHES To store a Synth Patch press SHIFT and the STORE SYNTH button in the Voices section The display in the Sound Select section starts blinking You can now use the SOUND SELECT UP DOWN buttons to navigate to a memory location where you would like to store your Patch To switch category pres...

Page 51: ...he Panel effects Global Effects these affect all instruments routed to the main outputs CH1 CH2 The Com pressor and Reverb on the far right of the front panel are global effects See page 54 The Rotor Effect works slightly differently compared to Panel effects See The Rotor section on page 55 ABOUT MONO STEREO AND EFFECT ROUTING Some of the effects are mono in out some are stereo in out and others ...

Page 52: ...e Morph controlled see page 60 ABOUT THE FOCUS BUTTON If you have more than one effect activated in the Effects section e g Effect 1 and Effect 2 The FOCUS button is used to select which effect s settings Rate Tempo and Amount you currently see and can edit Pressing the Focus button will alternate focus between the currently activated effects The LED beside the corresponding Effect 1 Effect 2 Dela...

Page 53: ...vel at zero AMOUNT setting A PAN AUTO PAN The A Pan is an auto panning modulation that smoothly pans the signal between the Left and Right outputs You control the rate and amount of panning with the RATE TEMPO and AMOUNT knobs The Pan effect is stereo in out STATIC PAN CONTROL OF AN INSTRUMENT Sometimes you may want absolute manual control of over the panning of an instrument This can be done with...

Page 54: ...a very characteristic comb filter effect You set the flanging rate with the RATE TEMPO knob and the amount with the AMOUNT knob The Flanger ef fect is mono in out PHASER 1 2 The phaser effect produces a very characteristic sweep effect commonly used with electric piano sounds You control the rate of the phase shift with the RATE TEMPO knob and the phase shift amount with the AMOUNT knob This effec...

Page 55: ...onse and sound character of various amplifiers and speaker cabinets is often a desired effect that gives an organic quality to a too clean and perfect sound The special behavior of an amplifier speaker combination when pushed to its limit overdrive has been exploited by musicians for decades The Ampsim models faithfully reproduces the overdrive response of different amplifier cabinet combinations ...

Page 56: ...mpressor using the ON button The AMOUNT knob controls the amount of compression applied REVERB The Reverb section simulates the natural sound reflections in various acoustic en vironments You can choose between five reverb types indicated by the three LEDs lit one or two at a time The DRY WET knob sets the balance between the unprocessed and the processed signal Amp Model Description Amp 3 A simul...

Page 57: ...enu see Sound Menu on page 68 The DRIVE knob controls the amount of overdrive This simulates the pre amp overdrive effect of the original Leslies By plugging in a sustain pedal or a foot switch to the ROTOR SPEED PEDAL input you can control the Rotor speed see Using a Rotor Speed pedal on page 11 The Rotor Speed can also be Morph controlled see page 60 ABOUT THE ROTOR EFFECT S INTERNAL ROUTING The...

Page 58: ... an external keyboard or from a sequencer CREATING A SPLIT Creating a split so that different instruments are assigned to different keyboard zones is very easy to set up Proceed as follows 1 Activate two instrument sections e g an organ sound and a piano sound by pressing the KB ZONE SELECT buttons in each corresponding section so that the KB ZONE LEDs Lo Up Hi light up If you now play the keyboar...

Page 59: ...ding instrument will play across Zones 1 2 UP indicator lit the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 2 only UP HI indicators lit the corresponding instrument will play across Zones 2 3 HI indicator lit the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 3 only No indicator lit the instrument will not play at all from the internal keyboard but only from MIDI This alternative is only availa...

Page 60: ...one range In the illustration above a piano has been assigned to play in a KB Zone stretching from C4 to C6 Without Octave Shift the actual note range that will be played will be the same as the set Zone The dotted lines show which note range will be played in the set Zone when using Octave Shift In this case you can transpose the piano up or down two octaves so you can play any two octave note ra...

Page 61: ...between these modes without hav ing to bother with MIDI menus Having this function easily accessible on the front panel makes its easy to turn off and prevent the external keyboard to play when its used to play its own sounds Another advantage with the Dual KB mode is that you can access the knobs and parameters for either panel from the Nord Stage while the internal keyboard is always playing Pan...

Page 62: ...lows you to morph seamlessly between two sounds by using the Wheel 1 Set up so that you have two Instrument sections active e g the Piano and Organ section and that these are assigned to the same Zones so that they are layered when you play the keyboard 2 Set the LEVEL knob for one of the two active instrument sections to the maximum value fully clockwise and the LEVEL knob for the other active in...

Page 63: ...ion to control all rotary encoders knobs that show parameter values with LEDs and the organ drawbars Apart from the number of assignable parameters there is no limit to how many parameters you can control simultaneously using Morph The following parameters can be Morph controlled The LEVEL knobs for all Instrument sections The TIMBRE knob in the Synth section The FILTER FREQUENCY knob in the Synth...

Page 64: ...arameter will move from the first value to end up on the second value CLEARING MORPH ASSIGNMENTS To clear Morph Assignments press SHIFT and the corresponding button in the Morph Assign section that stores the assignments that you wish to clear To remove an individual parameter hold down the MORPH ASSIGN button that the parameter is as signed to The current range will be shown by the rotary encoder...

Page 65: ... see page 70 SETTING UP 1 Connect a MIDI cable from Nord Stage s MIDI Out to the MIDI In on the external device 2 Press SHIFT and the EXTERN button to access the Extern menu 3 Use The PAGE buttons to access the Extern MIDI A B Channel page 4 Use the VALUE DIAL to select the MIDI channel 1 16 you would like to transmit over Use the PANEL A and B buttons to access the channel setting for each panel ...

Page 66: ...PARAMETER rotary encoder at the top Simply put you select a parameter and vary the value of the selected parameter with the rotary knob The PARAMETER rotary encoder can also be Morph control led see page 60 The following parameters can be set using the Parameter Select buttons VOLUME If this is activated the PARAMETER rotary encoder will send MIDI Volume messages 0 127 allow ing you to control the...

Page 67: ...u may want to consult the manual for the external instrument to see which parameters are assigned to which CC numbers 4 Press the EXIT SHIFT button briefly to exit If you now activate the MIDI CC button in the Parameter Select section you can control the selected external parameter using the PARAMETER rotary encoder in the Extern section You can turn this off on the Extern menu see Extern menu on ...

Page 68: ... 6 semitones in steps of 1 semitone Default value is 0 no transpose Fine Tune Fine Tune can be used to adjust the pitch of instru ments in finer increments 50 Cents half a semi tone Default value is 0 no fine tune Audio Routing Mode The output routing of the instruments in the Nord Stage can be determined in two different ways glo bally or independently for each program When Glo bal is selected th...

Page 69: ...nality of the pedal is reversed i e when the pedal is up Rotor Speed is fast and vice versa Open Closed Default Rotor Pedal Mode If you are using a sustain pedal connected to control Rotor Speed this allows you to set how this should operate Hold means that the Rotor Speed is fast for as long as the pedal is down and reverts back to slow when the pedal is released or vice versa depending on the se...

Page 70: ...f only the Organ section should be controlled or to All if the volume of all sections should be controlled Organ Default All Memory Protect This is set to On when Nord Stage leaves the fac tory meaning that you cannot save any changes to Programs or Synth Souns Set this to Off if you wish to store your own Programs System settings and the two Live buffers are not protected by this setting On Off F...

Page 71: ...ble only through MIDI 1 16 Off Default off MIDI Dual KB Channel This sets the MIDI channel for an external keyboard when using Dual KB mode see page 59 1 16 Off Default 16 MIDI Prog Change Mode This allows you to set whether you want Nord Stage to transmit and or receive MIDI Program Change Messages Off Send Receive Send Receive Default MIDI Ctrl Change Mode This allows you to set whether you want...

Page 72: ...device Off Default 0 127 Extern MIDI A B Prog Change The Extern section can send MIDI Program Change messages 0 127 allowing you to change programs on the external device Off Default 1 128 Extern MIDI A B Prog Bank This allows you to change MIDI Program Bank on the external device Note that there are many different variations between instruments in how Banks are numbered and accessed via MIDI Nord...

Page 73: ...r a total of 126 Programs In addition there are the two Live buffer memories which will continuously store any changes as they are made and remember these settings after the power is shut off FACTORY PRESETS All factory Programs of Nord Stage can be replaced To make sure you don t accidentally overwrite Programs you want to keep it s a good idea to back up your sounds regularly on a computer or on...

Page 74: ... requires that the Nord Stage has OS version 3 1x or later If you run the Nord Stage Manager on a Windows computer you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 2 x or later installed Previous versions of the USB driver will not be compatible with the Stage Manager v3 x or the Nord Stage OS v3 x Nord Stage OS Updates USB drivers and instructions on how to install these are available at the www clav...

Page 75: ...Piano tab allows you to change the content of the Nord Stage Piano partition the Programs tab is the Program partition and the Synth tab allows you to organize the synth patches Each of these tabs is then divided into banks according to how the actual partition is organized in the Nord Stage The individual samples programs or patches will be referred to as sounds in this manual and in the applicat...

Page 76: ... 9 and a hyphen and the name can contain up to 16 characters Any other characters will not be displayed in the Stage Manager lists or in the Stage display Piano samples cannot be renamed this option will not be available if you right click on a Piano DELETE This will delete the selected sound s from the Nord Stage memory FILE FORMATS The Nord Stage Manager creates and uses files with the following...

Page 77: ...CD DVD that was included with the Nord Stage or available as a download from the www clavia se web site in the Nord Stage download area DELETING A PIANO FROM THE NORD STAGE 1 Connect the Nord Stage to the computer and launch the Nord Stage Manager 3 x 2 The Piano tab will open and the current content of the Piano partition in the Stage will be dis played 3 Select the piano to delete and press the ...

Page 78: ...rrect parent bank electric pianos can not added to the grand bank the grand s cannot be dropped in the clavinet bank etc Tip If the Free Locations option is active in the View menu you can drop a sound on any free location in the bank If this function is not active the new sound will be automatically placed at the first free location in the bank The various locations are selected using the Type se...

Page 79: ... or right click on the selected sound s and select Upload The dia logue will prompt you to browse to the desired destination folder on the hard drive The upload process may take a few moments depending on the size of the sounds UPLOAD A COMPLETE BANK OF SOUNDS FROM THE STAGE TO THE HARD DRIVE 1 Make sure that the desired partition and bank is focused in the Nord Stage Manager You will also have th...

Page 80: ... you that the content of the desti nation bank in the Nord Stage will be replaced with that of the source file If you select All in the destination bank drop down you can replace all the sounds in a partition with those on a folder structure on the hard drive If Search Subfolders is active you can browse to the top folder of a structure as the parent of the source files ORGANIZE THE PROGRAM OR SYN...

Page 81: ... occupied is not immediately available to other pianos even though it is gone from the list and its location is free The Flash memory needs to be cleaned to free up the space where the deleted sounds have been When you add a new piano sample the cleaning process will be initiated automatically You also have the option to manually start the cleaning process with the Clean Deleted Space command from...

Page 82: ...manner will take some time depending on the amount of pianos in the Nord Stage The Nord Stage Manager will suggest a location for the backup the first time this function is activated in My Documents Nord Stage Manager files If you rather save the backup file elsewhere use the browser to pick another location Tip Backing up from the Nord Stage Manager is done in an incremental manner Unless you cha...

Page 83: ...rive to the next avail able location in the selected partition BANK UPLOAD CTRL SHIFT U This allows you to upload an entire bank Pianos Programs or Synth patches to a folder on the com puter hard drive Select the desired source partition and bank and the destination folder If you select All all the banks in the partition will be uploaded The hierarchical folder structure of the chosen partition pa...

Page 84: ...ll then be irrevocably replaced by the content of the backup file CLEAN DELETED SPACE This function will clean up the space where any previously deleted Piano samples Programs or Synth patches have been This is done in order to make this deleted memory space available to new addi tions Deleted space that hasn t been cleaned yet will be indicated with yellow colour in the Memory Indicator Note Clea...

Page 85: ...different banks Please note that both lists rep resent the actual memory content in the Nord Stage Any actions that you make in either of the lists will affect the memory content in the Stage FREE LOCATIONS CTRL F When this option is checked the lists will show all the available locations in the selected partition bank and not only the occupied ones This will for instance make it easier to drag a ...

Page 86: ...pies in the Piano partition This unit is not shown in the Program or Synth lists VER VERSION NUMBER Version number of the Piano sample Program or Synth patch Please note that 3 x pianos programs or synth patches cannot be used with a Stage that has a 2 x operating system DATE Indicates the creation date of the Piano samples This unit is not shown in the Program or Synth lists RIGHT CLICK If you ri...

Page 87: ...el low indicates space from previously deleted items that isn t available yet and the green area indicates space that is available for additional sounds CANCEL BUTTON Use this function if you need to cancel a process that is in progress Certain functions like e g a re store process cannot be cancelled PROGRESS BARS The two progress bars indicate the progress of an ongoing process The upper bar sho...

Page 88: ...ain pedal connected to the SUSTAIN PEDAL INPUT this is transmitted and received as Controller 64 Sustain Pedal If you have a sustain pedal connected to the ROTOR SPEED INPUT this is transmitted and received as Controller 90 Almost all other controls knobs and buttons on the front panel are also transmitted and received as Control Change messages This can be used to record your actions on the front...

Page 89: ...d to respond to Program Change and Control Change MIDI messages see the MIDI menu on page 68 LOCAL ON OFF Local Off should be used when you use a sequencer to record and play back from Nord Stage Since the sequencer echoes back incoming MIDI data Nord Stage will respond normally to your playing and knob tweaking via the MIDI loop If you use Local On with a sequencer setup as described above this w...

Page 90: ...operly To solve this you could record a snapshot of all Controller settings of the Nord Stage Program s at the beginning of your sequencer song See Sending MIDI Controller dumps below PROGRAM CONTROLLER AND SYNTH SOUND DUMPS To dump Program Synth Sound or MIDI Controller SysEx via MIDI either to another Nord Stage or for recording the data into another MIDI device proceed as follows SENDING PROGRA...

Page 91: ...an select whether to send the synth patch from the active Panel one synth catogory or all synth sounds by using the VALUE DIAL 3 Press the STORE button to send the dump to the MIDI OUT of Nord Stage The Store indicator will stop flashing once the dump has been sent RECEIVE MIDI SYSEX DUMPS To receive a MIDI SysEx Dump do like this 1 Connect a cable from the MIDI Out on the transmitting device to M...

Page 92: ... Organ Drawbar 5 17 Organ Drawbar 6 18 Organ Drawbar 7 19 Organ Drawbar 8 20 Organ Drawbar 9 21 Organ Percussion Enable 22 Organ Type 23 Organ Vibrato Type 24 Organ Vibrato Enable 25 Organ Percussion Harmonic 26 Organ Percussion Speed 27 Organ Percussion Level 28 Organ PStick Enable 29 Piano Clav Filter 1 30 Piano Clav Filter 2 31 Piano Dynamics 33 Synth Glide Rate 34 Synth Glide Auto 35 Synth Voi...

Page 93: ...p Envelope Attack 54 Synth Amp Envelope Decay 55 Synth Amp Envelope Mode 56 Synth Amp Envelope Velocity 57 Synth EQ Gain Lo 58 Synth EQ Gain Hi 59 Effect 1 Type 60 Effect 1 Source 61 Effect 1 Amount 62 Effect 1 Rate 63 Effect 1 Enable 69 Effect 2 Type 70 Effect 2 Source 71 Effect 2 Amount 72 Effect 2 Rate 73 Effect 2 Enable 74 Delay Destination 75 Delay Amount 76 Delay Rate 77 Delay Feedback 78 De...

Page 94: ...verb Enable 97 Organ Enable Sustain Pedal 98 Organ Octave Shift 99 Organ Level 100 Organ Enable 101 Organ KB Zone Assignment 102 Piano Enable PStick 103 Piano Enable Sustain Pedal 104 Piano Octave Shift 105 Piano Level 106 Piano Enable 107 Piano KB Zone Assignment 108 Synth Enable PStick 109 Synth Enable Sustain Pedal 110 Synth Octave Shift 111 Synth Level 112 Synth Enable 113 Synth KB Zone Assign...

Page 95: ...d Remarks MIDI Channels 1 16 1 16 Individual channels for Panel A and B Velocity Note On Off Yes Yes Incoming Velocity data ignored for Organ Release velocity sent but not received Aftertouch Yes Yes Channel aftertouch only Pitch Bend Yes Yes Control Change Yes Yes See MIDI Controller list on page 90 Program Change Yes Yes 0 125 126 Live1 127 Live 2 System Exclusive Yes Yes See the MIDI Implementa...

Page 96: ...15 MIDI implementation MIDI Implementation Chart Nord Stage v3 1x Page 94 ...

Page 97: ... Pedal Type 67 D Decay Release Amp Envelope 43 Mod Envelope 42 Display 17 Drawbars B 3 24 Drawbars V type organ 27 Dual KB 59 Dual Panel setups 58 Dump Program source 69 Dump Program Source 69 E Editing Programs 13 Effects section 49 Env Mode 43 Env Vel Amp Envelope Synth 43 Mod Envelope Synth 42 EQ Synth 47 Ernie Ball control pedals 67 Expression pedal Technical requirements 11 Extern Section Abo...

Page 98: ...cer 76 implementation chart 81 local on off 75 Program Change 75 recording in sequencer 75 Program dump 76 send all MIDI controllers 77 Sysex dump of single Programs 76 Sysex reception of Program and Program Banks 77 MIDI Page 68 Mod Envelope Attack 41 Decay Release 42 43 Modulation Envelope 41 Repeat mode 42 Mono mode 46 Morph Assign About 60 Assignable parameters 61 Clearing 62 Multiple keyboard...

Page 99: ...12 Saving 20 Selecting 12 Q Q value Filter 45 R Rear panel 10 Register selectors V type 28 Release Amp Envelope 43 Mod Envelope 42 Release velocity 74 Resonance Filter 45 Reverb 54 RM Effect 51 Roland control pedals 67 Roland Jazz Chorus 54 Rotor Effect 55 Rotor effect Internal routing 55 Rotor Pedal Mode 67 Rotor Pedal Polarity 67 Rotor Speed pedal Connecting 11 S Send On Load Extern 65 Shift but...

Page 100: ...Transpose 66 Tremolo modulation 51 U Unison Synth 47 USB for downloading Piano instruments 72 V V1 V3 Organ Vibrato 26 Value Dial 17 Velocity Sensitivity Piano Dynamics Piano 33 Vibrato F Type organ 28 Vibrato organ 26 Vibrato Synth 47 V Type Organ Vox Continental 27 W Wurlitzer 200A internal speaker 54 Y Yamaha control pedals 67 ...

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