Chapter 7 piano
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The Piano sounds
The Pianos in the Nord Stage 2 EX are organized into six types. Each
type can contain several instrument models. You can freely add new
piano instruments via USB using the Nord Sound Manager.
Right out of the box, the Nord Stage 2
EX features a fine collection of carefully
selected acoustic and electric pianos,
and harpsichords. A lot of effort was
made to ensure that the response and
sound of the instruments matches
every nuance of the real article. Each
piano instrument has been multi-sam-
pled in a vast amount of velocity levels.
That’s one reason why they all sound
and feel so authentic.
Since all pianos are stored in the Flash
memory, you can easily add and/or
replace any stored piano instruments
with new ones, supplied free from
Nord. The size of the available memory
for the piano samples is approximately
1 Gigabyte.
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When you download piano instruments with the Nord Sound
Manager, these will always automatically be placed into the cor-
responding type.
A program “knows” which piano instrument to use by referencing to
the type and the model number. If a program references to a piano
instrument that isn’t currently loaded, the Type and Model LED will
flash, with the missing Model number. If this happens, you can either
navigate to another instrument Model in the selected (or any other) type
and select to use this piano instead, or use the Nord Sound Manager
utility to download an instrument into the empty Model location.
Piano Select
Type
Use the Piano Type selector to choose which piano sound you want to
use.
Type
Description
Grand
Acoustic and electric grand pianos
Upright
Upright pianos
E Piano 1
Electric Pianos (tines)
E Piano 2
Electric Pianos (reeds)
Clavinet
Clavinets
Harpsi
Harpsichords
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The type of a piano has been set for you by a bloke named Hans
at the Nord HQ. You cannot move a piano from one type to
another.
Info
Hold Shift and press Type/Info to display the name, a brief description
and version number of the currently selected piano.
Model
Each Piano Type can contain several Piano Models, depending on the
contents of the internal memory. Press repeatedly on the Model button
to select the desired sound. The number of the model will be indicated
in the LED display, and the name of the model will be shown in the sec-
ond row of the display.
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In the unlikely event that some data of a sound in the Flash memo-
ry is damaged, this will be indicated with a message in the LCD
when the Nord Stage 2 EX is powered up. The Type and Model
LEDs will flash for this particular sound if a program that uses it is
selected. Press Shift/Exit to continue playing. To remedy the error,
connect the unit to the Sound Manager to delete and then reload
the piano.
Clavinet
On the original Clavinet D6, you selected different pick-up combina-
tions by pressing a number of rocker switches. This functionality is
faithfully simulated by the Nord Stage 2 EX, which means that you get
all the original Clavinet D6 pickup selections by pressing the Model but-
ton when the Clavinet is the selected Type.
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Piano
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