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PIaNo
oN/oFF, lEvEl aNd ZoNE sElEct
the Piano section is turned on or off by pressing its
ON/OFF
button. the
LEVEL
knob controls the volume of the Piano sound.
Press
ZONE SELECT
(shift + on/off), to assign the Piano to one or both
of the two keyboard zones. the
KBD ZONE
lEds indicate the zones to
which the Piano section is assigned. read more about split set-ups on
page 17.
octavE UP/doWN
Use
OCTAVE UP/DOWN
to transpose the Piano section up or down by
octaves (+/- 12 semitones). When assigned to the entire keyboard it can
be transposed one octave up or down. When assigned to only one zone
the available transpose values will vary, but always provide access to the
entire range of the Piano.
sUstPEd aNd ctrlPEd
SUSTPED
(shift + octave Up) activates any attached sustain pedal for
the Piano section. read more on how to configure an attached pedal in
the Menus chapter, on page 27.
CTRLPED
(shift + octave Up) assigns an attached control pedal as vol-
ume control for the Piano section.
Both the sustain and control pedal can be active at the same time,
indicated by both lEds being lit.
aBoUt tHE PIaNo soUNds
the Pianos in the Nord Electro 6 are organized into six
categories
. Each
category can contain several instrument
models
. New piano sounds can
be downloaded from the
www.nordkeyboards.com
website and added
to the Nord Electro 6 by using the Nord sound Manager.
right out of the box, the Nord Electro 6 features a fine collection of
carefully selected acoustic and electric pianos, digital piano sounds and
piano layers. a lot of effort was made to ensure a nuanced response
and sound, matching the original models as closely as possible.
the available memory size for piano sounds is 1 Gigabyte.
M
When you download piano instruments with the Nord Sound
Manager, these will always automatically be placed into their corre-
sponding category.
a program “knows” which piano to use by referencing to the category
and the model number. If a program references a piano that isn’t cur-
rently downloaded onto the Nord Electro 6, the display will read “Piano
not found”. If this happens; either navigate to another instrument model
from the same or another category (using the Piano select dial) and
select to use this piano instead, or use the Nord sound Manager appli-
cation to download the missing instrument to the Electro 6.
aBoUt PIaNo sIZE
Nord Piano library sounds come in up to four different sizes. Below is
an overview of how they differ in functionality:
sml
Med
lrg
xl
stereo sampled
3
3
3
3
detailed velocity mapping
3
3
3
3
String resonance
for middle range
3
String resonance
for entire range
3
3
Fully mapped keyboard
3
Small
(sml) piano files use the least amount of space in the piano mem-
ory as they do not contain any pedal-down string resonance samples
at all.
the
Medium
(Med) versions include pedal-down string resonance
samples for the important middle region of the range.
the
Large
(lrg) versions have the pedal-down string resonance sam-
ples all across the keyboard.
Many pianos are also available in an
Extra Large
(xl) version. these are
“fully mapped” across the keyboard, meaning that each key on the Nord
now matches its exact equivalent on the original instrument. this natu-
rally imposes a substantial increase in size.
