NORD MODULAR G2 V1.1
8. Working with the synth: Layering Patches
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First of all you have to activate the Slots you plan to use
as described above. Then, simultaneously press the
S
LOT
buttons containing the Patches you want to lay-
er. Alternatively, double-click the
S
LOT
buttons, one
by one, to add them to the layer. The
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EYBOARD
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S
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SIGN
LED
for each selected Slot in the layer will light
up
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The
A
CTIVE
/F
OCUSED
S
LOTS
LED
for the cur-
rently focused Slot will flash to indicate it’s selected for
editing. The Patches in the active Slots will now sound
when you play the keyboard or send MIDI Note data
on the
MIDI I
N
on the Global MIDI Channel (see
). Change focused Slot
by pressing another active
S
LOT
button. Deselect a Slot from the layer by double-clicking the
S
LOT
but-
ton you want to exclude from the layer. (See more about layering Patches in
).
Note that every time you load a Patch into any Slot, there will be a brief moment of silence when the
Sound engine recalculates and optimizes the Patch data.
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By default, changing keyboard focus by pressing a Slot
button in a layer automatically also changes the edit fo-
cus. By ‘edit focus’ we mean the Slot which holds the
Patch currently enabled for editing from the front pan-
el (and from the Editor). In some situations you may
want to have the edit focus on a Patch in a Slot which
is different from the Patch you’re playing from the key-
board. Then, Hold down the
F
OCUS
/C
OPY
button
and press the desired
S
LOT
button. This will change
the edit focus but not the keyboard focus. In the pic-
ture to the right, Slot A has edit focus and Slot C has keyboard focus.
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The Morph function lets you continuously control defined ranges of several parameters in a Patch, using
only a single control source. This lets you produce radical changes in a sound in a very fast and easy way.
Nord Modular G2 features eight separate Morph groups per Patch. You may assign a total of 25 param-
eters to these 8 Morph groups in each Patch. A parameter can also be assigned so several Morph groups
(all 8 if you like), and thus be controlled differently from several sources. Also, if you use several Varia-
tions in a Patch, the Morph group assignments can be different for each Variation. The control sources
are Keyboard Velocity, Keyboard Range, Keyboard Aftertouch, Control Pedal, Sustain/Switch Pedal,
Modulation Wheel, Pitch/Control Stick and/or any
A
SSIGNABLE
K
NOB
on the front panel.
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Synth
Dream synth
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Dream synth
