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Nord Wave User Manual OS V1.00
Sample Instrument.
The typical workflow is to first create and edit all the
samples in the Project to your liking, then generate a
Sample Instrument and download this to a Nord Wave.
Then you would use that Sample Instrument and create a
great Program using all the functions in the Wave, and save
this as a Program.
Go back to the same original Project, and upload the pa-
rameters from the Wave to the Project, save the Project and
finally generate and download the now more complete
Sample Instrument again to the Nord Wave.
Get
Press this button to get the program settings of the cur-
rently active program from a connected Nord Wa
Status
Will indicate the current status of the function.
Play Mode
This allows you to choose if a sample should be pitched ac-
cording to the standard 12 tone interval when you play the
keys it has been assigned to, or to play back at its original
pitch, regardless of what key you play.
If you e.g. have some drum samples that span several keys,
they could be set to Unpitched if you want them to play at
the same, original pitch.
Nord Wave tab
This is where you find the librarian functions of the Nord
Wave Manager. You can work with the Sample Instrument
memory, and the Program memory. These are labeled
instruments and Programs in the dropdown menu. If no
Nord Wave is connected to the computer, the pages and
memory locations will be grayed out.
The actions that take place in the Nord Wave Tab
F
will affect the memories in the actual synthesizer.
The Nord Wave Manager is online with the synth at
all times, so any changes that you perform in the
Manager will immediately be echoed in the synth.
If you e.g. delete a Sample Instrument from the list
in the Nord Wave Manager, that same SI will also be
deleted from the Nord Wave Flash memory, without
any warnings or confirmation dialogs.
Instruments - Programs
Select the memory area that you wish to work with. Instru-
ments is the Sample Instrument area, the Flash memory.
The Programs option is quite unsurprisingly the Program
memory area.
Instruments list
There are 99 possible locations for Sample Instruments in
the Nord Wave Flash memory. The Flash capacity is 180 MB,
and this is of course allocated dynamically. You can have
one Sample Instrument, that contains one sample that
is using up all the memory capacity, or you can have 99
Sample Instruments with 99 samples each, as long as the
combined sizes of these are kept within the 180 MB limit.
When you generate a Sample Instrument from a Project in
the Nord Wave Manager, and download this to the Wave,
this Sample Instrument will be saved at the first available
location in the Flash memory.
If the locations are occupied one after the other in a con-
secutive manner, it will then appear at the end of the list
in the Nord Wave tab. If there is an empty location in the
middle of the list, it will be saved to this location.
The Sample Instrument list may be ordered by position,
alphanumerically by name, according to sizes, versions or
date of last edit by clicking on the appropriate heading.
Right-click
If you right-click on a Sample Instrument in the list, you will
get the following options:
Delete
– This will delete the Sample Instrument from the
Nord Wave Flash memory. Any Program in the Nord Wave
that used that particular Sample Instrument will probably
sound very different, since it will be missing an important
component.
The space that the deleted SI occupied is not immediately
available to other SI:s, even though it is gone from the
list and its location is free. The Flash memory needs to be
cleaned to get rid of any deleted samples in order to free
up the space.
Upload to backup folder
– This will upload the Sample
Instrument to the computer hard drive. It will be saved as a
.nwi file, in a folder structure in the same folder where the
Nord Wave Manager is located.
Just as any other computer file on your hard drive, this .nwi
may be renamed, emailed, copied, moved, lost or even
stored in a safe location if an evil computer crash suddenly
decides to take your hard drive for ride.
Note: If you want to rearrange the order of the
F
Sample Instruments, there are a few things to con-
sider. A Program in the Nord Wave that uses a Sample
Instrument does not know what the sound of the SI is.
The Program is only referring to a Sample Instrument
location number. If you have Programs that uses
Sample Instruments, and then you rearrange the or-
der of these in the Nord Wave Manager, the Programs
may sound quite different.
Expanded
When this option is checked, the list will show all the avail-
able 99 locations in the Flash memory. This will for instance
make it easier to drag an .nwi file to a specific location in
the middle of the list. If this is unchecked, only the occu-
pied locations will be shown.
