Overview
You can work with the contents of the Piano, Sample, Organ Presets
and the Program partitions. These are accessed from the tabs, conve-
niently labeled, Piano, Samp Lib, Program and Organ Presets.
If no Nord Electro 3 is connected to the computer, pages, icons and
memory locations will be grayed out.
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The actions that take place in the Nord Sound Manager will affect
the memories in the Nord Electro 3. The Manager is on-line with a
connected Electro 3 at all times; any changes that you perform in
the Manager will immediately be executed in the Nord Electro 3.
If you e.g. delete a piano, sample or a Program from the list in the
Nord Sound Manager, that same sound will also be deleted from
the Nord Electro 3 Flash memory.
The Toolbar
The Toolbar gives you direct access to some of the more frequently
used functions in the Nord Sound Manager. Clicking on an icon will
activate one of these functions, and a dialogue will often appear asking
for confirmation or further instructions from you.
The Tabs
Select the partition that you wish to work in with the Tabs. The Piano
tab allows you to change the content of the piano partition, the Samp
Lib tab is the sample partition and the Program tab allows you to
organize the programs etc. The individual pianos, samples, programs or
organ presets will be referred to as “sounds” in this manual and in the
application itself.
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Press Ctrl+Tab on the computer keyboard to cycle between the
tabs.
The lists can be ordered according to location, name, size, version and
date, in ascending and descending order. Just click on a headline to
select a preferred view.
Partition Memory Indicator
The memory indicator at the bottom of the window indicates how much
memory is being used in the selected partition. The red area shows the
used memory, green indicates space that is available for new sounds..
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Nord Sound Manager
The Nord Sound Manager is the application that allows you to organize the various memory areas, the partitions in the Nord Electro 3. It is also used
to download pianos, samples or programs to the Nord Electro 3 or to upload any of these items - called sounds - from the Nord Electro 3 memory
to the computer hard drive. The Nord Sound Manager provides access to various methods to download the sounds to the unit and a function to
backup and restore the entire Nord Electro 3 memory.
System requirements
The Nord Sound Manager is compatible with computers running Mac OSX 10.4 or later, Windows XP and Windows Vista. If you run the Manager on
a Windows computer, you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 2.14 or later installed. The Nord Electro 3 OS has to be v2.0 or later.
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Nord Electro 3 OS Updates, USB drivers and instructions on how to install these are available at the www.nordkeyboards.com website and on
the DVD that accompanies this unit.
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