The front panel of the Nord Electro 3 has four main areas, Organ,
Piano, Program and Effects. We’ll familiarize ourselves briefly with the
panel here and describe the functions in detail in the following chapters.
On the left part of the panel is the Master Level knob, the organ model
selector and the Rotary Speed section. The Master level controls the
entire instruments output level at the two output jacks and the head-
phone output. This control is not programmable, that particular func-
tionality is instead available in the effects section with the Gain control.
The Organ section is lit and active when the Organ selector in the
Program area is activated.
Moving towards the middle of the panel, the Piano section behaves just
as the organ. The controls are lit when the Piano selector is active.
The Program section contain the parameters and functions that are
used to select and store programs, to set the System, MIDI and Sound
functions and to select the instrument to be used with the Organ or
Piano selectors. We’ll describe the functions in this area in greater detail
starting at page 15.
The Effect section contains the functions of the effects. Please refer to
page 16 for more information.
The functions and settings of the System, MIDI and Sound menus are
conveniently printed to the right on the panel.
Knobs & buttons
Knobs
The knobs control the continuously variable pa-
rameters in the Nord Electro 3.
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A parameter value can be totally different from the knob’s physical
position when you load a Program. As soon as you start turning
the knob, the value will ‘snap’ to the knob’s physical position.
Selector buttons
Selector buttons are used to activate one setting
in an array. Selector buttons have a set of round
or triangular LEDs to indicate the current setting.
Press the button several times to cycle through the
possible options.
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Holding Shift and pressing a selector button (with the exception
of the Type button) will cycle through the settings in a counter
clockwise fashion.
On/Off buttons
On/Off buttons are used for activating a parameter
or a group of parameters such as effects.
Shift button
Some buttons have a secondary function, which
will be available if you hold down Shift while
pressing the button. The name of the secondary
function is printed below the button. Shift is also
used together with the Up/Down buttons when
you want to change a setting in the System, MIDI
or Sound menus.
Drawbars
The nine drawbars of Nord Elec-
tro 3 are represented by up/down
buttons and LED chain graphs
instead of ordinary mechanical
drawbars. This gives you a big
advantage; when you change
presets, the correct drawbar set-
tings are shown immediately by
the LEDs.
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