Acoustics
1
Select a Grand piano by pressing the
Piano Type selector.
2
Press the Acoustics button to turn on
the String Resonance functionality if it
not active already.
3
Play and hold a chord with your left hand, and while the sound
decays, play some staccato notes with your right hand. You can
hear that some of the new notes excites the held notes, making
them “ring” in a sympathetic resonance.
String Resonance is the acoustic phenomenon that occurs when
strings, or parts of strings, resonate at their fundamental or harmonic
frequencies when other strings are played.
When this functionality is turned on, all notes you play will affect each
other to reproduce the wonderful acoustics that occurs inside an
acoustic grand or upright piano.
4
Press and hold the Shift button and press the Acoustics button to
turn on the Pedal Noise feature.
5
Without playing any notes, step on the Nord Triple Pedal with vari-
ous intensities. You can hear the pedal noise and how it changes
according to the force.
By activating this, the mechanical noise that occurs when you operate
the sustain pedal on a acoustic or electric piano will be recreated. The
Nord Triple Pedal is dynamic, you can control the level of the noise by
the force you use when you operate the sustain pedal.
Kbd Touch settings
The Nord Piano is equipped with three ad-
ditional Kbd Touch settings.
Some of the piano instruments sampled
for the Nord Piano have very wide dynamic
ranges by nature and naturally we wanted to
capture this as accurately as possible.
However, If you want the piano sounds to respond more easily to key-
board velocity, you can set this with the Kbd Touch feature.
When the LEDs are off, the default setting is active. Should you wish to
reach the maximum velocity with a little less effort, press the Kbd Touch
button so that the “1” LED is lit. If you press the button again, the “2”
LED will be lit, making it even easier to reach the maximum velocity
level. Unsurprisingly, the third level with both LEDs lit provides you with
the lightest touch.
This inishes our little tour; we hope that you now have the initial knowledge on how to operate most of the functions on the panel.
The following chapter contains the reference section, with the chapter on the Nord Sound Manager application after that, on page 18.
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