Nord Stage EX v6.x
8. Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel setups: Keyboard Zones
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3. To assign the Organ instrument section to play on the lower Keyboard
Zone only, hold down
S
HIFT
and then press the
KB Z
ONE
S
ELECT
button for the Organ section until only the
LO KB Z
ONE
indicator is
lit.
4. To assign the Piano instrument to play on the upper half of the keyboard
hold down
S
HIFT
and
press the
KB Z
ONE
S
ELECT
button for the Piano
section until both the
UP/HI KB Z
ONE
indicators are lit.
Now the lower half of the keyboard will play the organ sound, and the upper
half will play the piano!
You can also step through the different Keyboard Zone assignments by double-clicking the
KB Z
ONE
S
ELECT
button. This is convenient when you have only one hand free and cannot reach the
S
HIFT
button.
To activate all three Keyboard Zones, press the
KB Z
ONES
3
button. Now the keyboard is split into
three Zones. Now if you press the
S
HIFT
+ KB Z
ONE
S
ELECT
button (or double-click the
KB Z
ONE
S
ELECT
button) for an Instrument section, you can step through the following options:
•
LO/UP/HI
indicators lit - the corresponding instrument will play across all Zones 1-3.
•
LO
indicator lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 1 only.
•
LO/UP
indicators lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zones 1-2.
•
UP
indicator lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 2 only.
•
UP/HI
indicators lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zones 2-3.
•
HI
indicator lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 3 only.
• No indicator lit - the instrument will not play at all from the internal keyboard, but only from
MIDI. This alternative is only available when an instrument has been assigned an individual MIDI
channel (see
“MIDI menu” on page 68
).
S
ETTING
SPLIT
POINTS
TO
CHANGE
Z
ONE
RANGES
You can set the split points for Zone 2 and 3 in the following way:
• Press
S
HIFT
and
S
ET
L
O
S
PLIT
button repeatedly. As you can see the green split indicator above
the keyboard alternates between the available split points. There are split points at C and F in each
octave.
• You use the same procedure but with
S
ET
H
I
S
PLIT
button to set the split point for Zone 3.
When using two zones, the split point is set with the
S
ET
L
O
S
PLIT
button.
Keyboard Zone split points are shared between Panel A and B.
L
AYERING
INSTRUMENTS
When two or three instruments are assigned the same keyboard zones, they’re layered, i.e. play at the
same time. You can freely select which instrument(s) should play in each Zone, e.g. you could have
a piano assigned on its own to the Upper Zone, but have piano layered with organ in the Hi Zone.
Another way to layer instruments is to activate both panels simultaneously (see “Dual Panel setups”
below).
