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- Page 1 User Manual Nord Electro 3 OS Version 3.x Part No. 50316 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2011 Print Edition 3.1...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Nord Electro 3 User Manual Bass Rotor Acceleration ... 20 Perc. Slow Decay ....20 1 Introduction 5 Nord Electro 3 Reference Perc. -
Page 4: Thank You
All trademarks and brand names mentioned in this manual are the property of their respective owner’s and are not affiliated or associated with Clavia. These trademarks and brand names are only mentioned to describe the types of sounds reproduced by Nord Electro 3. -
Page 5: Knobs & Buttons
2 OVERVIEW Overview The front panel of the Nord Electro 3 has four main areas, Organ, Selector buttons Piano, Program and Effects. We’ll familiarize ourselves briefly with the Selector buttons are used to activate one setting panel here and describe the functions in detail in the following chapters. in an array. -
Page 6: Audio Connections
6 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X Connections USB Connection Audio connections The USB connection is used for the Nord Electro to communicate with a personal computer in order to update the OS or to add or replace any of the piano and/or sampled sounds. -
Page 7: Pedal Connections
3 CONNECTIONS Sustain Pedal Pedal Connections ¼" connector for a switch type pedal. When a connected pedal is operated, the notes you play will be sustained. Rotor Pedal ¼" connector for a switch type pedal. When a connected pedal is operated, the rotary speed will change. -
Page 8: About The Programs
Complete sound settings are stored in the Program memory of the Use the Up/Down buttons on the Nord Electro 3 HP to select the bank Nord Electro 3. This memory area has 128 locations that are numbered and the program buttons 1 ~4 to select the programs within each 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc up to 64B. -
Page 9: Storing A Program
4 GETTING STARTED Storing a program Octave Shift If you are happy with an edit that you have Press either of the Octave Shift buttons to made, you should probably save or Store the shift the pitch up or down in whole octaves program. -
Page 10: Selecting A Piano Or A Sample
10 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X Press repeatedly on the selector to cycle through the various options. The lower half will use the Preset 1/Lo setting; the upper half will use the Preset 2/Up setting. The knob controls the drive for the three amps and the rotary simulator, and the amount when the compressor is selected. -
Page 11: Master Level Knob
5 NORD ELECTRO 3 REFERENCE | 11 Nord Electro 3 Reference • Extremely fast keyboard response. Master level knob • Full polyphony. This control sets the overall output level of the Electro 3, at the line and the headphone outputs. This is not a programmable control. If you want to program an output level for a particular program, this can be achieved with the Gain control. -
Page 12: Rotary Speed
12 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X The drawbar LEDs 5-8 are lit up for an activated voice, and drawbar Percussion LEDs 1-4 are lit up for a deactivated voice. The illustration below shows The Percussion effect adds extra the registers. -
Page 13: The Drawbars
Nord Sample While holding a Drawbar button, you can press its sibling button to Library, like e.g. the Mellotron sounds that have been licensed by Clavia. momentarily auto-increment/decrement in the opposite direction. Clavinet sound Organ Presets On an original Clavinet D6 you can select different pick-up and filter... -
Page 14: Samp Env
Hold Shift and press the Type button, to select the dynamics response. This allows you to use different response curves, which makes the Nord Electro 3 HP react stronger to the velocity you use on the key- Category Description board. -
Page 15: Program Section
5 NORD ELECTRO 3 REFERENCE | 15 Prog A - Prog B Program section After you have selected a program number, you can quickly switch between program number A and B by using the Prog A and Prog B The Program section is where buttons. -
Page 16: Live Mode
16 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X Effect 1 Program section only Effect 1 offers four different types of effects: Tremolo, Auto-Panning, 2 types of Wah-Wah and a ring modulator (RM). The 128 programs in the Electro 3 HP are organized in 32 banks with 4 The tremolo and the auto-panning have 3 selectable depths. -
Page 17: Feedback
5 NORD ELECTRO 3 REFERENCE | 17 Delay / Reverb Tempo Tap only The Delay effect produces echo ef- You can use Tap Tempo to set a delay time matching the tempo of fects. The Delay time is set with the Up/ a song. -
Page 18: System Menu
18 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X The Menus Any settings that you change in the System, MIDI or Sound menu will take immediate effect on a global basis, and will be stored until you change them the next time. Enter the menus by pressing and holding Shift and the System, MIDI or Sound button (Prog A, Prog B or Live). Select a function with the Up/Down buttons and change the setting by pressing and holding Shift and the Up or Down button. -
Page 19: Ctrl Pedal Mode
6 THE MENUS | 19 Ctrl Pedal Type Local Control only This allows you to set if the Nord Electro 3 keyboard and front panel The Electro 3 HP has a slightly controls should control internal Programs or only send note and con- changed interface for the Ctrl Pedal input where some of the most troller messages via MIDI. -
Page 20: Sound Menu
20 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X Perc. Slow Decay Sound Menu Sets the slow mode decay time of the Tonewheel percussion effect. Range: L - Long, n - Normal (default), S- Short Treble Horn Speed Perc. Norm Level Sets the speed setting (in the fast and slow speed modes) of the rotary speaker simulation’s treble horn. -
Page 21: 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. -
Page 22: File Formats
22 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X File Formats Download a new sound The Nord Sound Manager creates and/or uses files with the Electro 3, with the following extensions: • .npno - These are the piano files from the Nord Piano library. •... -
Page 23: Upload A Complete Partition
7 NORD SOUND MANAGER | 23 board. If you now drag this selection, the Program will be copied Upload a complete partition to the hard drive and pasted at the destination instead of just being moved. Make sure that the desired partition (and bank) is focused in the Nord Sound Manager. -
Page 24: About The Midi Implementation
24 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X MIDI functions About the MIDI implementation Nord Electro 3 with a sequencer The following MIDI messages can be transmitted and received from the Nord Electro 3: Connections Note On/Off Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 3 to the MIDI In on your •... -
Page 25: Program And Controller Dumps
8 MIDI FUNCTIONS | 25 Nord Electro parameter MIDI CC Program and Controller dumps Drawbars - Preset 2/Upper Drawbar 1 Drawbar 2 To dump a Program SysEx, or MIDI Controller data via MIDI, either Drawbar 3 to another Nord Electro 3 or for recording the data into another MIDI Drawbar 4 device, proceed as follows: Drawbar 5... -
Page 26: Midi Implementation Chart
26 | NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V3.X MIDI Implementation Chart Function Transmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Channel 1 - 16 1 - 16 Default Channel 1 - 16 1 - 16 Default Mode 3 Mode 3 Mode Message Altered Note 0-127 0-127... -
Page 27: Index
9 INDEX | 27 Index Local 18 Store 9 Symbols Lower Channel 18 Store Org. Preset 15 Lower Manual 12 Sustain Pedal 7 1/Lo 12 System Menu 17 2/Up 12 Master level 11 Memory Protect Third 12 Auto-Panning 16 MIDI 18 Tonewheel crosstalk 19 A-Wa 16 MIDI Channel 18...