The Keyboard; About Knobs & Buttons - Clavia Nord Stage User Manual

2. Overview: The Keyboard
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HE YNTH SECTION
The Synth section has been designed for maximum ease of use in live situations, while keeping flex-
ibility and sound control. It is based on standard subtractive synthesis, with a very flexible oscillator
section that can produce all common analog-style waveforms, up to three-oscillator FM synthesis,
and a bank of carefully designed wavetables for those unusual timbres. The synth also sports a high-
quality resonant low-pass filter with selectable slope, two envelopes, a simple EQ, and a very pow-
erful Unison mode.
See "The Synth section" on page
T E
HE XTERN SECTION
The Extern section controls an external MIDI instrument. You can use the P
trol various parameters on the external device. You can also assign the external instrument to any
Keyboard Zone, just like the built-in instruments! See
T E
HE FFECTS SECTION
Here you'll find the numerous effects and modulations you can use to add that extra flavour to your
sounds. See "The Effects" on page
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HE EYBOARD
The keyboard of the Nord Stage features 88/76 medium weighted keys or 73 semi-weighted waterfall
keys for optimal feel and response with piano instruments. For organ sounds there is also a fast trigger
response option which closely mimics the feel of a real organ.
The keyboard can be split into three Keyboard Zones to which any instrument section can be freely
assigned. Assigned Keyboard Zones are saved with a Program. See
setups" on page
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BOUT NOBS
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HE KNOBS
There are two types of knobs on the Nord Stage:
• Rotary Encoders that show the position with red LED indicators.
These always reflect the "true" value, and can also be controlled using the
Morph function (see
• Other knobs are of potentiometer type. After you load a program, the corre-
sponding parameter may not correspond to the actual position of the physical
knob. As soon as you begin turning a knob, the parameter value will 'snap' to
the knob's physical position. The display will indicate the parameter value if the
corresponding section is active, with an exception for the Effect parameters.
These will be shown regardless of the Effect sections active status.
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UTTONS
"About Morph Assign" on page
ARAMETER
"The Extern section" on page
"Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel
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