Clavia Nord Stage User Manual page 59

Nord Stage v3.1x
3. To assign the Organ instrument section to play on the lower Keyboard
Zone only, hold down S
button for the Organ section until only the LO KB Z
lit.
4. To assign the Piano instrument to play on the upper half of the key-
board hold down S
Piano section until both the UP/HI KB Z
Now the lower half of the keyboard will play the organ sound, and the up-
per half will play the piano!
You can also step through the different Keyboard Zone assignments by double-clicking the KB Z
S button. This is convenient when you have only one hand free and cannot reach the S
ELECT
button.
To activate all three Keyboard Zones, press the KB Z
three Zones. Now if you press the S
S button) for an Instrument section, you can step through the following options:
ELECT
• 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
S
ETTING SPLIT POINTS TO CHANGE
You can set the split points for Zone 2 and 3 in the following way:
• Press S and S
HIFT
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
When using two zones, the split point is set with the S
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).
8. Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel setups: Keyboard Zones
and then press the KB Z
HIFT
and press the KB Z
HIFT
+ KB Z
HIFT
68).
L S button repeatedly. As you can see the green split indicator above
ET O PLIT
ET
S
ONE ELECT
indicator is
ONE
S button for the
ONE ELECT
indicators are lit.
ONE
3 button. Now the keyboard is split into
ONES
S button (or double-click the KB Z
ONE ELECT
Z
ONE RANGES
H S button to set the split point for Zone 3.
I PLIT
L S
ET O PLIT
button.
ONE
HIFT
ONE
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