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Clavia Nord Electro 3 User Manual

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User Manual
Nord Electro 3
OS Version 3.x
Part No. 50316
Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2010
Print Edition 3.0

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  • Page 1 User Manual Nord Electro 3 OS Version 3.x Part No. 50316 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2010 Print Edition 3.0...

  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    Instructions pertaining to a risk of fire, electric shock or injury to persons. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS Warning - When using electric products, basic precautions should always be followed, including the following: 1) Read these instructions. 10) Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point 2) Keep these instructions.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Organ Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13...

  • Page 4: Introduction

    You are probably very eager to start using your new instrument, and on the included Nord DVD . we sure don’t want to keep you from having fun . We will try to cover all the essential aspects on how to use the Electro 3 in the very first few pages of this manual .

  • Page 5: Overview And Connections

    Moving towards the middle of the panel, the Piano section behaves or a group of parameters such as effects . just as the organ . The controls are lit when the Piano selector is active . The Program section contain the parameters and functions that are...

  • Page 6: Connections

    Monitor In Use this to connect and monitor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at the Nord Electro 3’s headphone output . This allows you to e .g . rehearse with the Electro 3 to pre-recorded music .

  • Page 7: Pedal Connections

    . note that the pedal must have a stereo output jack . The resistance range of a control pedal should be 10 or 50 kOhm . To simplify setup, the most common pedal models (Roland, Yamaha, Ernie Ball and Fa- tar) are pre-configured in the Nord Electro 3, and you simply select the type of pedal which you want to use in the System menu .

  • Page 8: Getting Started

    Let’s take a few minutes to get familiar with the Electro 3 . The user interface is designed to be as intuitive as possible, and to perform as well as you do in a live situation . We hope that you soon will feel confident in using it, and by following this short chapter, we will go through most of the functions .

  • Page 9: The Live Buffer

    . If you switch the power off, or select another The A-Wa is a dynamic Wah-wah effect . It will affect the sound de- program, the settings are still stored in the pending on the volume of the signal .

  • Page 10: Using The Organ

    This finishes 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 is the reference section, with the chapter on the Nord Sound Manager application after that, on page 20.

  • Page 11: Nord Electro 3 Reference

    The Organ section in the Nord Electro 3 features emulations of three uses the 16, 8, 4, II and III registers and the lower manual uses the 8, classic organ models; a Hammond B3 (B3 model), a Vox Continental II 4, 2 and IV registers .

  • Page 12: Rotary Speed

    . in the new notes . You have to release all keys to be able to play new notes with the percussion effect . Press the Slow/Stop button to change the rotation from Slow to Fast and vice versa .

  • Page 13: The Drawbars

    Adjust the drawbars for the lower, external keyboard when the 1/Lo or one of the preset buttons) on the panel . LED is lit and for the Electro 3’s keyboard when the 2/Up LED is lit . Organ presets can be managed using the Nord Sound Manager, read more about this on page 20.

  • Page 14: Clav Eq

    . have several functions in Slow At – select this when you want to play the samples with a slower the Nord Electro 3 . Press repeatedly to select one attack .

  • Page 15: Prog A - Prog B

    (if the selected instrument supports this) . Two frequency ranges can be boosted/attenuated with +/- 15 dB . Octave Shift LEDs that are lit at the right or left position indicates +/- 2 octaves shift .

  • Page 16: Effect 2

    Ring Modulation (RM) is a an effect that multiplies two signals with Rotary simulates a rotary speaker including its built-in amplifier . The each other . In the Electro 3, these are the instrument audio signal and a knob sets the amount of overdrive of the rotary amplifier; the speed modulation sine wave .

  • Page 17: 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 18: Ctrl Pedal Mode

    MIDI Split Mode High trigger point Low trigger point If MIDI Split mode is On and the Organ is set to a split operation, the lower manual will be exclusively controlled via incoming MIDI infor- Drawbar Speed mation to the Electro 3’s MIDI input . If you connect an external MIDI keyboard, the Electro 3 can then be used in a dual manual fashion .

  • Page 19: Sound Menu

    Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel Sets the acceleration and retardation time of the rotary speaker simula- If this is set to cancel, the 9th drawbar will be muted when the percus- tion’s bass rotor . sion is activated, to mimic the behavior of an original organ .

  • Page 20: Nord Sound Manager

    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 21: File Formats

    . • .neb - This is the extension used for the Nord Electro 3 backup files . Just as any other computer file on your hard drive, these files may be Drag the new sound to the white area in the Sound Manager renamed, emailed, copied, moved, lost or even stored in a safe loca- sample list .

  • Page 22: Upload To A Hard Drive

    Select and drag a program from the destination location to the desired location . If you drop a sound on a free location, the sound will be moved from the source location . If you drop on a location that is occupied, the two sounds will trade places .

  • Page 23: Midi Functions

    The MIDI channel(s) that the Nord Electro 3 uses are set up in the MIDI troller numbers, see the MIDI implementation on the next page . menu - see “MIDI menu” on page 18 . If you use the Organ model in the split/lower manual configuration, the lower manual can receive on a separate MIDI channel .

  • Page 24: Program & Controller Dumps

    Drawbar 3 Drawbar 4 Drawbar 5 Sending program dumps Drawbar 6 Connect the MIDI OUT on the Nord Electro 3 to the MIDI In on the Drawbar 7 receiving device . Drawbar 8 Drawbar 9 Set up the receiving device to accept MIDI SysEx and MIDI Con- Drawbars - Preset 1/Lower troller data .

  • Page 25: Midi Implementation Chart

    True Voice Mode 1: Omni On, Poly - Mode 2: Omni O, Mono - Mode 3: Omni Off, Poly - Mode 4: Omni Off, Mono - O = Yes - X = No Model: Nord Electro 3 OS v1.x Date: 2008-12-15...

  • Page 26: Index

    Auto-Panning 15 Sound Menu 19 A-Wa 15 Speaker/Comp 16 Stop Mode 12 Store 8 Master level 11 Store Org . Preset 14 Memory Protect 8 Sustain Pedal 7 B3 11 MIDI 18 System Menu 17 Bass Rotor 19 MIDI Channel 18...

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