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8. Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel setups: Octave Shift
O
S
CTAVE
HIFT
Each Instrument section and the Extern section have two O
to transpose the notes up or down in octave steps within the total note range of the instrument.
Each instrument in Nord Stage EX has a finite note range:
• The Organ extends one octave below and one octave above an 88 note keyboard range.
• The Piano extends one octave below the 88 key range, but not above.
• The Synth extends one octave in either direction, just like the Organ.
You cannot transpose an instrument so that non-existing notes would end up in the current Keyboard
Zone. Thus, when playing over the whole keyboard, you can only transpose a maximum of one octave
up or down. But when you are using splits, e.g. so that a piano is set to play in a Zone with a range of
2 octaves, you can use the O
2 octave range of the available 9 octaves is to play in this Zone. Thus, you can always access the
whole note range of any instrument within any set Zone range.
Down 3 octaves
In the illustration above, a piano has been assigned to play in a KB Zone stretching from C4 to C6.
Without Octave Shift, the actual note range that will be played will be the same as the set Zone. The
dotted lines show which note range will be played in the set Zone when using Octave Shift. In this
case you can transpose the piano up or down two octaves so you can play any two octave note range
from the selected Zone. No matter what a Zone range is set to you can always reach the entire octave
range of any instrument.
D
P
UAL
ANEL SETUPS
If you press both P
els are active. One of the Panels is always "edit active", i.e. it is the panel settings for either Panel A
or Panel B that is currently shown and can be edited. The active Panel is indicated by a blinking
P
LED. To show/edit the settings for the other Panel press the corresponding P
ANEL
that it starts blinking.
To disable one of the panels, hold the P
briefly the P
ANEL
Press and hold a Panel button and turn the value dial to copy the Panel settings from another Program
to the one currently active.
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S
CTAVE
HIFT
Down 2 octaves
A and P
B buttons so that they both light up, this means that both Pan-
ANEL
ANEL
ANEL
button you want to disable.
CTAVE
buttons to transpose the piano up or down to select which
Up 1 octave
button for the panel you want to keep active, and press
Nord Stage EX v6.x
S
buttons, which can be used
HIFT
Up 2 octaves
ANEL
button so
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