Activate Another Instrument; The Slots; Create A Split; Set The Piano To The Upper Zone - Clavia NordStage2 EX 88 User Manual

If you have more than one effect activated in a program, you can shift
the focus by pressing the Focus button between the encoders. Focus
will automatically be set when a new effect is activated.
Hold Shift and press an effects source button repeatedly to
quickly cycle through the sources.

Activate another instrument

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With the piano still active, press the On/Off button located below
the Synth Value Encoder. This will turn on the synthesizer and its
sound will be layered on top of the piano.
All the synthesizer parameters on the panel can be adjusted if you want
to edit the sound. An in-depth description of these parameters can be
found in the reference chapter, starting at page 29.
To view a parameter setting without changing it, hold the Shift but-
ton and turn the parameter's knob. The setting in the program will
be presented in the display.

The Slots

The Slot A and Slot B buttons below the Program buttons gives you
instant access to two complete setups of the features on the Stage 2
EX's panel. You can have one complete Organ/Piano/Synth/Extern/Ef-
fects setup on Slot A, and another complete setup on Slot B.
This allows you to switch in a seamless fashion between two different
sounds, or to create huge programs with organs, two different pianos,
two different synthesizers in layer or split keyboard setups. Let's do a
split and then expand this with an additional layer combination.
If you press and hold a Slot button, you can copy the settings of
any other Slot in the memory, by turning the Value Dial until you
find the sound you wish to copy. Release the Slot button and the
settings of the selected source will be copied to the edit buffer. Do
not forget to save the new settings if you want to keep them in a
Program.

Create a Split

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Make sure that only Slot A is active. Hold Shift and press the Bank
C/Piano Init button.
This activates the Piano and sets all the effects to be routed to the
Piano as well. Using an Init is a great way to quickly get a foundation
when you want to create a program.
Chapter 3 gettiNg Started
A : 01 : 1 Grand
Italian Grand
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Press the 2 KBD Zones button, located above the Value Dial.
This divides the keyboard into two zones, with the split indicated with
a green LED that lights up above the keyboard. Pressing the 3 KBD
button creates three zones with two split points, each indicated by a
green LED.

Set the Piano to the Upper zone

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Hold Shift and press the Piano
Zone Select button repeatedly until
the UP-HI LED's are lit and the LO
LED is off.
This assigns the Piano to the upper
zone of the keyboard. Feel free to use
the Octave Shift buttons if you want to
transpose the piano.

Set the Synth to the Lower zone

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Hold Shift and press the
Synth Zone Select button until
the LO LED is lit and the oth-
ers are off. This will activate
the synth and assign it to the
lower half of the keyboard.
Hold Shift and press repeatedly on the Set Lo or Set Hi Split but-
tons to move the split points.
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