The Piano Section - Clavia Nord Stage User Manual

6. The Instruments: The Piano section Nord Stage v3.1x
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HE IANO SECTION
The Piano section of Nord Stage contains six Piano Categories, and each Category can contain dif-
ferent instrument Types. You can freely add new piano instruments via USB using the Nord
Stage Manager utility (see "Nord Stage Manager" on page 72).
Right out of the box, Nord Stage features a fine collection of carefully selected acoustic and electro-
mechanical pianos. A lot of effort was put in to ensure that the play response and sound of the sampled
instruments matches every nuance of the real article. Each piano instrument has been multi-sampled
in a vast amount of velocity levels. That's one reason why they all sound and feel so authentic.
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BOUT THE IANO NSTRUMENTS
Since all piano samples are stored in Flash memory you can easily add and/or replace the stored piano
instruments with new ones, supplied free from Clavia.
When you download Piano instruments, these will always automatically be loaded into the corre-
sponding Category. The user can select whether to overwrite an existing instrument in this category,
or to add it as a new Type. Thus, the Piano Categories printed on the panel are always correct.
A Program saves Piano instruments by Category and the Type number. If a Program refers to a Piano
instrument that isn't currently loaded, i.e. an empty Type slot, the Type display will blink showing
the missing Type number. If this happens, you can either navigate to another instrument Type in the
selected Category and select to use this instead, or use the Nord Stage Manager utility to download
an instrument into the empty Type slot.
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