Program, Controller And Synth Sound Dumps - Clavia Nord Stage User Manual

14. MIDI functions: Program, Controller and Synth Sound dumps
If you want to record a Program Change message, activate recording in the sequencer and simply load
the program once on the Nord Stage.
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When you record knob movements and button presses, make sure that the sequencer "echoes" the
changes back on the correct MIDI Channel, or your changes won't have any effect.
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Consider a situation where you record a Controller message, e.g. a Drawbar opening, in the middle
of your sequencer song. Then you "rewind" the sequencer to a position before the recorded Drawbar
opening. The problem is that the Nord Stage's Drawbar will remain opened, although it really should
be as it was before you recorded the opening. To solve such problems, several sequencers include a
function called "Controller Chasing", which keeps track of Controller changes and tries to adjust the
settings on the instrument according to the current position in the sequencer song.
However, in our example this wouldn't help much, because the Drawbar opening was the first Con-
troller message recorded in the song. The sequencer has no information about the Drawbar setting
before the recorded change, and therefore cannot "chase" the settings properly. To solve this, you
could record a "snapshot" of all Controller settings of the Nord Stage Program(s) at the beginning of
your sequencer song. See
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ROGRAM
To dump Program, Synth Sound or MIDI Controller SysEx via MIDI, either to another Nord Stage
or for recording the data into another MIDI device, proceed as follows:
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ENDING ROGRAM DUMPS
1. Connect a cable from MIDI O
2. Set up the receiving device so that it accepts MIDI SysEx and MIDI Controller data.
3. Press S
HIFT
tons. Here you can select whether to send all Programs ('ALL'), or the currently selected pro-
gram ('ONE') by using the V
4. If needed, set the receiving MIDI device to "recording mode".
5. Press the S
TORE
will stop flashing once the dump has been sent.
To quickly send a dump of the current Program, press S
Note: For Organ and Synth sounds, the complete settings for the sound will be dumped as MIDI
SysEx. For Piano sounds, all parameters will be sent but NOT the actual instrument samples.
Therefore, when dumping back a Piano sound, make sure the actual instrument samples are
already loaded in the Nord Stage. Otherwise the parameters in the SysEx message will be ap-
plied to another available Piano instrument.
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"Sending MIDI Controller dumps"
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on the Nord Stage to MIDI In on the receiving device.
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+ MIDI and select the "Dump Program Source" menu item using the P
ALUE
button to send the dump to the MIDI O
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of Nord Stage. The Store indicator
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