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Thank you! Features We would first like to thank you for purchasing the Nord C2 Combo The Nord C2 Combo Organ features high quality digital emulations Organ! We hope you will find it to be everything you wished for and that of three vintage organs, a sampled baroque pipe organ, a bunch of you’ll have many hours of great fun with your new instrument .
2overview | 5 2 Overview The Nord C2 Combo Organ front panel consists of 2 areas, easily iden- About the buttons tified by their gray and black background color: Buttons have different behaviour depending on their functionality: Organ performance area...
. Read more on this on page 17 . A connected sustain pedal will not affect the Pipe organ model. If you use external sound devices you can disable the Nord C2 Combo Organ from responding to sustain messages, but still transmit them via MIDI out .
Monitor In Use this to connect and monitor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at the Nord C2's headphone output . This allows you to e .g . rehearse with the C2 to pre-recorded music . Signals connected to this input will not be processed with the Nord C2's effects or appear at the left and right output jacks.
Getting Started Let’s take a few minutes to get familiar with the Nord C2 . 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 using it, and by following this short chapter, we will go through most of the functions .
4gettiNgstarted | 9 Activate an amplifier emulation The Live buffers Press the Speaker Model button to activate the Amp emulation . The Speaker Model LED will be lit. The special Live buf- fers can be described Press repeatedly on the selector to cycle through the various options . as a “live program memory”...
Nord C2 Combo Organ . are active . The Pipe organ has its own bass registers as well . When the Editor finds a Nord C2 Combo Organ, this will be indi- Use the Shift and the Pedal drawbars to set the Pluck and cated at the lower, right corner of the Manager window and the Release parameters of the Synth bass sound .
If the B3, VX or the Farf models are active, the presets contains individual settings for the upper and lower manuals. Further to The Nord C2 Combo Organ features four Organ Models; one digitally storing the drawbar settings, the upper manual’s percussion set- modeled tonewheel/B3 organ, two digitally modeled transistor (VX and tings are stored as well.
With the original instrument, you could not use the percussion • Authentic tuning of the tonewheels according to the original design . effect and 9th Drawbar simultaneously. However with the Nord C2 you have a choice. You can use the percussion and 9th Drawbar •...
“Z-frame” stand) made the instrument massively popular The Register selectors at the time . The sound is timeless and recreated faithfully in Nord C2 The labels used for the Farf drawbars are printed on the upper row Combo Organ .
14 | NordC2ComboorgaNUsermaNUalosv1.X Vibrato Coupler Description The original instrument have two basic vibrato modes; “Light” and “Heavy”, with different rates for each mode . There are several types of PED/GR LOW This couples the lowest key played on the great vibrato and choruses available for the FARF model in the C2, which are manual to the bass stop .
Prog/Menu Buttons The Prog/Menu Buttons to the left of the display have several functions in the Nord C2 . Press repeatedly to select one of the 126 Programs; the number of the Program will be presented in the LED .
. Please refer to the “System Functions” on page 15 for further informa- tion . Delay The Nord C2 is equipped with a delay featuring echoes/repeats with adjustable tempo and feedback settings . The On button activates/deactivates the effect .
Up/Down buttons and change the setting by pressing and holding Shift and the Up or Down button . Exit the menus by pressing a second time on the Prog, Live 1 or Live 2 button . * The only exception to this is the MIDI Local On/Off setting which always reverts to Local On every time the Nord C2 is powered up. Fine Tune System Menu This allows you to fine tune the pitch of the Nord C2 .
This allows you to perform a MIDI SysEx dump of all the Programs in MIDI Menu the Nord C2 . Press the Store button to perform the dump . In the MIDI chapter, on page xx is a description on how the Nord C2 Swell Channel receives a Sys Ex dump .
Range: High, Normal (default), Low Rotary Model For future use, please visit the www .nordkeyboards .com website for more information on OS updates for the Nord C2 . Range: Pipe Pedal Level This allows you to adjust the level of the Pedal manual, for the Pipe Organ .
. Controllers Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the In the MIDI Menu (see page xx), you can select if the Nord C2 should Nord C2 . transmit and/or receive Control Change messages .
Nord C2 Parameter MIDI Controller Sending program dumps Organ Model Selector Connect the MIDI OUT on the Nord C2 to the MIDI In on the Synth Bass On/Off receiving device . Speaker Sel Delay Tempo Set up the receiving device to accept MIDI SysEx and MIDI Con- Delay Feedback troller data .
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 C2 OS v1.x Date: 2009-05-25...
OSX 10 .4 or later, Windows XP and Windows Vista . If you run the Nord Manager on a Windows computer, you also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 2 .14 or later installed . The Nord C2 OS has to be 1 .0 or later .