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Thank you! OS and internal memory We’d first like to thank you for purchasing the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW . The operating system, programs and pianos and samples in Nord Elec- Our goal when we developed the Nord Electro instruments was to tro 4 HP/SW are stored in a Flash memory .
2 ovErviEW Overview The front panel of the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW has four main areas, Selector buttons Organ, Piano, Program and Effects . We’ll familiarize ourselves briefly Selector buttons are used to activate one setting with the panel here and describe the functions in detail in the following in an array .
Use this to connect and monitor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at puter is connected to the Internet when the Electro 4 HP/SW is the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW’s headphone output . This allows you to e .g . connected to the computer.
P-wah and the ring modulator (RM) . The Nord Electro 4 HP/SW has three pedal inputs; one for a sustain When connecting an expression pedal to the Control Pedal input, pedal, one for a pedal to control the rotor speed and one for a control please note that the pedal must have a stereo output jack .
Sound and effect settings are stored in the Program memory of the in the Nord Sound Manager . Nord Electro 4 HP/SW . The Electro 4 HP/SW organizes the memory in 32 pages with 4 programs in each page, making this a total of 128 programs .
Memory Protection tings (on or off) for each . When the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW is shipped from factory, the memory protect is turned on to prevent you (or your cat) from accidentally Press the Preset/Split button to light up overwriting any of the original programs .
10 | Nord ElEctro 4 HP/SW USEr MaNUal oS v1.1x Storing a program Adding effects If you are happy with a change to a program that you have made, you Select the program number 1 .1 which should probably store the program .
Continental . The upper manual The Organ section in the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW features emulations of uses the 16, 8, 4, II and III registers and the lower manual uses the 8, three classic organ models;...
12 | Nord ElEctro 4 HP/SW USEr MaNUal oS v1.1x Rotary Speed Percussion The rotary speaker speed is controlled with The Percussion effect adds the rotary speed buttons or with an external extra attack to the B3 sound by pedal connected to the rotor pedal input on having a single envelope gener- the rear panel .
. you a big advantage: when you When the Clavinet is selected in the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW, you use change the program, the correct the Model button in the Piano Select section to select one of the four...
14 | Nord ElEctro 4 HP/SW USEr MaNUal oS v1.1x Samp Env Program section When the Samp Lib type is active, the Samp Env LEDs and button can be used to set a desired velocity response and attack and release time The Program section is behavior that affects the playback of the samples .
Rate knob can be used to produce a manually controlled ring modulation effect . The Effects section of Nord Electro 4 HP/SW can be used for process- ing the organ and piano/sample sounds . It is programmable and you...
16 | Nord ElEctro 4 HP/SW USEr MaNUal oS v1.1x The Delay effect produces echo effects . The Delay time is set with the Effect 2 Up/Down buttons (20 – 750 ms) while you hold the Tempo Tap/Set Effect 2 offers three types of modulation effects: Phaser, Flanger and button .
. To simplify setup and to optimize the response This allows you to fine tune the pitch of the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW . of the pedal for the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW, the most common pedal makes are preconfigured, and you simply select the type of pedal you Range: +/- 50 cent (default = 0).
1 - Local Control 9 - Dump All This allows you to set if the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW keyboard and front panel controls should control internal Programs or only send note and This allows you to perform a MIDI SysEx dump of all the Programs in controller messages via MIDI .
cHaPtEr 6 tHE MENUS | 19 B3 Menu Rotary Menu 1 - Tonewheel Mode 1 - Rotary Model Sets the level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artifacts of the There is one rotary model available, with two separate microphone B3 organ model .
The Nord Sound Manager is the application that allows you to organize the various memory areas, the partitions in the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW . It is also used to download pianos or programs to the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW or to upload any of these items - called sounds - from the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW memory to the computer hard drive .
Controllers Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the In the MIDI Menu (see page 18) you can select if the Nord Electro 4 HP/ Nord Electro 4 HP/SW . SW should transmit and/or receive Control Change messages .
If the dump contained all Programs (All), it will replace all programs cur- Effect 2 Rate rently stored in the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW . If the dump contained only Effect 2 Sel a single program, it will be temporarily placed in the currently selected Effect 2 On/Off program memory location .
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 Electro 4 HP/SW OS v1.x Date: 2012-08-15...
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24 | Nord ElEctro 4 HP/SW USEr MaNUal oS v1.1x Index Index LED 14 Samp Env 14 Left Out 6 Shift 15 Live 10 Shift button 5 Acoustics 13 Local 18 Slow At 14 Auto-Panning 15 Long Release 13 Slow/Stop 12...
This product, when installed as indicated in the instructions contained in this manual, meets FCC requirements. Modifications not expressly approved by Clavia may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to use the product. 2. IMPORTANT: When connecting this product to accessories and/ or another product use only high quality shielded cables.