Octave Shift - nord Electro 3 User Manual


Prog A - Prog B
After you have selected a program number, you can quickly switch
between program number A and B by using the Prog A and Prog B
buttons .
Live
If you press the Live button, all changes to panel settings you make
will be continuously saved in the "Live Buffer" . If you switch the power
off, or select another program, the settings are still stored in the
Live memory, so when you power up next time (or return to the Live
memory) all settings will be exactly as you left them .
If the Live memory is selected and you decide you wish to store the
settings permanently as a program you can do so using the stan-
dard methods (see above) . You can also store programs into the Live
memory location, in which case the program settings will replace the
current Live memory settings .
Instrument selectors
Press one of the Instrument Selectors to play either the organ or the
piano/sample sounds .
Only the active section will have its corresponding functions lit
and active. It is however possible to e.g. play with the pianos,
and adjust the organ settings, and then quickly activate these by
pressing the organ instrument selector.
Shift
Many buttons have a second function, printed in darker text just below
the button or knob . You access these additional functions and param-
eters by holding Shift while pressing a button .

Octave Shift

The two Octave Shift buttons can be used to transpose the keyboard
two octaves up or down (if the selected instrument supports this) . A
flashing Octave Shift LED at the right or left position indicates +/- 2
octaves note shift .
Each instrument in Nord Electro 3 has a finite note range:
• The Organ extends one octave below and one octave above an 88
note keyboard range .
• The Piano and Samples extends one octave below an 88 key range,
but not above .
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Effects
The Effects section of Nord Electro 3 can be used
for processing the Organ and Piano/Sample sounds .
It's fully programmable and you can configure your
effects separately for each program .
You have the possibility in every program, to store the on or off
setting of the effects, also for the instrument not being used as the
active in the program. This allows you to quickly change from e.g.
a piano performance with some effects turned on, to an organ
performance with another set of effects turned on, by just press-
ing the appropriate instrument selector.
Press and hold Shift and press the Effect selector to cycle through
the effects in a counter clockwise fashion.
EQ
This is a 3-band EQ with treble, bass and a sweepable midrange . The
frequency ranges can be boosted/attenuated with +/- 15 dB .
Effect 1
Effect 1 offers four different types of effects: Tremolo, Auto-Panning,
2 types of Wah-Wah and a ring modulator (RM) .
The tremolo and the auto-panning have 3 selectable depths . Pan1 is
less dramatic than Pan2, and Pan 3 (both Pan LEDs lit) is the most
dramatic .
The Rate knob control the rate of the effect .
The A-Wa is a wah-effect where a lowpass filter sweep across the
frequency range is controlled by the volume of the signal . This means
that you can use the velocity on the keyboard to control the amount of
"Quack!" in the sound . The Rate knob sets the frequency range of the
sweep .
The P-Wa uses the Rate knob to control a lowpass filter sweep across
the frequency range . If a control pedal is connected, this sweep is
instead controlled by the pedal action, and the Rate knob will then
have no effect .
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