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Instruments list
There are 50 possible locations for Sample Instruments in the
Nord Electro 3 memory . The Flash capacity is 68 MB, and this is of
course allocated dynamically . You can have one Sample Instrument,
that contains one sample that is using up all the memory capacity, or
you can have 50 Sample Instruments with several samples each, as
long as the combined sizes of these are kept within the 68 MB limit .
When you generate a Sample Instrument from a Project in the Nord
Sample Editor, and download this to the Nord Electro 3, this Sample
Instrument will be saved at the first available location in the Flash
memory .
If the locations are occupied one after the other in a consecutive man-
ner, it will then appear at the end of the list in the Manager tab . If there
is an empty location in the middle of the list, it will be saved to this
location .
The Sample Instrument list may be ordered by location, alphanumerical
by name, according to sizes, or versions by clicking on the appropriate
heading .
Right-click
If you right-click on a Sample Instrument in the list, you will get the fol-
lowing options:
Upload – This will upload the Sample Instrument to the computer hard
drive . It will be saved as a .nsmp file .
Just as any other computer file on your hard drive, this .nsmp file may be
renamed, emailed, copied, moved, lost or even stored in a safe location
if an evil computer crash suddenly decides to take your hard drive for
ride .
E If you want to rearrange the order of the Sample Instruments,
there are a few things to consider. A Program in the Nord Electro 3
that uses a Sample Instrument does not know what the sound
of the SI is. The Program is only referring to a Sample Instrument
location number.
Download – This is only available if you right-click on an empty location
that does not contain a sound . This allows you to choose a file on the
hard drive, to be downloaded to the location in the Nord Electro 3 .
Delete – This will delete the Sample Instrument from the Nord Electro 3
memory . Any Program in the Nord Electro 3 that used that particular
Sample Instrument will probably sound very different, since it will be
missing an important component .
E
A flashing number in the Model display on the panel indicates that
the Sample Instrument location that the current Program tried to
use is not available in the Flash memory.
Location
The Sample Instruments in the list are numbered; these numbers corre-
spond to what you select with the Type selector in the Nord Electro 3 .
Name
The Sample Instrument gets its name from the name of the Project that
gave birth to it . If a Project has not been saved – being nameless that
is - and you generate a Sample Instrument, it will get the default name:
Untitled .
If a Sample Instrument is uploaded to the computer hard drive, the
resulting .nsmp file name will be same as the SI name . Change the file
name, and the SI name is also changed when that file is downloaded
to the Nord Electro 3 .
E Two Sample Instruments in the Nord Electro 3 cannot have the
exact same name. If you happen to generate two Sample Instru-
ments without e.g. having saved the Projects, then the second
Sample Instrument called Untitled will overwrite the first one that
had that same name. If you try to drag an .nsmp file from the hard
drive to the list and it has the same name as a SI in the list, that
operation will not be allowed and you'll get a notice about this in
the message area on the footer in the Editor window.
File Types and Names
Files associated with the Nord Electro 3 and the Nord Sample Editor
use the following extensions:
.nwiproj – Nord Sample Editor Project file
This is a file containing the Project settings . Audio files are not included
in this file - any changes to the original audio files will affect you project .
This file type will be created when you save a Project .
These files will be needed if you want to change any settings in a
particular Sample Instrument at a later stage, so save often and keep
copies in a safe location .
.nsmp - Nord Sample Instrument file
This is a file containing the cropped and encoded audio and the Project
settings for one Sample Instrument .
This file type will be created and saved to the hard drive when you
generate a Sample Instrument from the Instrument menu (or with the
Generate button in the Editor window) .
You can also create .nsmp files when you upload Sample Instruments
from the Nord Electro 3, in the Manager tab in the Editor .
Use this file type to share Sampled Instruments with other
Nord Electro 3 users . The .nsmp file can not be opened or edited; it can
only be down- or uploaded to and from a Nord Sample compatible unit .
To edit any content or setting in a Sample Instrument you must go
back to the original Nord Sample Editor Project file ( .nwiproj), do the
edits there and then re-generate the Sample Instrument .
Size
Indicates the size of the Sample Instrument . This may be useful if you
are short on memory and wants to know if a particular SI occupies a
certain amount of space in the Flash memory .
Ver
Version number of the .nsmp file .
Footer Memory Indicator
This will give you a numerical and a visual indication of how the Flash
memory space is being used . Red indicates the spaced used by the
samples, green is the space that is free to use for new Sample Instru-
ments .
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