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nord C2 User Manual

Nord c2 combo organ user manual

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OS Version 1.x
Part No. 50326
Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2010
Print Edition 1.4

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  • Page 1 OS Version 1.x Part No. 50326 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2010 Print Edition 1.4...
  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    Trademarks: The Nord logo is trademark of Clavia DMI AB. All other trademarks mentioned in this publication are the properties of their respective holders. Specifications and appearances are subject to change without notice.
  • Page 3 .....16 Nord Sound Manager ... . 23 Speaker Model ....16 System requirements .
  • Page 4 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.
  • Page 5 The Nord C2 Combo Organ front panel consists of 2 areas, easily iden- tified by their gray and black background color: Buttons have different behaviour depending on their functionality: Press the selector button repeatedly to select between options printed The organ section features the controls for the four different organ next to the corresponding LEDs.
  • Page 6 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.
  • Page 7 Signals connected to this input will not be processed with the Nord C2's effects or appear at the left and right output jacks. The left and right line level outputs from the Nord C2 are unbalanced. Use the ¼" connectors to connect the Nord C2 to an amplifier or recording equipment.
  • Page 8 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.
  • Page 9 Live memory, so when you power up next time (or The rotary effect adds some great sonic drama to the sound. The Nord return to a Live memory) all settings will be exactly as they were when C2 rotary has three available speeds: fast, slow and stop.
  • Page 10 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.
  • Page 11 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.
  • Page 12 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 Extremely fast keyboard response.
  • Page 13 (inverse colored keyboard and chrome “Z-frame” stand) made the instrument massively popular 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.
  • Page 14 SWELL 16 This doubles the stops on the swell manual, with that is of the baroque variety. The drawbars on the C2 acts as “stops” the doubling transposed one octave down. and the different stops are labeled below the lower drawbar buttons. A...
  • Page 15 Sound menus. Read more about these functions on page 17. 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.
  • Page 16 Rotary simulates a rotary speaker including its overdrive to the sound. built-in amplifier. The C2 has two models of rotary speakers, you select these in the Sound Menu, see page 18 for details. The Drive knob to the upper right on the panel sets the amount of overdrive of the rotary amplifier.
  • Page 17 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. This allows you to fine tune the pitch of the Nord C2.
  • Page 18 Range: Off, 1-16 (default = 1) 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 receives a Sys Ex dump. This sets the MIDI channel that the great manual on the Nord C2 trans- mits and responds to.
  • Page 19 Sets the speed setting (in the fast and slow speed modes) of the rotary Sets the rotary model. The “A” model is a recent addition, modeled on speaker simulation’s bass rotor. a vintage 145 unit. The “b” model is the original Clavia rotary emulation. Range: H - High, n - Normal (default), L - Low Range: A (default), b Sets the acceleration and retardation time of the rotary speaker simula-...
  • Page 20 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. Incoming MIDI Controller 7 controls the overall volume of the Nord C2.
  • Page 21 Nord C2 or for recording the data into another MIDI device, channels) this is indicated with an asterisk *. proceed as follows: 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...
  • Page 22 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...
  • Page 23 Nord C2. It is also used to download programs any updates of the Nord Sound Manager. These items will be available to the Nord C2 or to upload these items - called sounds - from the as free downloads in the Nord C2 download area.
  • Page 24 Audio connections 6 LED 15 Selector buttons 5 Left output 7 Send CC 18 Live 9 Shift 11 Local 18 Shift button 5 Local Control 18 Sound Menu 18 B3 Model 12 Speaker/Comp 16 Bass 16 Speaker Model 16 Bass Pedal 7 Stage 16 Bass Rotor 18 Stage Soft 16...