Program Bank Buttons; Organ Piano Synth Init; Organ Split; Program Page Buttons - Clavia NordStage2 EX 88 User Manual

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Program Bank buttons

Select a desired Bank by pressing a Program Bank button A - D. Each
Bank holds 20 Pages, with 5 programs in each Page.

Organ Piano Synth Init

A : 01 : 1 Grand
Italian Grand
These buttons can be used together with the Shift button to initial-
ize the current program. The "Inits" provides a quick way to activate
a single instrument on the Stage 2 EX and to route all effects to it,
while turning off the other instruments. The settings that the activated
instrument is initialized with, come from the stored settings in the active
program.
Even if an instrument is not active in a Program; all its settings are
still stored in the Program.

Organ Split

The Organ Split Init creates a split keyboard setting that emulates a
dual manual organ setup. The lower part of the Stage 2 EX's keyboard
will use Slot A and the upper part Slot B.

Program Page buttons

The Program Page 3 and 4 buttons are used to select one of the 20
available program pages. Every Page holds 5 programs, every Program
Bank holds 20 Pages. Pressing a Page button will immediately load the
program number on the new Page.

Pending Load

If you want to navigate with the Bank and/or Page buttons and the
Value Dial and wait with the loading of a new program until you press a
program button, activate Pending Load - hold Shift and press the Page
3button. When this is active you can press the Bank and Program
Page buttons, and scroll with the value dial to "browse" and display the
program names in the LCD without actually loading them. The Program
Button LEDs will flash to alert you that the program selection will not be
activated until you confirm this by pressing a Program Button.

Sort Mode

Hold Shift and press Page 4/to select the Category sort mode, hold
Shift and press Page 4 again to select the alphabetical sort mode.
These modes affect the presentation of programs when you turn the
Value Dial.
The Cat Sort will display the programs in a category. To change the
Category, press either Page button. There is a list of categories on the
previous page 17.
The Abc Sort will display the programs alphabetically, based on their
names. To change the initial letter, press either Program Page button.
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The Program Bank and Program buttons are not affected by
the sort mode. If you e.g. use the Abc Sort to dial up a program
named Betty 1, and this is located in Bank 2, Page 20, Program
3, pressing the Program 4 button on the panel will call up the
Bank 2/Page 20/Program number 4, no matter what that program
name is.

Cursor, Del, Ins

During a Store As... procedure, the Program Page buttons are used to
move the position of the cursor in a Program name, the actual charac-
ter in the position can be set by the Value Dial.
Hold Shift and pressing Del or Ins will delete or insert a character in the
program's name at the position of the cursor.

Mst Clk

The Master Clock allows
you to synchronize several
components in ths Nord
Stage 2 EX: the Arpeg-
gio, the synth LFO, the Delay and Effects 1 and 2. Not only can you
make these run in sync, you can also select different subdivisions (or
"speeds") for these units, to create some great rhythmic effects.
Tap the Mst Clk button four times to set the tempo. The display will
show how many taps you have entered in case you get lost.
Hold Shift and press the Mst Clk button to open the Master Clock
tempo setting, where you set the tempo by turning the Value Dial.
Press Shift again to exit. A set tempo will be saved in a Program.
You can also hold down the Tap/Set button to open the Master Clock
tempo setting.
When the Master Clock tempo is set, you can select a subdivision of
that tempo for the various functions that can be synchronized to the
Master Clock. Any changes you make to the Master Clock tempo will
be followed by all the functions in the Stage 2 EX that are synchronized
to it.
The subdivisions are described in greater detail in the sections that
covers the units that can be synchronized, the LFO, the arpeggio and
the effects.

External Sync

The Master Clock on the Stage 2 EX can be controlled by incoming
MIDI clock messages. This is an automatic behavior: As soon as the
Stage 2 EX receives MIDI clock on the MIDI input or the USB MIDI
input, the Master Clock will be synchronized to the incoming external
clock.
When the Master Clock is locked to an incoming clock, EXT will be
displayed in the LCD if you press the MST CLK button, together with
the incoming tempo in BPM.
A : 01 : 1 Grand
Italian Grand