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1. HEADPHONES LEFT OUT RIGHT OUT MONITOR MONO IN MASTER LEVEL Z ORGAN MODEL FARF o ROTARY SPEED STOP MODE LD FAST SLOW STOP VIBRATO CHORUS MODE BASS16 16 MIDI IN MIDI OUT SUSTAIN PEDAL ORGAN PERCUSSION SOFT ve ES ON FAST THIRD a v3 uc C STR16 FLUTES TRMP8 STR8 8 LU 2 Li UF E 1 E 2 3 4 v e w N on 3H 7 7 8 Es 8 B3 FUND RD 2p ENNEMSNSNSNESLM ON eje FLUTES Iv E VES ee eee E won ROTOR CONTROL PEDAL PEDAL PIANO PRESET SPLIT SAMPENV CLAVEG 1 2s VEL DYN BRILL SLOWAT TREB S EPIANO WURL UPRIGHT CLAV HPS GRAND SAMP LIB e SERRE REE a au Noo PROGRAM A e v PROGA PROGB c EB ORGAN PIANO 3 OCTAVE SHIFT ee EQUALIZER KLS 2K 8K FREQ 2 OVERVIEW AND CONNECTIONS 2 Overview and Connections EFFECTS o ds 15dB EFFECT 2 3 a sig 7A 2 8 1 9 o 40 FLANG1 PHAS2 PHAS1 RATE FLANG2 CHOR1 CHOR2 o 5 5 500 ak 10 Wa mu Wa a W y 10 10 Wa 10 BASS GAIN 15dB 15dB 15dB TRI SPEAKER COMP 456 3 7 8 1 E DRIVE COMP GAIN 456 3 7 2 8 AZ o 4 LEVEL REVERB 1 MEMORY PROTECT On Off OUTPUT ROUTING SE Stereo 4 FINE TUNE 50 cent S SUSTAIN PEDAL POL OP open CL close 5 SUSTAIN PEDAL MODE SU Sustain r ustain Rotor 7 ROTOR PEDAL POL SP Op
2. Single Sample Per File Assign This function allows you to easily map samples to a Zone where the Root Key of the sample is based on a cer tain string of characters in the audio file s filename Single Sample Per File Assign Map root key from File name Name ie Cat Number i e 39 Name This function use a naming convention where the pitch or note name is indicated in the actual file name A file that has the name celloC 4 wav will be mapped with the Root Key on C sharp in the middle octave when the Octave Shift on the Nord Wave is set to O The function can interpret the Root Key a sharp sign and the octave Number Uses a number in the file name and interprets this as a Root Key number The middle C C4 on the Nord Electro 3 keyboard when the Octave Shift on the Nord Electro 3 is set to O is key number 60 Select one or several audio files in the Audio File list and click on Assign to assign the samples to Zones You can use the Ctrl key or right click to select nonconsecutive files in the list Multi Sample Per File Assign This function can create sev eral samples and assign these to zones from a single audio file with recordings of several individual notes one after the other Multi Sample Per File Assign Start key Interval 2 jo too Threshold 450d Start Note Set this to the match the pitch of the first recorded note in the audio file Range FO C8 Interval S
3. Waveform Graph Colors Colors are used to define areas and elements in the graph The actual waveform data is drawn in red An undefined area is illustrated by a gray background a selected but unassigned area will have a dark blue background If you right click on a selected area you can assign this selection as a sample with the Root Key setting from the Manual Sample Assign area When one or several parts of a audio file has been assigned as one or several samples this will be indicated in the waveform with alternat ing lighter and darker colors in the same fashion as the zones are indicated in the Keyboard Grid If the sample is in focus this will be illustrated with a yellow color Zoom buttons and slider Zoom in on the waveform using the zoom buttons and the zoom slider so JLeo Jio JL s JL JC tos Lo 2 JLo 1 J som 20m 10m 51 The buttons below the graph labeled All 50 20 etc are the zoom buttons for the X axis the duration of the audio expressed in seconds If you select All the entire duration will fit in the graph if you e g select 2 2 seconds of the audio will fit in the graph Clicking on the 50m 20m or 10m buttons will show 50 20 and 10 milliseconds sections of the audio file The zoom factor for the Y axis the amplitude is done with the selectors and or the slider at the lower right corner The level of 1 0 represents the full amplitude O dBFS relative to the bit depth of the audio file
4. Local Control This allows you to set if the Nord Electro 3 keyboard and front panel controls should control internal Programs or only send note and controller messages via MIDI Local On is the normal mode In Local Off mode the front panel and keyboard action are transmitted via MIDI only and does not control the internal sound s directly Range On default Off Local defaults back to mode On every time the Nord Electro 3 is powered on Control Change CC Mode This setting specifies how the front panel s knobs and buttons are han dled in the MIDI communication with MIDI Control Change messages You can select if the panel controls and functions should either send or receive or both or if Control Change messages should be ignored Range Sr send amp receive default r receive only S send only Off Program Change Mode Specifies how the Nord Electro 3 should handle MIDI Program Change messages Range Sr send amp receive default r receive only S send only Off MIDI Split Mode If MIDI Split mode is On and the Organ is set to a split operation the lower manual will be exclusively controlled via incoming MIDI infor mation to the Electro 3 s MIDI input If you connect an external MIDI keyboard the Electro 3 can then be used in a dual manual fashion Range On Off default Send CC You can perform a dump of all the active Program s parameters as MIDI Control Change messages P
5. Rel 1 Short release Rel 2 Medium release Rel 1 amp 2 Long release Piano Type ANA Use the Type selector to choose which piano sound you want to use Each type may consist of several e models press repeatedly on the model selector to cycle through the models within a selected type samplelibrary Category Description Grand Acoustic and electric grand pianos Upright Upright pianos E Piano Electric Pianos Wurl Wurlitzer electric pianos Clav Hps Clavinets and Harpsichords Samp Lib Samples Mono If you press Shift Mono when a stereo instrument is selected the stereo samples will be played back in mono instead Model Press repeatedly on the model selector to cycle through the available models within a selected type The type of a piano has been set by the lemmings at the Nord factory You cannot move a piano from one type to another Program section The Program section is where you select the pro gram where the Store functions are activated and where you enter the system MIDI and sound menus PROGRAM Up Down buttons PROGA PROGB LIVE The Up Down buttons to the left of the display have several functions in the Nord Electro 3 Press repeatedly to select one of the 128 programs the number and sub letter of the program will be presented in the display Press Shift together with Up Down to scroll through every location 1A 1B 2A etc ORGAN PIANO ele OCTAVE SHIFT
6. v r tu a e l e c t r o m e c o a n c MM nord User Manual Nord Electro 3 OS Version 2X Part No 50316 Copyright Clavia DMI AB 2009 Print Edition 2 0 CAUTION AVIS RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN RISQUE DE SHOCK ELECTRIQUE NE PAS OUVRIR AN CAUTION TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT REMOVE COVER OR BACK NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL ATTENTION POUR EVITER LES RISQUES DE CHOC ELECTRIQUE NE PAS ENLEVER LE COUVERCLE AUCUN ENTRETIEN DE PIECES INTERIEURES PAR L USAGER CONFIER L ENTRETIEN AU PERSONNEL QUALIFE AVIS POUR EVITER LES RISQUES D INCIDENTE OU D ELECTROCUTION N EXPOSEZ PAS CET ARTICLE A LA PLUIE OU L HUMIDITET The lightning flash with the arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated voltage within the products enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons Le symbole clair avec le point de fl che l int rieur d un triangle quilat ral est utilis pour alerter l utilisateur de la presence l int rieur du coffret de voltage dangereux non isol d ampleur suffisante pour constituer un risque d l ctrocution The exclamation mark within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance servicing instructions in the literature accompanying the produ
7. BRILL E TREB PE WURL CLAV HPS SAMP LIB PROG A PROG B LIVE Press the Prog A or Prog B buttons to quickly switch between the program number A or program number B Press Shift and Up Down to scroll continuously in the program bank Edit a program Editing a program is just as easy as grabbing a knob and change a set ting or press a button to select a different setting The knob s physical position isn t always as the stored setting in the program that is active but as soon as you start turning a knob the parameter will snap to the knob s position When you have edited a program a dot will appear in the lower right display corner next to the program number This will alert you to the fact that the program has been edited but not yet saved If you select a new program without saving any edits you have made will be lost and the program will have its original settings the next time you select it Storing a program If you are happy with an edit that you have made you should probably save or Store the program Press the Store button The program number LEDs starts flashing Thereisa Memory Protect function that is set to On when the Electro 3 leaves the Nord Factory This has to be turned Off in the System Menu before you can save a program Press Shift System and use the Up Down buttons to select the Memory Protect Option this is the very first option in the System menu Set the memory protect
8. O O 0 127 x x x O X X X XX X 10 Index Symbols 1 Lo 12 2 Up 12 Add Button 34 Add Files 32 Add Folder 32 Apply Loop 37 Assign button 35 Audio Files 34 Audio Settings 32 Auto Map 39 Auto Panning 15 A Wa 15 B3 11 Backup 23 24 Bank Down 23 Bank Download 24 Bank Up 23 Bank Upload 24 Bass Rotor 19 Cancel 25 Cancel button 33 Cent 38 Chorus 16 Circle 33 Clav EQ 14 Clavinet 13 Clean Deleted Space 24 Close Project 32 Common area 33 Compressor 16 Control Change 18 Control Pedal 7 Ctrl D 32 F 32 G 32 N 32 O 32 Q 32 S 32 W 32 Y 32 Ctrl Pedal 17 Deassign 35 Deassign All 35 Delete 23 24 40 Detune 38 Dot 33 Download 22 Drawbars 13 Drawbar Speed 18 Edit 8 Effects 9 15 Enabled box 34 EQ 15 Exit 24 32 Factory presets 4 Fade Out 37 Farf 11 File format 32 File Menu 32 Fine Tune 17 Flanger 16 Footer area 33 Format 24 Gain 16 Generate 32 Global Detune 39 Global Gain 38 Headphones 6 Instrument 15 Instrument Menu 32 Interval 35 39 Invert Selection 24 Keyboard Gain graph 38 Keyboard Grid 33 Key Click Level 19 LED 14 Left Out 6 Length 36 Live 9 15 Loc 25 Local 18 Loop Length based on 37 Loop Length Variation 37 Loop Options 36 Loop Start 36 Loop Stop Tab 35 Lower Channel 18 Lower Manual 12 Lower Progress bar 33 M Manual Sample Assign 35 Map 39 40 Master level 11 Memory Indicator 41 Memory Protect 8 17 Middle C 33 MID
9. Vibrato Chorus The Vibrato Chorus sec tion mimics the behavior of the original organs which means that these parameters functionality depends on which model is active Select the desired vibrato or chorus type by repeatedly pressing the Mode button The Vibrato Chorus section is common for both the upper and lower presets if the split function is active VIBRATO CHORUS MODE v2 C2 TON C1 V sc DB B3 The original tonewheel organ s vibrato and chorus scanner consists of a tapped delay line in combination with a rotating scan ner For the Vibrato effect phase shift is applied to the signal For the Chorus effect a phase modulated signal is added to the original signal Three different types of choruses C1 C3 and three different types of vibratos V1 V3 are available VX There is only one type of vibrato available for the VX model which is activated using the ON button in the Vibrato section Farf This model has two basic vibrato modes Light and Heavy with two different rates for each mode Percussion eo 1 J e The Percussion effect adds extra attack to the B3 sound by having a single envelope generator con trolling either the 2nd or the 3rd harmonic The envelope opens up for a short moment in the beginning of the sound when you press the key s The percussion will only affect the upper manual if the Split function is active SOFT FAST THIRD ON eje
10. a ll IV co N a P w N a g NM NM NM NM NM NM co N a E N A on O wu FF WwW N PB os M E T on ana wu FEF WwW N a on o E N e os o wu e w M n2 s FUND ejel ji Je cjel NJ JyeJj gt On NM NE NM M NM B E E E E E E E 3 U o y DH wu FF Ww M ma CH m NM NM NM NM NM E vE NM NM ME ME E w N em Oo N a wz ur ml eo The drawbars of the Nord Electro 3 are represented by buttons and LED graphs This gives you a big advantage when you change the program the correct drawbar settings are recalled immediately and shown by the LEDs The drawbars of Nord Electro 3 behave similar to their mechanical counterparts i e with the B3 and VX models you pull out and push in the drawbars using the Drawbar buttons The buttons are special in the way that they auto increment decrement the drawbar value when held If you hold a Drawbar button the corresponding drawbar value will continue to change within its range until you release the button The speed of the automatic change can be set in the System menu read more about this on page 17 amp While holding a Drawbar button you can press its sibling button to momentarily auto increment decrement in the opposite direction Organ Presets The Drawbar buttons can be used to access 17 different organ presets plus a Random setting RND for each of the three organ models These presets contain the drawbar settings the v
11. 0 indicates the Root Key a sample is assigned to this key and the sample plays back at its original pitch The Zone that this sample is assigned to is presented in a color scheme with alter nating blue and gray colors to separate the Zones from each other e A key with a circle O indicates that the sample that has been mapped to this zone is de assigned but may be re assigned with its settings intact 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 33 e A key that is yellow indicates that this sample is in focus this sample is the active sample that you edit with the other functions in the Nord Sample Editor If a Nord Electro 3 is connected to the computer any keys you play on the unit will be indicated in the keyboard area of the Editor You can use the horizontal arrow keys on the computer keyboard to move the focus When a sample is in focus the audio file that the sample originated from will be automatically selected in the Audio File list and the corresponding part of the waveform in the graph will be also is presented in the yellow color Instrument area This is a shortcut to the Generate functions that also is available in the Instrument Menu If the Download box is checked clicking on the Generate button will generate a Sample Instrument from the current Project and automatically download this to the Nord Electro 3 Player This contains two standard transport buttons for starting and stopping the playback of the sample in focus Yo
12. Editor Use this file type to share Sampled Instruments with other Nord Electro 3 and Nord Wave 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 Instru ment you must go back to the original Nord Sample Editor Project file nwiproj do the edits there and then re generate the Sample Instru ment 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 41 42 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X 9 MIDI functions About the MIDI implementation The following MIDI messages can be transmitted and received from the Nord Electro 3 Note On Off e Note On and Note Off messages are transmitted and received Controllers In the MIDI Menu see page 18 you can select if the Nord Electro 3 should transmit and or receive Control Change messages e Incoming MIDI Controller 7 controls the overall volume of the Electro 3 e Incoming MIDI Controller 10 controls the panning of the Electro 3 e f you have a control pedal connected to the control pedal input this is transmitted as Controller 11 Expression e f you have a pedal connected to the sustain pedal input this is transmitted as Controller 64 Sustain Pedal e f you have a pedal connected to the rotor pedal input this pedal is transmitted as Controller 90 e Almost all other controls knobs and buttons on the front panel are also transmitted and received as Control Change message
13. Hear any change you make will be monitored in real time during playback The Short Loop option will create a loop from one single period in the sample This option can be successful on sounds where the harmonic content changes a lot It can also be very efficient in reducing the size of a sample If you have concerns about making as many samples fit in the Nord Electro 3 as possible this should be explored The Short Loop option uses either a pitch estimate or the Root Key as the reference for its length since the length will have consequences on the pitch of the sound when it is looping amp Ifyou can find a smooth short loop early in a sample the envelope generators in the Nord Electro 3 can be used to emulate a natural decay and you can save lots of space in the Flash memory The No Loop option may seem self explanatory but the important thing here is to remember that no sample data after the end marker will be downloaded to the Flash memory Click on the waveform graph to position the end marker Please go to page 35 for a detailed description of all the functions in the Loop Stop tab Generate a Sample Instrument When you have added all the audio files to the Project and are satisfied with the sample edits it is time to create a Sample Instrument and to download this to the Nord Electro 3 If you haven t saved your Project now would be an excellent time to do so By saving and giving a Project a name you are also p
14. Los oes e rcx ERE xa 13 Upload sounds from the Electro 3 22 Pick Up PUDE eoe sna ez a ends 13 Upload a complete partition 22 Download sounds to the Electro 3 22 Organize the program partition 22 Search Box i ee 22 Auto Select sua usa nas Re s 22 Sound Manager reference 23 Toolbar 4 2 is bie Seda eek eas 23 Menus 24 gi rp 24 Eds mas Des asa DE SG RE on 24 VIEW asus da stems sot a ee x bue ot E od 24 ml Lr 25 Tabs 25 Search BOX cee 25 Loc Locatlon ecl2ad exce eed 2 Name oc sore son oem xg debug am 2 25 Category llle eee 25 SIZE sch ecu Rte Exe lodi atem eed 25 Ver Version Number 25 nonc LX 25 Footer Area ce ees 25 Partition Memory Indicator 25 Cancel Button 00000 25 Progress BarS 0 eee 25 Message Text Area llus 25 Updates andsamples 25 8 Nord Sample Editor Nord Sample Editor 26 Non destructive editing 26 System Requirements 26 Getting Started 26 Project sample memory 26 WYDIWYH 0 es 26 Working offline 26 Sample Zone nananana eee eee 26 Sample Instrument 26 Sample editing loop markers x fade 27 Generate upload download 27 Installation 27 Installation of the USB driver 27 Installation Windows
15. PC 27 Installation Mac OSX 0005 27 The Quick Tour 27 First Light cccccccc 0c eae 27 Download Sample Instruments 28 Upload Sample Instruments 28 Create a new Sample Instrument 28 Audio files with individual samples 29 Single Sample Per File Assign 29 EQUINOS cis ss ra yes ees 30 LOOPING ue os mi rote ho hese hs 30 Generate a Sample Instrument 31 Menu Reference 32 File Menu 2 2 cee ee 32 Edit Menu cccccccc 32 Instrument Menu 4 32 Settings Menu 000 32 Manager Menu 32 Help Menu 0 000 0 eee eee 33 Tab Reference 33 Common area aaa aa aaa 33 Audio File Assign Tab 34 Single Sample Per File Assign 34 Multi Sample Per File Assign 35 Manual Sample Assign 35 Sample Loop Stop Tab 35 LONG Lo0p sous eer ees 36 SOK EOOD cu eke es eae ERR s 37 NO LOOP 245 pa be eek eoe tae Pa 37 Apply on All lille 37 Sample Start Tab 37 Sample Alt Start Tab 37 Instrument Tab 38 Sample Gain grid 38 Keyboard Gain graph 38 Detune 00 00 e eee 38 Sample Zone 0 00 eee 39 Transpose l l llle 39 Auto Map llle 39 Play Mode 00000 eee 39 Samp Preset Tab 39 Velocity Controlled Dynamics 39 Keyboar
16. Speed in case the functionality of your pedal is reversed i e when the pedal is up Rotor Speed is fast and vice versa Range CL Close default OP Open Rotor Pedal Mode If you are using a sustain pedal connected to control Rotor Speed this allows you to set how this should operate Hold means that the Rotor Speed is fast for as long as the pedal is down and reverts back to slow when the pedal is released or vice versa depending on the set pedal polarity Toggle means that the fast slow rotor speed is switched each time you activate the pedal like an on off switch pedal Range Hd Hold default tO Toggle Ctrl Pedal Type Different makes of control pedals have different specifications resistance offset and linearity To simplify setup and to optimize the response of the pedal for the Nord Electro 3 the most common pedal makes are precon figured and you simply select the type of pedal you connect Roland Yamaha and Fatar are linear control pedals with different scal ing and offset Ernie Ball pedals ErnieB are marketed as volume ped als with a logarithmic response but the response is rescaled internally in the Nord Electro 3 to make them work nicely as control pedals They may need a Y cable stereo plug gt 2 mono plugs to work with the Nord Electro 3 Range FA Fatar Er Ernie Ball YA Yamaha rO Roland default 18 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Ctrl Pedal M
17. any amplitude changes that might occur in a crossfade as a result of cancellations when harmonics are out of phase with each other Short Loop When using the Short Loop option the loop length is set to a single waveform period As the length of a single period is relative to the pitch of the sample you can use an algorithm that analyzes the pitch of the sample or use a length correlating to the pitch of the sample s Root Key Loop Length based on shit Loop lodo length Fik hase ori These are the two alternatives on how to deter mine what constitutes as a single period in the sample If a short loop produces a different pitch than the actual sample you may need to try the Hoot Key option The Pitch Estimate is the default but there may be occasions when this is unsuitable If a sample has strong harmonics that are stronger than the fundamental the Root Key option may be better suited Xfade The short loop also has provisions for using a crossfade with a selec tion of fixed lengths 2596 or 1096 of the loop length Set this to Off if no crossfade should be used No Loop This provides you with the option to set a marker where the sample will end You can also set a fade out time Stop Ma Loop You can enter the position of where the sample Stop will end expressed in seconds in the value box confirming this by pressing enter or by using Fade Out the slider You can also click in the graph to set the sample end
18. as the waveform for oscillator 2 in the instrument X You can also double click on a sample in the list in order to select it in the Nord Electro 3 This concludes our guided tour we hope you have enjoyed the show so far The rest of this chapter contains the Editor Refer ence section where all the functions in the Nord Sample Editor will be explained in detail 32 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Menu Reference File Menu In the Nord Sample Editor the usual EN Edit Instrument Settings Windows XP and Mac OSX keyboard New Project CTRL N commands are available The drop Open Project CTRL O down menus can be accessed by Save Project CTRL 5 pressing the Alt key and the under Save Project s lined letter in the menu bar Close Project CTRL Most of the commands can also be pee est See accessed by pressing the Ctrl Com ee Ease es ai mand on the Mac key together with Exit CTRL O the letter shown next to the com mand name in the drop down menus New Project Ctrl N Creates a new empty Project window Open Project Ctrl O Brings up the file selector and allows you to open a Project file from a storage device on the computer If another Project is already open you will be prompted to save any unsaved changes before it is closed Save Project Ctrl S This command will save the current Project to a storage device on the computer A Project file has the extension nwiproj Save Project As T
19. audio file is added to a Project it can be used as the source for one or several samples A sample can be assigned to a range on the keyboard this range is called a Zone The sample parameters that determine the range of its zone is the Root Key and the Upper Key Sample Instrument A set of samples with zone settings is a Sample Instrument the maxi mum number of zones in a Sample Instrument is 91 The Sample In strument can be selected in the Nord Wave oscillator 2 as a waveform and by choosing the SampLib type and model in the Electro 3 Any kind of sample may be assigned to any zone which means that a Sample Instrument can consist of several different sounds mapped across the keyboard You can e g create a drum type Sample Instru ment with one sound for each key or create multiple splits by assigning different samples to different keyboard ranges e g bass samples in the lower register followed by piano samples higher up on the keyboard Sample editing loop markers crossfade Setting a starting point for a sample to e g eliminate any unwanted au dio at the beginning is a one click function in the Nord Sample Editor The Editor has some very powerful loop functions that make creating perfect seamless loops a breeze The loop makes it possible to use shorter samples that still can be played for a duration that is longer than the sample itself The loop functions also includes a crossfade option that can be monitored in
20. bottom of the sample bank list drop down This will upload the entire content of the partition to the com puter hard drive If the Create Subfolders option is checked a folder structure partition bank sounds will automatically be created in the destination folder Download sounds to the Electro 3 Click on the Bank Down tool or select the File Bank Download menu command Ctrl Shift D Verify that the destination bank is correct and browse to the de sired source folder on the computer hard drive When you click on Download a dialogue appears to inform you that the content of the destination bank in the Nord Electro 3 will be replaced with that of the source file Hank Download iris oc Electro Pianos Choose Folder v Search subfolders Es pd Par LE Ein Lih If you select All in the destination bank drop down you can replace all the sounds in a partition with those on a folder structure on the hard drive If Search Subfolders is active you can browse to the top folder of a structure as the parent of the source files Organize the program partition By using drag and drop you can organize the content of the Program partition with its 128 programs Make sure that Organize is activated in the View menu Select and drag a program from the destination location to the desired location If you drop a sound on a free location the sound will be moved from the source location If you drop on a location
21. ime p armin Tm miai uand Figs This area is used to add audio files to your project and assign sections within the audio file to be used as samples Several scenarios to automatically analyze and assign samples are available in the Nord Sample Editor You can either add a group of audio files where each file contains a single note and has a name identifying the note by name or number or you can add a single file containing several notes one after the other Audio Files This section contains the list of audio files that are included in the cur rent Project The list will be empty when you create a new Project if you open a previously saved Project there may be files in the list It is in this list that you select the referenced audio file you wish to use to create samples and assign these samples to Zones When a file is selected a graphical representation of its waveform will appear in the waveform graph if the Enabled box is checked Only audio files or parts of the audio files that have been assigned as samples in the Project are included when a Sample Instrument is generated Name The files in the list may be sorted alphabetically in an ascending or de scending manner by selecting Name and changing direction by clicking on the arrow Add Button Brings up the Add Files dialog where you choose audio files to be added to your project Multiple files can be selected A Project uses references to the audio files on
22. installation you will have the option to select an alternative location for the application 4 Confirm every window in the installation procedure by clicking on the Next button The installation may be aborted at any time by clicking on Cancel When the installation is complete click the Close button to return to the Windows desktop Installation Mac OSX Insert the Nord DVD into the DVD ROM drive Open the image file dmg that is located in the Nord Sample Edi tor folder on the DVD and drag the Nord Sample Editor v2 xx app to the Applications folder amp When new versions of the Nord Sample Editor are released they will be available as a free download at www nordkeyboards com 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 27 The Quick Tour Let us go through a few things we know you are curious about and get acquainted with the Nord Sample Editor at the same time E mS Sam Lac pb A m ma Per len GNO TUVO tm me rji ab uno eet Gc TSS maet ITIL mL To p T oo H a E B E EN 14 f Qmm ang T pem ie pang Boge ana a Era w Ir i HT TI a e e ra PITT Em d m dent 1 jT I nt TT TT E I I i E NNE ia E E nm iu li 4 T T 1 T m J E HM n E s mM NE x co d RD Efnin m Dre 2 NETZ TIL oe T oa Ves liig LE gd FR E m bla der aL EE IE rara DEES Dm ay ard ea i N Nord Sample Editor Audio File Assign tab with an audio file
23. marker when this loop option is selected Fade Out Enter the Fade Out time expressed in seconds in the value box con firming this by pressing enter or by using the slider This is the time in seconds leading up to the sample end during which the amplitude will gradually fade out Apply on All The loop settings that you have made can be applied to all other samples in the project In order to compensate for any artifacts that might occur when you e g play a chord as a result of several loops with identical settings you have the option to apply a variation to the loop length 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 37 Loop Length Variation Set the variation to the loop length to all the individual samples loops expressed as a percentage Enter the value in the box confirm this by pressing enter or use the slider Apply Loop Click this button to apply the variation setting to all of the loops in the current project Sample Start Tab icr Per p x P EE OT T LIT M IT T Ee ed X TE Wer cue eae a T When the Sample Start tab is opened the waveform graph will zoom in to give you a better view of what is happening at the very beginning of the sample As soon as a sample is assigned by the Nord Sample Editor a Start point will be automatically set This will be indicated in the Start tab by the marker Start Enter the start position in the sample expressed in seconds in the value box confirming this by pressing en
24. partition is approx 186 MB in size the Samp Lib partition is 68 MB Cancel Button Use this function if you need to cancel a process that is in progress Certain functions like e g a restore process cannot be cancelled Progress Bars The two progress bars indicate the progress of an ongoing process The upper bar shows the progression of the individual processes and the lower indicates the status of the entire task Message Text Area The left part of the text area will present any confirmations or error messages from the Nord Sound Manager The right part will indicate of a Nord Electro 3 is connected to the com puter and in communication with the Nord Sound Manager The OS version of the connected Electro 3 will also be displayed here Updates and samples Please visit our website at http www nordkeyboards com to down load any updates of the Nord Sound Manager and sounds that have been released for the Nord Electro 3 These items will be available as free downloads in the Nord Electro 3 download area 26 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X R Nord Sample Editor What is the Nord Sample Editor The Nord Sample Editor is the application that allows you to edit cre ate and load collections of samples to and from the sample memory area of a Sample Library compatible Nord instrument The Nord Sample Editor will assist you in your editing efforts it contains powerful tools for various actions that can be applied to a
25. radiators heat registers or other 19 products that produce heat The product should be connected to a power supply only of the type described in these opera tion instructions or as marked on the product The power supply cord of the product should be unplugged from the outlet when the product is left unused for a long period of time Care should be taken so that objects do not fall or liquids are not spilled into the enclosure through openings The product should be serviced by qualified service person nel when A The power supply cord has been damaged or B Objects have fallen or liquids have been spilled onto the product or C The product has been exposed to rain or D The product does not appear to operate normally or exhibits a marked change in performance or E The product has been dropped or the enclosure has been damaged Do not attempt to service the product beyond those means described in this operating manual All other servicing should be referred to qualified service personnel To completely disconnect the apparatus from the mains remove the mains plug Ensure possible protective earthing connections of other equipment when the apparatus is connected to multimedia systems Where the Mains plug is used as the disconnect device the disconnect device shall remain readily operable Trademarks The Nord logo is a registred trademark of Clavia DMI AB All other trade marks mentioned in this publicatio
26. real time with various options for the length crossfade curves etc Generate upload download When a Project is completed you can generate a Sample Instrument and automatically download the wave data to the Flash memory in the Nord Electro 3 The real estate of the Flash memory has a fixed capacity and to keep track on how much room you have left there is an indicator in the Nord Sample Editor that will help you to manage the available space Installation Installation of the USB driver Before the Nord Electro 3 can communicate with a Windows PC you need to install a Clavia USB driver for the Windows operating system Mac users may skip this paragraph To install the USB driver follow these instructions Insert the Nord DVD installation DVD into the DVD ROM drive or get the driver from the Nord Wave download area at www nordkeyboards com Connect the USB cable between the Nord Electro 3 and the com puter and power up the unit The Found New Hardware wizard should appear accompanied by its reassuring alert sound Let the wizard search the installation DVD for the USB driver and install it or point the wizard to the folder where the driver is Installation Windows PC Insert the Nord DVD into the DVD ROM drive Run the Install Nord Sample Editor v2 xx exe and follow the instructions in the setup program The Nord Sample Editor will be installed in the Program Files folder on the hard disk During the
27. sample These tools will for instance help you in setting a start point of a sample creating a loop and other tasks that are essential in making the samples ready for use in the Nord Electro 3 The Editor also has functions for automatic mapping of samples across the keyboard and much more Non destructive editing Any editing that takes place in the Nord Sample Editor software is completely non destructive The audio files on your hard disk will not be altered in any way even though the Nord Sample Editor will e g truncate samples before they are downloaded to the Nord instrument If you edit any audio file that is used by the Nord Sample Editor with some other application that edit will also affect that particular file in the Nord Sample Editor System Requirements Windows PC The Nord Sample Editor requires a computer with Windows XP or Vista Additionally you need one free USB port plus a DVD ROM drive if you want to install the software from the DVD Mac The Nord Sample Editor requires a Mac with one USB port a DVD ROM untt to install the software and OSX 10 4 or later Nord You will also need a Sample Library compatible Nord instrument to be able to download the samples The Nord units that are compatible with the Sample Editor and the Nord Sample Library are Nord Wave with OS v2 x and later and the Nord Electro 3 with OS 1 x or later Getting Started Let s begin with a brief description of the terminology used in t
28. that is occupied the two sounds will trade places Select a program and press the Ctrl key on the computer key board If you now drag this selection the Program will be copied and pasted at the destination instead of just being moved Search Box By entering one or several characters in the Search Box you can filter out the content that is presented in the lists Robert made me This provides you with a quick way to find duplicate programs all programs made by the mysterious AD Ake Danielsson or all programs with e g the phrase string in their names Auto Select By clicking on the Auto Select icon in the toolbar you toggle the Auto Select function on or off File Edit View Help A Hg uu Organize Dual view Auto Select Sound Up Samp Lib Program When this is activated and you scroll through the Pianos Program or Sample list using the computer keyboard arrow keys these will auto matically be selected in the Nord Electro 3 X Double clicking on a Piano Program or Sample will also select it in the Electro 3 Nord Sound Manager reference Toolbar Creo ee Colo Soa Ford O Sere rip Ti Beak LO EE Desi Pk mete Organize When this option is active the lists will show all the available locations in the selected partition bank and not only the occupied ones This will for instance make it easier to drag a file to a specific free location in the middle of the list If this is inactive
29. the selection 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 35 Range End This will indicate where the selection you have made in the graph ends Use the increment decrement buttons to adjust the end of the selection Enabled box This enables or disables the assignment of the sample in focus It will default to the checked state when you click the Assign button Un check it to temporarily disable an assignment to the sample in focus The sample and the settings will be kept in the Project just check the box again to put it right back in business Assign button This activates the assignment of the selected audio file using the settings you have entered for the parameters for the Manual Sample Assign function Deassign This deactivates the assignment of the sample that is in focus Deassign All Clicking on this button will permanently de assign the mapping of the focused sample and also all the other samples that originates from the same audio file Use this function with care to quickly start with a clean slate with a previously mapped audio file Sample Loop Stop Tab Audio File Assign Sample Loop Stop Sample Start Sample Alt Start Instrument Samp Pres E DesktopNW demol1 wav 1 0 0 8 0 6 e KUNA Ro WA n p i Long Loop BEXTTE ms Phase Adjust Fade Curve Or g mm 0 NB mm Os Sa Ea Fine lt gt if Linear This tab contain the functions that will assist you i
30. the types of sounds reproduced by Nord Electro 3 Factory presets OS and internal memory The operating system programs and pianos and samples in Nord Electro 3 are stored in a Flash memory A Flash memory keeps the data also when the power is turned off Another big advantage is that you can replace data in the Flash memory at any time This means that you will be able to download OS upgrades pianos and samples and programs to your Nord Electro 3 from a computer The Nord Electro 3 features a USB port for quick and easy download of new piano and or instrument samples The internal sound memory of Nord Electro 3 consists of 128 pro grams numbered 1A 1B 2A 2B 64B In addition there is the Live buffer memory which will continuously store any changes as they are made and remember these settings after the power is turned off Factory presets All of the 128 factory Programs of Nord Electro 3 can be replaced To make sure you don t accidentally overwrite Programs you want to keep it s a good idea to back up your sounds regularly on a computer using the Nord Sound Manager application internal OX Restoring the factory presets The factory Programs are available as Nord Sound Manager backup files for download at the Nord web site at www nordkeyboards com or on the included Nord DVD OS upgrades 0S The latest OS version for Nord Electro 3 is available for download at www nordkeyboards com free down loads
31. weaker but this one had a distinctive timeless sound and is recreated faithfully in the Nord Electro 3 The labels used for the VX model drawbars are printed on the row directly above the drawbar led s For basic drawbar operation please refer to The Drawbars on page 13 The drawbars on the Electro 3 s VX emulation control the level of each available partial in the same fashion as on a dual manual original Continental The upper manual uses the 16 8 4 I and Ill registers and the lower manual uses the 8 4 2 and IV registers Each register represents a fixed harmonic interval or groups of intervals the Il Ill and IV in a relationship to the played note BASS16 STR16 FLUTES OBOES8 TRMP8 STR8 FLUTE4 STR4 2 2 3 16 lI IV As NA 8 4 2 E E E E E E E E E E E E m2 E E m2 The two rightmost drawbars control the sum of all partials in the form of a filtered soft and dark sounding signal the sine icon and an un filtered signal with a bright and intense sound the triangular icon f these drawbars are both fully set to the lowest level the organ will produce no sound The Farf model This typical buzzy sound of this vintage instrument is one of the most distinct and easily recognizable organ sounds ever created yet it is ac tually possible to get quite a wide range of sounds out of the instrument The labels used for the Farf model drawbars are printed on the upper row above the dr
32. you actually activate the effect Let s try the wah effect Turn on Effect 1 and activate the A Wa The A Wa is a dynamic Wah wah effect It will affect the sound de pending on the volume of the signal Play a few notes with varying velocity while turning the Effect 1 knob X The P Wa is a manual Wah wah effect that can be controlled manually by turning the knob while playing or by using a control pedal connected to the Control Pedal input on the rear panel Activate an amplifier emulation Press the Speaker Comp button to activate the Amp emulation The Speaker Comp LED will be lit Press repeatedly on the selector to cycle through the various options The knob controls the drive for the three amps and the rotary simulator and the amount when the compressor is selected Selecting a piano or a sample Make sure that the Piano instrument selector is active Press repeatedly on the Piano Type selector to cycle through the six types Select the Grand and press the Model button PIANO SAMP ENV CLAV EQ This allows you to select the various VEL DYN BRILL Grand s within this particular type SLOW AT TREB 4 Press the Type selector again until the Samp Lib is activated TYPE Use the Model selector to select one EPIANO WURL of the samples that are included in the UPRIGHT CLAV HPS Electro 3 from the factory GRAND SAMP LIB Press the Samp Env button repeat D edly This will cycle through the four options for
33. E Enabled Key for the focused sample There can only be one sample assigned to each Root Key the value will automati cally skip to the next available note Range FO to C8 Upper Key Sets a new Upper Key for the focused sample The available range may be limited by samples that occupy a Root Key higher up on the keyboard The Upper Key can not be a key that is located lower than the Root Key on the keyboard Range FO to C8 Enabled This allows you to disable and re enable the focused sample Transpose Use the buttons to transpose the entire Sample Instrument in semi tone steps Auto Map This function can be used to quickly enable and disable samples at certain intervals in order to reduce the amount of memory used by the Sample Instrument This is a great way to quickly experiment with the Sample Instrument without having to delete and or re assign samples 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 39 Interval Aura Map Set the interval or range between the TALE Eee F samples that will be kept enabled The end result will depend on how the original ranges are mapped Samples will not be moved from one key to another any gaps across the keyboard range will be filled by any adjacent samples A setting of O will disable all the samples Range O to 48 semi tones Map Map the samples according to the Interval setting Play Mode This allows you to choose if a sample should be pitched according to the standard 12 tone i
34. I 18 MIDI Channel 18 MIDI Controller list 43 MIDI In 6 MIDI Out 6 MIDI Split 12 18 Model 14 Monitor In 6 Mono 14 Multiple files 32 Name 34 41 New Project 32 No Loop 37 Normalize All 38 Number 35 nwiproj 41 Octave gain 38 Octave Shift 9 15 Open Project 32 Organ Model 11 Organ Presets 13 Organ section 11 Organ Trig 18 Output Routing 17 Partition Memory 25 Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel 19 Perc Fast Decay 19 Perc Norm Level 19 Perc Slow Decay 19 Perc Soft Level 19 Percussion 12 Phaser 16 Piano 13 Piano Type 14 Pick up 13 Pitch Estimate 37 Play Mode 39 Preset Split 10 12 ProgA 15 Program 14 Program Change 18 Program memory 8 Progress 25 Progress bars 33 P Wa 15 Range Begin 35 Range End 35 Reference 32 Rel 14 Remap button 35 Remove Button 34 Rename 23 24 Reset All 38 Restore 23 24 Reverb 16 Right click 40 Ring modulator 15 RM 15 RND 13 Root Key 35 Rotary 16 Rotary Speed 12 Rotor Pedal 7 17 Samp Env 14 Sample Detune 39 Gain 38 Gain grid 38 Zone 39 Save Project 32 Select All 24 Settings 32 Shift 15 Shift button 5 Short Loop 37 Size 25 Slow At 14 Slow Stop 12 Soft Fast 12 Sound Down 23 Sound Menu 18 Sound Up 23 Sound Upload 24 Speaker Comp 16 Start 37 Start Note 35 Stop 37 Stop Mode 12 Store 8 14 Store Org Preset 14 Sustain Pedal 7 17 System Menu 17 Tab Reference 33 Third 12 Threshold 35 Tonewheel crosstalk Tonewheel Mode 19 Transfer 21 Transpos
35. M000 BPS P2 2 CP CO CY D DT E 3023 p cO 0n 03 Single Sample Per File Assign Multi Sample Per File 4ssig Map rook key Start Key Interval From File name A IE Mame i e C Threshald 2 O Mumber i e 39 The samples will be mapped to zones according to the markers in the file names Editing Let s continue to edit a sample in order to prepare it a bit more before we download the Sample Instrument to the Nord Electro 3 Make sure that you have at least one sample in the Project and that this sample is assigned to a zone and in focus Click on the Instrument tab This is where you can agjust the gain and fine tune the pitch of the entire Sample Instrument or any individual samples You adjust these functions by entering values in the input boxes or by using the incre ment decrement buttons dado ilu Sono laxo Dio Se o Ced ro AR oi Dee ee er F ge TR T ERR E Tite a umma dis Ad DT ups AR T ir esta Lad p Ol TE c Besta com 2 ica com ram arm E am aram ILE re nessun aloe fomno seria Coto 7 Larp lotum E arm omae Edi Ein irum s Estes Ud 7o Lippe bee FE 07 el abil JC less i D ae s X Move the sample focus by using the horizontal arrow keys on the computer keyboard Click on the Sample Start tab This is where you can adjust the starting point of the sample This is useful if you have audio files that contain unwanted material before
36. MANUAL OS V2 X Download Sample Instruments You can find new Sample Instruments at the www nordkeyboards com website These can be downloaded from the website free of charge Here s how to download a Sample Instrument from the computer hard drive to the Nord unit Browse to www nordkeyboards com and go to the Nord Sample Library area Select the Sample Instrument s that you wish to get and save the file or folder to a location on your hard drive and unzip it The file extension of the file will be nsmp for Sample Instruments Read more about the different file formats that the Nord Sample Editor uses on page 41 In the Nord Sample Editor open the Manager tab Select the Organize option in the Manager menu and you will see a grid with all the available memory locations To add new Sample Instruments to the Nord Electro 3 just drag the files from the hard drive to an empty location in the list of Sample Instruments in the Browser tab A Audio files have to be added to a Project in the Audio File Assign tab and generated to become a Sample Instrument before they can be used in the Nord Electro 3 Only Sample Instruments in the nsmp format can be downloaded using the method described above Upload Sample Instruments Using the Nord Sample Editor it is very easy to upload samples from the Nord Electro 3 to the computer hard drive These actions also take place in the Manager tab Open the Manager tab Hight click on
37. SHIFT If you have activated any of the three menus the System MIDI or Sound menu these buttons are then used to select a function and together with the Shift button to change the value of a selected function Read more about the menus on page 17 Display The LED display will show the active program number If you edit a program a dot will appear next to the program number at the bottom right of the display If you have activated any of the three menus the System MIDI or Sound menu the setting for each menu item is shown with the LEDs Store Store Org Preset The red Store button is used when storing Programs and Organ Presets Press the Store button once and the current program number will start to flash Select the desired location with the Up Down buttons and press Store again to confirm your intentions and to store the current set tings to the selected location Press any button to abort the store procedure Press Shift Store The display will flash O pr Select a desired location to store by pressing one of the Organ Preset buttons The display will show the selected preset number 6 Confirm your intentions by pressing Store once more This procedure may be aborted by pressing the Shift button norder to be able to store settings the Memory Protection must be turned off Head more about this on page 17 Prog A Prog B After you have selected a program number you can quickly switch betwe
38. Sample Instrument Any individual amplitude differences between the samples will not be altered Set the value expressed in dB s in the value box confirming this by pressing enter or with the increment decrement buttons Range 9 0 to 9 0 dB Sample Gain This allows you to change the amplitude on each individual sample The amplitude after a gain change will be indicated with the horizontal line in the Grid Set the value expressed in dB s in the value box con firming this by pressing enter or with the increment decrement buttons Range 9 0 to 9 0 dB Keyboard Gain graph This graph will reflect any changes that you make with the Keyboard Gain controls These settings will affect the entire Sample Instrument and can be used to apply various adjustments that will change the am plitude across the range of the keyboard If for example the lower range in the Sample Instrument is too loud you can apply an attenuation that begins at a chosen octave The sample in focus will be indicated as a yellow slice Reset All This will reset any settings that you have made using the octave gain controls Octave gain controls Allows you to apply a gain change to a range which will start at the preset keys C1 C2 C3 etc C4 represents the middle C on the Nord Electro 3 when the Octave Shift control is set to O Set the value expressed in dB s in the value box confirming this by pressing enter or with the increment decrement but
39. The Percussion is a single triggered non legato effect It is only present when you hit the keys when no other note is sounding In other words if you play a note or a chord and then add on more notes without releasing the previously pressed keys there will be no percussion effect in the new notes You have to release all keys to be able to play new notes with the percussion effect The percussion effect is activated and deactivated by pressing the On button The Soft Fast button toggles between normal or soft percussion levels and fast or slow decay times providing four available combinations The Third button toggles between using the 2nd or 3rd partial as the source for the percussion effect The percussion decay times and levels can be fine tuned for Fast and Slow mode individu ally Please refer to The Sound Menu on page 18 for details With the original instrument you could not use the percussion effect and 9th drawbar simultaneously However with the Nord Electro 3 you have a choice You can use the percussion and 9th drawbar together or chose to mimic the original organ behavior by turning off the 9th drawbar whenever the percussion is activated Read more on the Perc Drawbar setting in the Sound menu on page 18 Preset Split Use the 1 Lo and 2 Up buttons to store and recall two separate settings for the organ section PRESET SPLIT Press the Shift and the Split button to divide the Nord Electro 3 keyboard into two s
40. When the Nord Sample Editor has completed the analysis of the file samples with Root Key and Upper Key settings are created and these settings are translated into zones These zones will be indicated in the Keyboard Grid at the top of the Editor window Multi Sample Per File Assign Start Key Interval E B cs Threshald BE assio ge dee a IT The sample that is highlighted in yellow is the focused sample This means that this sample is active for further editing and ready for playback X Pressing the space bar on the computer keyboard or clicking on the symbol in the Player at the upper right corner will start the playback of the file The dot marker on a key 0 in the keyboard display indicates that this is the Root Key of a sample The sample is also assigned to the corresponding range that surrounds the dot marked key indicated in grey or blue If you right click on a dotted key you can disable a sample temporarily from the Project which will be indicated with a circle O You can also de assign the sample this means that it will be removed from the Project X Disabling a sample from a zone is a great way to determine how many samples you need in order to cover a particular range of a multi sampled instrument or sound Any settings that have been made to a sample will be kept even if it is disabled When you re enable a sample these settings will be restored You can use the arrow keys on the compute
41. a Cages Za Pix rock key tios Iria Bad ep Congo Eures Era From Pia rane Em T rime u Cg d f sb fie 300 Thet Sd The two progress bars at the lower left corner of the Project window will indicate that the file s are added to the Project The amount of time it takes to add one or several files will vary depending on the file size s and your computer X You can select and add several samples at once as long as they are in the same location on your hard drive To add all the audio files from an entire folder use the Add Folder Ctri D command from the File menu When a file has been added you will see a representation of its content as a waveform graph in the Editor window Please note that the NW demo 1 wav is one file which consists of several recorded notes from a Nord C1 organ Nothing fancy just some simple sounds to show you a cool feature Let s do some magic now and have the Editor create several samples mapped in Zones across the keyboard from this audio file iwem om elm pet iei E aa iu f oe aaa aaa aaa masa Bas n Coie ND irl m i T ii oo ii La q za i Em i Ja j in d m H A m INN en E HM T LE a Ta ERN Mou D ID IH ad a i t IL aD in be 6 Locate the section labeled Multi Sample Per File Assign at the lower part of the Editor window Set the Start Note to C2 the interval to 1 semi the Threshold to 45 dB and then click on Assign
42. a sample and select Upload The data will be saved in the same folder as the Editor application lives in or in a folder chosen by you Sample Instruments will be saved as nsmp files Read more about the file types the Editor uses on page 41 X By combining the techniques for down and uploading the Sample Instruments you are now able to share Sample Instruments with other Nord Wave or Nord Electro 3 users if you wish Create a new Sample Instrument Time to get creative let s create a new Sample Instrument Copy the NW demo wav file from the Nord DVD to the folder where the Nord Sample Editor is installed You may of course use any other audio file in the wav format but this particular file will demonstrate a very powerful feature of the Nord Sample Editor Open a new Project from the File menu Only one Project can be open in the Editor you will be prompted to save any changes before any Project that has been edited is closed X A quick way to open a new Project is to hit Ctrl N on the comput er keyboard Ctrl S will save the current Project The name you give to a Project will also be the name of the Sample Instrument that is downloaded to the Nord Electro 3 Select the Audio File Assign tab bbe i ae ir Ss i Serer VPN TE ir o E Click on the Add button below the Audio Files area or type Ctrl F Browse to the location of the NW demo 1 wav file and click Open hi rue are Pos F e Aur Buh Lange Pe em Joe Mir
43. al program that you wish to add Upload sounds from the Electro 3 Select the desired partition that holds the sounds that you wish to store on the computer hard drive Select the bank and the sound Shift click will allow you to select several consecutive sounds Ctrl click will allow you to select nonconsecutive sounds Here we have selected a few of the samples Size 5 4 ME 3 3 ME 4 6 ME 4 1 ME Qaa ER 4 Mame orchStrings Sust Movib ste KHv4 2 OrchStrings Marc wib ste KHy5 3 ChambStringsSust Vib ste KHv4 d Lac Chamb5tringsMarc vib ste KHv5 Piz icabn CrchStre che KHwE Click on the Sound Up tool or right click on the selected sound s and select Upload The dialogue will prompt you to browse to the desired destination folder on the hard drive The upload process may take a few moments depending on the size of the sounds Upload a complete partition to the hard drive Make sure that the desired partition and bank is focused in the Nord Sound Manager You will also have the opportunity to change the source bank in an upcoming dialogue Click on the Bank Up tool or select the File Bank Upload menu command Ctrl Shift U Verify that the source bank is correct and browse to the desired destination folder on the computer hard drive Bank Uploge E EuETE Partibon Bard Pario Ne ni LJ sounds se Begina Ele e Paa Charen Fisher 7 Create Sibi ober Uso E ia vll You can also select All at the
44. also need a Clavia USB Driver of version 2 14 or later installed The Nord Electro 3 OS has to be 2 0 or later Nord Electro S OS Updates USB drivers and instructions on how to install these are available at the www nordkeyboards com website and on the DVD that accompanies this unit Overview fe ue Dim bj m j i A B E Eu E B corre dida esl nert Gaura bmi lp aa irr Fon lip Feiner hi nma Fw Teme Le hype Cegan Eam ij ja g Bulb o Te Ei i ian L eurendl fe ad Im AN wE 2 raphim elo Toe Eo 3m 2nd J Sheard Pel Cm di Lou m wr bred 4 Dehi ard eo at LM eri Fermo arom E d di Ar Pie Pur aa A ao Pus Fits 1 P IER E 1 el Pus a ZEN 53d 42 For a dh FL LE x im Firu 7 Fae 4 P8 8 ki Cer Ie ax deu Lh arte LOM d Pub dum as b Zueve p 42 EE 42m P PTH red m i nt 1 LL LP milla 4 pre H ria bel 1 I Puro cotter PEEL TET Ried Deha 1 eTe Crewected ie le a You can work with the contents of the Piano Sample Organ Presets and the Program partitions These are accessed from the tabs conve niently labeled Piano Samp Lib Program and Organ Presets If no Nord Electro 3 is connected to the computer pages icons and memory locations will be grayed out A The actions that take place in the Nord Sound Manager will affect the memories in the Nord Electro 3 The Manager is on line with a connected Electro 3 at all times any changes that you perform in the Manager will immediately be executed in the Nor
45. and right outouts default setting SO Separated Output All organs are routed to left output pia nos samples are routed to the right output SP Split Output Tonewheel organ is routed to the left output Vx and Farf organs and pianos samples are routed to right output Transpose Transpose allows you transpose the pitch of the Electro 3 up or down in semitone steps Range 6 semitones default 0 Fine Tune This allows you to fine tune the pitch of the Nord Electro 3 Range 50 cent default 0 Sustain Pedal Polarity This allows you to change the polarity of a connected sustain pedal in case the functionality of your pedal is reversed i e when the pedal is up sustain is on and vice versa Range CL Close default OP Open Sustain Pedal Configuration If you re using a single sustain pedal connected to the Sustain Pedal input you may want to use it for sustain with piano sounds and as a Rotor Speed switch with organ sounds In this case select rt rotor toggle with the Up Down buttons If you re using two separate sustain pedals one in the Sustain Pedal Input and one in the Rotor Speed Input you probably want to use the sustain pedal in the Sustain Pedal input for sustain also when using Organ sounds In this case select SU sustain Range SU default rt Rotor Pedal Polarity This allows you to change the polarity of a sustain type pedal con nected to control Rotor
46. and the sequencer sends the same MIDI information to the unit Local On Off is set on the MIDI menu see page 18 MIDI Channel The MIDI channel s that the Nord Electro 3 uses are set up in the MIDI menu see MIDI menu on page 18 If you use the Organ model in the split lower manual configuration the lower manual can receive on a separate MIDI channel Program Change Usually you select a Program Change value for a track in the sequenc er track settings The 128 program locations send and respond to Program Change values 0 127 If you want to record a Program Change message activate recording in the sequencer and simply select the program on the Nord Electro 3 Controllers When you record actions with knobs and buttons make sure that the sequencer echoes the changes back on the correct MIDI Channel or your changes won t have any effect Some notes about controllers and chasing Consider a situation where you record a Controller message e g a Drawbar opening in the middle of your sequencer song Then you rewind the sequencer to a position before the recorded Drawbar opening The problem is that the Nord Electro 3 s Drawbar will remain opened although it really should be as it was before you recorded the opening To solve this you could record a snapshot of all Controller settings of the Nord Electro 3 Program at the beginning of your sequencer song See Sending MIDI Controller dumps below Program an
47. as been sent Receive MIDI SysEx dumps Here is how to receive a MIDI SysEx Dump Connect the MIDI Out on the transmitting device to the MIDI IN on the Nord Electro 3 Initiate the transmission on the transmitting device If the dump contained all Programs All it will replace all programs currently stored in the Nord Electro 3 If the dump contained only a single program it will be temporarily placed in the currently selected program memory location A dot will appear to in the lower right corner to indicate an unsaved edit You will then have to store the program manually to a memory location using the Store function see Storing Programs on page 8 MIDI Controller list The following is a list of the MIDI Controller numbers used for all knobs and buttons on the front panel Nord Electro Parameter Drawbars Preset 2 Upper Drawbar 1 Drawbar 2 Drawbar 3 Drawbar 4 Drawbar 5 Drawbar 6 Drawbar 7 Drawbar 8 Drawbar 9 Drawbars Preset 1 Lower Drawbar 1 Drawbar 2 Drawbar 3 Drawbar 4 Drawbar 5 Drawbar 6 Drawbar 7 Drawbar 8 Drawbar 9 Organ Model Sel Preset Manual Sel Perc Decay Perc Level Sustain Pedal Control Pedal Rotary Speed Rotary Stop Mode Vib Mode Vib On Off Perc On Off Perc Hard Samp Attack Sel Samp Release Sel Clav EQ Brill On Off Clav EQ Treble On Off Clav EQ Medium On Off Clav EQ Soft On Off Inst Sel Organ Piano Piano Type Piano Model Piano Mono Oct Shift O
48. as sound mod ules or computers MIDI In MIDI connection used to receive MIDI data to the Nord Electro 3 from other equipment such as keyboards or computers Pedal Connections CONTROL SUSTAIN ROTOR SPEED PEDAL PEDAL PEDAL MIDIOUT MIDIIN USB MONITORIN RIGHT OUT LEFTOUT HEADPHONES 5 o 000 FT DO O The Nord Electro 3 has three pedal inputs one for a sustain pedal one for a rotor speed control pedal and one for a control pedal an expres sion type pedal which can be used to control various parameters 3 CONNECTIONS Sustain Pedal 14 connector for a switch type pedal When a connected pedal is operated the notes you play will be sustained Rotor Pedal 14 connector for a switch type pedal When a connected pedal is operated the rotary speed will change Iwo types of pedal polarities can be used with these inputs you select the one that applies to each pedal in the System menu which is described on page 17 X tis possible to use only one pedal connected to the sustain pedal input to control sustain for piano sounds and rotary speed selection for organ sounds see page 1 7 for details on how to configure this Control Pedal 14 stereo connector for a pedal of the potentiometer type also known as expression pedals A connected pedal can be used as a swell pedal for the organs a volume pedal for pianos and samples and also as a co
49. awbars The drawbars act as on off switches or Register selectors when the Farf model is selected 11 12 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X The drawbar LEDs 5 8 are lit up for an activated voice and drawbar LEDs 1 4 are lit up for a deactivated voice The illustration below shows the registers BASS16 STR16 FLUTES OBOES8 TRMP8 FLUTE4 STR4 16 i lI IV As 8 4 2 E E E E E E E LE E Rotary Speed ROTARY SPEED STOP MODE C_D FAST SLOW STOP e The rotary speaker speed is controlled with the rotary speed buttons or with an external pedal connected to the rotor pedal input on the rear panel za C1 bath Press the Slow Stop button to change the rotation from Slow to Fast and vice versa To stop the rotors press the Stop Mode button to activate the Stop Mode and then the Slow Stop button this does not deactivate the Rotary Speaker simulation it only stops the rotors When you press the Slow Stop button again the rotors will accelerate to the Fast speed setting This functionality mimics the behavior of an early one speed original rotary speaker A connected pedal can be set to change the speeds only when it is held down or to function like a switch changing the speed every time you press it This functionality is set in the System menu read more on this on page 17 The actual rotary simulation is activated at the Effects section with the Speaker Comp selector
50. bridge pick up a bright sound Clav Model 3 DA Both pick ups on and in phase a very full sound Clav Model 4 DB Both pick ups 180 degrees out of phase the fundamental is almost cancelled out and the sound becomes thin 13 14 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Clav EQ The two Clav EQ buttons works as filter selectors By selecting different combinations of the Brilliant Treble and Medium Soft filter indicators you can reproduce all 15 possible filter variations exactly like on the original D6 Use the Shift button together with the Clav EQ button to access the Med and Soft settings Samp Env 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 behavior that affects the playback of the samples When none of the Attack LEDs are lit the sample playback is not affected by any additional attack from the Electro 3 and it does not respond to keyboard velocity Slow At select this when you want to play the samples with a slower attack Vel Dyn select this when you want to control the volume and the timbre of the samples with velocity from the keyboard When both LEDs are lit both the slow attack and the velocity option are active Press and hold the Shift button and operate the Samp Env button to set the desired release times When none of the Release LEDs are lit the sample playback is not af fected by any additional release
51. can set the position of the loop start marker by clicking anywhere in the graph If you right click to the right of the loop start marker you can set a new loop end marker and change the actual loop length View Trim The graph in the Sample Loop Stop tab can be augmented with a more detailed display of the waveform at the loop start and the loop end markers This is activated by checking the View Trim box at the lower left corner of the Editor window The red waveform shows the audio immediately before and at the loop end marker The green waveform is the audio at and immediately after the loop start marker If these two waveforms meet at the same level chances are good that this will indicate a loop without any clicks in it If a crossfade is used the two waveforms will be superimposed on top of each other like the illustration above This provides a nice visual confirmation of what happens if you fine tune the length X Start with the crossfade set to a small value and see how these two waveforms are presented When the two colored peaks and valleys are in phase with each other chances are good that you have a pretty good loop Any changes you do can always be monitored in real time if you activate the playback Loop Options There are three available loop options Long Loop which is the default loop that is applied to a sample when it is assigned to a zone Short Loop which creates a loop with a single waveform period and f
52. cay 19 Let s try the wah effect 9 Perc Norm Level 000 19 Activate an amplifier emulation 9 Perc Soft Level ooo ssh 19 Selecting a piano or a sample 9 Tonewheel Mode llus 19 Using the Organ 35 Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel 19 auteni Put PE Key Click Level 19 The Rotary effect 10 7 Nord Sound Manager 5 Nord Electro 3 Reference System requirements 20 Master level knob 05 11 Overview 22L LLL 20 Organ section 11 The TOO BBES saca sedes ir bero 20 Organ Model button 11 THe ABS so pensa Despesa esi 20 The B3 model 0 000 cee ae 11 Partition Memory Indicator 20 The VX model es ones des as ceeewne 11 Right Clicking ese sagas Banana woe 20 The Farf model lessen 11 Select in Instrument 21 Rotary Speed ues esce ctn 12 Upload 5 5 ere hes 21 Vibrato ChorusS s usse aeter eis 12 Download MM ND 21 Percussion lene 12 11 1 CC 21 Preset Gpllt ced ary Rr d een 12 p c T 21 Using an additional MIDI keyboard 12 File Formals ass Ead Eo CERE OR CERO 21 Thedrawbars else 13 The Quick Tour 24 Organ Presets isses 13 Transfer pianos to the Electro 21 Store your own organ preset 18 Deleting a piano sssss 21 Piano section 18 Download anewpiano 21 Clavinet SOUNd
53. clockwise fashion On Off buttons On Off buttons are used for activating a parameter or a group of parameters such as effects ON Shift button Some buttons have a secondary function which will be available if you hold down Shift while pressing the button The name of the secondary function is printed below the button Shift is also used together with the Up Down buttons when you want to change a setting in the System MIDI or Sound menus Drawbars BASS16 FLUTES The nine drawbars of Nord Elec 16 4 tro 3 are represented by up down buttons and LED chain graphs instead of ordinary mechanical drawbars This gives you a big advantage when you change presets the correct drawbar set tings are shown immediately by the LEDs 5 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X 3 Connections CONTROL PEDAL ROTOR PEDAL SUSTAIN MIDI PEDAL IN Audio connections Headphones This is where you connect a 1 4 stereo connector from a pair of head phones Left Out and Right Out The left and right line level outputs from the Nord Electro 3 are unbal anced Use connectors to connect the Nord Electro 3 to an amplifier or recording equipment The Nord Electro 3 is a stereo instrument with separate signal paths for the left and right audio channels To properly experience the Electro 3 use both outputs in a stereo operation The System functions allow you to separate the pianos samples and the organ so
54. ct Le point d exclamation l int rieur d un triangle quilat ral est employ pour alerter l utilisateur de la pr sence d instructions importantes pour le fonctionnement et l entretien service dans le livret d instructions accompagnant l appareil Instructions pertaining to a risk of fire electric shock or injury to persons IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS Warning When using electric products basic 8 precautions should always be followed including the following Read all the instructions and observe the graphic 9 symbols above before using the product Do not use this product near water for example 10 near a bathtub washbowl kitchen sink in a wet basement near or in a swimming pool a swamp or the like This product should be used only with a cart or a stand that is recommended by the manufacturer This product either alone or in combination with an amplifier and headphones or speakers may be perfectly capable of producing sound levels that could cause permanent hearing loss Do not 11 operate for a long period of time at a high volume level or at a level that is uncomfortable If you experience any hearing loss or ringing in the ears you should consult an audiologist 12 The product should be located so that its location or position does not interfere with or obstruct its 13 normal flow of ventilation The product should be located away from heat sources such as
55. d Controlled Amp Envelope 40 Octave Shift 00 40 Manager Tab 40 Manager Toolbar Lus 40 Right click 00000 ee aee 40 List headlines 008 41 Footer Memory Indicator 41 File Types and Names 41 9 MIDI functions About the MIDI implementation 42 Keyboard velocity 42 Program change 4 42 MIDI Sysex System Exclusive 42 Nord Electro 3 with a seq 42 Connections lesen 42 Local On Off liil 42 MIDI Channel 08 42 Program Change lilius 42 Controllers llle 42 About controllers and chasing 42 Program and CC dumps 43 Sending program dumps 43 Sending MIDI Controller dumps 43 Receive MIDI SysEx dumps 43 MIDI Controller list 43 MIDI implementation chart 44 10 Index Index 45 4 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Introduction Thank you We d first like to thank you for purchasing the Nord Electro 3 Our goal when we developed the Nord Electro instruments was to create the best emulations of traditional electromechanical keyboard instruments on the market and to make these instruments compact and lightweight With the Electro 3 we have taken our commitment a step further by upgrading the organ the piano and the effects sections and also by introducing the ability
56. d Controller dumps To dump a Program SysEx or MIDI Controller data via MIDI either to another Nord Electro 3 or for recording the data into another MIDI device proceed as follows Sending program dumps Connect the MIDI OUT on the Nord Electro 3 to the MIDI In on the receiving device Set up the receiving device to accept MIDI SysEx and MIDI Con troller data co Press Shift MIDI and select the Dump One or Dump All menu item using the Up Down buttons If needed set the receiving MIDI device to recording mode Press the Store button to send the dump to the MIDI Out of Nord Electro 3 The display will stop flashing once the dump has been sent e For the programs that use the organ sounds the complete settings for the sound will be dumped as MIDI SysEx but for programs using pianos or Samples all parameters will be sent but NOT the actual instrument samples Therefore when dumping back a program that uses a piano sound make sure the actual instrument samples are also available in the Nord Electro 3 Otherwise the parameters in the SysEx message will be ap plied to another available piano instrument Sending MIDI Controller dumps Set up as in steps 1 and 2 in the preceding description Press Shift MIDI and select the Send CC menu item using the Up Down buttons Press the Store button to send the dump to the MIDI Out of Nord Flectro 3 The Display will stop flashing once the dump h
57. d Electro 3 If you e g delete a piano sample or a Program from the list in the Nord Sound Manager that same sound will also be deleted from the Nord Electro 3 Flash memory The Toolbar A pn w amp Bas wR B RB CERE Tyee Cau RENT Sd See ETE eee The Toolbar gives you direct access to some of the more frequently used functions in the Nord Sound Manager Clicking on an icon will activate one of these functions and a dialogue will often appear asking for confirmation or further instructions from you The Tabs Pann ame lb Program Cegah Presets Edo nl Wim Select the partition that you wish to work in with the Tabs The Piano tab allows you to change the content of the piano partition the Samp Lib tab is the sample partition and the Program tab allows you to organize the programs etc The individual pianos samples programs or organ presets will be referred to as sounds in this manual and in the application itself amp Press Ctrl Tab on the computer keyboard to cycle between the tabs The lists can be ordered according to location name size version and date in ascending and descending order Just click on a headline to select a preferred view Partition Memory Indicator The memory indicator at the bottom of the window indicates how much memory is being used in the selected partition The red area shows the used memory green indicates space that is available for new sounds Right Clicking If you
58. d wants to know if a particular SI occupies a certain amount of space in the Flash memory Ver This indicates a version number of the nsmp file format 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 Samp Lib partition 64 7 MB used 3 1 MB available Nord Electro 3 connected 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
59. dialogue All the content of a connected Nord Electro 3 will then be irrevocably replaced by the content of the backup file 24 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Menus In the Nord Sound Manager the usual Windows and Mac OSX key board commands can be used The menus can be accessed by press ing the Alt key and the underlined letter in the menu bar Most of the commands can also be accessed by pressing the Ctrl on the Mac Command key together with the letter shown next to the command name in the menus Edit View Help Sound Upload Ctrl U File Sound Download Ckrla D Bank Upload Ckri4 shiFE4 LI Sound Upload Ctrl U Bank Download Chrl Shift D Use this function to upload one or Backup Ctrl B several sounds from the Nord Electro Reseed one 3 memory to a folder on the computer Clean Deleted Space hard drive Format Exit Ctra Sound Download Ctrl D Use this function to download one or several sounds from the com puter hard drive to the next available location in the selected partition Bank Upload Ctrl Shift U This allows you to upload an entire bank or partition samples or programs to a folder on the computer hard drive Select the desired source partition and bank and the destination folder If you select All all the banks in the partition will be uploaded The hier archical folder structure of the chosen partition partition bank sounds Will be automatically created in the destination
60. digital model of the original chorus and vibrato scanner e Modeling of the individual random contact bounces for each harmonic e Modeling of the unique frequency characteristics of the built in pre amplifier which forms the body of the sound e Simulation of the energy robbing in the tone wheel architecture that creates the typical compressed sound e Authentic tuning of the tone wheels according to the original design 5 NORD ELECTRO 3 REFERENCE 5 Nord Electro 3 Reference e Extremely fast keyboard response e Full polyphony E Es ms Es Es Es Es Es Es SUB SUB3 FUND 2ND 3RD 4TH 5TH 6TH 8TH eje gy Je JejJel Each drawbar represents a partial with a fixed harmonic interval relating to the played note Note that the Sub3 drawbar is a 5th above the fundamental harmonic although in most situations it is perceived as sounding below the fundamental harmonic amp Do not forget to try out the four tonewheel modes that are avail able in the Sound menu These will dramatically change the sound of the B3 model from squeaky clean to a battered old work horse The VX model The original instrument is probably the most famous of all the tran sistor based combo organs that emerged in the early 60 s Transistor technology made it possible to manufacture much more compact and portable organ instruments Compared to the mighty sound of tone wheel based organs transistor organs generally sounded reedier and
61. e 17 Treble Horn 18 Tremolo 15 Up Down 14 Upload 22 Upper Manual 12 Upper Progress bar USB Connection 6 10 INDEX Vel Dyn 14 Vibrato Chorus 12 VX 11 W Wah Wah 15 Waveform 34 Xfade 37 Xfade Curve 37 Yellow key 33 45
62. e program settings will replace the current Live memory settings Octave Shift Press either of the Octave Shift buttons to shift the pitch up or down in whole octaves within the instrument s note range Each OCTAVE SHIFT instrument has a finite note range read more C C9 about this on page 15 Adding effects Select a program e g number 1A EFFECT 2 which is a Grand Piano with a hint of us 246 reverb Turn on Effect 2 the On LED should be lit and press repeatedly on the Effect 2 selector ANGI FLANG2 PHAS2 CHOR1 The effect options are indicated with the PHAS1 CHOR2 selector LEDs and changes in a cyclical clockwise fashion for each time the selec tor is pressed Some of the effects have three options that indicate the depth of the effect Flang 1 is the shallowest version Flang 2 is a more pronounced effect and when both Flang 1 and Flang 2 LEDs are lit you have selected the most dramatic tremolo effect Turn the effect rate knob This changes the rate of the active effect 4 Hold Shift and press repeatedly on the effect selector This allows you to reverse through the effect selections Turn off the effect If you now continue to press on the effect selector after the effect is turned off the effect setting will change even though the effect is not active 4 GETTING STARTED X This method can be used to select a certain effect setting while playing without affecting the sound until
63. ean Deleted Space This function will clean up the space where any deleted Sample Instruments have been before they were removed If nothing has been deleted this button will be blanked out Format This is a radical function it will format the entire Sample memory in the Flectro 3 and prepare it for some brand new content You will be asked to confirm this action Help Menu About Brings up the About box with information regard ing the version of the Nord Sample Editor You will About also see a list of compatible instruments and OS versions Tab Reference Each of the tabs opens up a set of functions that will assist you in map ping the samples setting the start point of samples loop the samples and to manage the Sample Instruments in the Flash memory in the Nord Electro 3 X You can select the different tabs one after each other by typing Ctri Tab on the computer keyboard Common area The common area will be present at the top of all the tabs except for the Manager tab It contains functions that are used to view the mapping to change the focus of the samples to generate a Sample Instrument and to start and stop playback SL io MM a ooo jo eo LT The Keyboard Grid The Keyboard Grid represents the total keyboard range that the Zones can cover from FO to C8 The middle C on the Nord Electro 3 when the Octave Shift is set to O is the C4 key MIDI Note Number 60 e A key with a dot
64. ections the Lower Manual and Upper Manual sections By default the split point on the keyboard is between the keys B3 and C4 You can however also set the split point manually by holding Shift pressing Split the split LED starts to flash then while still holding the buttons press the desired key A set split point is saved as part of the parameters in a program Using an additional MIDI keyboard in a dual manual fashion You can connect an additional MIDI keyboard to the Electro 3 to use the organ in a dual manual fashion with the external keyboard operat ing as the lower manual Connect the external MIDI keyboard s MIDI out to the Electro 3 s MIDI in Set the MIDI channel of the external keyboard to the channel that is set in the MIDI menu the Lower Channel setting The default Lower MIDI channel in the Electro 3 is 2 Select the MIDI Split option in the MIDI Menu and set this to On Read more on how to change settings in the MIDI Menu on page 18 4 On the Electro 3 press and hold Shift and the Split button This will activate the organ split mode but since MIDI Split is set to On the Electro 3 s keyboard will only play the upper part without being split Press the Preset Split button to cycle between the 1 Lo and the 2 Up settings Adjust the drawbars for the lower external Keyboard when the 1 Lo LED is lit and for the Electro 3 s keyboard when the 2 Up LED is lit The drawbars BASS16 FLUTES FLUTE4 16
65. en EL close 8 ROTOR PEDAL MODE EU Toggle Hd Hold 9 CTRL PEDAL TYPE FR Fatar 1L ORGAN TRIG MODE F Fast m Normal 12 DRAWBAR SPEED F Fast S Slow 1 MIDI CHANNEL 1 16 Off LOWER CHANNEL 1 16 Off 3 LOCAL CONTROL On Off 4 CC MODE Sr Send amp E S _ Send OF off S Send OF off 6 MIDI SPLIT MODE On Off SEND CC Press STORE to send 8 DUMP ONE Press STORE 1 TREBLE HORN SPEED Hi High n Normal O Low BASS ROTOR SPEED 3 TREBLE HORN ACC HI High n Normal O Low 4 BASS ROTOR ACC S PERC FAST DECAY LO Long n Normal SH Short amp PERC SLOW DECAY 7 PERC NORM LEVEL HI High n Normal O Low B PERC SOFT LEVEL 9 TONEWHEEL MODE Vintage3 10 PERC DRAWB 9 CANCEL C Cancel m Normal ti KEY CLICK LEVEL H High The front panel of the Nord Electro 3 has four main areas Organ Piano Program and Effects We ll familiarize ourselves briefly with the panel here and describe the functions in detail in the following chapters On the left part of the panel is the Master Level knob the organ model selector and the Rotary Speed section The Master level controls the entire instruments output level at the two output jacks and the headphone output This control is not programmable that particular functionality is instead available in the effects section with the Gain control The Organ section is lit and active when the Organ selector in the Program area is activa
66. en 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 X 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 Two Octave Shift LEDs that are lit at the right or
67. et this to match the intervals between the recorded notes in the audio file Range 48 48 semitones Threshold The threshold setting is used to distinguish or separate the individual notes from one and another in the audio file Range 80 O dB Remap button Select this to map the audio file again Assign button This activates the assignment of the selected audio file using the set tings you have entered for the parameters for the Multi Sample Assign function Manual Sample Assign This function can create and assign a sample from a selec tion in the current audio file Click and drag in the waveform graph to select a part of or the entire current audio file Manual Sample Assign Root key Range Begin Range End Gas S 52 405 8 60 165 5 Enabled Bas Deassign All Root Key This is the note where the sample will play back at its original pitch or speed if the sample is non pitched or a performance loop If you make consecutive selections the setting will increase in steps of one semi tone for each time you have assigned a sample You can also use this setting to adjust the Root Key of a mapped sample Put the sample in focus and adjust the value to the next avail able key Range FO C8 X tis not possible to assign two samples to the same key Range Begin This will indicate where the selection you have made in the graph begins Use the increment decrement buttons to adjust the beginning of
68. folder Bank Download Ctrl Shift D Use this function to download an entire bank or all banks from the hard drive to the Nord Electro 3 Please note that you need to match the format of the source and the destination it is e g not possible to download a set of programs to any of the sample banks The content of the source folder will replace the selected bank in the Nord Electro 3 Backup Ctrl B This will make a backup of all the samples programs and menu set tings System amp MIDI menus in the Nord Electro 3 The file that is created on the hard drive will have the extension neb Backing up the entire memory content in this manner will take some time depending on the sizes of the samples X Backing up from the Nord Sound Manager is done in an incre mental manner Unless you change the name or the location of the back up file only the samples and or programs patches that have been changed since the previous backup will be saved Restore Ctrl R To restore a previously saved backup file to the Electro 3 select this option and browse to a backup file on the hard drive file extension heb and click Open A The restore function will begin after you have clicked Open and confirmed your intentions in the dialogue All the content of a connected Nord Electro 3 will then be irrevocably replaced by the content of the backup file Clean Deleted Space This function will clean up the space where any previou
69. function will download an entire bank of pianos samples or pro grams from the computer hard drive to the Nord Electro 3 The default destination will be the currently active bank but you may choose an other partition and bank if you wish Click on the Choose Folder button to select the source on the hard drive A The destination bank in the Electro 3 will be replaced by the con tent of the source folder Backup This will make a backup of all the pianos samples organ presets and programs in the Nord Electro 3 The file that is created on the hard drive will have the extension neb Backing up the entire memory content in this manner will take some time depending on the sizes of the samples X Backing up from the Nord Sound Manager is done in an incre mental manner Unless you change the name or the location of the back up file only the samples and or programs that have been changed since the previous backup will be saved The Nord Sound Manager will suggest a location for the backup the first time this function is activated in My Documents Nord Sound Manager files If you rather save the backup file elsewhere use the browser to pick another destination Restore To restore a previously saved backup file to the Electro 3 select this option and browse to a backup file on the hard drive file extension neb and click Open A The restore function will begin after you have clicked Open and confirmed your intentions in the
70. gan Preset parti tions The content of the partition will be presented in the list Search Box Enter a phrase to quickly present any samples or programs that contains the characters Press Clear to clear the filtering and show all entries again Loc Location The banks are organized in locations the number of locations varies for the different bank types Name The name of the item Category Shows the assigned category for the Programs Size Shows the file size of the pianos and samples This may be useful if you need to know how much space e g a particular piano occupies in the piano partition This unit is not shown in the program or organ preset lists Ver Version Number This indicates the version number of the actual piano sample or program format Older OS versions may not be able to use sounds in a more recent format Info This area may contain error information about broken corrupted or rejected files if e g something has happened with a particular sample or piano in the Electro 3 7 NORD SOUND MANAGER 25 Footer Area Samp Lib partition 64 7 ME used 3 1 ME available heed Nord Electra 3 connected The footer area is located at the bottom of the Nord Sound Manager window Partition Memory Indicator This indicates the usage of the selected partition s memory The red area shows the used memory and the green area indicates space that is available for additional sounds The Piano
71. his chap ter followed by a typical workflow scenario to give you an overview of the functions of the Nord Sample Editor Project sample memory All the parts that are needed to assemble a sample waveform in the Nord Electro 3 references to audio files samples mappings start stop and loop markers etc are organized in Projecis All Project related settings is done on your computer and you can preview edits via the computer audio card A Project links to the actual audio files on the hard drive if you e g delete or edit an audio file that is included in a Project that Project will be affected You can save Project files on the hard drive just like any other com puter file When you are satisfied with a Project you can generate a Sample Instrument which can be downloaded to the Flash memory in the Nord Electro 3 WYDIWYH What You Do Is What You Hear Every function in the Nord Sample Editor can be applied to a sample in real time If the sample is playing back through the computer audio card you can e g listen to how the loop changes if you move the loop markers or if you adjust the cross fade settings or the start point of the sample Working offline Project or sample editing does not require a connected Nord unit you can create and edit Projects using only the computer and then connect to the unit at some other time in order to download the result of the Project to the Nord Electro 3 Sample Zone When an
72. his command will prompt you for a file name and destination folder before saving the Project to a storage device on the computer This is useful for renaming a Project file before saving it leaving any original Project intact on the storage device Close Project Ctrl W Closes the current Project You will be prompted to save any unsaved changes before it is closed Add Files Ctrl F Brings up the Add Files dialog where you select the audio files to be added to your project Multiple files can be selected The same func tionality is available in the Audio File Assign tab by pressing the Add button The added audio files will appear in the Audio File Assign tab in the Audio Files list A Audio data is not copied to the actual Project when you add a file a Project has only references to the audio files Any changes you make to an original audio file on the hard drive will affect your project Add Folder Ctrl D Brings up the Add Folder dialog where you can browse to and select an entire folder to be added to your project All supported audio files within that folder will be added The added audio files will appear in the Audio File Assign tab in the Audio Files list The Nord Sample Editor can use audio files in the wav format up to a 24 bit 44 1 kHz resolution Exit Ctrl Q Closes the Nord Sample Editor You will be prompted to save any unsaved changes to an open Project Edit Menu Select All Ctrl A Th
73. ibrato chorus and the percus sion parameters cl DE Press Shift the corresponding Drawbar button to select one of these presets The Random function will generate a new random preset every time you activate it Store your own organ preset Here is how to store your own organ preset Use the upper drawbar and lower drawbar buttons and the vibrato chorus and percussion sections to create the organ setting you want to store Press and hold Shift and the Store Store Org Preset button The display will flash O pr 5 NORD ELECTRO 3 REFERENCE Setect a desired location to store by pressing one of the Organ Preset buttons The display will show the selected preset number 4 Confirm your intentions by pressing Store once more This procedure may be aborted by pressing any button except Store or one of the preset buttons on the panel Organ presets can be managed using the Nord Sound Manager read more about this on page 20 Piano section HA PIANO The Piano section of SAMP ENV CLAV EG the Nord Electro 3 is divided into six differ ent types each type can contain several instrument models You can freely add new piano instruments TYPE and samples via USB using the Nord cA a Sound Manager utility see Nord Sound cl Manager on page 20 GRAND VEL DYN BRILL nora SLOW AT TREB piano library WURL CLAV HPS SAMP LIB CO Right out of the box Nord Electro 3 fea tures a fine col
74. ime The Dry Wet knob sets the balance between the unprocessed and the processed signal Gain This is the programmable Gain control which allows you to adjust the output level of each of the individual programs 6 The Menus 6 THE MENUS 17 Any settings that you change in the System MIDI or Sound menu will take immediate effect on a global basis and will be stored until you change them the next time Enter the menus by pressing and holding Shift and the System MIDI or Sound button Prog A Prog B or Live Select a function with the Up Down buttons and change the setting by pressing and holding Shift and the Up or Down button Exit the menus by pressing a second time on the Prog A B or Live button Theonly exception to this is the MIDI Local On Off setting which always reverts to Local On every time the Electro 3 is powered up System Menu Memory Protect On Off This is set to On when the Nord Electro 3 leaves the factory meaning that you cannot save any changes to the programs Set this to Off when you wish to store your own programs The System MIDI or Sound menu settings and the Live memory are not protected by this setting Range On default off Output Routing If you want to process your sound using external effects or separate amplifier systems it can be convenient to route organ and piano sounds to separate outputs of the Nord Electro 3 Range St Stereo Output All instruments use the left
75. in Auto Select the selected partition bank and not only the occupied ones This will for instance make it easier to drag a file to a specific free location in the middle of the list If this is unchecked only the occupied locations will be shown Dual View Ctrl L When this option is checked the window will be divided in two lists The two lists makes it easy to move programs from one location to another You can make the lists show separate banks with the drop downs Rearranging programs is simply a matter of drag and drop Drag a program from one bank list to another bank list in either direc tion X Press the Ctrl key on the computer keyboard to copy a selection to the destination during a drag and drop operation Auto Select Ctrl K When this function is active programs will be automatically selected in the Nord Electro 3 when you browse through the Programs in the Manager list with the computer keyboard arrow keys Help About About Brings up the About box with a information regard ing the version of the Nord Sound Manager You will also see a list of compatible instruments and OS versions Tabs Piano Samp Lib Program Organ Presets Bank All 13sounds Piano Samp Lib Program Organ Presets Use the tabs to select the desired partition Type Ctrl Tab on the com puter keyboard to cycle between the four tabs The drop down menu is used to select the desired bank within the Piano or Or
76. inally the No Loop which gives you an opportunity to set an end marker to the sample Loop Start You can enter a loop start position expressed in seconds in the value box confirming this by pressing enter using the slider or fine tune the position with the increment decrement buttons Clicking in the graph will also position the loop start marker Long Loop This section contains the settings for the Long Loop parameters Length You can enter a loop length ex aie pressed in seconds in the value Length Phase Adkst Xlade Curve box confirming this by pressing Damian i enter using the slider or set the Seria dia elf ERG length with the increment decre 42 80 ment buttons in a coarse or a J T fine tune fashion Right clicking in the graph will position the loop end marker which together with the position of the loop start marker sets the loop length Make sure that you right click to the right of the loop start it is not pos sible to position the loop end before the loop start marker Xfade You can enter a crossfade length expressed in seconds in the value box confirming this by pressing enter or by using the slider Any changes you do will be immediately heard if you are playing back the sample and also presented in the waveform graph To disable the crossfade set the crossfade length to O Xfade Curve There are three available curves for the crossfade Log1 Log2 and Linear These are used to compensate for
77. ion 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 16 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Ring Modulation RM is a an effect that multiplies two signals with each other In the Electro 3 these are the instrument audio signal and a modulation sine wave The results can be range from a subtle coloring to screaming inharmonic bell type sounds The Rate knob controls the frequency of the sine wave also perceived as a modulation rate A connected control pedal will control the amount of the ring modula tion If no control pedal is c
78. ion to Off by pressing and holding Shift and the Up or Down buttons Exit the System menu by pressing the Prog A System button again The setting of the memory protection will be remembered even if the Electro 3 is turned off Select a new location where you want to store the program Use the Up Down buttons and the Prog A and Prog B buttons to navigate to a new program location if you do not want to overwrite the original program Press the Store button a second time to confirm your choice The edited program has now replaced the previous one in the location you specified To cancel the procedure press the Shift button before you press Store the second time O With Memory Protect set to Off a double tap on the Store button will store a Program in its original location The Live buffer The special Live buffer can be described as a live program memory If you activate the Live button all changes to the panel set tings you make will be continuously saved 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 set tings will be exactly as they were when 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 th
79. is command will select all available items e g all the audio files or all the Sample Instruments s Instrument Settim Select All CTRL 4 Instrument Menu Generate And Download Ctrl G Creates a Sample Instrument from the current Project and stores it on the hard drive as an nsmp file The Sample Instrument will also be downloaded to the first available location in a connected Nord Electro 3 Manager Help Instrument Settings Generate And Download CTRL 6 CTRL H Y Generate Only This process automatically encodes the samples with Clavia s propri etary lossless compression algorithm in order to reduce the sizes of the samples Samples will also be cropped before the sample start points and after the loop end marker The duration of this process may take several minutes depending on the amount of samples being used You can use this file to share your Sample Instrument with other Nord Wave or Nord Electro 3 users Generate Only Ctrl Y Creates a Sample Instrument from the current Project and stores it on the hard drive as an nsmp file This process automatically encodes the samples with Clavia s proprietary lossless compression algorithm in order to reduce the sizes of the samples The audio will also be cropped before the start points and after the loop end marker The duration of this process may last several minutes depending on the amount of samples being used The file is saved in the same folder as
80. key you press will be the first upper manual key The Rotary effect ROTARY SPEED STOP MODE e The rotary effect adds some great sonic drama to the organs but can of course be used with any other sound as well The Elec tro 3 rotary has three available speeds fast slow and stop Stop does not disengage the effect it only stops the rotating speakers FAST SLOW STOP Make sure that the Speaker Comp effect is activated and select the Rotary by pressing the effect selector The drive knob now controls the overdrive of the rotary amplifier Press the Slow Stop button in the Rotary Speed section to the left on the C1 rotary speaker panel to cycle between the Fast and Slow speeds of the rotary The rotors will soeed up and slow down producing a nice swirly effect without the negative side effects that e g alcohol intake might induce Press the Stop mode button to activate this one speed mode The Stop Mode LED will be lit 4 Press repeatedly on the Slow Stop button to cycle between Fast and Stop The rotary will now emulate the functionality of an early one speed original rotary speaker that had only the fast and the stopped rotary speed options If you connect a foot switch to the rotor pedal input you can control the rotary speed with this pedal This finishes our little tour we hope that you now have the initial knowledge on how to operate most of the functions on the panel The following chapte
81. l setting Range H High n Normal default L Low 6 THE MENUS 19 Perc Soft Level Sets the level of the percussion effect in its soft setting Range H High n Normal default L Low Tonewheel Mode Sets the level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artifacts of the B3 organ model Range u3 Vintage 3 u2 Vintage2 u1 Vintage default CI Clean Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel If this is set to cancel the 9th drawbar will be muted when the percus sion is activated to mimic the behavior of an original organ Range C Cancel n Normal default Key Click Level This sets the amount of Key Click for B3 organ model Range High Normal default Low 20 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Nord Sound Manager The Nord Sound Manager is the application that allows you to organize the various memory areas the partitions in the Nord Electro 3 It is also used to download pianos samples or programs to the Nord Electro 3 or to upload any of these items called sounds from the Nord Electro 3 memory to the computer hard drive The Nord Sound Manager provides access to various methods to download the sounds to the unit and a function to backup and restore the entire Nord Electro 3 memory System requirements The Nord Sound Manager is compatible with computers running Mac OSX 10 4 or later Windows XP and Windows Vista If you run the Nord Man ager on a Windows computer you
82. lection of carefully selected acoustic and electromechanical pianos harpsichords and sampled instruments A lot of effort was put in to ensure that the response and sound of the sampled instruments matches every nuance of the real article Each piano instrument has been multi sampled in a vast amount of velocity levels That s one reason why they all sound and feel so authentic The Piano section also includes the ability to use samples from the Nord Sample Library like e g the Mellotron sounds that have been licensed by Clavia Clavinet sound On an original Clavinet D6 you can select different pick up and filter combinations by pressing a number of rocker switches This functional ity is very faithfully simulated in the Nord Electro 3 which means that you get all the possible original Clavinet D6 sound variations plus an additional four by selecting different pick up and filter combinations Here s how it works Pick up type A Clavinet D6 has two separate pick ups one on the neck and one on the bridge By selecting either one pick up or both in different combinations you can alter the character of the sound quite drastically When the Clavinet is selected in the Nord Electro 3 you use the Model button in the Piano Select section to select one of the four pick up variations Pick up Type Description Clav Model 1 CA Only the neck pick up a warmer less bright sound Clav Model 2 CB Only the
83. left position indicates 2 octaves shift Each instrument in Nord Electro 3 has a finite note range e The Organ extends one octave below and one octave above an 88 note keyboard range e The Piano and Samples extends one octave below an 88 key range but not above 5 NORD ELECTRO 3 REFERENCE 15 Effects EFFECTS EQUALIZER GAIN 4K o o ON A E 800 2K 5 5 5 5 3 10 10 e o 40 10 10 10 a 2 8 D 3 c UM ET 15dB 200 8K 5dB 15dB 15dB 15dB o 10 BASS FREQ GAIN TREBLE LEVEL 56 7 EFFECT 1 EFFECT 2 SPEAKER COMP REVERB 456 456 4 56 456 7 3 7 3 7 2 8 2 1 Ew B o 10 o 10 RATE DRIVE COMP ROTARY COMP TREM2 A WA A PHAS2 CHOR1 TREM1 P WA PHAS1 CHOR2 ON CD ON ON PAN1 PAN2 FLANG1 FLANG2 TWIN SMALL 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 X 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 X Press and hold Shift and press the Effect selector to cycle through the effects in a counter clockwise fash
84. ma ED Cue mori P Cia Las J tb J inn RW vow pap tet 1 ade d ng um T vier tri z s To set a new beginning of the loop the loop Start marker just click on the waveform graph To set the length of the loop just right click anywhere to the right of the indication of the loop start You can also enter values for these parameters in the input boxes or use the sliders There are three loop options available Long Loop Short Loop and No Loop i vw ai bonn Sat Langit Fusce A hard Fue Cnm Leap ang Fat mrg SUD LEF Faki an T zs Ii Scot Ly a EE Hamm 8 amp fa bo Lion J oF T 595 mms 8i ak ap Fra ni ai v iat i dd F eee tiro The Long Loop option is useful for various instrument samples and sounds which contain non periodic variations When you select this option a loop start marker and a loop end marker are created These two loop markers will be separated by the actual loop section which is indicated as the blue area in the waveform graph The long Loop option will also include a crossfade to ensure that the loop will sound as smooth as possible The two segments of the cross fade are indicated as the light grey area immediately before the loop start marker and the darker area before the loop end marker amp Hit the space bar on the computer keyboard to start the playback and adjust the settings for the crossfade or move the loop mark ers by clicking in the waveform graph What You Do Is What You
85. n are the properties of their respective holders Specifications and appearances are subject to change without notice Copyright by Clavia DMI AB 2008 Nord Electro 3 User Manual Pick up Type Description 13 e CIW EQ ori nano eee eer eee ad E 14 1 Introduction Samp Env 2 eee 14 i Piano Typ 2 eee eee 14 Thank you 4 Mapas Resta Rp 14 About this manual hee 4 Model 00 0 ee eee 14 Disclaimer 4 d id uti is p Down buttons 005 14 Factory presets OS and internal Displayer teerde 554 dad eh oS ah RG a 14 memory css css ssssssesa 4 Store Store Org Preset ic sus eeu d 14 Factory presets 4 i RE soa ae Ek E Restoring the factory presets 4 OM A MAMMA ML E Instrument selectors llus 15 OS upgrades 4 a o ro inten DN 15 Octave Shift 0 0 0 0 0 00 cee eee 15 bllecis s eror 15 H e EO e e def asd a Gece ete ee 15 2 Overview and Connections Effect RR ROD ee Ra IER 15 EMGCE2 uma viga ue ia Cede nd 16 Knobs amp buttons 5 Speaker Comp nananana 16 Knobs enne 5 Reverb 0 ccc cece ne 16 Selector buttons 0 5 CAIN 16 On Off buttons anaana 0 00 5 Shift DUO ranma a eid e ne ee 5 DraWbarS us carisma ee es 5 6 The Menus System Menu 17 3 Connections Memory Protect On Off 17 Output Routing 4 17 Audio co
86. n finding a loop for the sample that is currently in focus as indicated by the yellow color in the Keyboard Grid As soon as an audio file or a selection from an audio file is assigned as a sample loop markers will automatically be created by the Nord Sample Editor A loop in a sample consists of two positional markers in the audio the loop start and the loop end markers Visualize the playback of a sample as a horizontal journey from the start of the waveform at the extreme left towards the end at the right 36 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Somewhere along the line you will pass the loop start marker making a mental note of its location You continue to travel towards the end of the audio file but when you reach the loop end marker you immediately go back to the loop start marker and resume the path towards the end And then you hit the loop end marker again go back to the loop start and so on Creating a perfect seamless loop can sometimes be a bit difficult Sometimes the audio at the loop start is very different compared to the audio at the loop end marker which will produce audible and perhaps unwanted artifacts in the sound In order to minimize certain loop artifacts a crossfade function can be used This uses audio that is before the loop start marker and mixes this with audio that is before the loop end marker when the loop is playing back A crossfade has usually several parameters to set the length of the cr
87. nnections 6 TrANSPOSE 2 ee 17 Headphones cene 6 Fine Tune ccktae cneeoevh a RAYS 17 Left Out and Right Out 6 Sustain Pedal Polarity 17 Monitor In both sagte pa aise 6 Sustain Pedal Configuration 17 USB Connection 0 6 eee e eee 6 Rotor Pedal Polarity 17 MIDI Connections 6 Rotor Pedal Mode 17 MIDI OUt aaa tosse ease des 6 Ctrl Pedal Type 6 0 cee eee 17 MIDI re vite erra rs 6 Ctrl Pedal Mode 1 1 seen eee ee 18 Organ Trig Mode 00 18 pin an cunts ee MM Drawbar Speed naaa eerte 18 ustain Pedal ass eme Rotor Pedal nannan anaa aaaea eee 7 MIDI Menu 18 Control Pedal E END eae i te A ds ec es Y MIDI Channel UIN a E wc Eq qp acum 18 Lower Channel 00000 ee 18 Local Control 0 00 cece 18 Control Change CC Mode 18 4 Getting Started Program Change Mode 18 MIDI Split Mode 0055 18 About the programs 8 o ANM ee Select a program 8 DumpAll eese 18 Edit a program 8 Sound Menu 18 Storing a program 8 Treble Horn Speed ILL LLL 18 Treble Horn Acceleration 18 The Live buffer 9 Bass Rotor Speed 0000 19 Octave Shift 9 os E erc Fast Decay 00000 Adding effects 9 p FE dedo tacai a a estes pls erc Slow De
88. nterval when you play the keys it has been assigned to or to play back at its original pitch regardless of what key you play Play Mock If you e g have some drum samples that span Pichud several keys they could be set to Unpitched if you cem want them to play at the same original pitch Samp Preset Tab Si nora irao Md o Mi TT BOP F LETT us ed Less LEE i Bit I This tab allows you to set some functions to be applied to the Sample Instrument Some of these functions will also determine the automati cally activated settings of the Samp Env functions for the Sample Instrument Velocity Controlled Dynamics The functions in this area determines how a Sample Instrument should respond to velocity This functionality is achieved by using the Morph Amplitude This allows you to determine if the amplitude of the Sample Instrument should respond to keyboard velocity Range None Low High Filter This allows you to determine if a keyboard velocity controlled low pass filter should be applied to the Sample Instrument This allows you to make the sound brighter when you play with a higher velocity Range None 600Hz 150Hz Attack Time This controls if a velocity controlled attack time should be applied to the Sample Instrument Higher velocities will shorten the attack time Range None Short Long 40 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Vel Dyn Enabled Check this box if you wish to have the velocity sen
89. ntroller for two of the effects the P wah and the ring modulator RM When connecting an expression pedal to the Control Pedal input you should use a stereo cable with a Tip Ring Sleeve connector Please note that the pedal must have a stereo output jack The resistance range of a control pedal should be 10 or 50 kOhm To simplify setup the most common pedal models Roland Yamaha Ernie Ball and Fa tar are pre configured in the Nord Electro 3 and you simply select the type of pedal which you want to use in the System menu The System Menu is described on page 17 7 8 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X 4 Getting Started Let s take a few minutes to get familiar with the Electro 3 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 in using it and by following this short chapter we will go through most of the functions About the programs Complete sound settings are stored in the Program memory of the Nord Electro 3 This memory area has 128 locations that are numbered 1A 1B 2A 2B etc up to 64B Every program can be edited and replaced as you wish A complete set of the factory programs are avail able on the Nord DVD and on our website Select a program Press the Up or Down button repeatedly until you ve selected the desired program number The program will be loaded immediately ANO NV CLAV EG PROGRAM
90. ode A connected control pedal can be used to control several things It can be used as a solitary organ swell pedal swell is a combination of volume and frequency control as a combined organ swell volume pedal for the samples type and finally as a swell volume pedal for all the instrument sections incl the pianos in the Nord Electro 3 Range O Organ swell default S Organ swell sample volume P Organ swell sample volume piano volume Aconnected control pedal will always be active if the P Wa or the RM effect is activated regardless of the Ctrl Pedal Mode setting Organ Trig Mode This allows you to change how the Nord Electro keyboard triggers the organ sounds When Fast is selected you will trigger organ sounds before the key reaches the end of its travel This mode closely mimics the way a vintage tonewheel organ trigger its notes Range F Fast default n normal Drawbar Speed This sets the speed with which the drawbars will increase or decrease the values when the drawbar buttons are held down Range F Fast default S slow MIDI Menu MIDI Channel This sets the MIDI Channel that the Nord Electro 3 transmits and responds to Range 1 16 OF off default 1 Lower Channel This sets the MIDI channel that the Lower Manual of the Nord Electro 3 organ section transmits and responds to when the organ split and the MIDI split modes are active Range 1 16 OF off default 2
91. on 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 A f you want to rearrange the order of the Sample Instruments there are a few things to consider A Program in the Nord Electro S 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 tha
92. only the occupied locations will be shown Dual View When this option is checked the window will be divided in two lists The two lists makes it easy to move programs from one location to another You can make the lists show separate banks with the drop downs Rearranging programs is simply a matter of drag and drop Drag a program from one bank list to another bank list in either direc tion Auto Select With this function active scrolling through the program list with the computer keyboard arrow keys will automatically select the programs in the Nord Electro 3 Sound Up Use this function to upload one or several sounds from the Nord Elec tro 3 to the computer hard drive Sound Down Use this function to download one or several sounds from the com puter hard drive to the next available location in the selected partition Rename This allows you to rename and assign a category to a Program 16 characters can be used and the supported characters are a z AZ 0 9 and the hyphen Any other characters will not be displayed in the Sound Manager lists Pianos or samples cannot be renamed so this function is not available if you have selected any of these Delete Allows you to delete one or several selected sounds You will be asked to confirm your intentions You may also use the delete or backspace key on the computer keyboard to perform this action Any Program in the Nord Electro 3 that used that particula
93. onnected the amount defaults a medium setting and the Rate knob can be used to produce a manually con trolled ring modulation effect Effect 2 Effect 2 offers three types of modulation effects Phaser Flanger and Chorus Each of these effects has 3 selectable depths in the same fashion as the tremolo and pan in the Effects 1 section The Rate knob control the rate of the effect Speaker Comp This section contains the speaker amp emulations the rotary speaker emulation and a compressor Small JC and Twin emulates three different kinds of amplifier and speaker cabinets The amount of drive is controlled by the Speaker Comp knob Rotary simulates a rotary speaker including its built in amplifier The knob sets the amount of overdrive of the rotary amplifier the speed of the rotating speaker is set with the rotary speed controls on the left side of the panel Comp is a compressor that will even out the dynamics of what you play making low level sounds louder and high level sounds lower in volume This produces a tight punchy sound and makes the overall level easier to control in a live mix situation When this effect is active the Drive Comp knob controls the amount of compression applied Reverb The Reverb section simulates the natural sound reflections in various acoustic environments You can choose between five reverb types with various lengths and densities indicated by the three LEDs that light up one or two at a t
94. ossfade and to adjust the taper of how these two sound bites will blend into each other during playback This can help to smooth things out and create a better sounding loop A Any audio data after the loop end point will be automatically discarded by the Nord Sample Editor when you create the Sample Instrument from the Project Waveform graph colors The waveform graph presents the loop by showing certain areas in different colors The position of the loop start marker is at the left edge of the blue area The position of the loop end marker is at the right end of the darker blue area Audio FileJAssign Sample Loop Stop Sample Start Sample Alt Start Instrument Samp Pres DesktopNW demno1 wav L tart A id a Loop End Oe MM EE li WI oua 0 0 0 2 lids 0 4 XFade DRE XFade son O c 0 6 section E section 0 8 a neg Leti 1 0 100 200 300 400 3 lii Long Loop Long Loop Loop Start Length Phase Adjust Fade Curve Short Loop ral RCA Coarse 4 OLog2 Oves Q EB O UM n am Os Graph Fine Fade e Linear E view trim en A crossfade s first section is indicated with the light blue area that is before the loop start to the left of the blue area The crossfade s end section is the darkest area immediately to the left of the loop end marker As these settings are changed by you the indication in the graph will change as well You
95. puter hard drive where the new sound is located eo WineGlasses M400_Mellotron_w4 nsmp Make sure that the Sound Manager window and the folder are visible on the screen Drag the new sound to the white area in the Sound Manager sample list When the destination location will turn gray release the mouse button The Clean Deleted Space process will start to prepare the memory and then the new piano will be downloaded to the Electro 3 If there isn t enough free space a message will appear in the lower left text area in the Nord Sound Manager X Ifthe Organize option is active in the View menu you can drop a sound on any free location in the bank If this function is not active the new sound will be automatically placed at the first free location in the bank The various locations are selected using the Type selector on the Nord Electro 3 The pianos are categorized and can only be added to the correct bank electric pianos can not be added to the grand bank the grand s cannot be dropped in the clavinet bank etc 22 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Using the Toolbar or Menu command Click on the Sound Down icon in the toolbar The same command is also available in the File menu Sound Download Ctrl D Browse to the folder on the hard drive where the desired sound is located select it and click Open The sample will now be added to its bank X These methods can also be used with any sample organ preset or individu
96. r sample that you deleted will probably not sound at all since it will be missing an important component The space that a deleted sample occupied is not immediately available to other sounds even though it is gone from the list and its location is free The Flash memory needs to be cleaned to free up the space where the deleted sounds have been When you add a new sample the cleaning process will be initiated automatically You also have the option to manually start the cleaning process with the Clean Deleted Space command from the File menu O A flashing number in the Nord Electro 3 LED display indicates that the sample that the current Program tried to use is not available in the Flash memory Select another program or download the miss ing sample to the Electro 3 7 NORD SOUND MANAGER 23 Bank Up This function will upload an entire bank of pianos samples or programs to the computer hard drive The default source will be the currently ac tive bank but you may choose another partition and bank if you wish Click on the Choose Folder button to select the destination on the hard drive If the Create Subfolders option is checked a folder structure will auto matically be created in the destination folder fa folder with the same name as the source partition bank already exists in the location on the hard arive this folder s entire content will be replaced by the uploaded files from the Nord Electro 3 Bank Down This
97. r is the reference section with the chapter on the Nord Sound Manager application after that on page 20 Master level knob This control sets the overall output level of the Electro 3 at the line and the headphone outputs This is not a programmable control If you want to program an output level for a P particular program this can be achieved with the Gain control MASTER LEVEL Organ section ORGAN VIBRATO CHORUS PERCUSSION PRESET SPLIT MODE SOFT 1 o FAST THIRD ON O CO BASS16 FLUTES TRMP8 STR8 FLUTE4 16 4 Il IV m E E 1 E E on NN On UD EF Ow N m g NM NM NM NM BN NM oN Oo gt a EF Uw N me o O wu A5 ww M 2 oN acaiEw N ra o Vacas Ww N ra Es E FUND 2ND ejel I Je eje IJ Jel Lond Oo EN NM NM NM M BM M E E E E E E E 3 Won DA un FF W M ma um NE NM M NM M NM vE NM NN NM NM NM ao uo em ao aA iz Es The Organ section in the Nord Electro 3 features emulations of three classic organ models a Ham mond B3 B3 model a Vox Continental Il Vx model and a Farfisa Compact DeLuxe Farf model ORGAN Organ Model button You select which organ model to use with the Organ Model button The B3 model This model is a digital simulation of the classic mechanical tone wheel organ This simulation utilizes innovative and advanced methods to capture every nuance of the original sound for example e An extremely accurate
98. r keyboard to quickly move the focus from one sample to another 9 Save the Project by selecting Save in the File menu or type Ctrl S on the computer keyboard Adding Audio files with individual samples You may want to add audio files that only contain one sample each Here is how you assign individual samples to Zones Open a new Project select the Audio Files Assign tab and click the Add button X The Nord Electro 3 can use stereo or mono audio files as sample sources with up to 44 1 kHz sample rate 24 bits resolution e Navigate to a folder that contain the audio files you wish to use select the files and click Open to add them to the Project The files will be listed one by one in the Audio Files area Select the first file that you wish to assign to a zone 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 29 The waveform graph will show a representation of the audio file LIIRIL LL E 4 Click and drag to select the entire waveform in the graph and look at the Manual Sample Assign area in the lower part of the window Manual Sample Assign Root Key Range Begin Range End Gus S 52 435 S 60 165 eee Deassign Deassign All Enter the Root Key the key where the sample will play back at its original pitch and click Assign 6 Select the next file and click and drag in the waveform graph to select the entire audio snippet Enter the Root Key for the next sample zone X The first zone that you create will span a
99. range of two octaves above the Root Key The range of a zone is determined by two parameters the Root Key and the Upper Key for each sample The range is also depending on any other sample that may be assigned further down on the keyboard A zone s lower key will reach all the way down to any previous sample s Upper Key or the FO key if it is the first sample assigned A sample will always reach down to the previous sample s Upper Key Azone in a range cannot be empty i e without an assigned sample If you want to have some keys that are silent somewhere in a Sample Instrument just make a selection in the waveform graph of an area that is silent or Add an audio file that is short and contains no audio data Then map this silent sample to a range of keys Single Sample Per File Assign If you have audio files on your hard drive where the file name contains an identifier or marker of the file s pitch the Single Sample Per File As sign function can automatically map these samples Use the Add function to add some audio files to the Project The Single Sample Per File Assign function can use identifiers that refer to a pitch name if the file name is e g cello_C 4 wav or note number like e g cello 39 wav Select all the files in the File List that has these indicators and click on Assign NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Audio Files SAS Wav SS F a GE DRAMA 5 F S may 000000005 000000000
100. ress the Store button to perform the dump Dump One This allows you to perform a MIDI SysEx dump of the currently selected Program Press the Store button to perform the dump Dump All This allows you to perform a MIDI SysEx dump of all the Programs in the Electro 3 Press the Store button to perform the dump In the MIDI chapter on page 42 is a description on how the Electro 3 receives a Sys Ex dump Sound Menu Treble Horn Speed Sets the speed setting in the fast and slow speed modes of the rotary speaker simulation s treble horn Range H High n Normal default L Low Treble Horn Acceleration Sets the acceleration and retardation time of the rotary speaker simula tion s treble horn Range H High n Normal default L Low Bass Rotor Speed Sets the speed setting in the fast and slow speed modes of the rotary speaker simulation s bass rotor Range H High n Normal default L Low Bass Rotor Acceleration Sets the acceleration and retardation time of the rotary speaker simula tion s bass rotor Range H High n Normal default L Low Perc Fast Decay Sets the fast mode decay time of the Tonewheel percussion effect Range L Long n Normal default S Short Perc Slow Decay Sets the slow mode decay time of the Tonewheel percussion effect Range L Long n Normal default S Short Perc Norm Level Sets the level of the percussion effect in its norma
101. rgan Upper Oct Shift Organ Lower Oct Shift Piano EQ On Off EQ Treble EQ Mid EQ Mid Freq EQ Bass Gain Effect 1 Rate Effect 1 Sel Effect 1 On Off Effect 2 Rate Effect 2 Sel Effect 2 On Off Speaker Comp Drive Speaker Comp Sel Speaker Comp On Off Reverb Wet Dry Reverb Sel Reverb On Off 9 MIDI FUNCTIONS MIDI Controller 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 9 3 88 89 64 11 82 79 84 85 87 95 33 34 103 104 105 106 13 12 44 83 oy 28 29 115 118 116 117 114 63 60 69 62 61 80 111 81 86 102 96 97 43 44 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X MIDI Implementation Chart Function Basic Channel Default Channel Mode Note Number Velocity After Touch Pitch Bender Control Change Program Change True System Exclusive System Common System Realtime Aux Message Number Mode 1 Omni On Poly Mode 2 Omni O Mono Mode 3 Omni Off Poly Mode 4 Omni Off Mono O Yes X No Default Message Altered True Voice Note ON Note Off Key s Channel Song Pos Song Sel Tune Clock Commands Local on off All notes off Active Sense Reset True Voice Model Nord Electro 3 OS v1 x Date 2008 12 15 Transmitted 1 16 1 16 Mode 3 X 0 127 Q v 1 127 Oa 027 X X X O O 0 127 x x x O X X X X XxX x Recognized 1 16 1 16 Mode 3 X 0 127 O v 1 127 O v 1 127 X X X
102. right click on a sound a context menu will provide the following options Select in Instrument This will select the chosen sound in the Manager list to be instantly accessible on the Nord Electro 3 Upload This will upload the selected sound from the Nord Electro 3 to the computer hard drive to a folder of your choice Download Select In Instrument 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 Delete location in the Nord Electro 3 Upload Download Rename This allows you to rename and assign a category to a Program Char acters supported are a z A Z 0 9 and a hyphen and the name can contain up to 16 characters Any other characters will not be displayed in the Sound Manager lists Pianos or Samples cannot be renamed this option will not be available if you right click on any of these Delete This will delete the selected sound s from the Nord Electro 3 memory File Formats The Nord Sound Manager creates and or uses files with the Electro 3 with the following extensions e npno These are the piano files from the Nord Piano library e nsmp These are the sample files from the Nord Sample library e nepg These are the Program files e neop These are the Organ Preset files e neb This is the extension used for the Nord Electro 3 backup files Just as an
103. roviding the name for the Sample Instrument when it is downloaded to the Flash memory amp Ifyou change your mind about the current name on the Project use Save As to give it a new one A Sample Instrument that is created from an unsaved Project will get the default name Un titled in the Nord Electro 3 Go to the Instrument Menu and select Generate Only A Sample Instrument with all the samples zones and edits that you have made in this Project will be generated and automatically saved to the hard drive as a Project name nsmp file 8 NORD SAMPLE EDITOR 31 If you select Generate and Download the Sample Instrument will also be downloaded to the Flash memory in the Nord Electro 3 sample Instruments are added incrementally to the Flash memory to the first available free location File Edit Instrument Settings Manager Help Audio File Assign Sample Loop Stop Sample Start Sample Organize Sound Up Sound Down Mame Orchstrings Sust Navib ste KHv4 Orchstrings Marc vib ste KHv5 ChambStringsSust_vib ste KHy4 ChambStringsMarc_Vib ste KHv5 4 1 ME X All of the tabs except the Manager tab have an Instrument area up to the right in the Editor window If Download is checked the Sample Instrument will automatically be downloaded to the Nord Electro 8 when it is generated After a Project have been generated and downloaded to the Electro 3 the sample will be automatically selected
104. s This can be used to record your actions on the front panel into a MIDI sequencer For a full list of which parameters correspond to the Con troller numbers see the MIDI implementation on the next page Keyboard velocity The Nord Electro 3 can transmit and receive keyboard velocity mes sages Organ sounds will always be played back at nominal level regardless of incoming MIDI Velocity data Release velocity is also transmitted Program change In the MIDI Menu see page 18 you can select if the Nord Electro 3 should send and or receive Program Change messages When you select a Program a Program Change message is transmit ted via MIDI If a Program Change message is received on the selected MIDI Channel the Nord Electro 3 will change Program accordingly The 128 Program locations send and respond to MIDI Program Change values 0 127 MIDI Sysex System Exclusive Individual Programs or all Programs can be transmitted and received as a System Exclusive dump Using the Nord Electro 3 with a sequencer Connections Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Electro 3 to the MIDI In on your sequencer Connect the MIDI Out from your sequencer to the MIDI In on the Nord Electro 3 Local On Off Local Off may be used when you use a sequencer to record and play back from Nord Electro 3 If the sequencer echoes back incoming MIDI data the Nord Electro 3 may respond twice to every note and other message action if e g the keyboard
105. sitivity turned on in the Nord Electro 3 as the default setting when the Sample Instrument is selected This function is not available in a Nord Wave Keyboard Controlled Amplifier Envelope Decay Time This can apply an amplitude decay to a sound in order to e g have a amplitude decay on a looped sound Range None Short Long Release Time This sets the release time that will be set when the sample is selected Range Short Medium 1 Medium 2 Long Octave Shift This sets the octave shift that will be set when the sample is selected Manager Tab Fie E beet Series Manage S pep fukn Fielassign Sample deep ohop Gane han Siem Bat Pedra Seg Pret Marge Organe M Sanini Lis a gt Sell Tarver Did in Leo 4 Mame Sire ver Este infe COrnhAnnar Sur Hovb ste tH 5 4 MB amp Lotta 19 06 42 2 COnhonnas Mac V sedes 42 2 PU 1700 DOES Chmbimp rd Wb sede 4 6 MB a 122 Pee Lt E5 45 27 This is where you find the function of the Nord Sample Editor to man age the content of the Sample Instrument memory If no Nord Electro 3 is connected to the computer the memory locations will be grayed out A The actions that take place in the Manager tab will affect the memories in the unit The Nord Sample Editor is online with the Nord at all times so any changes that you perform in the Editor will immediately be echoed in the Nord Wave or Electro 3 If you e g delete a Sample Instrument from the list in the Nord Sample Edi
106. sly deleted pianos samples or programs have been This is done in order to make this deleted memory space available to new additions Cleaning is automatically done if you download a new piano sample or program to the Nord Electro 3 but this menu com mand makes it possible to manually start the cleaning process Format This is a radical function it will format the entire partition that is in focus All the sounds in the partition will be deleted You will be asked to confirm your intentions Exit Ctrl Q Exits the Nord Sound Manager application Edit View Help Rename Ctrl N Rename Ctrl M Delete Del This allows you to rename and assign a category to a Program 16 char Select All Etr acters can be used the supported Invert Selection characters are a z A Z 0 9 and the hyphen Any other characters will not be displayed in the Sound Manager lists Pianos or samples cannot be renamed so this function is not available if you have selected these Delete Allows you to delete a selected item s from the Nord Electro 3 memory You will be asked to confirm your intentions Select All Ctrl A Select all items in a bank partition Invert Selection This will deselect the original selection and then select all the other items in the list View Help View Organize Ctrl O w Organize Ckri o When this option is checked the lists Dual view Ctrl L will show all the available locations
107. t correspond to the map settings that are presented in the Keyboard Grid The sample in focus will be indicated in yellow the other samples in a alternating pattern of blue and gray to provide you with an easy to use overview The zones can be changed by clicking and dragging on the zone boundaries in the grid grab the upper limit of a zone and move it toa new key Onezone s Upper Key cannot be pushed on top of or above another zone s Hoot Key The amplitude of any individual sample is indicated with the black hori zontal marker in each slice With the controls below this grid you can adjust the global gain of the entire Sample Instrument or an individual gain for every sample This can be used to increase or attenuate the overall loudness of the Sample Instrument Reset All Click on this to reset all the samples to their original amplitude as they were when they were added to the Project Normalize All This allows you to set all the samples to the O dB amplitude in the grid This represents the maximum amplitude in the audio file in relation to the bit depth of the audio There is however headroom available in the Nord Sample Editor and the Nord Electro 3 that allows you to increase the amplitude beyond this level if you need rima Reset Al hrm M GshalGan 2 305 sample can 9000 Global Gain This can set a global increase or attenuation of the amplitude of the entire
108. t used that particular Sample Instrument will probably sound very different since it will be missing an important component A 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 List headlines Loc 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 Sl name Change the file name and the Sl name is also changed when that file is downloaded to the Nord Electro 3 A 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 arive to the list and it has the same name as a SI in the list that operation will not be allowed Size Indicates the size of the Sample Instrument This may be useful if you are short on memory an
109. ted Moving towards the middle of the panel the Piano section behaves just as the organ The controls are lit when the Piano selector is active The Program section contain the parameters and functions that are used to select and store programs to set the System MIDI and Sound functions and to select the instrument to be used with the Organ or Piano selectors We ll describe the functions in this area in greater detail starting at page 14 The Effect section contains the functions of the effects Please refer to page 15 for more information The functions and settings of the System MIDI and Sound menus are conveniently printed to the right on the panel Knobs amp buttons Knobs The knobs control the continuously variable pa rameters in the Nord Electro 3 O A parameter value can be totally different from the knob s physical position when you load a Program As soon as you start turning the knob the value will snap to the knob s physical position MADE IN SWEDEN BY CLAVIA DMI AB v3 1 9 DUMP ALL Press STORE m Normal to dump L Low Selector buttons Selector buttons are used to activate one setting in an array Selector buttons have a set of round or triangular LEDs to indicate the current setting Press the button several times to cycle through the possible options X Holding Shift and pressing a selector button with the exception of the Type button will cycle through the settings in a counter
110. ter or by using the slider You can also set a start point by clicking in the waveform Use the zoom controls if you need to back out of the view or get closer to the actual waveform representation Sample Alt Start Tab This tab allows you to set the alternate start marker of the sample in the same fashion as the normal sample start This alternate start point will be activated when you select the Skip Samp Attack function on the Nord Wave panel The alternate sample start functionality is not available in a Nord Electro 3 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Instrument Tab E BHO Pero Se po Cue fada bor Sy mmm Lise ewer bende Dari lee a toe 7 oe ees a T T7 1 s F i jas Mom we WEM Oe l l md iid edid mge dge lpg m ALL aa f Lu fe v1 TII ual ee alam go ga planta neta BeBoRBU PROHOBORGROBOE LAS EE ORO E BOR OB 4 x EISE 1 13 comi E am xl i nili mi This is where you can change individual settings to all the samples that are mapped in the current Project You can adjust the amplitude with the gain controls tune the samples and apply a couple of powerful functions that will assist you with the final mapping of the samples The familiar Keyboard Grid is here to assist you with a clear overview of how the samples are mapped across the keyboard range Sample Gain grid All the individual samples will be presented here as zones or slices tha
111. the actual sound begins The Nord Sample Editor will automatically place a starting point when a sample is assigned to a zone This marker can easily be changed if you prefer to have manual control of this function You can manually set the start point by entering a value in the Start input box using the slider or by simply clicking in the waveform graph desenha LEAD Shape art ampla AR Stat In trumeek Sane Preset Manager ET amp When the Sample Start tab is opened the Editor will zoom in closer in the waveform graph to make it easier to distinguish noise from the actual sound You can change the zoom settings by us ing the buttons below the waveform graph for the horizontal axis and the slider or the buttons to the right for the vertical axis Looping Loops are very useful in order to make a sample play back or sound beyond its own length Loops will also reduce a sample s size since everything after the loop end marker will be discarded when you down load a Sample Instrument to the Nord Electro 3 Let s take a closer look at a loop A loop is automatically generated when a sample is assigned to a zone To view or edit the loop settings just click on the Sample Loop Stop tab The loop is indicated in the waveform graph as a col ored area TE mom E Ra PEC Tr aede BR Sere reru dae Pek me sya ps kd 1 e Lore Log E Lep Srart Eres Photo Ps DP echo aes sta ips boo ce fu
112. the hard drive and does not copy or load any actual audio data Any changes that you qo to the original audio files will also affect the Project Remove Button To remove an audio file from the Project click on the Remove button This will also remove any samples from the Project that are associated with this audio file Enabled box To temporarily remove an audio file from the Project un check the Enabled box All samples from the audio file in the Project will be disabled All the Zones that have these samples assigned to them will be removed The neighboring zones will cover the ranges which the disabled samples used to occupy The settings of the disabled samples and zones will be retained when the box is checked the samples and zones will be restored Waveform graph This is a visual representation of the audio file that is selected in the file list This graph will appear in other tabs as well with minor alterations in order to assist you in the editing process If the audio file is in mono a single graph is drawn if the audio file is in stereo the left and right channel will be presented in two parallel graphs You can select a part of or an entire audio file by a standard click and drag procedure with the mouse Agde Fha Fiera Wa ure em raro marr If the entire duration of the audio file will not fit in the waveform graph you can scroll the content of the graph by using the scroll bar below the graph display
113. the sample s attack and velocity settings 6 Press and hold Shift and the Samp Env button This allows you to select one of the four available release time settings O This button doubles as the Clavinet EQ selector when the Clavinet type is active 9 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Using the Organ Press the Organ instrument selector ORGAN This activates the Organ section a Press the Organ Model selector repeatedly to cycle through the three organs the B3 Vox and Farfisa emula tions The settings for the three organ sounds are made using the digital drawbars The Farfisa uses these in a switch mode with only two settings for each ME Make a setting with the drawbars and then press the Preset Split button This activates the second preset which allows you to keep two dif ferent settings for an organ sound available from the panel at any time The settings of both Presets 1 and 2 are stored in the Electro 3 s program memory 4 Press and hold Shift and the Preset Split button This activates the organ split mode The keyboard will be split at C4 The lower half will use the Preset 1 Lo setting the upper half will use the Preset 2 Up setting X f you press and hold both the Shift and the Preset Split buttons for a couple of seconds the Split LED will begin to flash and you can press a key on the keyboard to set a new split point as long as these buttons are held down The
114. to use sampled instruments from the Nord Sample Library in the Nord Electro 3 This allows us to e g include some of the fabulous Mellotron sounds in the factory sound bank Each and every piano and sample in the Nord Electro 3 can be replaced by you using the free Nord Electro 3 Sound Manager application New pianos and other sounds are found on the enclosed Nord DVD and on the www nordkeyboards com web site Mellotron Classic Vintage Sounds No compromises just a good selection of outstanding classic key board sounds with true feel from a natural keyboard response to the authentic sound quality that is what we have been pursuing during the development To make a great tool you have to put all the focus on a few things and that is exactly what we tried to achieve We hope that you will have as much fun owning and using the instrument as we had developing it About this manual You are probably very eager to start using your new instrument and we sure don t want to keep you from having fun We will try to cover all the essential aspects on how to use the Electro 3 in the very first few pages of this manual After that follows the reference section where all the functions are explained in detail Disclaimer All trademarks and brand names mentioned in this manual are the oroperty of their respective owner s and are not affiliated or associated with Clavia These trademarks and brand names are only mentioned to describe
115. tons Ranges 9 0 to 9 0 dB Detune You can change the overall tuning of the samples either on a global scale or for any individual samples This provides you with the means to fix any problems with samples that are out of tune or to adjust an entire Sample Instrument The unit is in cents 100 cent is the range between two semitones Det na Reset Al Global Deture 9 cent 2 Sample Detune Oami Reset All This will reset any changes that you have made using the Detune controls Global Detune Sets the overall tuning of the Sample Instrument Enter the value ex pressed in cents in the value box confirming this by pressing enter or with the increment decrement buttons Range 50 to 50 cents Sample Detune This allows you to detune the sample in focus in the Sample Instru ment Set the value expressed in cents in the value box confirming this by pressing enter or with the increment decrement buttons Each and every sample in the Project can be de tuned Range 50 to 50 cents Sample Zone These controls makes it very easy to change the focused sample s Hoot Key and Upper Key in order to edit the assignment The focused sample will be highlighted in yellow and you can quickly select focus by clicking on the keys in the Keyboard grid or by scrolling through the samples using the horizontal arrow keys on the computer keyboard Root Key Sample Zone Sets a new Root Rook Key Upper Kev
116. tor that same SI will also be deleted from the Nord Electro 3 memory without any warnings or confirmation dialogs Manager Toolbar The icons on the Tool bar gives you instant access to three functions Organize When this option is active the list will show all the available locations in the memory and not only the occupied ones This will for instance make it easier to drag a file to a specific free location in the middle of the list If this is unchecked only the occupied locations will be shown Sound Up This will upload a selected Sample Instrument to the computer hard drive It will be saved as a nsmp file Sound Down This allows you to choose a file on the hard drive to be downloaded to the next available free location in the Nord Electro 3 Delete This will delete the selected Sample Instrument from the Nord Electro 3 memory Sample list There are 50 possible locations for Sample Instruments in the Nord Electro 3 memory The Flash capacity is approx 68 MB and this is 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 locati
117. u can also set the output level of the audio card in your computer with the slider Pressing the space bar on the computer keyboard will also start and stop the playback The Footer The footer area is located at the bottom of the Nord Sample Editor window File cellos A2 wav opened successfully The footer contains mostly informational stuff and a Cancel button that can be used to abort some of the ongoing processes Progress bars When you start a task in the Nord Sample Editor the execution may take a few moments depending on what it is you want to do One major task may consist of several smaller tasks and the progress of these is displayed with the Progress bars Cancel button Use this button to cancel any ongoing task that the Nord Sample Edi tor is in the process of performing Upper Progress bar The upper Progress bar will show the progress of the current task be ing performed the name of which is displayed in the message area to the immediate right of the Progress bar Lower Progress bar The lower Progress bar will show the progress of an ongoing task Nord Electro 3 In the lower right corner is an indication that tells you if a Nord Electro 3 is connected to the computer or not NORD ELECTRO 3 USER MANUAL OS V2 X Audio File Assign Tab Fe DE ira Fra Br Fi estes Lapel Jopi Baj bee fa abami large mcm Baap m brspsrp ma Lk EM iliiiii0 dmn iuum dg E aa a Paus ola lar
118. unds in the left and right outputs Read more about this functionality on page 17 General guide on audio connections e Make all the connections before you turn on the power to your amplifier e Turn on the power to your amplifier last e Turn off the power to your amplifier first A Playing at a high volume level can result in hearing impairments such as permanent hearing loss Monitor In Use this to connect and monitor a signal from an mp3 or a CD player at the Nord Electro 3 s head phone output This allows you to e g rehearse with the Electro 3 to pre recorded music Signals connected to this input will not be processed with the Electro 3 s effects or appear at the Electro 3 s left and right output Jacks MONITOR RIGHT LEFT IN OUT OUT HEADPHONES USB Connection The USB connection is used for the Nord Electro to communicate with a personal computer in order to update the OS or to add or replace any of the piano and or sampled sounds The computer can run the Nord Sound Manager application or be used to transfer the operating system if the unit needs to be updated Computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems need a driver for the USB connection to work The driver can be found on the enclosed Nord DVD or at the www nordkeyboards com website MIDI Connections MIDI Out MIDI connection used for sending keyboard and panel generated MIDI data from the Nord Electro 3 to other equipment such
119. with assigned samples First Light Make sure that the Nord Electro 3 is powered up and connected to the computer to a USB port Launch the Nord Sample Editor from the Program Files folder or the Start Menu PC or from the Applications folder Mac OSX During the start up procedure the Editor will automatically try and establish contact with the Nord Electro 3 If a Nord Electro 3 is not connected you can still work on a Project with sample editing mapping and other functions When the Editor finds a Nord Electro 3 this will be indicated at the lower right corner of the Editor window and the Manager tab will open automatically A list with all the current Samples in the Flash memory will appear in the Nord Sample Editor window File Edit Manager Help Audio File Assign Sample Loop Stop Sample Start Fa Drganize owes 2 Sound Up DE Sound Down Instrument Settings Sample A Loc Mame Size 1 OrchStrings Sust MoVib ste KHv4 5 4 MB 2 OrchStrings Marc Vib ste KHv5 4 3 MB 3 ChambStringsSust Hib ste Hui 4 6 MB l I o i X Inorder for the Nord Sample Editor to be able to playback samples you need to select a ariver for your audio card This is done in the Settings Audio menu O Ona XP or Vista system select an available Direct X driver In order to be compatible with as many XP and Vista computer sys tems as possible the Nord Sample Editor uses Direct X drivers 28 NORD ELECTRO 3 USER
120. y other computer file on your hard drive these files may be renamed emailed copied moved lost or even stored in a safe loca tion if an evil computer crash suddenly decides to take your hard drive for ride 7 NORD SOUND MANAGER 21 The Quick Tour Let s get acquainted with some of the functions in the Nord Sound Manager Transfer pianos to the Electro When the Nord Electro 3 leaves the factory the Piano partition is filled with sounds In order to be able to download additional pianos you may have to delete some of the factory samples If you ever want to reload any deleted pianos they are available on the DVD that was included with the Nord Electro 3 or available as a download from the www nordkeyboards com web site in the Libraries area Deleting a piano Connect the Nord Electro 3 to the computer and launch the Nord Sound Manager The Piano tab will open and the current content of the sample partition in the Electro 3 will be displayed Select a piano to delete and press the Delete icon in the toolbar You can also right click on the sound and choose the Delete option or use the backspace or delete keys on the computer keyboard You will be asked to confirm your intentions and then the piano in the Electro 3 will be deleted Download a new sound tag HarpsBrass MkI Mellotron s4 nismp 52 BoysChoir M400 Mellotron v4 53 BVoiceChoir 400 Melotron v4 54 N 55 Using drag and drop Open the folder on the com
121. your Project Use this file type if you want to share your Sample Instrument with other Nord Wave or Nord Electro 3 users Settings Menu Audio Brings up the Audio Settings dialog box where you select the driver for any audio card that is con nected to or installed in your computer The output level can also be set in this dialog The selected audio card will be used to play back samples by the Nord Sample Editor Settings Man Audio The Nord Sample Editor is compatible with Direct X drivers on a Win dows XP or Vista system and with the native Mac OSX drivers Manager Menu Sound Upload Use this function to upload one or several sounds from the Sound Upload Sound Download Delete Nord Electro 3 to the computer hard drive w Organize Refresh F5 Sound Download Clean Deleted Space Use this function to download one or Format several Sample Instruments from the computer hard drive to the Nord Electro 3 Delete Allows you to delete a selected Sample Instrument from the Nord Electro 3 memory Organize When this option is checked the list will show all the available locations in the memory and not only the occupied ones This will for instance make it easier to drag a file to a specific free location in the middle of the list If this is unchecked only the occupied locations will be shown Refresh F5 This function refreshes the content of the current window in the Nord Sample Editor Cl

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