Clavia Nord Piano 2 HP, User Manual



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The Quick Tour

Let’s get acquainted with some of the functions in the Nord Sound 
Manager . If you do the actions described in this tour, the content in the 
Nord Piano 2 HP may be changed, but you can always get back to the 
factory content by restoring the unit with the Factory Backup file that is 
available on the DVD that was delivered in the box with the instrument . 

Backing up and restoring will be explained at the end of this tour, in 
“Backup” on page 26 . If you have made some changes to the content 
of the Nord Piano 2 HP already, now would be a great time to do a 
Backup .

Transfer sounds to the Nord Piano 2 HP

When the Nord Piano 2 HP leaves the factory, the Piano and the Samp 
Lib partitions are filled with sounds . In order to be able to try out other 
pianos, you can delete one or two pianos and load new ones and 
select this from the panel .

Deleting a sound

1 

Open the appropriate Tab and select a piano or a sample 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 .

A dialog appears where you will be asked to confirm your intentions . If 
any programs uses the soon-to-be deleted piano (or sample), you will 
be alerted about this . If you confirm by clicking Yes, the sound in the 
Nord Piano 2 HP will be deleted .

If you delete a piano or sample that is used by any programs, 
these programs will then be missing an important part. This can 
be fixed by reloading the same sound at a later time.

Download a new sound

1 

Using drag and drop:

 Open the folder on the computer hard 

drive where the new sound is located . 

2 

Make sure that the Sound Manager window and the folder are 
visible on the screen .

3 

Drag the new sound to the white area in the Sound Manager list . 
When the cursor gets a plus-sign, release the mouse button . 

4 

The Clean Deleted Space process will start to prepare the memo-
ry and then the new piano will be downloaded to the Nord Piano 
2 HP . If there isn’t enough free space to complete the operation, a 
message about this will appear .

If the Organize view is active, you can drop a sound on any free 
location in the bank. If this is not active, the new sound will be 
automatically placed at the first free location in the bank. 

M

The pianos are categorized and can only be added to the bank 
they belong to; electric pianos cannot be added to the grand 
bank, grand’s cannot be dropped in the clavinet bank etc. 
Samples can only be added to the Samp Lib partition.

1 

Adding a sound 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) .

2 

Browse to the folder on the hard drive where the desired sound is 
located, select it and click Open . The sound will now be added to 
its bank at the first free location .

Replace

You can also use the Replace functionality . This action replaces a piano 
in the Nord Piano 2 HP with one that you want use from the DVD or 
one that you have downloaded from the www .nordkeyboards .com web 
site . 

Replacing a piano with another will automatically update all the Pro-
grams that used the previous piano to use the new piano instead .

1 

Open the Piano tab . The current content of the piano partition in 
the Nord Piano 2 HP will be displayed .

2 

Select a piano in the list that you wish to replace with a new one 
and click the Replace icon in the toolbar .

You can also right-click the sound and choose the Replace option 
or use the Replace command in the Edit Menu. 

The Replace dialog informs you about the action about to take place . 
Click Browse to locate a new sound on the computer hard drive . The 
Bright Grand is chosen in the image below . 

3 

Press Open and then confirm by clicking Replace .

The replacing action will begin by deleting the original piano, then 
cleaning the memory, downloading the new piano and finally relinking 
all the programs to use the new one instead .

If you use Replace to try a piano and then change your mind, just 
replace the new one with the previous one to get back to where 
you started from.

The Replace action can be done with samples as well.