Nord Stage EX v6.x
10. The Extern section: About the Extern section
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10. T
HE
E
XTERN
SECTION
A
BOUT
THE
E
XTERN
SECTION
When developing Nord Stage EX, Clavia aimed to make external control an inte-
grated feature of the instrument, where all the essential external MIDI control
functions would be as accessible and easy to use as the functions and parameters
for the built-in instruments. That’s what you get in the Extern section.
The Extern in most cases behaves like the internal instruments. For example, it is
enabled and assigned a keyboard zone in the same way. It has a multi-purpose Pa-
rameter knob, which is used to send MIDI Volume, Program Change and Contin-
uous Controller messages. You select the current Parameter focus with the
P
ARAMETER
S
ELECT
button. Detailed settings for MIDI Channel, Program
Change and Continuous Controllers, among other things, are accessed through the
Extern Menu (see
page 70
).
S
ETTING
UP
1. Connect a MIDI cable from Nord Stage EX’s MIDI Out to the MIDI In on the
external device.
2. Press
S
HIFT
and the
E
XTERN
button to access the Extern menu.
3. Use The
P
AGE
buttons to access the “Extern MIDI A/B Channel” page.
4. Use the
V
ALUE
D
IAL
to select the MIDI channel (1-16) you would like to transmit over. Use the
P
ANEL
A
and
B
buttons to access the channel setting for each panel. Press the
E
XIT
(S
HIFT
)
but-
ton briefly to exit the menu.
5. Set the external instrument to receive on the same MIDI channel.
U
SING
THE
E
XTERN
SECTION
A
CTIVATING
Before Extern MIDI is sent out from Nord Stage EX, you have to activate the Extern section. This is
done by pressing the
O
N
button under the
P
ARAMETER
rotary encoder.
A
BOUT
K
EYBOARD
Z
ONES
There are two Extern sections, one for each panel. You can use Keyboard Zones to create splits and
layers just like for the internal instruments. If you set the Extern section to only play in the LO Zone,
the external instrument will only respond to notes played in this Zone. In other words, it works trans-
parently together with the built-in instruments!
