5. Panel reference: System functions
NORD ELECTRO 2 V2.0x
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Press the
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HIFT
+
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CTAVE
S
HIFT
(DUMP) buttons
to enter the Dump menu. Here you can perform a MIDI
Sysex dump of the currently selected Program or of all Pro-
grams of the internal memory. You can also perform a dump
of all MIDI Controllers for the selected Program. Select the
type of dump to perform by pressing the
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buttons. ‘Pr’ in the
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dump, ‘AL’ means
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dump all MIDI
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rollers of the currently selected Pro-
gram. The selected dump type will flash in the
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ISPLAY
. If
you want to perform a MIDI Sysex dump of a single Pro-
gram or of the MIDI Controllers of a Program, select it by
choosing Program Bank with the
U
P
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OWN
N
AVIGATOR
buttons and Program by pressing the corresponding
P
RO
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GRAM
button. If you’re about to send all Programs (‘AL’) it
doesn’t matter which Program is selected. Press the
S
TORE
button to send the dump to the
MIDI O
UT
of Nord Electro
2. The Display will stop flashing once the dump has been
sent.
Note: For Organ Sysex, the complete settings for the sound will be dumped as MIDI Sysex. For Piano
sounds, all parameters will be sent but NOT the actual instrument samples. Therefore, when dumping
back a Piano sound, make sure the actual instrument samples are already loaded in the Nord Electro
2. Otherwise the parameters in the Sysex message will be applied to another available Piano instru-
ment.
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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 open-
ing. The problem is that the Nord Electro 2’s Drawbar will remain opened, although it really should be
as it was before you recorded the opening. To solve such problems, several sequencers include a function
called “Controller Chasing”, which keeps track of Controller changes and tries to adjust the settings on
the instrument according to the current position in the sequencer song.
However, in our example this wouldn’t help much, because the Drawbar opening was the first Controller
message recorded in the song. The sequencer has no information about the Drawbar setting before the
recorded change, and therefore cannot “chase” the settings properly. To solve this, you could record a
“snapshot” of all Controller settings of the Nord Electro 2 Program(s) at the beginning of your sequencer
song. In these situations you can use the ‘dump all MIDI Controllers’ function.
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If notes should hang or the Electro 2 should behave strange in a MIDI
setup, for example, all you need to do is hold down the
S
HIFT
button and
press the
R
IGHT
O
CTAVE
S
HIFT
(PANIC) buttons. This will execute an
internal All Notes Off, and reset certain parameters to their default val-
ues.
