Clavia Nord Piano, User Manual

Page 1: ...User Manual Nord Piano OS Version 1 x Part No 50312 Copyright Clavia DMI AB Print Edition 1 3...

Page 2: ...flash with the arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated voltage within the products en closure that may be of sufficient magnitude...

Page 3: ...6 MIDI Menu 16 MIDI Channel 16 Local Control 16 Control Change CC Mode 16 Program Change Mode 16 Send Ctrl 16 Dump One 16 Dump All 17 Sound Menu 17 Pedal Noise level 17 String Resonance Level 17 Long...

Page 4: ...er these settings after the power is turned off All of the 120 programs in the Nord Piano can be used to store your own settings To make sure you don t accidentally overwrite programs you want to keep...

Page 5: ...s are played When this functionality is turned on using the Nord Piano s acoustic pianos all notes you play will affect each other to reproduce the won derful acoustics that occurs inside an acoustic...

Page 6: ...ft is also used together with the Up Down buttons when you want to change a setting in the System MIDI or Sound menus If you press and hold Shift while turning a knob the parameter value will be prese...

Page 7: ...e processed with the Piano s effects or appear at the Piano s left and right output jacks USB Connection The USB connection is used for the Nord Piano to communicate with a personal computer in order...

Page 8: ...travel on certain pianos The left pedal is the soft pedal also known as the Una Corda When you press this pedal all the notes you play will be slightly lower in vol ume and also have a slightly more...

Page 9: ...u select it Memory Protection If you are happy with an edit that you have made you should probably save or Store the program But before you can do this we need to turn off the Memory Protect function...

Page 10: ...the Transpose button and use the Up and Down buttons to transpose the Nord Piano in semitone steps The range is 6 semitones A transposition can be stored in a program M M The pianos have a finite note...

Page 11: ...hen you operate the sustain pedal on a acoustic or electric piano will be recreated The Nord Triple Pedal is dynamic you can control the level of the noise by the force you use when you operate the su...

Page 12: ...ing for each menu item is shown in the LCD The LCD will also display values and settings when you change any of the functions on the panel Press and hold shift while turning a knob to display its valu...

Page 13: ...ic grand pianos Upright Upright pianos E Piano Electric Pianos tines and reeds E Grand Electric grand pianos Clavinet Clavinets Harpsi Harpsichords M M The type of a piano has been determined by the B...

Page 14: ...l acoustics that occurs inside an acoustic grand or upright piano You will also hear all the strings resonate if you press the sustain pedal and play some notes Press the String Resonance button repea...

Page 15: ...Flanger effect is mono in mono out The phaser effect produces a characteristic sweep effect commonly used with electric piano sounds The phaser effect is mono in mono out The Chorus effect simulates...

Page 16: ...trol 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 should...

Page 17: ...ectric piano This is equivalent to what happens when you adjust the damper tension in an acoustic or an electromechanical instrument Release compatible pianos are of version 5 3 or later M M If a pian...

Page 18: ...with the contents of the Piano and the Program parti tions These are accessed from the tabs conveniently labeled Piano and Programs If no Nord Piano is connected to the computer pages icons and memory...

Page 19: ...l select the chosen sound in the Manager list to be instantly accessible on the Nord Piano Upload This will upload the selected sound from the Nord Piano to the com puter hard drive to a folder of you...

Page 20: ...electric pianos can not be added to the grand bank the grand s cannot be dropped in the clavinet bank etc 1 Using the Toolbar or Menu command Click on the Sound Down icon in the toolbar The same comma...

Page 21: ...ers 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 partit...

Page 22: ...Space command from the File menu M M Flashing LEDs in the Piano Type and Model section indicates that the piano that the current Program tried to use is not available in the Flash memory Select anoth...

Page 23: ...gin after you have clicked Open and confirmed your intentions in the dialogue All the content of a connected Nord Piano will then be irrevocably replaced by the content of the backup file Clean Delete...

Page 24: ...t Info This area may contain error information about broken corrupted or rejected files if e g something has happened with a particular piano in the Nord Piano Footer Area The footer area is located a...

Page 25: ...System Exclusive Individual or all Programs can be transmitted and received as a System Exclusive dump Nord Piano with a sequencer Connections 1 Connect the MIDI Out on the Nord Piano to the MIDI In o...

Page 26: ...of Nord Piano The display will inform you when the transmission has been completed Receive MIDI SysEx dumps Here is how to receive a MIDI SysEx Dump 1 Connect the MIDI Out on the transmitting device...

Page 27: ...1 127 After Key s Touch Channel X X X X Pitch Bender X X Control Change O O Program Change True O 0 127 O 0 127 System Exclusive O O System Song Pos Common Song Sel Tune X X X X X X System Clock Real...

Page 28: ...Loc 23 Local 16 Local Control 16 M Master level 12 Memory Protect 9 16 MIDI Channel 16 MIDI Controller list 26 MIDI In 7 MIDI Indicator 12 MIDI Menu 16 MIDI Out 7 Model 13 Monitor In 7 Mono 14 P Panic...

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