Clavia electro 2 User Manuals

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction

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  • Welcome

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    • About the Owner’s Manual

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    • Reading the manual in Adobe Acrobat Reader

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  • Clavia on the Internet

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• 2. Overview

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  • The Nord Electro 2 front panel

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    • The left panel section

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    • The Organ section

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    • The Instrument Select button

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    • The Piano section

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    • The Effects section

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    • The Keyboard

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  • Nord Electro 2 rear panel

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    • Connections

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  • Nord Electro 2 block diagram

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• 3. Getting started

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  • Selecting Programs

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  • Octave Shift

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  • Transpose

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  • Setting Velocity Sensitivity for the Pianos

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  • Using a sustain pedal

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    • Setting up the sustain pedal polarity

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    • Setting up the sustain pedal configuration

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  • Using a Rotor Speed switch pedal

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  • Using a control (expression) pedal

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  • Basic MIDI settings

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• 4. Editing Programs

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  • What’s a Program?

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  • Editing a Program

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    • The knobs

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    • The buttons

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    • Selecting instrument (Organ or Piano)

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  • Reverting to the original Program

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  • Storing a Program

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  • Copying Programs

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  • Deleting Programs

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  • Downloading Programs via MIDI

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• 5. Panel reference

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  • The Organ section

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    • The Drawbars

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    • Drawbar presets

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    • User Drawbar presets

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    • Percussion

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    • Vibrato

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    • Manual

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    • Swell control (from expression pedal)

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    • Rotary Speaker

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    • Key click control

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    • Output routing (hard pan)

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  • The Piano section

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    • Type

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    • Presence

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    • Presence with the Mega Clavinet sound

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    • Output routing (hard pan)

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    • Velocity Sensitivity for the Pianos

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  • The Effects section

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    • Modulations

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    • Effects

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    • Overdrive

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    • Rotary Speaker

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    • Output Level

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    • Treble & Bass

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  • The left panel section

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    • Master Level

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    • Navigator buttons

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    • Display

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    • Store

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    • Program buttons

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    • Octave Shift

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    • The Shift button

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  • System functions

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    • MIDI Ch

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    • Lower Ch

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    • Local

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    • Tune

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    • Mem Lock

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    • Transpose

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    • Ped. Pol

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    • Config

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    • Key click control

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    • Output routing (hard pan)

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    • Velocity Sensitivity for the Pianos

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    • Leslie acceleration rate

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    • Dump

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    • Panic

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• 6. Factory Presets and OS

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  • Internal memory

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  • Factory presets

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    • Restoring the factory presets

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  • Downloading Piano instruments via USB

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  • OS upgrades

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• 7. MIDI functions

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  • About the MIDI implementation

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    • Note On/Off

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    • Pitch Bend

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    • Controllers

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    • Keyboard Velocity

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    • Program Change

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    • MIDI Sysex (System Exclusive)

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  • Using Nord Electro 2 with a sequencer

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    • Connections

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    • Local On/Off

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    • MIDI channel

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    • Program Change

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    • Controllers

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    • Some notes about Controllers and “Chasing”

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  • Program and Controller dumps

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    • Receive MIDI Sysex Dumps

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• 8. MIDI implementation

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  • MIDI Controller list

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  • MIDI Implementation Chart

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• 9. History

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  • The story behind the Electro 2 instruments

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    • What is an ‘electromechanical’ instrument?

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    • How does an electromechanical pick-up work?

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    • The Electro 2 organ section

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    • The Wurlitzer EP

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    • The Hohner Clavinet

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    • Book suggestions

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    • Web suggestions

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    • Music suggestions

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• Index

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  • Numerics

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  • A

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  • B

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  • C

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  • D

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  • E

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  • F

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  • H

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  • I

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  • K

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  • L

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  • M

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  • N

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  • O

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  • P

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  • R

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  • S

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  • T

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  • U

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  • V

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  • W

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