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The front panel of the Nord Electro 3 has four main areas, Organ
PianoProgram and Effects . We’ll familiarize ourselves briefly with 
the panel here and describe the functions in detail in the following 
chapters .
On the left part of the panel is the Master Level knob, the organ 
model selector
 and the Rotary Speed section . The Master level 
controls the entire instruments output level at the two output jacks and 
the headphone output . This control is not programmable, that particular 
functionality is instead available in the effects section with the Gain 
control . 
The Organ section is lit and active when the Organ selector in the 
Program area is activated . 
Moving towards the middle of the panel, the Piano section behaves 
just as the organ . The controls are lit when the Piano selector is active .
The Program section contain the parameters and functions that are 
used to select and store programs, to set the System, MIDI and Sound 
functions and to select the instrument to be used with the Organ or 
Piano selectors . We’ll describe the functions in this area in greater detail 
starting at page 14 .
The Effect section contains the functions of the effects . Please refer 
to page 15 for more information .
The functions and settings of the System, MIDI and Sound menus are 
conveniently printed to the right on the panel . 
Knobs & buttons
Knobs
The knobs control the continuously variable pa-
rameters in the Nord Electro 3 .
A parameter value can be totally different from the knob’s physical 
 
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position when you load a Program. As soon as you start turning 
the knob, the value will ‘snap’ to the knob’s physical position.
Selector buttons
Selector buttons are used to activate one setting 
in an array . Selector buttons have a set of round 
or triangular LEDs to indicate the current setting . 
Press the button several times to cycle through the 
possible options . 
Holding Shift and pressing a selector button (with the exception 
 
of the Type button) will cycle through the settings in a counter 
clockwise fashion.
On/Off buttons
On/Off buttons are used for activating a parameter 
or a group of parameters such as effects .
Shift button
Some buttons have a secondary function, which 
will be available if you hold down Shift while 
pressing the button . The name of the secondary 
function is printed below the button . Shift is also 
used together with the Up/Down buttons when 
you want to change a setting in the System, MIDI 
or Sound menus . 
Drawbars
The nine drawbars of Nord Elec-
tro 3 are represented by up/down 
buttons and LED chain graphs 
instead of ordinary mechanical 
drawbars . This gives you a big 
advantage; when you change 
presets, the correct drawbar set-
tings are shown immediately by 
the LEDs .
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