Clavia Nord Electro 4HP User manual

User Manual
Nord Electro 4 HP
Nord Electro 4 SW
OS Version 1.1x
Part No. 50385 Copyright Clavia DMI AB
Print Edition F

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2) Keep these instructions.
3) Heed all warnings.
4) Follow all instructions.
5) Do not use this apparatus near water.
6) Clean only with dry cloth.
7) Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance
with the manufacturer’s instructions.
8) Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat
registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including ampliers) that
produce heat.
9) Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or
grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one
wider than the other. A grounding type plug has two blades
and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong
are provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not t
into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the
obsolete outlet.
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particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point
where they exit from the apparatus.
11) Only use attachments/accessories specied by the manu-
facturer.
12) Use only with the cart, stand,
tripod, bracket, or table specied by the
manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus.
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moving the cart/apparatus combination to
avoid injury from tip-over.
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storms or when unused for long periods of time.
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such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been
spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus
has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate nor-
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presence of uninsulated voltage within the products en-
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the apparatus;
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WARNING: To reduce the risk of re or electric shock, do not expose
this apparatus to rain or moisture.
The apparatus shall not be exposed to dripping or splashing and that
no objects lled with liquids, such as vases, shall be placed on the
apparatus.
The maims plug is used as the disconnect device and shall remain
readily operable.
Il convient de ne pas placer sur l´appareil de sources de ammes nues,
telles que des bougies allumées;
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L´appareil ne doit pas étre exposé á des égouttements d´eau ou des
éclaboussures et de plus qu´aucun objet rempli de liquide tel que des
vases ne doit étre placé sur l´appareil.
Lorsque la prise du résau d’alimentation est utilisée comme dispositif
de déconnexion, ce dispositif doit demeuré aisément accessible.
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Additional Safety Information

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1 Introduction
Thank you! .................... 4
About this manual............. 4
Disclaimer ..................... 4
OS and internal memory ...... 4
Factory presets................ 4
Restoring the factory presets ........ 4
OS upgrades .................. 4
2 Overview
Knobs & buttons .............. 5
Knobs .......................... 5
Selector buttons .................. 5
On/Off buttons ................... 5
Shift button ...................... 5
Drawbars ....................... 5
3 Connections
Audio connections ............. 6
Headphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Left Out and Right Out ............. 6
Monitor In ....................... 6
MIDI Connections.............. 6
MIDI Out ........................ 6
MIDI In .......................... 6
USB Connection ............... 6
Pedal Connections............. 7
Sustain Pedal .................... 7
Rotor Pedal ...................... 7
Control Pedal .................... 7
4 Getting Started
About the programs........... 8
Selecting programs ........... 8
Edit a program ................ 8
Selecting pianos, samples .... 8
Using the Organ............... 9
The Rotary effect .............. 9
Memory Protection ............ 9
Storing a program.............10
The Live buffer ................10
Octave Shift ..................10
Adding effects.................10
Activate an amplifier emulation .......10
The Delay......................10
5 Nord Electro 4 HP/SW Reference
Master level knob .................11
Organ section .................11
Organ Model button ...............11
The B3 model ....................11
The VX model ....................11
The Farf model ...................11
Rotary Speed ....................12
Vibrato/Chorus ...................12
Percussion ......................12
Preset/Split .....................12
Additional MIDI keyboard ...........12
The drawbars ....................13
Piano section .................13
Clavinet sound ...................13
Pick-up type .....................13
Pick-up Type Description ...........13
Clav EQ .........................13
Acoustics .......................13
Mono...........................13
Dynamics .......................13
Samp Env .......................14
Piano Type.......................14
Model ..........................14
Program section ..............14
Up/Down buttons .................14
Display..........................14
Store ...........................14
Live Mode .......................14
Panic ..........................15
Instrument selectors ...............15
Shift............................15
Octave Shift......................15
Effects ........................15
EQ .............................15
Effect 1 .........................15
Effect 2 .........................16
Speaker / Comp ..................16
Delay / Reverb....................16
Feedback .......................16
Ping Pong .......................16
Tem po Tap ......................16
Gain............................16
6 The Menus
System Menu ..................17
1 - Memory Protect – On, Off ........17
2 - Output Routing ................17
3 - Transpose ....................17
4 - Fine Tune .....................17
5 - Sustain Pedal Polarity ...........17
6 - Rotor Pedal Polarity.............17
7 - Sustain Pedal Mode.............17
8 - Rotor Pedal Mode ..............17
9 - Ctrl Pedal Type.................17
10 - Ctrl Pedal Mode ...............18
11 - Organ Trig Mode (4 SW only) .....18
12 - Drawbar Speed ...............18
MIDI Menu.....................18
1 - Local Control ..................18
2 - MIDI Interface..................18
3 - MIDI Channel ..................18
4 - Lower Channel.................18
5 - Control Change (CC) Mode .......18
6 - Program Change Mode ..........18
7 - MIDI Split Mode ................18
8 - Dump One ....................18
9 - Dump All .....................18
10 - Send CC ....................18
B3 Menu ......................19
1 - Tonewheel Mode ...............19
2 - Key Click Level.................19
3 - Key Bounce ..................19
4 - Perc. Fast Decay ...............19
5 - Perc. Slow Decay...............19
6 - Perc. Norm Level ...............19
7 - Perc. Soft Level ................19
8 - Perc Drawbar 9 Cancel ..........19
Rotary Menu ..................19
1 - Rotary Model ..................19
2 - Balance Bass/Horn .............19
3 - Treble Horn Speed..............19
4 - Bass Rotor Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
5 - Treble Horn Acceleration .........19
6 - Bass Rotor Acceleration .........19
7 Nord Sound Manager
Nord Sound Manager ............. 20
Nord Sample Editor............... 20
8 MIDI functions
About the MIDI implementation ......21
Keyboard velocity .................21
Program change ..................21
MIDI Sysex (System Exclusive) .......21
With a sequencer..............21
Connections .....................21
Local On/Off .....................21
MIDI Channel.....................21
Program Change..................21
Controllers.......................21
About controllers and “chasing” ......21
Program and CC dumps ...... 22
Sending program dumps .......... 22
Sending MIDI Controller dumps ..... 22
Receive MIDI SysEx dumps ........ 22
MIDI Controller list................ 22
MIDI Implementation Chart......... 23
9 Index
Index ...........................24
Index ...........................24
Nord Electro 4 HP/SW User Manual

Thank you!
We’d first like to thank you for purchasing the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW.
Our goal when we developed the Nord Electro instruments was to
create the best emulations of traditional electromechanical keyboard
instruments on the market, and to make these instruments compact
and lightweight. With the Electro 4 HP/SW we have taken our commit-
ment a step further, by upgrading the organ, the piano and the effects
sections and also by the ability to use sampled instruments from the
Nord Sample Library in the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW.
This allows us to e.g. include some of the fabulous Mellotron sounds in
the factory sound bank. Each and every piano and sample in the Nord
Electro 4 HP/SW can be replaced by you, using the free Nord Sound
Manager application. New pianos and other sounds are found on the
enclosed Nord DVD and on the www.nordkeyboards.com web site.
A recennt addition to the Electro models is the Electro 4 HP with a
keybed that has a weighted hammer action in a very light-weight pack-
age.
No compromises, just a good selection of outstanding, classic key-
board sounds with true feel, from a natural keyboard response to the
authentic sound quality – that is what we have been pursuing during
the development. To make a great tool you have to put all the focus on
a few things and that is exactly what we tried to achieve. We hope that
you will have as much fun owning and using the instrument, as we had
developing it.
About this manual
You are probably very eager to start using your new instrument, and we
sure don’t want to keep you from having fun. We will try to cover all the
essential aspects on how to use the Electro 4 HP/SW in the very first
few pages of this manual. After that follows the reference section where
all the functions are explained in detail.
Disclaimer
All trademarks and brand names mentioned in this manual are the
property of their respective owner’s and are not affiliated or associated
with Clavia. These trademarks and brand names are only mentioned to
describe the types of sounds reproduced by Nord Electro 4 HP/SW.
OS and internal memory
The operating system, programs and pianos and samples in Nord Elec-
tro 4 HP/SW are stored in a Flash memory. A Flash memory keeps the
data also when the power is turned off. Another big advantage is that
you can replace data in the Flash memory at any time. This means that
you will be able to download OS upgrades, pianos and samples and
programs to your Nord Electro 4 HP/SW from a computer. The Nord
Electro 4 HP/SW features a USB port for quick and easy download of
new piano and/or instrument samples.
Factory presets
The program memory of Nord Electro 4 HP/SW consists of 128
programs. In addition there is the Live buffer memory, which will con-
tinuously store any changes as they are made, and remember these
settings after the power is turned off.
All of the 128 factory Programs of Nord Electro 4 HP/SW can be
replaced. To make sure you don’t accidentally overwrite Programs you
want to keep, it’s a good idea to back up your sounds regularly on a
computer using the Nord Sound Manager application.
Restoring the factory presets
The factory Programs are available as Nord Sound Manager backup
files for download at the Nord web site at www.nordkeyboards.com or
on the included Nord DVD.
OS upgrades
The latest OS version for Nord Electro 4 series is available for download
at the www.nordkeyboards.com website.
1 Introduction
4 | Nord ElEctro 4 HP/SW USEr MaNUal oS v1.1x

The front panel of the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW has four main areas,
Organ, Piano, Program 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 head-
phone output. This control is not programmable, that particular func-
tionality 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, B3 and
Rotary menu 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 in the “Program section” chapter on page 14.
The Effect section contains the functions of the effects. Please look at
the “Effects” chapter on page 15 for more information.
The functions and settings of the System, MIDI, B3 and Rotary menus
are conveniently printed to the right on the panel. The menus are de-
scribed in the Menu chapter that begins on page 17.
Knobs & buttons
Knobs
The knobs control the continuously variable pa-
rameters in the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW.
MA parameter value can be totally different from the knob’s physical
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,
B3 or Rotary menus.
Drawbars
The nine drawbars of Nord Electro4
HP/SW 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
settings are shown immediately by the
LEDs.
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