1. INTRODUCTION | 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 5
Thank you! ........................................................................................................5
Features .............................................................................................................5
Nord Online ......................................................................................................5
About the User Manual ..............................................................................5
Reading the manual in PDF Format ...................................................................5
Restoring the factory presets.............................................................................5
OS upgrades.....................................................................................................5
Free sounds ......................................................................................................5
Disclaimer..........................................................................................................5
2OVERVIEW......................................................................................... 6
The Electro 6 panel ......................................................................................6
Organ section – page 10 ...................................................................................6
Piano section – page 14 ....................................................................................6
Program section – page 17 ...............................................................................6
Sample Synth section – page 20 .......................................................................6
Effects section – page 21 ..................................................................................6
3GETTING STARTED................................................................. 7
Hooking it up...................................................................................................7
Panel controls .................................................................................................7
Dials and knobs.................................................................................................7
Buttons .............................................................................................................7
The Shift button.................................................................................................7
Soft buttons ......................................................................................................7
Programs...........................................................................................................7
Select a program...............................................................................................7
List view .............................................................................................................8
Edit a program................................................................................................8
Select a new piano sound .................................................................................8
Turn off Memory Protection......................................................................8
Store a program.............................................................................................8
Live Mode .........................................................................................................8
Activate effects...............................................................................................9
Activating the Rotary Speaker............................................................................9
Create a split....................................................................................................9
Assign the Piano to the upper zone ..................................................................9
Set the Sample Synth to the lower zone ............................................................9
Load a Sample ...............................................................................................9
Set up a Split cross-fade (Split Width)...........................................................9
Create a two manual B3............................................................................9
4ORGAN.................................................................................................10
On/Off, Level and Zone Select.........................................................................10
Octave Up/Down.............................................................................................10
Sustped And Ctrlped.......................................................................................10
Drawbars and buttons..............................................................................10
Selecting an Organ model ...............................................................................11
The B3 model................................................................................................11
B3 drawbars....................................................................................................11
Percussion ......................................................................................................11
Key click control ..............................................................................................11
The Vox model..............................................................................................12
Vox drawbars ..................................................................................................12
Vibrato ............................................................................................................12
The Farf model..............................................................................................12
Farf registers ...................................................................................................12
Vibrato ............................................................................................................13
Pipe Organs...................................................................................................13
Pipe 1..............................................................................................................13
Pipe 2..............................................................................................................13
Pipe 1&2 Chorus .............................................................................................13
Pipe 1&2 registers ...........................................................................................13
Preset................................................................................................................13
Manual Organ ...............................................................................................13
Dual Organ .....................................................................................................13
Edit Lower Manual...........................................................................................13
Rotary Speaker ............................................................................................13
5PIANO.....................................................................................................14
On/Off, Level and Zone Select.........................................................................14
Octave Up/Down.............................................................................................14
Sustped and CtrlPed.......................................................................................14
About the Piano sounds..........................................................................14
About Piano size .............................................................................................14
Piano Select...................................................................................................15
Category and model........................................................................................15
List view ..........................................................................................................15
KBD Touch......................................................................................................15
Piano Info ...................................................................................................15
Mono...............................................................................................................15
String Res and Soft Release..................................................................15
String Resonance............................................................................................15
Soft Release....................................................................................................15
Equalizer .........................................................................................................15
Piano EQ Settings ...........................................................................................15
Acoustic Piano EQ Settings.............................................................................16
Electric Piano EQ settings................................................................................16
6 PROGRAM........................................................................................17
Store ..................................................................................................................17
Storing a program ...........................................................................................17
Naming a program (Store As...) .......................................................................17
KBD split..........................................................................................................17
Keyboard Split settings ..................................................................................17
Choosing a split position.............................................................................18
Split Width settings.....................................................................................18
External KBD to Lo..........................................................................................18
Shift / Exit button.........................................................................................18
Live programs ...............................................................................................18
Transpose On/Set.......................................................................................18
Program Buttons.........................................................................................18
What is a program?.........................................................................................18
Prog Init...........................................................................................................18
Program dial...................................................................................................18
Program List, Abc and Cat ..............................................................................19
Numeric Pad Navigation mode ........................................................................19
MIDI LED indicator......................................................................................19
Page buttons.................................................................................................19
Organize...........................................................................................................19
Enter the Organize view...................................................................................19
Swap programs or pages................................................................................19
Move a program or page.................................................................................19
7SAMPLE SYNTH.........................................................................20
On/Off, Level and Zone Select.........................................................................20
Octave Up/Down.............................................................................................20
Sustped and Ctrlped .......................................................................................20
