User manual

Nord C1 Combo Organ The Organ Section
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The Organ Section
The Nord C1 Combo Organ features simulations of three
classic organ models; one tonewheel and two transistor
(Electric-V and Electric-F).
The Organ Section features three main areas for control:
• The Drawbar section is where you set-up the basic
organ sound structure. It is divided into three areas
connected to the
UPPER and LOWER manuals, plus the
BASS PEDAL input.
•The
PERCUSSION area is where you control the percus-
sion effect (available to the Tonewheel organ model
only)
•The
VIBRATO/CHORUS area is where you select the cho-
rus and/or vibrato effect depending on the selected
organ model.
THE DRAWBARS
The drawbars of Nord C1 Combo Organ are
represented by buttons and LED chain
graphs instead of ordinary mechanical
drawbars. This gives you a big advantage:
when you change
PRESET or PROGRAM, the
correct drawbar settings are recalled imme-
diately and shown by the LEDs. In other
words, no need for the regular “trial and er-
ror” method. It’s very easy to get the hang of
changing the drawbar settings in a natural
way with the buttons.
The drawbars of Nord C1 Combo Organ be-
have similar to their mechanical counter-
parts, i.e. with the Tonewheel and Electric-V models you
“pull out” and “push in” the drawbars using the
DRAWBAR
buttons. The buttons are special in the way that they auto-
increment/decrement the drawbar value when held. I.e. if
you hold a
DRAWBAR button the corresponding drawbar
value will continue to increment or decrement (within its
range) until you release the button.
Also, while holding a
DRAWBAR button, you can press its
sibling button to momentarily auto-increment/decrement
in the opposite direction.
With the Electric-F model,
DRAWBAR buttons functions as
switches, toggling each register between on and off.
PRESET BUTTONS
The PRESET buttons lets you change back and forth be-
tween different drawbar set-ups instantly. Changes are au-
tomatically saved and recalled the next time you activate
the same preset.
•The
UPPER and LOWER drawbars have their own set of
preset buttons. Further to storing the drawbar settings,
the
UPPER manuals percussion on/off setting is stored
as well.
•In
PROG mode, PRESET changes will be lost if the pro-
gram is not saved.
THE SPLIT FUNCTION
By activating the LOWER MAN button
you split the lower manual in two sec-
tions at the key of C3. The lower section
is now connected to the
BASS drawbars.
The upper section of the lower manual is connected to
LOWER drawbars as usual.
SELECTING ORGAN MODEL
You select which model to play using
the
ORGAN MODEL button. Only one
model can be used at a time.
•When the Tonewheel model is acti-
vated, the
BASS drawbars control the
tonewheel bass registers.
•When the Electric-V or Electric-F mod-
els is activated, the
BASS drawbars con-
trol the synth bass model.
• When the Tonewheel model is activated you can acti-
vate the Synth Bass model by pressing
SHIFT + ORGAN
MODEL button.