Specifications

NORD STAGE Eighty Eight V1.1x 6. The Instruments: The Piano section
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THE PIANO SECTION
The Piano section of Nord Stage contains six Piano Categories, and each Category can contain different
instrument Types. You can freely add new piano instruments via USB using the Nord Stage Man-
ager utility (see “Downloading Piano instruments via USB” on page 65).
Right out of the box, Nord Stage features a fine collection of carefully selected acoustic and electromechan-
ical pianos. A lot of effort was put in to ensure that the play response and sound of the sampled instruments
matches every nuance of the real article. Each piano instrument has been multi-sampled in a vast amount
of levels. That’s one reason why they all sound and feel so authentic.
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Since all piano samples are stored in Flash memory you can easily add and/or replace the stored piano in-
struments with new ones.
When you download Piano instruments, these will always automatically be loaded into the corresponding
Category. The user can select whether to overwrite an existing instrument in this category, or to add it as
a new Type. Thus, the Piano Categories printed on the panel are always correct.
A Program saves Piano instruments by Category and the Type number. If a Program refers to a Piano in-
strument that isn’t currently loaded, i.e. an empty Type slot, the Type display will blink showing the miss-
ing Type number. If this happens, you can either navigate to another instrument Type in the selected
Category and select to use this instead, or use the Nord Stage Manager utility to download an instru-
ment into the empty Type slot.