Specifications

8. Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel setups: Octave Shift NORD STAGE Eighty Eight V1.1x
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OCTAVE SHIFT
Each Instrument section and the Extern section have two O
CTAVE SHIFT
buttons, which can be used to
transpose the notes up or down in octave steps within the total note range of the instrument.
Each instrument in Nord Stage has a finite note range, and only the Synth and the Organ can extend the
range beyond the 88 notes of the keyboard.
Thus, if a piano instrument is set play across the whole keyboard, Octave Shift will not work, as the whole
range is already accessible.
But when you are using splits, e.g. so that a piano is set to play in a Zone with a range of 2 octaves, you
can use the O
CTAVE SHIFT
buttons to transpose the piano up or down to select which 2 octave range of
the available 8 octaves is to play in this Zone. Thus, you can always access the whole note range of any
instrument within any set Zone range.
In the illustration above, a piano has been assigned to play in a KB Zone stretching from C4 to C6. With-
out Octave Shift, the actual note range that will be played will be the same as the set Zone. The dotted
lines show which note range will be played in the set Zone when using Octave Shift. In this case you can
transpose the piano up or down two octaves so you can play any two octave note range from the selected
Zone. No matter what a Zone range is set to you can always reach the entire note range of any instrument.
DUAL PANEL SETUPS
If you press both P
ANEL A and PANEL B buttons so that they both light up, this means that both Panels
are active. One of the Panels is always “edit active”, i.e. it is the panel settings for either Panel A or Panel
B that is currently shown and can be edited. The active Panel is indicated by a blinking P
ANEL
button. To
show/edit the settings for the other Panel press the corresponding P
ANEL
button so that it starts blinking.
When you have both Panels active you have access to two of each Instrument section, and two Effect sec-
tions. Amongst other things, this allows you to play two sounds from each Instrument section simultane-
ously, e.g. a Clavinet and a Rhodes or two Synths. For the Organ section things work slightly differently.
Instead of two completely separate organ sections, you get a Lower/Upper manual split, like on a real B-3.
See “About Split Organ Setups” on page 26.
Keyboard Zone split points are global, i.e. they are the same for both Panels.
Down 2 octaves
Down 3 octaves
Up 1 octave
Up 2 octaves