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3 Assign one of the active instruments to play on the lower Key-
board Zone by holding Shift and then press the KB Zone Select
button in the instrument’s section until only the LO KB Zone
indicator is lit.
4 Assign the other instrument to the upper half of the keyboard.
Hold Shift and pressing the KB Zone Select button for the other
instruments section until both the UP/HI KB Zone indicators are lit.
The lower half of the keyboard will play one instrument, and the
upper half will play the other.
You can also step through the different Keyboard Zone assignments
by double-clicking the KB Zone Select button. This is a convenient
method when you can only use one hand and cannot reach the Shift
button.
Activate all three Keyboard Zones by pressing the KB Zones 3 button.
This splits the keyboard into three zones. Press the Shift + KB Zone
Select button (or double-click the KB Zone Select button) for an Instru-
ment section, to step through the following options:
• LO/UP/HI indicators lit - the instrument will play in all the three zones
1-3.
• LO indicator lit - the instrument will only play in zone 1.
• LO/UP indicators lit - the instrument will play in zones 1 and 2.
• UP indicator lit - the instrument will only play in zone 2.
• UP/HI indicators lit - the instrument will play in zones 2 and 3.
• HI indicator lit - the instrument will only play in zone 3.
• No indicator lit - the instrument will not be controlled at all from the
internal keyboard, but it can be controlled with incoming MIDI. This
alternative is only available when an instrument has been assigned an
individual MIDI channel. The panel controls are however active, you
can still change the instrument’s parameters on the Stage 2’s panel.
Setting split points to change Zone ranges
Adjust the splits for zone 2 and 3 in the following way:
• Hold Shift and press the Set Lo Split button repeatedly. The green
split indicator above the keyboard move between the available splits.
There are splits at C and F in each octave.
• The same procedure is used but with Set Hi Split button, to set the
splits for zone 3.
 When using two zones, the split is set with the Set Lo Split button.
M Keyboard Zone splits are shared between Slot A and B.
Layering instruments
When two or three instruments are assigned the same keyboard zones,
they’re layered, they play at the same time. Combinations of layers and
splits are possible. A piano can be assigned on its own to the Upper
Zone, and “continue” and be layered with an organ up in the Hi Zone.
Another way to layer instruments is to activate both Slots simultane-
ously.
Octave Shift
You can use the Octave Shift buttons to shift the pitch up or down in
octaves, within the instrument’s note range.
Note Range
Each instrument in the Nord Stage 2 has a finite note range:
• The Organ extends one octave below and one octave above an 88
note keyboard range.
• The Piano extends one octave below the 88 key range, but not
above.
• The Synth extends one octave in either direction, just like the Organ.
An instrument cannot be transposed so that non-existing notes would
end up in the current Keyboard Zone. When an instrument is used over
the whole keyboard, you can only transpose a maximum of one octave
up or down.
When you are using splits, if a piano is assigned to a zone with a range
of 2 octaves, the Octave Shift buttons can be used to transpose the
piano up or down. As long as the 2 octave range are within the avail-
able 9 octaves. The whole note range of any instrument, within any set
Zone range, is always accessible.
Down 2 octaves
Down 3 octaves
Up 1 octave
Up 2 octaves
In the illustration above, a piano has been assigned to play in a KB
Zone stretching from middle C4 to C6. Without 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 example you can transpose the piano up
or down two octaves to play any two octave note range from the KB
zone.
PStick & SustPed
These controls are used to set if an instrument (or the Extern section)
should respond to a connected Sustain Pedal and/or to the Pitch Stick
or not.
Hold Shift and press the Sustped button in the corresponding instru-
ment section, o activate the sustain pedal for an instrument. The
Sustped LED is lit when this is turned on. Use the same method to
deactivate reception of Sustain for an instrument section, making the
Sustped LED indicator go off.
Hold Shift and press the Pstick button in the corresponding instru-
ment section so that the Pstick LED is lit, to activate pitch bend for an
instrument.