User manual

The Toolbar
The Toolbar gives you direct access to some of the more frequently
used functions in the Nord Sound Manager. Clicking on an icon will
activate one of these functions, and a dialogue will often appear asking
for confirmation or further instructions from you.
The Tabs
Select the partition that you wish to work in with the Tabs. The Piano
tab allows you to change the content of the piano partition, the Samp
LIb tab allows you to access the sample partition and the Program and
Synth tabs allows you to organize the programs and synth sounds. The
individual pianos, samples or programs will be referred to as “sounds”
in this manual and in the application itself.
Press Ctrl+Tab on the computer keyboard to cycle between the
tabs.
The lists can be ordered according to location, name, size, version and
date, in ascending and descending order. Just click on a headline to
select a preferred view.
Partition Memory Indicator
The memory indicator at the bottom of the window indicates how
much memory is being used in the selected partition. The red area
shows the used memory, green indicates space that is available for
new sounds.
Right-Clicking
If you right-click on a sound, a context menu will provide the following
options:
Select in Instrument
This will select the chosen sound in the Manager list, to be instantly
accessible on the Nord Stage 2.
Upload
This will upload the selected sound from the Nord Stage 2 to the com-
puter hard drive to a folder of your choice.
Download
This is only available if you right-click on
an empty location that does not contain a
sound. This allows you to choose a file on
the hard drive, to be downloaded to the
location in the Nord Stage 2.
Rename
This allows you to
rename, and assign a
category to a Program.
Characters supported
are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and a
hyphen (-) and the name
can contain up to 16 characters. Any other characters will not be
displayed in the Sound Manager lists.
M Pianos or samples cannot be renamed, this option will not be
available if you right-click on any of these.
Delete
This will delete the selected sound(s) from the Nord Stage 2 memory.
File Formats
The Nord Sound Manager creates and/or uses files with the Nord
Stage 2, with the following extensions:
• .npno - These are the piano files from the Nord Piano Library.
M The Nord Stage 2 is only compatible with piano files of version 5
or later.
• .nsmp - These are the sample files from the Nord Sample Library.
• .ns2p - These are the Stage 2 Program files.
• .ns2s - These are the Synth sounds.
• .ns2b - This is the extension used for the Nord Stage 2 backup files.
Just as any other computer file on your hard drive, these files may be
renamed, emailed, copied, moved, lost or even stored in a safe loca-
tion if an evil computer crash suddenly decides to take your hard drive
for ride.
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