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PIANO
ON/OFF AND LEVEL
The Piano section is turned On or Off by pressing its ON button. The
LEVEL knob controls the volume of the Piano sound.
OCTAVE UP/DOWN
Use OCTAVE UP (Shift + Equalizer) to transpose the Piano section up by
one octave (+12 semitones) and OCTAVE DOWN (Shift + Pedals) to trans-
pose down by one octave (-12 semitones). When assigned to the entire
keyboard it can be transposed one octave up or down. When a split is
active the available transpose values will vary, but always provide access
to the entire range of the Piano.
SUSTAIN AND VOLUME
SUSTAIN activates any attached sustain pedal, such as the Nord Triple
Pedal, for the Piano section. Read more on how to configure an at-
tached pedal in the Menus chapter, on page 22.
VOLUME assigns an attached control pedal as volume control for the
Piano section.
Both the sustain and volume pedal can be active at the same time,
indicated by both LEDs being lit.
ABOUT THE PIANO SOUNDS
The Pianos in the Nord Piano 4 are organized into six categories. Each
category can contain several instrument models. New piano sounds can
be downloaded from the www.nordkeyboards.com website and added
to the Nord Piano 4 by using the Nord Sound Manager.
Right out of the box, the Nord Piano 4 features a fine collection of care-
fully selected acoustic and electric pianos, digital piano sounds and
piano layers. A lot of effort was made to ensure a nuanced response
and sound, matching the original models as closely as possible.
The available memory size for piano sounds is 1 Gigabyte.
M When you download piano instruments with the Nord Sound
Manager, these will always automatically be placed into their corre-
sponding category.
A program “knows” which piano to use by referencing to the category
and the model number. If a program references a piano that isn’t cur-
rently downloaded onto the Nord Piano 4, the display will read “Piano
not found”. If this happens; either navigate to another instrument
model from the same or another category (using the Piano Select dial)
and select to use this piano instead, or use the Nord Sound Manager
application to download the missing instrument to the Piano 4.
ABOUT PIANO SIZE
Nord Piano Library sounds come in up to four different sizes. Below is
an overview of how they differ in functionality:
Sml Med Lrg XL
Stereo sampled
3 3 3 3
Detailed velocity mapping
3 3 3 3
String resonance for middle range
3
String resonance for entire range
3 3
Fully mapped keyboard
3
Small (Sml) piano files use the least amount of space in the piano mem-
ory as they do not contain any pedal-down String Resonance samples
at all.
The Medium (Med) versions include pedal-down String Resonance
samples for the important middle region of the range.
The Large (Lrg) versions have the pedal-down String Resonance sam-
ples all across the keyboard.
Many pianos are also available in an Extra Large (XL) version. These are
“fully mapped” across the keyboard, meaning that each key on the Nord
now matches its exact equivalent on the original instrument. This natu-
rally imposes a substantial increase in size.
PIANO INFO
Pressing PIANO INFO (Shift + On) will display some additional info about
the currently selected model, such as its version number and its exact
size.
PIANO SELECT
CATEGORY AND MODEL
Use the PIANO SELECT dial to choose which piano sound you want to
use. These are the six categories into which all piano sounds are placed: