CLAVIA DMI AB CLAVIA NORD Stage 2 EX Compact [32/101] The piano section

6. The Instruments: The Piano section Nord Stage EX v6.x

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THE PIANO SECTION

The Piano section of Nord Stage EX contains six Piano Categories, and each Category can contain

different instrument Types. You can freely add new piano instruments via USB using the Nord

Sound Manager utility (see “Nord Sound Manager” on page 72).

Right out of the box, Nord Stage EX features a fine collection of carefully selected acoustic and elec-

tromechanical pianos. A lot of effort was put in to ensure that the play response and sound of the sam-

pled instruments matches every nuance of the real article. Each piano instrument has been multi-

sampled in a vast amount of velocity levels. That’s one reason why they all sound and feel so authen-

tic.

ABOUT THE PIANO INSTRUMENTS

Since all piano samples are stored in Flash memory you can easily add and/or replace the stored piano

instruments with new ones, supplied free from Clavia. The size of the available memory for the piano

samples is approx. 256 MB.

When you download Piano instruments, these will always automatically be loaded into the corre-

sponding Category.

A Program saves Piano instruments by Category and the Type number. If a Program refers to a Piano

instrument that isn’t currently loaded, i.e. an empty Type slot, the Type display will blink showing

the missing 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 Sound Manager utility to down-

load an instrument into the empty Type location.

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