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8. Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel setups: Octave Shift Nord Stage EX v6.x

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OCTAVE SHIFT

Each Instrument section and the Extern section have two OCTAVE 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 EX 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.

You cannot transpose an instrument so that non-existing notes would end up in the current Keyboard

Zone. Thus, when playing over the whole keyboard, you can only transpose a maximum of one octave

up or down. 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 9 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.

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

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 octave

range of any instrument.

DUAL PANEL SETUPS

If you press both PANEL A and PANEL B buttons so that they both light up, this means that both Pan-

els 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

ANEL LED. To show/edit the settings for the other Panel press the corresponding PANEL button so

that it starts blinking.

To disable one of the panels, hold the P

ANEL button for the panel you want to keep active, and press

briefly the P

ANEL button you want to disable.

Press and hold a Panel button and turn the value dial to copy the Panel settings from another Program

to the one currently active.

Down 2 octaves

Down 3 octaves

Up 1 octave

Up 2 octaves