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7. Performances

What Are Performances?

Performances allow you to call up four Programs at a time in a live situation, or to recall complete setups

when sequencing via MIDI. The Nord Lead 2 comes with 100 Factory Performances in ROM. Some of

these make use of two, three or four slots, while some are single-slot Performances, effectively serving

as extra ROM Patches. Please note:

▼ You can edit the selected ROM Performance as desired, but you cannot save your changes internally.

▼ To save an edited Performance, you need an optional PCMCIA S-RAM card. On a card, there is room for

100 Performances, located after the ROM Performances, and indicated with the digit “1” to the left of the

Bank and Performance numbers in the display.

▼ You can transmit edited Performance data via MIDI Sys Ex, for storage in an external sequencer, etc.

▼ If the Performance contains a Percussion Kit, only the reference to the Kit Location will be saved with the

Sys Ex dump! To include the parameters for the Percussion Kit, you need to make a separate Sys Ex dump

of the Percussion Kit, from Program mode (not from Performance mode).

▼ You can receive Sys Ex data for one Performance at a time into the edit buffer. If you for example use

Nord Lead 2 multitimbrally together with a sequencer, it is often practical to place a Sys Ex Performance

data dump in the beginning of your song, to select sounds, initialize global settings, etc.

The Factory Performances include several life-like drawbar organ simulations, created using a special

“pseudo-additive” synthesis method. Some of the sounds include famous sound artifacts such as “hum”

and “click” as well as rotating speaker effects, accomplished with Nord Lead’s Morph function. Among

the Performances you can also find recreations of over 40 original factory patches from the classic vintage

synthesizer Prophet 5. Sounds and applications are described on page 104.

Later in this text follows a detailed list of what settings are contained in a Performance.

To store Performances you need to have a PCMCIA card inserted (see page 23).

Recalling A Performance

When you recall a Performance, you replace the four current Programs in the slots A to D with the Pro-

grams in the Performance. You also recall other settings as listed in the table later in this chapter.

1. Enter Performance mode by pressing the Performance button.

The display shows the latest selected Performance.

The Performances are organised in 10 Banks, named alphabetically from A to L (the letters I and K are

excluded because they’re hard to write clearly on the display). In each Bank there are 10 Performances,

for a total of 100. If you have a PCMCIA card inserted, the Banks on the card are found after the internal

(ROM) Banks and labelled in the same way, but indicated with a dot to the right of the digits in the dis-

play.

1 2 ... 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 ... 113 114

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