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Voice Mode Legato

In Legato mode you can only play one note at a time, just as if the

Mono mode is active.

If Legato is tuned on, glide is active only when you play legato. You

have to press a new key before you release the previous key to get the

Glide.

If you release the last played key before playing a new key (non-legato),

the new note’s Envelopes will be re-triggered.

Glide

When the Glide knob is set to anything other than zero, glide is acti-

vated, the Glide function makes the pitch “glide” from one note to the

next when playing (this is sometimes called portamento). It operates

in legato and mono mode only. The glide characteristics can be de-

scribed as “constant rate”, which means that the greater the “distance”

between two subsequent notes, the longer the glide time. Turn the

Glide knob clockwise to increase the glide rate.

Unison

The Stage 2 synthesizer oscillator has a couple of “hid-

den” oscillators. The number of extra oscillators varies

with the algorithms, but is usually between two and four.

When you activate Unison, these slightly de-tuned voices

are gradually added to the basic sound for those fat,

classic synthesizer sounds. Note that using Unison does not reduce

the polyphony!

You adjust the number of extra oscillators and the de-tune amount

among the voices by pressing the unison selector:

A setting of 1, 2 or 3 equals a classic dual oscillator de-tuning effect

with an increasing amount of de-tune between the oscillators.

A setting of Multi 1, 2 and 3 introduces a thicker multi-voice de-tuning,

which can create very powerful sounds.

Vibrato

Vibrato modulates the pitch of the oscillator to produce

natural vibrato effects.

There are three basic methods you can use to control

Synth Vibrato which is set using the Selector button in the

Vibrato section:

If aftertouch (A.T) is selected you can control the vibrato by pressing

down held notes on the keyboard.

If DLY1, 2 or 3 is selected, the vibrato will inﬂuence the synth pitch with

an increasing delay in doing so, when a note is played. The amount of

the vibrato if it is delayed, is set in the Sound Menu. Read more about

this on page 42.

When WHL is selected, you control the vibrato amount with the Mod

Wheel.

Storing Synth Sounds

To store a Synth Sound, press Shift and the Store Synth button in the

Vibrato section. The waveform display starts blinking. You can now use

the waveform selector dial to navigate to a memory location where you

would like to store your sound.

To name a Synth Sound you can use the Page buttons to move the

cursor and the Value Dial to select character just as for Programs, read

more about this on page 16.

To conﬁrm your intentions to store the sound, press the Store Synth

button again.

M Press Shift to cancel an ongoing Store operation.

Arpeggiator

If you play a chord and hold the

keys, the notes in the chord will

be played back repeatedly by the

arpeggiator, one after the other. The

parameters govern direction, range

and speed. The arpeggiator can be used with Up, Down, Up/Down or

Random directions in several octave ranges. The tempo of the arpeg-

giated notes is set by the Rate control or by synchronizing the arpeggio

to the Master Clock of the Nord Stage 2.

Press the Hold button if you want the arpeggio to continue even if you

lift your ﬁngers from the keys.

The arpeggio is activated with the On button. The Arpeggio selec-

tor sets the direction. If no LED is lit, the arpeggio will play in the Up

fashion. The other directions are Down (DN), Up and Down (U/D) and

Random (RND).

Press Shift and the arpeggio selector to set the octave range. When no

LED is lit, the range is one octave. Press Shift and the selector to reach

the settings for 2, 3, and 4 octaves.

The Rate knob sets the rate which will be displayed as quarter note

beats per minute (BPM) in the LCD. If the rate is set really high, the dis-

play will indicate this as eight- or sixteen notes of a halved or quartered

tempo. An example of this would be 84:8 which is equivalent to 168

BPM.

Press Shift and the Arpeggio On button to sync the arpeggio with Nord

Stage 2 Master Clock. When the Arpeggio is synchronized to the Mas-

ter Clock, the Rate knob will be used to set the arpeggio’s subdivision

of the tempo of the Master Clock. The Subdivisions are described in

meter: ½ equals half notes at the clock tempo, ¼ equals quarter notes,

1/8 are eight notes etc.. A “T” indicates a meter with triplet feel.

Read more on Master Clock and how the set the tempo on page 18.

Sound Init

To start with a “clean slate” when programming sounds you can use

the Sound Init function. This will initialize the synthesizer to a basic

default setting. This is done by holding Shift and pressing the Arpeggio

Hold button.

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