NORD MODULAR V3.0 Table of contents Table of contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................1 1 Welcome! ...................................................................................... 1 About the Nord Modular system.............................................. 1 About this manual...................................................................... 1 Editor handling definitions in PC and Macintosh.....................................................................1 Reading the manual in Adobe Acrobat Reader..........................................................................2 Windows 95/98/NT4.0 and Mac OS 8.68.6.......................................................................... 2 Clavia on the Internet............................................................... 2 2. Overview ................................................................ 3 Nord Modular Front panel....................................................... 3 Left panel section......................................................................................................................3 Right panel section ...................................................................................................................3 Nord Modular Rear Panel.........................................................Panel......................................................... 4 Nord Micro Modular Front panel ............................................ 5 Nord Micro Modular Rear panel .............................................. 5 3. Getting started........................................................................................................6 6 Editor system requirements ...................................................... 6 Installation of the Editor software ....................................... 6 On PC......................................................................................................................................6 On Mac....................................................................................................................................6 Starting up..................................................................................up.................................................................................. 7 USB MIDI interfaces................................................................................................................7 Multiport MIDI interfaces........................................................................................................7 Sound system............................................................................................................................8 Launching the Editor ................................................................. 8 Help files in the PC version of the Editor............................. 9 Loading a patch from the internal memory........................... 10 Nord Modular........................................................................................................................10 Micro Modular.......................................................................................................................11 Creating a patch from scratch...............................................scratch............................................... 11 Other useful functions ............................................................................................................17 I Table of contents NORD MODULAR V3.0 4. Basic functions ..................................................19 introduction to Nord Modular..............................................................................................19 19 Modules................................................................................................................................. 19 Connections........................................................................................................................... 19 Parameters ............................................................................................................................. 19 Display boxes and graphs....................................................................................................... 19 LEDs ..................................................................................................................................... 19 The patch .............................................................................................................................. 20 Slots (not Micro Modular)..................................................................................................... 20 PatchesPatches.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................2121 Poly and Common Voice Areas ............................................................................................. 21 Create a new patch................................................................................................................. 21 Download a patch to the synthesizer...................................................................................... 22 Store a patch .......................................................................................................................... 22 Add modules to a patch ......................................................................................................... 23 Patch connections.................................................................................................................. 25 Edit parameters in a patch......................................................................................................27 Signals in the patch ..................................................................................................................................28 28 Definitions............................................................................................................................. 28 Audio signals, red connectors................................................................................................. 29 Control signals, blue connectors ............................................................................................ 29 Logic signals, yellow connectors............................................................................................. 29 Slave signals, gray connectors ................................................................................................. 31 Bandwidth considerations...................................................................................................... 31 Experiment ............................................................................................................................ 31 ModulationModulation...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................3232 Modulation inputs................................................................................................................. 32 Mod-amount knobs (attenuators) .......................................................................................... 32 Modulation examples.............................................................................................................33 Maximum modulation........................................................................................................... 36 Knobs and controllers ........................................................................................................................37 37 Assign a knob to a parameter ................................................................................................. 37 The Knob Floater .................................................................................................................. 38 MIDI controllers ................................................................................................................... 39 Morph groups........................................................................................................................................................40 40 Voices, mono- and polyphonic patchespatches............................................................................................................4242 Poly and Common Voice patch sections ................................................................................ 43 The Mono parameterparameter......................................................................................................................................................................................................4444 The KBT parameter ........................................................................................................................................45 45 II NORD MODULAR V3.0 Table of contents 5. Panel reference..................................................reference....................................................................................................4646 Knobs and buttons of Nord Modular.................................... 46 Master Volume.......................................................................................................................46