Nord User Forum

[Mooser]

I just got my Nord C-2, and I am, naturally, completely entranced with it. I have an (3)A-100, M-3, M-100 and Leslie 45, 21H and Motion sound Pro-3X, but I may give them all away now. No, really, I might!

My question is this: I feel the 126 programs in the C-2 should be grouped by organ type, and within those groups, arranged generally from softest to loudest. Can this be done using the "Sound Manager"? (That would be, after all, just sound management, in my opinion)

I don't want to replace or even edit the factory programs (yet), just arrange them in a manner which I feel is more suitable, and less prone to calling up an inappropriate program during performance, so that missing a program number by one or tao digits will not produce a thundering pipe organ instead of a reedy Farfisa or smooth B-3.

[Hanon_CTS]

Hello Mooser,
Welcome to the forums!
Congratulations on your purchase!
The Nord Sound Manager Software (NSM) will allow you to move programs around, but isn't structured to make re-organization on that large a scale very easy, but it CAN be done.

You can drag the individual programs up or down the list until you have them in the order that you want.

Hope this helps.
Cheers, Hanon

[Mooser]

Thanks for the reply. It may be a slightly tedious one-by-one procedure, but once I've got it fixed up the way I like, I won't have to do it again.

Of course, when I bought the Nord C-2, I hadn't yet seen the "Hammond" SK2. I mean, it says "Hammond" on it, right there all over it!

[Hanon_CTS]

I hadn't yet seen the "Hammond" SK2. I mean, it says "Hammond" on it, right there all over it!

Hello Mooser,
I'm a bit of a Hammond tonewheel organ purist.
Just because Suzuki bought the rights to use the Hammond name, doesn't make it the legendary tonewheel Hammond, anymore than if Casio bought the rights to the Steinway name, it would make the Privia piano a Steinway.

Cheers, Hanon

[Mooser]

Just because Suzuki bought the rights to use the Hammond name, doesn't make it the legendary tonewheel Hammond

Yes, that was my point, exactly. I can't get over the single set of drawbars for two manuals! Whose idea was that? Talk about a marketing ploy!
The Nord "draw-buttons" take some getting used to, but the U-P-L layout and pre-set function follow the original Hammond idea much better than a single set can.
Having had some experience with Hammonds over the years (since about the mid 60's) I cannot believe the tizzy some people work themselves into over the slight differences in clone-wheel organs, or even the tizzy they work themselves into over the differences between the clone-wheels and tone-wheels. I sometimes wonder if all the different clonewheels vary as much as different Hammonds of the same model, or the different Hammond models and the many different amp set-ups.
Look, when I play my Nord, it operates in a Hammond like way that I am used to, but more important, the audience reacts to the sound and the playing technique (smear, gliss, shimmer, howl, drone, chording, percussion, big, small, animation etc) pretty much as they do to a Hammond. Even, (yes, I know this sounds paradoxical, but it's not if you think about it) and more importantly, if they have never really listened to a Hammond before. And it weighs 36 lbs.
You know, I have my Nord (when it's home) in the same room with my Hammond and Leslie. I have never A-B'ed them, and I probably never will. What, exactly, would be the point? I've got much better ways to drive myself crazy.