This is potentially user error, but having read my Lead 2x Manual several times and tried without success, I'm getting desperate.
Goal: I'm trying to Save 4 different synth presets to a single 'Performance' set so that I can switch between the sounds on the fly for an upcoming live show I have.
This is what the manual says:
Storing is done identically regardless if you are saving an edited Program or if you are saving from Manual
mode.
Saving a Program will permanently overwrite an existing Program. Be careful so that you don’t accidentally
erase a Program you’d like to keep! However, if you want to restore any of the original RAM factory
programs later on, they can be fetched as standard MIDI files at http://www.clavia.se and downloaded to
the Nord Lead 2X from a MIDI sequencer
1. Press the STORE button. The DISPLAY flashes.
2. Use the UP/DOWN buttons to select a Program number. As you scroll through the memory locations,
you can play and hear the Program currently shown in the DISPLAY. This prevents you from
overwriting a sound that you want to keep. Only Program numbers from 1-3.99 in internal memory
can be overwritten. If you try to save in higher Program numbers, nothing will happen.
3. If you change your mind at this point, press the Slot you want to return to or hold down SHIFT and
press the Manual (PERF. MODE) button to return to Manual Mode.
4. If you decide to go ahead with overwriting the existing Program, press STORE again. The DISPLAY
stops flashing to indicate the Program has been saved.
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RECALLING A PERFORMANCE
When you recall a Performance, you replace the four current sounds in the slots A to D with the sounds
in the recalled Performance. You also recall other settings as listed in the table later in this chapter.
1. Enter Performance mode by pressing the PERF. MODE button. The DISPLAY shows the latest
selected Performance.
The Performances are organised in 4 Banks, each holding100 Performances. The Performances are
named alphabetically from A0-L9 in each Bank (the letters I and K are excluded because they’re hard
to show clearly in the DISPLAY). The Performances in the first Bank there are rewritable and the rest
are in ROM.
EDITING A PERFORMANCE
SELECTING PROGRAMS AS BASE FOR A PERFORMANCE
To replace a sound in a Performance, proceed as follows:
1. Hold down the desired Slot button (A to D). The DISPLAYS shows which Program was used for this
Slot, when the Performance was created. Note that you copy the Program to the Performance. This
means that you’re free to edit and change the original Program (in Program mode) afterwards
without affecting the Performance.
2. While holding down the SLOT button, select a Program for the Slot, just as you would in Program
mode. See page 12.
LAYERING AND EDITING
This is done just as in Program mode. The only thing to note is that when you save the Performance you
save the edited Program(s) “within” the Performance. The original Program that you used as a basis for
the Performance is not affected.
This is not true for Percussion Kits, which are only referenced in the Performances. Any editing done to
a Percussion Kit in Performance mode will affect the “original” Percussion Kit, and all references to it
in other Performances.
SHIFT FUNCTIONS
Again, these parameters are set just as in Program mode. Most of these parameters are also saved with the
Performance as indicated in the table on the next page.
SAVING A PERFORMANCE
To be able to save edited Performances, you have to save it to any of the first 100 Performance memory
locations (A.0-L.9).
1. Edit the Performance as desired.
2. Press the STORE button. The DISPLAY flashes.
3. Select one of the first 100 Performance memory locations, as described above.
4. If you change your mind at this point, press any of the SLOT buttons to abort.
5. If you decide to go ahead with overwriting the existing Performance, press STORE again. The DISPLAY
stops flashing to indicate that the Performance has been saved.
Programs in Performance Slots are actually saved complete with all parameter settings when the Performance
is saved. Percussion Kits, on the other hand, are only saved as references to existing Percussion Kits.
The above point means that there is no need to store the Programs separately. As soon as you save the
Performance, all Programs that it uses are also saved, inside the Performance. This also means that if you
later change any of your Programs, from Program mode, the Programs in the Performances are not affected
in any way.
I am attempting to Save four programs to Performance A0, which the manual states is re-writable. I am attempting to save Preset 63 to slot A, Preset 4.75 to Slot B, and potentially other sounds to Slot C and Slot D. I select Performance mod, I dial the nord into Performance A0, I then Hold down Slot A and dial it to Preset 63. It plays when tested. I then select slot B, and HOld it down and dial up preset 4.75. It plays when tested, and the two layer if desired. I then press STORE. The LCD number display flashes. I then Press Store Again, and it blinks to solid. Yet, if I switch performances to A1 for example and then back to A0, the selections are lost, and somehow Slot B has Preset 75, not 4.75.
Am I doing something wrong? Is the '75' in my performance the same sound and for some reason it's not showing 4.75? It seems like it, but I'm confused.
Any help would be most appreciated. Makes me think I should've gone with the A1 so I could just install patches via usb.