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SuperStage wrote:I have accidentally overwritten the factory presets when I intended to only SAVE a PROGRAM. I found I need to remember to press ESC to exit out of PRESET select mode before pressing SAVE to save a program. I love the presets, but it does make it more complicated than the NS3. 2 months in, I'm still missing the SONG mode of NS3
Thanks for the warning. This seems to be more complicated than the workflow of the NS3 where saving a program and saving a synth preset are separate actions. Is it possible this is a bug?
No - not a bug. It's more a feature to load a layer preset, edit it quickly, and then (before you exit the "layer preset call-up mode") to safe your changes directly to the layer preset. Actually quite handy, but I also get the difficulty. You have to exit that mode in order to safely safe the program and only the program, not the layer preset.
SuperStage wrote:I have accidentally overwritten the factory presets when I intended to only SAVE a PROGRAM. I found I need to remember to press ESC to exit out of PRESET select mode before pressing SAVE to save a program. I love the presets, but it does make it more complicated than the NS3. 2 months in, I'm still missing the SONG mode of NS3
Thanks for the warning. This seems to be more complicated than the workflow of the NS3 where saving a program and saving a synth preset are separate actions. Is it possible this is a bug?
No - not a bug. It's more a feature to load a layer preset, edit it quickly, and then (before you exit the "layer preset call-up mode") to safe your changes directly to the layer preset. Actually quite handy, but I also get the difficulty. You have to exit that mode in order to safely safe the program and only the program, not the layer preset.
It just takes some getting used to.
On the NS3 you can call up a synth preset and edit it as you are putting together a program, but the program save step won't alter the original synth preset. The NS4 implementation seems odd and problematic. I'm glad Superstage pointed it out, as I'd likely overwrite a few presets before realizing the change in Nord's approach.
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Hello, I found out an interesting and incomprehensible fact for me. It turns out that different versions of the factory settings have different presets. Now I have v.2.0 rev.B. There are 2 options on the nord website factory restore. rev.B and rev.F. I looked at the contents of the rev. F and saw that there are no some presets from my version of rev.B. But there are a lot of new presets and programs. I wonder why nord is changing factory presets? If I want to go back to the factory settings, I won't find many presets and programs there anymore
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Alexandr74 wrote:Hello, I found out an interesting and incomprehensible fact for me. It turns out that different versions of the factory settings have different presets. Now I have v.2.0 rev.B. There are 2 options on the nord website factory restore. rev.B and rev.F. I looked at the contents of the rev. F and saw that there are no some presets from my version of rev.B. But there are a lot of new presets and programs. I wonder why nord is changing factory presets? If I want to go back to the factory settings, I won't find many presets and programs there anymore
Yes, happened in the past on other models too; you can choose which backup to restore or (even better) download both, rename the file as .zip, unzip and then choose individual Programs & Sample from either version
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Alexandr74 wrote:Hello, I found out an interesting and incomprehensible fact for me. It turns out that different versions of the factory settings have different presets. Now I have v.2.0 rev.B. There are 2 options on the nord website factory restore. rev.B and rev.F. I looked at the contents of the rev. F and saw that there are no some presets from my version of rev.B. But there are a lot of new presets and programs. I wonder why nord is changing factory presets? If I want to go back to the factory settings, I won't find many presets and programs there anymore
Yes, happened in the past on other models too; you can choose which backup to restore or (even better) download both, rename the file as .zip, unzip and then choose individual Programs & Sample from either version
I'm trying to build a new Program using presets and save it to an empty slot without overwriting anything, based on the previous discussion. When I exit Preset Select mode, though, saving no longer seems to be possible. So, for example, could someone please get give me the proper steps to save Piano Preset 1:05 as the basis for a new Program G:13, without overwriting the original preset?
jonilikeskeys wrote: ↑13 Jul 2023, 11:32
.. and then use the Nord Sound Manager to delete the old stuff and drag & drop in the factory presets / programs.
NSM will tell you if you have any presets or samples missing.
How to preserve order (location) of the synth presets when re-importing to the synth (not the full restore - I just deleted all the synth presets and want to restore from the synth presets restore zip downloaded from Nord)? There are no ordinal numbers for the presets in the restore zip (only divided by bank folders), and I remember original synth presets locations in the banks are not in alphabetical order. Thanks!
