Nord User Forum

How do you guys structure programs on you Nord Electros? The board comes with a lot of programs, but they are shovelled in in no particular order which I find confusing. Of course setlists makes this problem less critical, but I still think it's nice to have the programs structured in some kind of order.

I have successfully implemented this structure which might be an inspiration for others:

Bank 1: acoustic pianos, from pos. 25 with an extra layer
Bank 2: electric pianos, from pos. 25 with an extra layer
Bank 3: pos. 1-9 clavinets, pos. 10-19 harpsichords, rest of bank unused
Bank 4: Hammond organ
Bank 5: Other organs
Bank 6: analogue synths and other synth-ish stuff
Bank 7: stringed instruments
Bank 8: blown instruments

This structure makes it a lot easier for me to find a useful program for a given situation.

I am a rather new user of the ne5d 61 and I like the direct access to sound paremeters and the really amazing quality of sound.

But for me the original "layout of programs" is rather chaotic as it is so hard to find useful programs of some specific category. Therefore I did a similar restructuring of the programs. But I left one bank completely empty in order to be able to rearrange programs more easily without fear of overriding some useful program (:-).

I like the sounds much more than those of my Kurzweil PCLE6 but the Kurzweil has a much better way of accessing sounds by grouping these to useful categories like organ or brass etc. A button press opens the list of all sounds of a category. This or a similar pattern could be implemented by Nord in a future version of the Nord Electro! That would brimg the ne5d 61 to the olymp of usability!

I hope some people at Nord read this forum

I see the point in leaving one bank free in order to ease the rearranging process. For me the process was quite chaotic and it took several iterations before I was happy with the structure.

Since there's no direct access to banks, I use bank 1 for my top 50 sounds, organized into little consecutive subgroups by type. Then banks 2 and up are somewhat like Groovy's setup, but a bit more compact. 2 is pianos is all type, 3 is organs of all type, 4 is pads/strings/orchestral, 5 is synths and splits/layers. As of now there's not much in 6, nothing in 7, and bank 8 is for transposed or otherwise tweaked copies of programs for use in Setlists, when needed.