Nord User Forum

Hello everybody,

Owner of an electro 5, I've been spending all morning creating my personal library of programs, to get a good variety of hammond sounds... Nice, but... I just realised that everything I did in the SOUND section of menu (tonewheel type, click volume, horn speed, etc.) has not been saved... It's like you cannot save these fine settings and they affect every single program. Consequently, all my programs sound quite bad now...

Is there a way to save an organ sound with these fine settings from the SOUND menu included?

Hi, and welcome. Those are system settings, they are not stored as part of a given program.

Thx for answering... Means there is no way to save them, accordingly to every sound I create ? That's what I was on my way to think but...I find it also a really weird limitation. Like Nord's engineers telling me : "Look, you can have all these differents B3s in one single keyboard ! But let's make it like if you had only one..."

Yes unfortunately it is pretty much like you say. This issue has been raised before, and by the way the "flagship" Stage series is the same. It would be very convenient (and very easy to implement on Clavia's side) to have per program organ settings. Instead, they are general settings, which means they are shared across all of your programs. Who knows, maybe with a future fw update...

It's really aligned with how organists tick: My real B3 sounds different from any other B3, and I can pick it out on any recording.

So what you do with the Nord is to adapt it to your preferred "signature" sound, and wield that as befits your playing and the sound you've built.

That's inline with the rather limited piano memory, as well: choose your signature weapons, make decisions which ones stay in your arsenal, and get to know them as *your* instrument.

It's in every way a different mindset from, say, a Kronos, or MainStage.

analogika wrote:It's really aligned with how organists tick:...
...It's in every way a different mindset from, say, a Kronos, or MainStage.

I prefer this approach. I know what to expect, when I only use one piano model, and my organ has a consistent flavour. If I need something different, I change my playing, not the instrument.
Neither approach is wrong or right.

There are so many ways to make the organ sound your own outside of the system edits, which are global. Effects, EQ, etc. plus drawbars and your playing style. I'm satisfied with the instrument and all that it offers.

That's why the best solution would not be to make those settings per program, but to let the user choose whether they ought to be per program or global. This is already the case for other settings, and it takes a single added page in the menu. People who like the approach analogika described would put it on global, whereas other on per program.