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NORD STAGE Eighty Eight V1.1x 8. Keyboard Zones and Dual Panel setups: About Keyboard Zones

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3. To assign the Organ instrument section to play on the lower Keyboard

Zone only, hold down S

HIFT

and then press the KB Z

ONE SELECT

but-

ton for the Organ section until only the LO KB Zone indicator is lit.

4. To assign the Piano instrument to play on the upper half of the keyboard

hold down S

HIFT AND press the ZONE SELECT

button for the Piano sec-

tion until both the UP/HI KB Zone indicators are lit.

Now the lower half of the keyboard will play the organ sound, and the upper

half will play the piano!

To activate all three Keyboard Zones, press the KB Z

ONES 3 button. Now the keyboard is split into three

Zones.

Now if you press the Z

ONE SELECT

button for an Instrument section, you can step through the following

options:

• LO/UP/HI indicators lit - the corresponding instrument will play across all Zones 1-3.

• LO indicator lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 1 only.

• LO/UP indicators lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zones 1-2.

• UP indicator lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 2 only.

• UP/HI indicators lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zones 2-3.

• HI indicator lit - the corresponding instrument will play across Zone 3 only.

ETTING

SPLIT

POINTS

CHANGE

ONE

RANGES

You can set the split points for Zone 2 and 3 in the following way:

Press S

HIFT

and KB Z

ONE 2 button repeatedly. As you can see the green split indicator above the key-

board alternates between the available split points. There are split points at C and F in each octave.

You use the same method but use the KB Z

ONE 3 button to set the split point for Zone 3.

AYERING

INSTRUMENTS

By assigning two or three instrument sections to play the same zones, they will be layered, i.e. play at the

same time. You can freely select which instrument(s) should play for each Zone, e.g. you could have a piano

assigned on its own to the Upper Zone, but have piano layered with organ in the HI Zone.