The Toolbar
The Toolbar gives you direct access to some of the more frequently
used functions in the Nord Sound Manager. Clicking on an icon will
activate one of these functions, and a dialogue will often appear asking
for confirmation or further instructions from you.
The Tabs
Select the partition that you wish to work in with the Tabs. The Piano
tab allows you to change the content of the piano partition, the Samp
Lib tab allows you to access the sample partition and the Program tab
allows you to organize the programs. The individual pianos, samples
or programs will be referred to as “sounds” in this manual and in the
application itself.
Press Ctrl+Tab on the computer keyboard to cycle between the
tabs.
The lists can be ordered according to location, name, size, version and
date, in ascending and descending order. Just click on a headline to
select a preferred view.
Partition Memory Indicator
The memory indicator at the bottom of the window indicates how
much memory is being used in the selected partition. The dark area
shows the used memory, the bright indicates space that is available for
new sounds.
Right-Clicking
If you right-click on a sound, a context menu will provide the following
options:
Select in Instrument
This will select the chosen sound in the Man-
ager list, to be instantly accessible on the Nord
Electro 4 HP/SW.
Upload
This will upload the selected sound from the
Nord Electro 4 HP/SW to the computer hard
drive to a folder of your choice.
Upload To Bundle (Programs)
This will upload the selected program(s) and any piano and/or sample
that this program uses, to a Program Bundle file on the hard drive.
Bundles are explained in greater detail on page 23.
Download
This is only available if you right-click on an
empty location that does not contain a sound.
This allows you to choose a file on the hard
drive, to be downloaded to the location in the
Nord Electro 4 HP/SW.
Replace (Pianos & Samples)
This feature makes it possible to replace a piano or a sample in the unit
with another piano or sample from your hard drive. The process will
update all the programs that used the former piano/sample, to use the
new one after the replacement has been carried out.
Relink (Programs)
Use the Relink feature if you want one or several selected programs to
use another piano or sample instead of the current sound. The sound
in question have to be present in the memory of the Nord unit. Relink-
ing can also be used if a piano or sample is absent in the Nord unit, to
repair the programs that are missing a component.
Rename
This allows you to
rename, and assign a
category to a Program.
Characters supported
are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and a
hyphen (-) and the name
can contain up to 16 characters. Any other characters will not be
displayed in the Sound Manager lists.
M Pianos or samples cannot be renamed, this option will not be
available if you right-click on any of these.
Delete
This will delete the selected sound(s) from the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW
memory.
File Formats
The Nord Sound Manager creates and/or uses files with the Nord
Electro 4 HP/SW, with the following extensions:
• .npno - These are the piano files from the Nord Piano Library.
• .nsmp - These are the sample files from the Nord Sample Library.
• .ne4p - These are the Electro 4H P/SW Program files.
• .ne4pb - The Electro 4 Program Bundle files.
• .ne4b - This is the extension used for the Nord Electro 4 HP/SW
backup files.
Just as any other computer file on your hard drive, these files may be
renamed, emailed, copied, moved, lost or even stored in a safe loca-
tion if an evil computer crash suddenly decides to take your hard drive
for ride.
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