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• Pitchbend Up/Down sliders: Independently set the upward/downward pitch bend
sensitivity in semitone steps. The maximum sensitivity for upward bends is one octave.
The Hammond B3 has no pitch bend facilities. Therefore, use of pitch bend is not
suitable for realistic organ simulations, but it does provide a number of creative options.
Note: If you drag the Pitchbend Down slider to the far right, the tonewheels gradually
slow down until they totally stop—when your keyboard pitch bend control is at the
minimum position. This setting re-creates an effect heard at the end of “Knife Edge” by
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Keith Emerson’s virtuoso Hammond work was recorded on a
reel-to-reel tape recorder that was gently slowed to a total stop.
Logic Pro Vintage B3 Sustain controls
The time it takes for a note to fade out to silence, after the key has been released, is called
the release time in synthesizers. Vintage B3 provides control of this parameter, known as
sustain in organ terminology.
Sustain parameters
• Upper Manual slider: Control the sustain (release) phase of the upper register.
• Lower Manual slider: Control the sustain (release) phase of the lower register.
• Pedals slider: Control the sustain (release) phase of the pedal register.
• Mode buttons (Controls view only): Click to choose one of two sustain behaviors:
• Smart: Cuts the sustain phase of released notes when you play new notes.
• Normal: Allows polyphonic sustain phases. All released notes continue to sustain,
even if new notes are played.
Note: Smart mode allows for long sustain times, even in the bass register, which would
cause rumbling dissonances if you used normal mode.
Logic Pro Vintage B3 Condition controls
Technical limitations of electromechanical draw bar organs, with tonewheels, can cause
some strange tonal artifacts, such as crosstalk. These quirks form an integral part of the
B3’s charm. You can adjust a number of parameters to define the age and condition of your
Vintage B3.
The key contacts of electromechanical tonewheel organs tend to saw a little on the busbar,
thus introducing a short click sound. Corrosion of the key contacts or busbar increases
the length and level of this click. This aspect of the B3 design causes irregular scratching
noises (commonly referred to as key click) when striking and releasing keys. Hammond
fans like these clicking noises because they introduce a transient, percussive quality to the
note.
Vintage B3 allows you to adjust the volume and sound of the key click. The tonal color and
volume of clicks are altered randomly, and independently, from the click on and click off
(release) volume settings.