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Chapter 15 Vintage B3 400
Set up Vintage B3 for your MIDI equipment
Vintage B3 MIDI setup overview
Vintage B3 is unique among the instruments in that it can be played with three simultaneous
controllers—namely, a MIDI bass pedal unit and two 73-key MIDI keyboards. This mirrors the two
73-key manuals (organ terminology for keyboards) and the 2-octave pedalboard conguration of
the original B3. See Use multiple or multichannel controllers for more information.
Vintage B3 can also be played with a standard 61-key (5 octaves C to C) MIDI keyboard. See Use a
single-channel controller for more information.
Vintage B3 also emulates the B3’s preset keys—the lowest octave of attached MIDI keyboards
can switch between Vintage B3 registrations. This matches the behavior of the original B3, which
features a number of inverted (black) keys in the lowest octave of each manual. These inverted
keys are used as buttons that recall preset registrations (a preset of your draw bar settings). See
Use Vintage B3 preset keys.
For information about setup and use of dedicated MIDI draw bar controllers, see Choose a
Vintage B3 MIDI control mode.
Use multiple or multichannel controllers
By default, Vintage B3 receives the notes for the upper and lower manuals, and for the
pedalboard, on three consecutive MIDI channels, mapped as follows:
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MIDI channel 1: You play the upper manual sound.
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MIDI channel 2: You play the lower manual sound.
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MIDI channel 3: You play the pedalboard sound.
This allows you to simultaneously play Vintage B3 with up to three MIDI controllers. You can
also use a single-manual master keyboard—with dierent keyboard zones, or a keyboard split
feature—that sends data on dierent MIDI channels to address all three Vintage B3 sounds
simultaneously. Each keyboard zone can be transposed independently. See also Choose a
Vintage B3 MIDI control mode. You can use any of your MIDI interface inputs for your master
keyboard or pedalboard. Regardless of the input devices used, the only relevant factor is the MIDI
send channel.
Note: See the user manual for your master keyboard to learn how to set up splits and zones or
how to set its MIDI transmission channel (often called TX Channel).
Set the keyboard mode
There are three keyboard modes: single, split, and multi.
1 Click Main in the control bar, then click the Split button at the lower right.
2 Set the switch to the left of the keyboard in the central display to Single, Split, or Multi.
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Single: Uses the entire keyboard. You can only play the upper sound.
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Split: Divides the keyboard into two. You can play the upper and lower sounds in dierent
keyboard zones.
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Multi: Divides the keyboard into three. You can play the upper, lower, and pedalboard sounds
in dierent keyboard zones.