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Deactivating Foldback of the EVB3’s 16' Drawbar
The Bass pop-up menu (in the Extended Parameters area, accessed by clicking the
disclosure triangle at the lower left of the EVB3 interface) allows you to imitate the
non-foldback bass behavior of the first Hammond organ ever made, the model A. This
model had no foldback for the 16' drawbar in the lowest octave, with the bottom 12 tone
generator outputs available on the first drawbar of the manuals’ bottom octave. On other
console organs, the lowest 12 tone generator outputs are available only on the pedals.
To simulate the behavior of the Hammond model A
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Choose all the way down from the Bass pop-up menu.
Without foldback, you’ll find that the sound is more strident, and similar to the pedal
sound, especially if you’re not using a real Leslie cabinet when playing the EVB3.
Using the EVB3 Preset Keys
The original Hammond B3 is equipped with 12 buttons, located below the drawbars.
These preset keys are laid out like a keyboard octave, but with black keys and white
sharps. They are used to recall drawbar registrations (drawbar positions).
Preset keysCancel key
Morph wheel
The EVB3 default range for preset (registration) keys spans MIDI note numbers 24 to 35
(C0 to B0). This means that the lowest playable MIDI note number is 36 (C1).
You can, of course, transpose the keyboard range in your host application or the EVB3
itself. To put the importance of the keyboard range into a more “real world” context: If
your keyboard spans notes C to C (5 octaves—61 keys), and the Transposition parameter
values of your host application are set to 0, you can play the EVB3 across the entire
keyboard range. See Transposing the EVB3 by Octaves for details on transposing the
keyboard range in the EVB3.
The preset (registration) keys are positioned one octave below this (transposed or
non-transposed) range.
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