Instruments and Effects

340 Chapter 22 EVB3
Sustain
Synthesizer players call the time the note takes to fade out after the release of the key
the release time. The EVB3 allows you to control this parameter as well; it’s called
Sustain in the organ lexicon. The three controls allow for individual settings in the
Upper (Up), Lower (Low) and Pedal (Ped) registers.
If you select Smart Mode, playing new notes will cut the sustain (release) phase of
released notes. Normal Mode allows polyphonic sustain phases—all released notes will
continue to sustain. Smart Mode allows long sustain times, even in the bass register,
which would normally cause rumbling dissonances.
Effects
The EVB3 features a three-band equalizer, a reverberation effect, a pedal-controllable
wah effect, and a distortion processor that simulates the sound of an overdriven tube
amplifier. Finally, the signal can be processed by the rotor effect.
Effect Chain
The EVB3’s signal flow is as follows: the organ’s signal runs through the equalizer, wah
and distortion effects. You can choose between four different signal flow routings for
the equalizer, wah wah, and distortion effects in the Effect Chain menu. This treated
signal is then fed into Reverberation and finally passed to the Rotor effect.
A classic B3 patch would be: an EQed organ, plugged into a wah wah pedal, amplified
by an overdriven Leslie. Select EQ-Wah-Dist.
The sound of the overdrive changes if the input signal is being filtered—be it by the
EQ, or the wah. If you patch the EQ before the overdrive, the sound of the overdrive
becomes much more flexible. The output signal of the distortion effect always contains
high frequency content. If you want to suppress these frequencies, the wah wah must
be the final effect in the chain—EQ-Dist-Wah.
If you wish to create a screaming sound (achieved by distorting the wah wah output),
you can minimize any harshness by choosing the Wah-Dist-EQ routing.
Sustain parameters