User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

play the keyboard to hear the change in the sound of the Rotary speaker. If you would

like to be able to control this function with a pedal instead of a button, plug a switch

pedal into the Switch pedal 3 jack.

SW2 turns the Chorus/Vibrato Effect on and off. SW3 lets you choose between 3

Chorus settings and 3 Vibrato settings. When you press the button, it will not light up

but you will see the display change to show you which setting is currently selected. SW2

must be On (lit up) in order to hear the changes.

4. The four buttons above the sliders are used to control the Percussion effect.

Percussion is a characteristic feature of tone wheel organs. ItÕs especially useful while

soloing, since percussion adds an extra plink (actually an extra tone at a defined

harmonic) to the attack.

Percussion is created by a decaying envelope applied to one of the nine drawbars. The

percussion effect is Òsingle-triggered,Ó which means that once itÕs triggered, it wonÕt

trigger again until all keys go up. So if no keys are down, and you play a chord,

percussion gets applied to all notes in the chord (and in fact, to all notes that are

triggered during the short duration of the percussion envelope). Once the envelope runs

its course, any notes you play while at least one key is held down get no percussion.

The button above Slider A turns Percussion On or Off. If it is On, then the other buttons

are used to control the Volume (soft or loud), the Decay of the envelope (slow or fast),

and the pitch (high or low).

Because on a real tone wheel organ, there are only 9 possible pitch sources (one for each

drawbar), when you turn Percussion On, one of the drawbars stops working. On a real

tone wheel organ, this will be the 9

drawbar. So you will notice when playing any of the

KB3 presets that if you turn Percussion On, the mod wheel will no longer function. The

PC2 actually gives you the ability to choose which drawbar is stolen, or even to have no

drawbar stolen. You can set this when you are in the KB3 Program Editor. We will talk