User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

give you the maximum amount of leakage. Try changing the amount and playing some

notes to hear the difference.

9. Press the >> button again. This last parameter, Amplitude, gives you an overall

volume adjustment for the program.

10. Now press the Envelope button. In a KB3 program, this menu is used for controlling

the Key Click, Amplitude Envelope, and Percussion.

The first parameter is the Keyclick parameter. On a real B3, there is a slight clicking

sound that happens when you press each key. On the PC2, you can turn this On or Off.

Press the >> button to get to the KeyClick Volume parameter. This obviously allows you

to control the amount of clicking you can hear. (KeyClick volume is also scaled by the

drawbar and expression pedal settings.)

11. The next two parameters control the Envelope settings for attack and release. The

Normal settings are slightly smoothed and emulate a real B3. You can also set them to

harder attacks that give you an extra clicking for the attack and/or release of the keys.

12. The rest of the parameters in this menu deal with 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 of individual notes. When you play more than one note simultaneously, only the

first note you play will trigger the envelope of the percussion tone, though notes played

shortly afterwards will also be affected by this envelope. When you play chords, all of

the notes played simultaneously will get the percussive effect (provided percussion

hasnÕt already been triggered).

The first four parameters correspond to the settings of the zone buttons. Just as with the

Chorus/Vibrato and Leslie Slow/Fast parameters, pressing a button will change the

value of the matching editable parameter, and vice versa. These including the switch to

turn Percussion On or Off, setting the Volume to Loud or Soft, setting the Decay to Slow

or Fast, and choosing between a High and Low pitch for the percussion.

The PC2 also gives you additional control of the exact amounts of Amplitude and

Decay for the Percussion. Following the first four basic Percussion parameters, there are

four sets of three parameters. There are four possible combinations of Volume and

Decay: Loud/Fast, Loud/Slow, Soft/Fast, and Soft/Slow. As you scroll through the

parameters, you will see the top line change to show you which combination you are

editing.

For each combination, you can set three parameters. Level sets the amount of amplitude

for the percussion. Decay sets the rate of decay. Volume Adjust allows you to adjust the

amplitude of the organ relative to the amplitude of the percussion effect. Try changing

these three parameters to hear the difference. Make sure that you have the proper

combination of Volume and Decay turned on with the zone buttons that match the

combination you are currently editing.

Press the >> button enough times to scroll through all the Volume and Decay parameters

and you will come to the Percussion Pitch parameters, which are the last ones in this

menu.

For the pitch of the percussion, you can choose any of the pitches assigned to the

different drawbars. There are two parameters, Low Harmonic and High Harmonic,