From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Mon Jun 11 19:39:15 2001
Subject:Re: CX3 outputs and split mode

James,

>The VK-7 does however allow you to route the percussion and main
>organ tone to separate outputs. You need to 'fool' the organ into
>thinking there is a Leslie connected by applying a suitable B+ to pin
>11 (?). You then set "Percussion Direct" to on, and the perc/non-
>perc sounds are available at the Leslie connector pins. This is
>actually explained quite well in the manual which is a credit to
>Roland. In the manual for the XB-2, HS didn't even bother to say
>what the pins were.

Yes, the function you describe is possible, but I can't really think of an
application where the splitting of the percussion and the drawbars really
buys anything, in terms of playability or variety of sounds. Can you? I
can see how splitting the upper and lower keyboards might be useful to some
players; I've always liked the sound of Chorale Leslie in the rhythm part,
with a Tremolo solo on top of it.

My original point, however, was that with modeling, what you see is what
you get. The VK-7 can do a few things that the CX-3 can't, and vice versa,
but neither one can be modified to make up for the missing items, without
access to the source code.

Regards,

-BW

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