From James.eaton@accenture.com Wed Jun 13 01:17:33 2001
Subject:Re: CX3 outputs and split mode

--- In CloneWheel@y..., Bruce Wahler wrote:
<< 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? >>

Bruce - to answer your question (I don't know whether it was
rhetorical or not) - I can think of two valid uses that increase
playability - one of which I have experimented with, and the other I
might still try out.

1) On a Hammond organ, percussion is not routed through the scanner,
so if you want to avoid the not to good on-board chorus/vibrato
(which I don't like as it swirls annoyingly through a Leslie -
continually varying phase rather than discontinous shifted phased),
you can route the organ tone through an outboard scanner i.e.
- homemade using FETs and LC chain
- Native Instruments B4 input mode to the scanner emulator - in a
different (better) league to Roland
- any other flanger box...
and still retain the 'dry' percussion.

I have been experimenting with this - I route the two outputs from
the Leslie connector to a Digitech Quad 4 which adds chorus to the
organ tone but leaves the percussion untouched. There is a bug in
the Quad 4 that thwarted this somewhat but I managed to work around
it and got a reasonable improvement on the internal C3 setting.

2) to equalise/balance the tone of the percussion separately from the
organ sound - the internal settings allow 0-8 increments like the
drawbars, but I find I want 3.5, which Roland doesn't support
internally. Routing percussion separately allows this to be
infinitely variable. You could even put a pot next to the organ to
control this. I haven't done this but you've made me think!!!

However, to get back to the original question, I agree it would be
useful to get separate outputs from each manual so that
chorus/vibrato could be applied independently, but then they would
still have to provide a separate percussion output as well for this
to be useful for option 1 on the upper manual (obviously lower manual
doesn't need separate percussion output).

Cheers

James