From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Tue Oct 30 05:04:38 2001
Subject:Re: 9 pedal Drawbars on a Hammond. Which model was that?

Rohan,

Mea culpa. I don't know if any of the Ham-Suz gear supports more than the
standard two drawbars. The specification for the MIDI use shows that they
could, and the faxed copy of the MIDI information that I have did not
transfer through some of the data -- especially, the column headers -- very
well. (They appear to have been in gray.) Since I don't have a Ham-Suz
product at my fingertips, I can't verify anything here. My apologies for
any confusion caused by my assumption.

As in interesting aside, Voce supports 9 pedal drawbars on the V3, and
probably the V5, too. Since I don't play pedals, I never used them as
such, but it was handy to add an extra octave or two of "third manual" keys
on my 88-key Fatar by setting the split point and transpose appropriately.

While we're on the subject of mea culpa, I mistakenly said that the VK-7
supports NRPN for some functions. I have been corrected; it does
not. Yesterday didn't FEEL like a bad day, but it must have been one! ;^)

At any rate, wrong numbers notwithstanding, the Ham-Suz method still seems
to add an extra layer of complexity to the drawbar scheme, in the interest
of saving 17 (rather than 24) MIDI CCs. Voce and KORG both use 18 CCs for
drawbar settings (in Voce's case, it's Main DBs and Aux DBs), and they
never ran out. In theory, it's best to stay away from GM CCs, but in
practice, each keyboard tends to stay on its own channel, so GM
compatibility on a Hammond clone is pointless.

Regards,

-BW

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