From dhoelscher@tds.net Tue Jun 18 10:14:46 2002
Subject:Re: Ultimate Hammond Sampler

Not to trivialize the subject, and I really don't mean to speak
blasphemy...but...

How many "Hammond" sounds are there really? I'm gonna guess that there
are somewhere in the range
of 15 to 20. And maybe double that with the addition of percussion,
chorus, and various levels of Leslie distortion.

- Drew

alenhoff wrote:

>
>nine drawbars, each with nine possible settings, she calculates that
>there are 387,420,420 possible drawbar setting combinations.
>
>Now, of course, 888888888 isn't a whole lot different than
>888888887. But, on the other hand, we're typically dealing with two
>keyboards, each of which has 387 million possible settings (not to
>mention different variations with chorus, vibrato, leslie,
>percussion, miking, tone controls, quirks of aged instruments (or
>clones), etc.).
>