From garyisanidiot@yahoo.com Mon Mar 25 07:01:40 2002
Subject:Re: Picture of ne BX-3

Mike:

Having owned a Hammond console years back, I can
tell you I played the pedals one time, and that
was when I was in the store playing it before I
bought it. However, I was doing blues and prog
rock, and a bass player was all I needed at the
time.

I've seen several Hammond shops convert extra
25-note pedalboards into MIDI controllers. Seems
to me this would be the way to go. Besides, the
drawbars for the pedals are just 16' and 8', no
percussion or anything. In my opinion (and that's
all it is), this simplified set of harmonics makes
the hammond pedals (not the manuals, I'm talking
just the PEDALS here) relatively easy to copy using
a decent synth.

Speaking of MIDI, I would think that a MIDI pedalboard
would be the perfect way to add pedals to the BX-3. I
haven't seen a manual for it yet, but the CX-3 has
a second set of tone generators that can be controlled
with a separate MIDI device, effectively making it a
2-manual organ; it seems to me that you could use this
feature with a MIDI pedalboard to trigger notes on the
bottom 2 octaves of the lower manual, and have it all.

- Dave

--- AWestb2124@aol.com wrote:
> But Dan That Bx3 really is a beautiful looking
> instreument and I wouldn't mind buying but I
> have to use pedals. I think they should have
> included either the pedal drawbars or a way to
> access pedal tones like the other clones did.
> MikeW.

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