From harjoy@elknet.net Wed May 12 10:39:04 2004
Subject:Re: XK3 at work

Just wanted to comment on whether vel. sensitivity "would be appropriate" on an XK 3 keybed.
Don't forget that with midi you could make use of the XK3 keys for piano gtr, horn, etc and want vel. sens. while you could be using foot pedals and another synth for accompaniment sounds!

An aside on authenticity: Just before WWII there was a Russian factory building farm tractors that was about as large as John Deere's US factory. Turns ou the Russian tractor was largely a copy of the Deere. As a matter of fact they copoied even a cating flaw- now that"s authentic.

But I firmly believe that *some* *authentic* things could be replaced by something better!

Harold
From: M T

>Tony, I don't think that's quite an accurate
statement. The work around for the 9 key contacts are
parameters called "Envelope Attack Rate" and "Envelope
Release Rate". The way it's described in the manual is
"This allows you to set the speed of the volume of the
Drawbars at attack (when you touch the key). The more
the value, the slower it gets. The volume will be
maximum at 0 at the time you touch the key."

This is not a function of velocity. No matter how hard
or soft you hit the key, it's going to sound the same.
What this parameter does is ease in the sound, so to
speak.

>You can really tell the difference if you go in and
set both the attack and release values to "0". The
board, for me, becomes almost unplayable! This
expirament allows you to see what the capabilities of
this parameter are.

>Anyway, I just wanted to make sure no one thought that
Hammond had made a "velocity sensitive" organ to
duplicate the key contacts since that wouldn't be
authentic at all. Instead, they have come up with
something totally unique to the clone world.

(The pedal tone is velocity sensitve, however.)

Mitch



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