From r-gordon-7@alumni.uchicago.edu Fri Aug 05 00:08:29 2005
Subject:Anomaly in XK System Control Panel "Combination Preset Key" Display

With my XK System, the LCD "Control Panel" Display seems to have an
anomaly from what the Owner's Manual (such as it is) seems to say to
expect...

In the "Play" mode's "Digital Display" Page (as distinguished from
its "Bar Display" Page), on the lower left of the LCD Control Panel
Display, the Owner's Manual says the Display is supposed to show the
selected "Combination Preset" Key for each of the "Parts" in the
following order:

Preset Bank - Key on Upper Part / Key on Lower Part

However, on my XK System, the Display instead shows them in the
following order:

Preset Bank - Key on Lower Part / Key on Upper Part

Note, at the top of the LCD "Control Panel" Display, in both "Bar"
and "Digital" Displays, the Display shows the "Drawbar
Registrations" of the Parts in the correct "Parts" order as
described in the Owner's Manual and as shown on the XK3 Control
Panel's permanent labels, i.e.:

Upper [Part] / Pedal [Part] / Lower [Part]

I suppose it doesn't really matter, as when I change the Lower
Preset Key, the LCD Display seems to track the change properly -
just with the "Parts" in the wrong order from what the Owner's
Manual (and from what logic based on how the Upper and Lower Drawbar
sets are shown at the top of the LCD Control Panel Display and how
the Drawbar sets are physically arranged on the XK3) would lead you
to expect...

Anyone else with either the XK System or just the XK3 have a
similarly "inconsistent with the Owner's Manual" order
of "Combination Preset Key" Display? (BTW, My XK3's Software
for "Main", "Information" and "Key Scan" is each Version 1.000)

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Oh, another question... (which probably simply displays the fact
that I am such a relative Hammond "newbie", but here goes...) On
each of the "Combination Presets" for the G# Bank, the Lower Part
selected by the D#, E, F and A Keys, respectively, is totally
silent... (and shows corresponding "O" registrations for all the
Lower Part Drawbars in the "LCD Control Panel Display). Is this
supposed to be the case for these "Combination Presets"? As the
Owner's Manual doesn't show the Drawbar registrations (or any of the
other parameters, etc.) for the various Combination Presets, there's
no way for me to tell if this is correct or not... The G# Key Bank
seems to be the only bank in which any of the Combination Presets
have these "totally silent" Lower Parts. (Note, I've reset the whole
XK System to full factory default just to make sure I haven't
inadvetently changed anything and it's still that way.) Also note,
when I start out with any such "silent Lower Part" "Combination
Preset" and then alter physical position of any of the Lower Part
Drawbars, those "physically altered" Drawbars do sound/play (and he
LED Control Panel Display does properly show the altered registration
[s]), so again, even if something wrong with the
default "Combination Presets", it seems they can be
altered/corrected manually, if i can find out what they are supposed
to be...

rgordon