From jake92028@yahoo.com Fri Mar 30 05:52:34 2007
Subject:Re: Short Nord C1 review...


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: uli3355
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [CWSG] Short Nord C1 review...
>
> Since we appear are discussing Clavia's electronic drawbars here,
> could I ask the Clavia-owners how they deal with the issue of
> controlling the SPEED OF CHANGE of the drawbar settings. For me,
it's
> not only the tactile aspect and the ergonomics - what I need is
to
> sometimes change the drawbar settings slowly (while holding a
chord),
> and sometimes fast (think old Santana recordings e.g. "Song of
the
> Wind"). Can this be done with the electronic drawbars? I'd be
> extremely interested in the Clavia stuff if this were possible
but I
> have not been able to coax control of this parameter from the
Electro
> et al. when I played on them. The electronic drawbars have many
> advantages but this issue is make or break for me.
>
> Thanks in advance to all Electro/Stage/C1 owners for replying to
my
> question.
>
> Regards from Southern Bavaria and a great weekend to all!
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, abwdds@ wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 3/29/2007 7:09:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight
Time,
> > djacques@ writes:
> >
> > I'm not gripping because I have nothing else to do. I tried the
> Electro's
> > draw-buttons. They just don't cut it for the way I play. Many
B3
> players
> > just set the drawbars and leave them. For these players the
push
> buttons
> > would not be a problem. However, some prefer to actively
> manipulate the
> > drawbars while playing. There is a tactile feed back when you
grab
> the
> > drawbars that you cannot get when you push a button. And you do
> not have to
> > look down to see where the setting is going to

You can't get a subtle slow change from drawLEDs on the Electro, it's
one tap for one LED change - same speed every time. Sometimes I think
of them like the (really) old style rachet drawbars where you had to
actually pull the drawbar out to the next notch to get one rachet's
worth of drawbar change. I don't have any problem playing the Electro
or drawbars. With the Electro I make my drawLED changes with taps or
hold the button long enough to pull all the way out, and I make lots
of changes during songs, some manually, some presets that are where I
want to go anyway.

I've heard of some Hammond players that just leave the expression
pedal in one position and make all their volume changes with the
drawbars in/out which doesn't seem like a bad idea to me for drawbars.

Wj