From goffmac747@aol.com Thu Jan 28 07:05:54 2010
Subject:Re: adding MIDI to Hammond manuals-Clone sequenced tone triggering

I don't think "slow" is the right term. More of how much of the key is
depressed. A B3 player will usually discover this feature and after a while your
playing takes on a new approach to the board and is second nature. It
becomes a massage approach to the board instead of pounding like a piano. Like
playing a guitar, after a while you realize a vise-grip approach limits your
ability to extract useable tones.

There must be a solution out there but technology on organs moves slowly.
Look how long it took Hammond Suzuki to come up with the digital B3. The last
B3's went out of production in the 70's. 2002 was when the new B3 was even
mentioned. And with the demand for organs being what it is, unless you do
the work yourself, you'll be waiting indefinitely specially in the clone
dep't. For $25K you can get that feature now but not in a clone.

I never heard Diversi claim to have this feature on their clones. If they
did have that, then someone should help them get back on their feet again.

Some type of sensor that detects how far down the key is pressed in
percentages is the first hurdle and then some way to convert that info to software.
It can't be an opto device because those collect dust over time and you'll
need to open each key and clean the lenses. Perhaps this problem led Suzuki
to use the tried and true plunger system still on its new B3. Obviously the
more parts that go into a clone drives the price up.

In a message dated 1/28/2010 10:30:34 PM, rockkey@sbcglobal.net writes:

<< A slow key depression would allow the tones to be spaced farther apart
than rapid playing. There would probably have to be a lower limit so you
might not be able to demonstrate the effect like you can on a real Hammond by
very slowly depressing a key, but who plays like that anyway?

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