From wwood_38478@yahoo.com Thu Jun 30 20:15:56 2011
Subject:Re: Drawbar settings compared with sliders

This may not be much help, but here goes.
The Idea behind the Hammond was to make an "electric/electronic" replacement for the pipe/theater organ, as it would be less expensive than real blown pipes.
All organs were designed to mimic other instruments. Most of us learned to set the sound we wanted more by shape than anything else.
Basic examples;
Flute 008400000 kinda looks like pistol pointing to the right.
Reed family 004676543 like a triangle
Diapason family 008776543 kind of a right angle
String family  004555554 a slight bow pattern.
What is SO amazing to me is that none of the meat and potatoes settings we use are even close: such as 888000000; 888800000; and the dirge in A Whiter Shade of Pale,
688600000. Bottom line is that shape is more important than actual settings. Anyway, some Hammond's had 11 draw bars instead of 9. That brings on even more talk. The VOX organ only had six draw bars and could get very close to the Hammond sound if played through a real Leslie and one didn't require percussion. And after all, that sound we all covet was created on the Hammond/Leslie combination.
W

Walter Wood
United TV Service
501 Poplar St.
Pulaski Tn. 38478

--- On Thu, 6/30/11, rafael2pop wrote:

From: rafael2pop
Subject: [CWSG] Drawbar settings compared with sliders
To: "CloneWheel"
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 11:38 AM


 





Does anybody already tried M-Audio sliders on Oxygen (or Axiom) keyboards?

Realized that a registration like 888000000 is easy to figure out but what about with intermediate stops ? ( i.e. 888002237 )

With sliders there are thirteen stops and can't find any relatioship among 0/9 as in actual drawbars and what's the correspondence with sliders

Appreciate your hints.

Rafael










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