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the organ model faithfully reproduces the tonal characteristics of both tone wheel and transistor
organs, with a vibrant Principal Pipe organ simulation added to complete the sonic palette. alter-
ing the sound within the organ section is primarily done through the use of draWBars, whose
settings are stored together with your Program.
PrEsEt 1 aNd 2
For each Program the organ model can hold two different drawbar settings in its memory, graph-
ically visible in the display, selected by pressing PrEsEt 1 or PrEsEt 2 respectively. additionally,
vibrato/chorus and Percussion can be turned on or off with each Preset.
drWB lIvE aNd drWB sYNc
the drWB lIvE option can be used if you would like a particular Program to always use the actu-
al positions of the drawbars. the drWB sYNc command is used for instantly applying the current
drawbar postitions to the active organ preset.
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these options are only present on and relevant to the Nord Electro 5d models.
B3
tone wheel organs use notched steel disks - toNE WHEEls - to produce sine waves, generated
as a wheel rotates at its designated speed close to a corresponding electromagnetical pick-up.
the generated tone, whose pitch depends on the number of notches of that particular disk, is
then transformed and amplified, either through the use of a built-in speaker system or through
an external cabinet depending on the organ model. the details of this construction and all other
aspects of the original design - including its imperfections - are very closely simulated by the B3
model of the Nord Electro 5.
the nine drawbars of the Nord Electro 5 correspond to the available registers on the original B3
model. these are in turn named according to the approximate pipe lengths emulated by its tone
wheels. these ”pipe lengths”, 16’ – 1’ are printed at the bottom of the drawbar section. the 8’
drawbar is sometimes referred to as the fundamental, being the root of the overtone series that
form the basis for the drawbar selections and the B3 sound.
the vibrato and chorus effects of the B3 model use a simulation of the original rotating scanner
based design. Both effects have three intensities to choose from, v1-v3 and c1-c3 respectively.
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