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The Nord Stage 2 features three organ models, all digitally modeled; a
tonewheel/B3 organ and two transistor organs (Vox and Farfisa) .
The Organ section features three main areas:
• The Drawbar section where you set-up the basic organ sound .
• The Percussion area is where you control the percussion effect (avail-
able to the B3 organ model only) .
• The Vibrato/Chorus area is where you select the chorus and/or
vibrato effect depending on the selected organ model .
Drawbars and buttons
The drawbars on the Nord Stage 2 are represented by buttons and
LED chain graphs instead of ordinary mechanical drawbars . This gives
you a big advantage: when you change preset or program, the correct
drawbar settings are recalled immediately and shown by the LEDs . It’s
very easy to get the hang of changing the drawbar settings in a natural
way with the buttons .
The drawbars behave similar to their mechanical counterparts . On the
B3 and Vox models you “pull out” and “push in” the drawbars using the
drawbar buttons .
The buttons are special in the way that they auto-increment/decrement
the drawbar value when they are held down . If you hold a drawbar
button the corresponding drawbar setting will continue to increment or
decrement (within its range) until you release the button .
The drawbars can be Morph controlled, if you want to make dra-
matic changes with for example the Wheel or a control pedal.
While holding a drawbar button, you can press its sibling button to
momentarily auto-increment/decrement in the opposite direction .
With the Farf model, drawbar buttons act as switches, toggling each
register on or off .
Selecting The Organ Model
You select which model to use with the Organ Model button . Only one
model can be used at a time in a Program .
The B3 Model
The B3 model is based on a digital model of the classic electro-
mechanical tonewheel organ . This simulation utilizes innovative and
advanced methods to capture every nuance of the original sound, here
are some examples:
• An extremely accurate digital model of the original chorus and vibrato
scanner .
• Modeling of the individual random contact bounces for each har-
monic .
• Modeling of the unique frequency characteristics of the built-in pre-
amplifier, which forms the “body” of the sound .
• Simulation of the energy robbing on the tone wheels that results in
the typical “compressed” sound .
• Authentic tuning of the tonewheels according to the original design .
• Extremely fast keyboard response .
• Full polyphony .
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