B-3 Operation Manual
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Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the E-MU B-3 - 64 voice tone wheel
organ sound module. This custom module was carefully engineered to
capture the sound and feel of the original legendary B-3. The rotating
speaker effects can be spun-up and spun-down independent of note-on
events and a single trigger, polyphonic harmonic percussion generator
perfectly simulates the playing behavior of the original. Meticulous
sampling and advanced synthesis technology combine to provide a perfect
recreation of the original instrument.
Product
Description
B-3 contains two user-upgradable sound SIMM sockets, allowing you to mix
and match sound sets according to your needs. New sounds can be added as
easily as plugging in a new 16MB or 32MB SIMM module. Each E-MU
sound set has been painstakingly crafted to be the best of its kind. Samples
are matched across the keyboard, perfectly looped, and rich in harmonic
texture.
B-3 has enough memory for 512 user presets and can hold literally
thousands of factory presets.
(ROM presets are automatically added when
sound SIMMs are installed. As an example, a 32 MB SIMM may contain up to
1024 ROM presets.)
B-3’s Sound Navigator is a major improvement to the
main screen that makes it easy to find the exact sound you want. It’s
powerful, yet simple to use.
The real power and value of B-3 becomes apparent when you want to
customize your own sounds. The extremely flexible yet easy to use, 4-layer
synthesizer voices make it easy to build sounds of any kind. Layers can be
switched or crossfaded using key position, velocity, real-time controllers or
any modulation source. B-3 also contains 50 different 6th and 12th order
resonant & modeling filters which are used to shape and modify the raw
samples.
The 64 modulation sources include three multistage envelopes and two
LFOs per layer, as well as full MIDI control over virtually every parameter.
The digital patch bay, with 24 cords per layer, (and 12 more cords per
preset) lets you connect modulation sources to 64 destinations in any
imaginable way.
Summary of Contents for B-3
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