5. Panel reference: The Organ section
NORD ELECTRO 2 V2.0x
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The drawbars of Nord Electro 2 are represented by buttons and LED chain graphs instead of ordinary
mechanical drawbars. This gives you a big advantage: when you change presets or Programs, the correct
drawbar settings are recalled immediately and shown by the LEDs. In other words, no need for the regular
’trial and error’ method. It’s very easy to get the hang of changing the drawbar settings in a natural way
with the buttons.
The drawbars of Nord Electro 2
behave similar to their mechani-
cal counterparts, i.e. you “pull
out” the drawbars by pressing the
L
OWER
D
RAWBAR
buttons and
“push them back in” by pressing
the
U
PPER
D
RAWBAR
buttons.
The
D
RAWBAR
buttons are spe-
cial in the way that they auto-in-
crement/decrement the drawbar
value when held. I.e. if you hold a
D
RAWBAR
button the corre-
sponding drawbar value will con-
tinue to increment or decrement
(within its range) until you release
the button. Each drawbar repre-
sents a partial. The numbers
printed below each
D
RAWBAR
LED
C
HAIN
have a history. Orig-
inally, the B-3 was created to
mimic a church organ. The num-
bers on the B-3’s drawbars re-
ferred to pipe sizes on a church organ. That’s why it, for example, says 16’, 5 1/3’ etc. It corresponds to
the church organ’s pipe length in foot. In the figure above you can see the pitch interval among the nine
drawbars. Note that the second drawbar from the left actually lies a 5th
above
the basic partial. However,
in most situations it’s perceived as sounding
below
the basic partial. When you play different notes on the
keyboard, the whole partial “package” is being transposed up or down with the fixed intervals.
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Below the
U
PPER
D
RAWBAR
but-
tons are printed 8
drawbar presets
plus RND (Ran-
dom). Press
S
HIFT
+ the corresponding
U
PPER
D
RAWBAR
button to select one of these presets. There are 8 different
drawbar presets plus the ‘Random drawbar settings’ function. The Random function generates a new ran-
dom preset every time you activate it.
In the figure above we have chosen C3 as our reference note. The 8’ drawbar
is considered the basic partial in the organ sound. The arrows point at the re-
spective note that each drawbar represents when C3 is our reference note.
