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The Drawbars can also be pressed in or pulled out while you are playing, giving real time
control of the timbre and creation of the most widely varying sounds.
To play with the real Drawbar positions (i.e. not with the Preset settings) press the [UPPER]
and/or [LOWER&BASS] buttons of the PRESET DRAWBARS section. The [UPPER]
allows you to play with the Drawbars associated to the upper manual, while
[LOWER&BASS] will enable the Drawbars relating to the lower manual in addition to the
BASS section or pedalboard (when connected).
4.7 ADDING CHARACTER TO THE SOUND
The OB5 allows you to use 4 types of settings relating to the sound defined by the Drawbars.
This lets you further personalise the timbric character of the sound you are going to produce.
When you press the [SOUND] button on the panel on the left of the manuals, the display
will show the menu of the same name:
The
[SCALING]
field is already selected, so when the [ENTER] or [SOUND] button is
pressed, the display will show:
In this video page, you can use the
Select
parameter and the VALUE buttons to select
the various equalisation curves.
Press [EXIT] and the display will show the
SOUND
menu again.
4.8 ADDING PERCUSSION
Percussion, a typical electromagnetic organ effect, supplies the replica of a harmonic
added to those set using the Drawbars, with rapid start and exponential fading.
Percussion can only be added on the UPPER manual when playing without legato, i.e.
pressing only one key at a time to obtain percussion on all the notes being played.
So if you were to play with legato, the percussion effect would only be provided on the first
note. What’s more, in the original instrument the sound produced by the 1
’
Drawbar used
to be eliminated when the percussion was activated, and the OB5 also reproduces this
feature.
