NORD ELECTRO V1.0x
5. Panel reference: The Organ section
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The drawbars of Nord Electro are represented by buttons and LED chain graphs instead of ordinary me-
chanical 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 be-
have similar to their mechanical
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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ROM
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 in ROM plus a Random setting.
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.
