Combo Compact Organ
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featured both Piccolo 4’ and either 2-
2
/
3
’ or 2-
2
/
3
’ +2’, thus you have available tone combos not available back in the 1960s.
For the Pink Floyd fan this is also useful, as during Barratt-era Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright is believed to have used
the mkI Duo (2-
2
/
3
’ +2’ mixture), while post-Barratt used a mkII Duo (2-
2
/
3
’).
As well as Pink Floyd, a veritable wealth of other famous fi ngers used an iteration of the Farfi sa organ. The following are
known—or in some cases strongly believed—to have used an organ from the Compact family during their careers: B-52s,
Blondie, Eurythmics, Genesis, The Grass Roots, Green Day, Inspiral Carpets, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jellyfi sh, Philip Glass, Pink
Floyd, Pulp, ? and the Mysterians, REM, Stereolab, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Tangerine Dream.
Combo Compact Organ
features a number of effects available in certain Compacts, Compact Deluxes or Compact Duos:
vibrato, tremolo, percussion, percussion repeat, bass/treble EQ, and reverb.
F/AR external box and spring reverb
The best part of acquiring a Compact Duo for this project is that it includes an original and
increasingly rare F/AR unit, which is required to run a Duo. This small but weighty metal
box includes power circuitry, the EQ section and, most importantly, the exceptionally brilliant
spring reverb. Happily, the F/AR includes an input to allow external instruments to make use of
it. Equally happily, that meant I could produce a convolution reverb. This means that unlike the
ReFill version that used Reason’s RV7000 spring algorithm,
Combo Compact Organ
gives you the
real spring reverb tone of the Farfi sa Compact Duo. This spring reverb is so nice, I have also used it for
the companion
Combo Continental Organ
.
Voice Groups
The Compact features two voice groups: the ten cream Voice tabs and four green Multi-Boost tabs.
Only one group can be
played at a time.
For all tabs the up position is Off, and the down position is On.
To switch between groups, you select the
Multi-Boost Off/On
tab at the right of the Multi-Boost group. Note that this param-
eter uses “next note” behaviour: you won’t hear the groups change until you play a new note.
For using the Voice tabs, set
Multi-Boost Off/On
to the Off position. You can now freely engage any combination of Voice
tabs, as within the group it uses “current note” behaviour, so even when set to off (the up position) they are still internally
active. This means you can turn them on while you are holding down a note, to add the Voice to the current note/s, or turn
it off while the notes are held, to remove it.
Voice tab 1 -
Bass 16’
Voice tab 2 -
Strings 16’
Voice tab 3 -
Flute 8’
Voice tab 4 -
Oboe 8’
Voice tab 5 -
Trumpet 8’
Voice tab 6 -
Strings 4’
Voice tab 7 -
Flute 4’
Voice tab 8 -
Strings 4’
Voice tab 9 -
Piccolo 4’
Voice tab 10 -
2-
2
/
3
’
by default. You can select the
2-
2
/
3
’ +2’
mixture for this Voice by use of the
Mk I/
Mk II
selector on the back panel. Additionally you can use the
Brill
tab to adjust the
fi ltering, making it duller or brighter as required. The
Brill
tab only affects Voice tab 10.
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