Drawbar Auto-Sync
An advantage of Clavia’s virtual drawbar system is the ability to have the virtual drawbars jump to a
pre-programmed set of drawbar positions (organists call this a “registration”) whenever you select a
preset. Now that you have real drawbars, when you call up this preset the virtual drawbars will jump to
whatever registration was stored for that preset, but the physical drawbars of course will not. Imagine
that you have all the drawbars in your DB-1 Drawbar Controller pushed in, and you call up a preset on
your Nord that has an “888888888” registration where all of the drawbars are pulled out. The DB-1
Drawbar Controller normally does not generate any MIDI traffic unless you do something, so the
Nord’s control panel will not reflect the actual positions of your DB-1 drawbars. As you move each of
the drawbars on your DB-1 Drawbar Controller, the Nord’s virtual drawbars will “snap” to the correct
position, and when you’ve moved all of the drawbars the two will be back in sync.
And some folks like that. And it's also possible to use the T
OP
B
UTTON
Send All function to resend
everything at once, described earlier in the manual.
A third option is Auto Sync. You can program the organ preset to resynchronize automatically with the
DB-1 drawbar positions whenever the preset is selected, sorta like the B and Bb presets on an old
console organ.
The DB-1 can remember up to four MIDI Program Changes that you designate as Auto-Sync presets.
These presets are stored by selecting Programs on your Nord while in Learn Mode and with the T
OP
B
UTTON
held down, so the procedure is very similar to how MIDI Channel and the T
OP
B
UTTON
are
programmed:
1.
Press and hold the white P
ROGRAM
B
UTTON
located on the rear panel. Hold this button down
until the LED begins to flash. Release the button. The LED will continue to flash, indicating
that you are in Learn Mode.
2.
Press and hold the T
OP
B
UTTON
.
3.
While holding the T
OP
B
UTTON
, select the desired preset(s) using the Nord’s control panel
4.
Release the T
OP
B
UTTON
5.
Quickly press and release the P
ROGRAM
B
UTTON
. The LED will stop flashing.
Note: if you are using two DB-1 Drawbar Controllers, you only need to perform this procedure on the
Upper Manual Drawbar Controller.
Now when you select the designated preset(s), all of the DB-1’s drawbar positions will be automatically
re-sent to the Nord, effectively re-syncing the Nord with the positions of the physical drawbars on your
DB-1 Drawbar Controller. If you are using a single DB-1 Drawbar Controller to control two organ
manuals, the Upper manual will automatically be selected for you.
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