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Drawbars 8-1.ZPF 1.0.0

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 Here's my first upload effort -- a rock organ's lower manual.

 

I have a nice synth which nicely models single-manual clonewheel, which I play in a stack above my new PX-5S. The PX can't match that for organ, but I figured I would take a stab at at least providing a backup (lower) manual functionality.

 

The initial (scrapped for now) trick was going to be to put the first three drawbars on the first slider, since so many registrations build from 888 00 0000.  Then I was going to mix a couple of higher footages -- 1-3/5' and 1-1/3' -- on the 5th slider.  Getting the 16', 5-1/3', and 8' pitches to be operated by one slider is proving to be a challenge, due to limitations in the PX-5S synth architecture.  I'll work on that one again another day...

 

It occurred to me though that Hammond spinets don't even use 16' and 5-1/3' bars on the lower manual, and that I have an extra octave of keys at the bottom anyway, so part way through the exercise I ditched the two lower drawbars.  So for now I offer a fader-to-drawbar mapping of

    8'
    4'
    2-2/3'
    2'
    1-3/5' plus 1-13' mixture
    1' (because lots of organists like that whistle to be separate from the others)

 

Initially, the mixture played too many major chords when I played LH bass, so I used the wonderful per-hexlayer key mapping to get the 1-3/5' sound to disappear about 1 octave below middle C, and to get the quint stops and 1' to play a little more quietly.  This allows some nice bright RH comping and non-dissonant LH bass.

 

This "lower manual" uses neither percussion nor C/V, but it does use Overdrive rotary.    The Mod wheel is mapped to overdrive level.  Pedal 2 is toggles fast/slow rotating speaker.  There is an editable, but non-modifiable, key click.


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