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Hello keyboarders. I recently bought a keyboard CASIO CTK-6250. I'm fascinated with keyboard on rock and blues music, and one of my great inspirations is Billy Preston. I would love to sound like him and like other organ players, specifically the Hammond B3 ones. How can I do this in my CTK-6250? Is there some place when I can download a tone that simulates this type of organ? I searched for this and didn't find anything... If it's not possible, how can I create this effect? Thanks in advance, Thiago.

File Name: 9 Drawbar Organ File Submitter: jaspeter File Submitted: 18 Oct 2013 File Category: PX-5S Stage Settings I'm just getting into the Hammond B-3 sound and I was really impressed with the 9 Layer Organ that Jimmyjames posted back in July. I started looking into the way the drawbars worked and found some pretty good pages on the net that have some of the more popular registrations. Unfortunately, you need 9 drawbars to do that and the way they were tied together in the 9 Layer Organ didn't allow you to adjust all of them independently. So, I wanted to build something that would allow me to experiment. This really won't be a performance Stage Setting as much as a "play around with" Stage Setting that you can then solidify into different presets as you find them. I really think that the key to pulling off a B-3 sound will be in presets because there aren't 30-some-odd drawbars on the PX-5S, for good reason! Here are some of the key notes you'll need to be aware of for this stage setting: Drawbars: There are nine "drawbars". On the Hammond, they are organized this way: 16' 5 1/3' 8' 4' 2 2/3' 2' 1 3/5' 1 1/3' and 1'. They are on the PX-5S as follows, respectively: ModWheel, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, K1, K2. Rotary effect: I like being able to experiment with these effects, so I moved them to K3. K4: This controls the volume of the percussion. More on that below. Pedal 1: This switches between 2nd percussion/slow decay and 3rd percussion/fast decay. I didn't think the 3rd harmonic sounded very nice when it suspended for too long, but you can adjust that as you like by editing the Stage Setting parameters. Pedal 2: This turns the percussion on and off. Percussion: I don't have a Hammond B-3 to sit next to, but I do have the internet! I found a good YouTube video in which some of the different sounds and registrations were isolated: . With the laptop plugged into the audio in port of the PX-5S (good thinking, Casio!) I played this video through the same speaker as the keyboard. True to some of the other articles I read, the percussion sounded quite marimba-like, so that's on the percussion channel (zone 3). The way the original organs were built, percussion only happened for the first note struck in a legato passage, i.e. as long as any keys were held down, no more percussion sounded. To duplicate this effect, I created a phrase that plays one single note, and then dummy-fill (with expression controller values) to extend the phrase for awhile. Percussion will repeat if you hold down a note long enough, but at a tempo of 20, it hadn't repeated after 2 minutes of sounding a note. I think that'll do. If you want to bypass this effect and have percussion strike every note, regardless of other keys held down, simply turn off the arpeggio button. You will also need the OrganPercuss phrase file in slot 910 for this feature to work. Click here to download this file

I am trying to recreate the original 1960's Hammond Organ sound as used by Procol Harum on A whiter Shade of Pale. I have been trying various settings and parameters but I just can't get it right. Any help or advice will be most appreciated. PX-560

GREEN ONIONS View File This stage setting is a try to reproduce that Booker T sound used in the famous Green Onions track. I have tuned a bit an old 6 drawbar stage setting uploaded on this forum few times ago. I changed the amp section, some parameters for the overdrive and volume layer. Hope you enjoy it! Stage setting is based on 4 zone: - Z1 and Z2 : HexLayer organ tone - Z3 : another organ tone to improve depth sound - Z4: click organ tone Controls: - Slider 1-6 : drawbar setting - Knob 1 : overdrive gain/level - Knob 2 : reverb - Knob 3 : Low EQ - Knob 4 : High EQ - Modulation Wheel : increase gain for another kind of overdrive, target is Z2 Submitter athomyk Submitted 04/12/2017 Category Organs

Multi Organ View File Sliders 1-4 control volume for 4 overlaid Hammond type organ tones. Zone 1 - Rock Organ 2 Zone 2 - Percussion Organ 1 Zone 3 - Dark Organ 1 Zone 4 - GM Organ 2 (each zone full keyboard) Rotary is OFF for all tones, since I use an offboard rotary sim (H&K Rotosphere). Rotary can be added via Edit-->Tone for each zone. Submitter negriljerry Submitted 03/31/2016 Category Organs

Different sound You must hear the hammond Blues/rock

Good nights. I would like to make a suggestion for Casio product developers, and it's to create a basic keyboard aimed to the kind of people who just wants to play and doesn't need a multi track recorder or rythms at all. That keyboard should be centered on the quality of sounds without needing to have 200 sounds, I mean that with two dozens or so you could do really well (if they're well choosen), and not having features as the rythms or multi track recorder would probably make it cheaper to build. If it were designed retro style, maybe even with real wood (or at least a looking like wood finish) with powerful integrated speakers (20>X>10 W RMS) and with a 5 octaves manual with two sets of drawbars, one like the Hammond B3 from the current CTK7200 series and the other a newly developed one based on (or sampled from) the legendary Vox Continental. Put this together and include some of the sounds of the CTK series like the piano, harpsichord, a couple more organs (a Farfisa, one sounding like Deep Purple's Wring that neck organ, one for church, one for gospel...), strings, brass and a synth and you'll have a winner (you could even reverse the black and white keys colour as in the original Continental, to have a damm sexy winner): Have you, Casio marketers, noticed that actually there's no under 1000 € keyboard offering Vox Continental sounds? That's the keyboard used by The Doors, The Animals, Iron Butterfly, The Monkees and several other classic bands from the sixties and seventies. Korg (the owners of Vox) have their PA50SD which costs around 700 € in Spain and has one Vox Continental sound (called Vox Legend) and that's just ONE sound. For true Continental sounds with the 4 original Vox drawbars you gotta go to Nord and spend a minimum of 1600 €! With the Hammond drawbars you can cover Booker T & the MGs, Jimmy Smith, Procol Harum's Whiter shade of pale, or Gainsbourg's Je t'aime among many other classics (by the way I wonder why there's no preset for that so sought after sounds on the CTK7200 when it could be so easy to have those preconfigured), but you're missing a lot. If Casio could do the same they did for the Hammond like drawbar organ on the CTK7200 for the Vox Continental they will kick Yamaha, Roland and several others out of the under 1000 € market and make history on business industry, Casio will monopolize that classic sixties sounds and be the only one option to choose when looking after it. Just an idea.

File Name: Indonesian Nights File Submitter: jaspeter File Submitted: 07 Jan 2014 File Category: PX-5S Other The attached MP3 is a sample of the tune that inspired me to do this song. I didn't feel comfortable putting it in the "Song Ready" list, since the tune is fairly obscure. I was listening to Tony Monaco - Celebration when this track came on. Due to its lower tempo and cool sound, I wanted to try to duplicate it. This is my take on it, the organ sound is all from this stage setting on the PX-5S (explained below) and the backing track is from my android smartphone running IRealb. This setting simulates a two-manual organ, with the split point being at middle-C. Here are the settings for each manual: Lower - Registration 666000000 (sort of), rotary on (permanently) Upper - Registration 008666000 (sort of), percussion 3rd harmonic, rotary can be turned on and off The tweaky bits: Mod wheel - overall volume S1 - Overdrive S2 - Percussion decay speed S3 - Percussion volume S4 - Lower manual volume S5 - Upper manual volume S6 - Reverb K1 - Rotary Slow rate (not used, since I didn't include a way to switch between slow and fast) K2 - Rotary Fast rate K3 - Chorus/vibrato K4 - Wet/Dry mix Pedal 1 - Percussion on/off Pedal 2 - Upper manual rotary on/off (This seems to take two taps the first time you use it in this stage setting, thereafter it functions normally. I haven't figured that one out yet.) It should operate correctly without uploading the associated arpeggio needed to make the percussion envelope work properly. That still kinda weirds me out, but it seems to work. Click here to download this file