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KEYBOARDPARTNER UG
HX3 Drawbar Expander Version 5
As an option (extended licence required), the new HX3 RealOrgan engine is capable of emulating
all electromagnetic organs including the famous H100, combo organs, concert organs of the 70s
and 80s like Böhm Orchester and Wersi Helios. This implies up to 15 harmonics, up to 12
drawbars per manual with individual mixtures, including phasing rotor (WersiVoice), mechanical
and electronic keying available simultaneously. ADSR envelope available on all drawbars, also
H100 percussion and "Harp Sustain". Various tone generator waveforms selectable, for "cheesy"
combo organs as well as fully fledged concert organs.
Features
 Compact organ emulator with two sets of drawbars plus pedal
 Authentic reproduction of generator, tapering, key contacts, percussion and vibrato by
FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and physical modelling
 Tunable in range of A = 433 through 447 Hz
 Extremely low internal latency of 50 microseconds Key-to-Audio. However, MIDI
transmission delays are about 1 ms per note played.
 Natural key click by "rattling" contacts
 Accurate Rotary simulation with separate 122 amp output
 Dual MIDI IN for 2 separate keyboards or bass pedal
 MIDI OUT sends NI B4® compatible control codes
 LCD display and menu system
 Swell (expression) pedal and footswitch jacks
 Separate outputs for amp and rotary simulation as well as plain organ
 Connector for 11-pin Leslie® Speakers
 USB for MIDI over USB, firmware updates, and parameter editing
 Effects DSP with 3 reverb levels
 24 voices GM Synth
Default MIDI setting is channels 1/2/3 for upper/lower/bass, MIDI CC NI B4 with Sustain on CC
#64.
DC input 9 to 12V, 500 mA min., 5.5/2.1 mm plug, plus on center.
Trademarks Hammond®, B3® and Leslie® belong to Hammond Suzuki Corporation (Japan). Trademark NI B4
belongs to Native Intrumens GmbH, Germany. Product and company names used in this document apply for
illustration and example purposes only. Keyboardpartner is not related to these trade marks in any way.
(Firmware version 5.2)
HX3 Drawbar Expander is a tonewheel organ
emulation with all B3 features in compact
desktop format, creating the legendary
unmatched HX3 sound. Controlled via MIDI, it
offers selectable CC-sets for various
keyboards. Unlimited polyphony, presets,
parameters tweakable by simple menus. In
addition, General MIDI sounds like piano and
strings are available.

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  • Page 1 Trademarks Hammond®, B3® and Leslie® belong to Hammond Suzuki Corporation (Japan). Trademark NI B4 belongs to Native Intrumens GmbH, Germany. Product and company names used in this document apply for illustration and example purposes only. Keyboardpartner is not related to these trade marks in any way.
  • Page 2: Eu Conformity Declaration

    Do not spill liquids or solvents into unit. No user-serviceable parts inside. Refer to qualified technician or service representative if problems occur. EU conformity declaration The producer/distributor KEYBOARDPARTNER UG Entwicklung elektronischer Musikinstrumente Carsten Meyer Ithweg 37, D-30851 Langenhagen info@keyboardpartner.de hereby declares, that the product HX3.5 Mainboard...
  • Page 3 1.0 Jack Connections HX3 Drawbar Expander connectors on back panel, left to right:  SWELL PEDAL ¼” stereo jack. Expression pedal input is compatible with Yamaha FC-7 and similar expression pedals (direct connection preferred for speed/accuracy, but may also be remote controlled by MIDI control change, controller 11). Plug connection: Sleeve = ground / potentiometer start, ring = potentiometer tap, tip = potentiometer end.
  • Page 4: Volume Control

    1.1 Volume Control Output level of all output channels is controlled by Master Volume rotary knob or MIDI CC #7 “Volume”, whichever occurs last. Organ's swell pedal position is controlled by an expression pedal or MIDI CC #11 “Expression”, whichever occurs last. The loudness curve is similar to the swell pedal of a classic tonewheel organ, so expression volume will not reach zero.
  • Page 5: Menu Panel

    3.0 Menu Panel On power on, the presets/drawbar menu is present. Pressing the rotary knob twice briefly will let you return to the presets/drawbar menu from any other menu position. The menu system consists of up to 120 entries, depending on licence. Turn the rotary know to select overall Common Presets 0 to 15.
  • Page 6 3.1.1 Upper Manual Scroll upwards, starting from the preset/drawbar menu, to navigate to percussion, vibrato und drawbar settings for the upper manual. Drawbars settings will be saved as voice presets for the upper manual. 3.1.1.0 B3 Organ Model  Organ Model selects basic organ model 3.1.1.0 H100 Organ Model ...
  • Page 7 3.2 Defaults Group Step downwards to navigate to various default settings; change to desired value by turning incremental encoder knob. Save changes to current overall preset by pressing knob for more than 2 seconds.  ToneTrimPot – mimics TONE pot on simulated AO28 amp; well, a little bit more on high values.
  • Page 8  Lower to Upper +1: Press three keys simultaneously on upper manual while switching SPLIT on to map lower to upper manual up to highest of all keys pressed. Lower notes range is transposed one octave up (useful for left-hand 8’ backing chords on single manual keyboards).
  • Page 9: Factory Reset

    HX3 will refuse to work after 2 minutes. Licences may be re-installed at any time. Please contact KeyboardPartner to obtain a valid licence key. We need your serial number (issued on startup and by HX3 Editor application) to generate new licences for you.
  • Page 10 Programs and complete documentation are available through our wiki pages on http://wiki.keyboardpartner.de/index.php?title=HX3.5_Main_page Join the HX3 community at http://forum.keyboardpartner.de 6. How to … How do I store drawbar settings as preset? Once you have adjusted the drawbars just keep the rotary knob pressed until “Saved to Preset #XX”...
  • Page 11 In addition to that, the HX3.5 preset 0 preserves other parameter settings, which are cannot be set “live” by drawbars or other controls. It also determines the power-up settings. KEYBOARDPARTNER UG Entwicklung elektronischer Musikinstrumente Carsten Meyer, Ithweg 37, D-30851 Langenhagen Web: www.keyboardpartner.de...

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