Controls - KEYBOARDPARTNER HX3 Drawbar Expander User Manual

Controls

The HX3 Drawbar Expander has the typical controls of a classic tonewheel organ: two sets of
drawbars for shaping the organ sound, three bass-pedal drawbars, buttons for effects. The
VOLUME knob adjusts the overall volume of all 4 audio outputs.
The left drawbar set acts like the original on the upper manual, the left on the lower manual. For
the pedal, in addition to the drawbars for 16 'and 8' a drawbar for the pedal sustain ("Sustain")
exists.
Instead of rocker switches, the HX3 expander
has easy-to-use buttons, which also display the
settings called up via presets. The rotary switch
for vibrato setting has also been replaced by
three buttons. Another button switches from
vibrato to chorus setting.
 PERCUSSION ON toggles percussion on upper manual on/off. When on, drawbar 1' is
cancelled (see No DB1 @Perc parameter below to change cancelling behaviour). Percussion
is not sounding with each keystroke, but rather if all keys have been released before.
Percussion level may be changed in submenu Percussion Setup.
 PERCUSSION SOFT toggles normal/soft percussion. Drawbar volume is muted in normal
position to emphasize percussion. Muting level may be changed by menu.
 PERCUSSION FAST toggles slow/fast percussion decay between approx. 1 second and 0.2
second.
 PERCUSSION THIRD toggles 2
 VIBRATO offers three settings V1 to V3 (or C1 to C3 when the CHORUS button is pressed).
Vibrato / Chorus is only active when switched to the upper or lower manual.
 VIBRATO UPPER toggles vibrato on upper manual on/off
 VIBRATO LOWER toggles vibrato on lower manual on/off.
 ROTARY RUN toggles rotary motors on/off. Rotary buttons control both internal rotary
simulation as well as a Leslie® speaker connected to 11-pin socket simultaneously. Amp and
speaker modeling remains active when the motors are off. So this is no a bypass function. If an
external foot switch or half-moon switch is connected, pressing the button inverts the function
set with it.
6 HX3 Drawbar Expander
nd rd
and 3 percussion harmonic. No function in H100 mode.