Vx - British Combo Organ - Hammond M-SOLO Reference Manual

Vx - British combo organ

This Instrument Type allows you to use the Drawbars to register the sound of a vintage British combo
organ.
To select the Vx Instrument Type, do the following:
Press the TYPE button repeatedly until the Vx LED lights.
You can now use the Drawbars to control vintage British combo organ tones.
The figure below shows how the Drawbars are allocated for the Vx Organ Type.
The type of combo organ replicated by Vx had drawbar-type controls, but they functioned differently
from Hammond Harmonic Drawbars. The first four Drawbars control individual pitches, while the
next three are "Mixture" Drawbars which cause multiple pitches to sound. "II," "III" and "IV" refer
to the number of pitches represented by that Drawbar.
The last two Drawbars control the type of tone produced by the first seven Drawbars. The last black
Drawbar causes pure tones to sound while the last white Drawbar causes brighter and more
harmonically complex tones to sound.
NOTE: The first seven Drawbars WILL NOT sound unless one or both of the last two Drawbars are also
"out." These two Drawbars regulate the overall volume as well as timbre of the total Drawbar registration,
and can be used separately or together.
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