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The PERC1 Page
The PERC1 Page
Percussion is a characteristic feature of tone wheel organs. It's especially useful while soloing,
since percussion adds an extra "plink" (actually an extra tone at a defined harmonic) to the
attack. You can reach the percussion parameters by pressing the Perc1 and Perc2 soft buttons.
Parameter
Percussion
Volume
Decay
Harmonic
Velocity Tracking
Low Harmonic
High Harmonic
Steal Bar
Percussion
This is where you turn the percussion effect on or off. Percussion is created by a decaying
envelope applied to one of the nine drawbars. The percussion effect is "single‐triggered," which
means that once it's triggered, it won't trigger again until all keys (or whatever you're using to
trigger notes) go up. So if no keys are down, and you play a chord, percussion gets applied to all
notes in the chord (and in fact, to all notes that are triggered during the short duration of the
percussion envelope). Once the envelope runs its course, any notes you play while at least one
key is held down get no percussion. On keyboard models, you can turn percussion on or off by
pressing Assignable Controller Button 5 (Mute button 5).
Volume
This parameter switches between loud and soft percussion settings. The actual amplitude is set
on the PERC2 page. On keyboard models, you can toggle between loud and soft by pressing
Assignable Controller Button 6 (Mute button 6).
Decay
This parameter switches between fast and slow percussion settings. The actual decay rate is set
on the PERC2 page. On keyboard models, you can toggle between slow and fast decay by
pressing Assignable Controller Button 7 (Mute button 7).
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Range of Values
Off, On
Soft, Loud
Slow, Fast
Low, High
0 to 100%
Drawbar 1 to 9
Drawbar 1 to 9
Drawbar 1 to 9
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