12 May
2009
12 May
'09
9:09 p.m.
On Wed, 13 May 2009 00:53:55 +0200
Nick Copeland <nickycopeland(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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Wow!
Thanks for all the info - I had some idea about some of it, but it's
great to see so much put together.
The whole Hammond setup was once described to me as 'Great sound -
in spite of crap design' :)
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
And then there is the general structure, and
details such as
how the 'percussion' effect (allowing an envolope on some of
the harmonics, very nice and a classical sound if you use the
third) worked. As far as I can remember this was not polyphonic.
So what were the parameters and how was it triggered (by each
new note or only the first after releasing all keys...) etc.
etc.
Percussive was only available on 2 harmonics: 2 2/3' and 4' and only on the upper
manual. The cheesy later models give more options even eventually on all the harmonics as
a type of synth. Lots of softsynth version give this capability too, to avoid talking
about other more important limitations of their emulations: percussion on upper and lower
mauals, all drawbars, even on the pedals.
Percussion bypassed the drawbar, strength is with a 'Soft' switch.
Decay lengths are something like 8 seconds (Long) 250ms (short).
Percussion bypassed the VibraChorus, definite requirement for the well know B3 ping
percussive, it loses a lot if it trills along with the rest of the harmonics. Most
emulations sidestep this routing.
It plays legato style, as you say, first key only and people played it that way. Again,
later cheesy models introduced this per key and a lot of 'softsynths' do the same
but if you listen to keyboardist playing the percussive it can be used a lot more
expresively due its legato trigger - the keyboardist decides when the percussive is heard.