Nord Stage EX v6.x
6. The Instruments: The Organ Section
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The drawbars of Nord Stage EX
behave similar to their mechani-
cal counterparts, i.e. you “pull
out” the drawbars by pressing
the
L
OWER
D
RAWBAR
buttons
and “push them back in” by
pressing the
U
PPER
D
RAWBAR
buttons. The
D
RAWBAR
buttons
are special in the way that they
auto-increment/decrement the
drawbar value when held. I.e. if
you hold a
D
RAWBAR
button the
corresponding drawbar value
will continue to increment or
decrement (within its range) un-
til you release the button. Each
drawbar represents a harmonic
(sometimes called a partial). In
the figure you can see the pitch
interval among the nine draw-
bars. Note that the
SUB3
draw-
bar actually lies a 5th
above
the
fundamental harmonic. Howev-
er, in most situations it is perceived as sounding
below
the basic harmonic. When you play different
notes on the keyboard, the harmonics are being transposed up or down with the fixed harmonic inter-
vals.
P
ERCUSSION
In the original B3 the Percussion effect is generated by a single en-
velope generator that controls either the 2nd or 3rd harmonic. The
envelope “opens up” for a short moment in the beginning of the
sound when you press the key(s).
• You activate and deactivate the Percussion effect by pressing the
O
N
button.
• The Percussion effect can be set to control either the 2nd (
H
ARMONIC
3
RD
button LED Off) or 3rd
harmonic.
SUB SUB3 FUND 2ND
3RD
4TH
5TH 6TH
8TH
In the illustration above we have chosen C3 as our reference note. The
FUND drawbar is considered the basic (fundamental) harmonic in the
organ sound. The arrows point at the respective note that each drawbar
represents when C3 is our reference note.
