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E5 Hammond B3 percussive attack inhibited?

Postby pbinCA » 24 Feb 2017, 17:00

I am new to both the Nord Electro 5 and the Hammond B-3. I love the percussive attack, but notice that if any key is already pressed, the percussive attack is inhibited. In other words, you only get percussion on a solo key-press. I find that limiting. Is there a way to make the perc sound on every key, regardless of other keys held down? (Pls, don't suggest split keyboard as a solution -- too complicated).
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Re: E5 Hammond B3 percussive attack inhibited?

Postby maxpiano » 24 Feb 2017, 18:48

This is how percussion works on real Hammonds
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Re: E5 Hammond B3 percussive attack inhibited?

Postby pbinCA » 24 Feb 2017, 22:30

Thanks. I'm playing Henry Mancini's "Mr. Lucky", in which I'm using right-hand 4-note cluster chords with the top note as the melody, and left hand doing a bass line. The percussion on the every melody note is desired, but it's inhibited by pressing the chord simultaneously. I tried leaving tiny gaps to re-enable the percussive attack, but that breaks up the smooth flow and feel.

I'm going to try a workaround where I have to punt on the bass part, split the keyboard, and split the right-hand up into a 2-hand pattern.
Just the melody note on the upper part (percussion attack ON), and the 3-note comp on the lower part (percussion attack OFF).

Can anyone think of another way to solve this with the emulated B-3? I'm guessing you would use the two keyboards on a real Hammond the way
I suggested to split the E5 keybd?
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Re: E5 Hammond B3 percussive attack inhibited?

Postby Mr_-G- » 24 Feb 2017, 22:54

Here is a way: sample the sound you like with and without percussion, then make a nsmp file so you can control which key range has the percussion samples by loading them into different places.
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Re: E5 Hammond B3 percussive attack inhibited?

Postby anotherscott » 21 Mar 2017, 05:31

pbinCA wrote:I'm guessing you would use the two keyboards on a real Hammond the way I suggested to split the E5 keybd?

Right. It was also possible to get devices that would make the percussion multi-trigger, but that's not typically what you'd find.
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