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DCP Productions'

"B's Knees"

classic organs soundbank

for the Yamaha Motif XS XS Rack

OWNERS MANUAL

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the DCP productions "B's Knees" Classic
Organs soundbank for the Yamaha Motif XS synthesizer/workstation.
This soundbank utilizes the Motif XS internal WaveROM and
requires no external samples, therefore, the installation of extra user
RAM in Motif is not required.
It is recommended that you purchase a volume pedal for your Motif
XS to use these organ voices most effectively. The organ was the
original "synth", and it was first used to replace the orchestra in
churches where a real orchestra was either unaffordable, or would
not physically fit in the church due to space limitations. The use of the
pedal to create "volume swells" was an integral part of early organ
techique and still is today.
Bs Knees was the very first third-party soundbank available for the
Motif family of synth workstations. The XS version of Bs Knees
represents a significant improvement over previous versions of the
library. Rotary speaker sound, scanner vibrato, percussion trigger
behavior, noise, leakage, keyclick sound and behavior, and
tonewheel character are now more authentic, and several of the
voices feature additional drawbars (up to 8), taking advantage of the
XS 8-element architecture and new organ sample waveforms.

Some Organ History

The huge pipe organs used switches (or "tabs") to activate


combinations of pipes, which would simulate brass, reed, flute, and
string sounds. The Hammond electronic organ used a series of
drawbars to control the sounds, the 16' drawbar corresponding to the
16' pipe, the 8' drawbar corresponding to the 8' pipe, and so on.
Basically, the Hammond electronic organ produced sine wave tones
which when combined in different configurations created more
complex timbres. To try and put it simply, the even numbered
drawbars were used to create fundamentals and the odd numbered
drawbars added overtones, more or less.
The Hammond organ had other peculiarities in its design which
contributed to the famous Hammond sound still used in popular
music today, decades after its invention. Inside the Hammond are 96
notched "tonewheels" of different shapes and sizes which spin at a
certain speed within a magnetic field. The rotating tonewheels create
an electric current in a coil, much like a vibrating string on an electric
guitar creates a current in an electric guitar pickup (see illustration
below).

Unlike a modern synth, the Hammond organ was basically an electromechanical device. The combination of the spinning tonewheels,
motors, magnetic fields and wires produced a particular background
noise called "leakage", which was something like white noise with
metallic overtones. The keyboard mechanism used contacts which
when dirty produced an audible "click" when being played. This
"keyclick" sound became part of the desirable Hammond "vibe" as
well. A percussive bell-like overtone (called "percussion", naturally)
was added to later model Hammonds and was used by Hammond
players to accentuate the sound of the organ.

LESLIE SPEAKER
The final part of the Hammond organ sound was (and still is) the
Leslie rotating speaker cabinet. The organ was hooked up via a multipin cable to the Leslie cabinet, which was about the width of a kitchen
stove and two thirds as high as a refrigerator (although smaller
models were built as well). The signal from the organ is fed to an
amplifier which in turn feeds two speakers a woofer, pointed
downward towards the bottom of the Leslie cabinet and into a rotating
baffle called a rotor, and a smaller hi-frequency speaker upward
towards the top of the cabinet, into a rotating twin-horn assembly
(looks like a propeller) called a horn.

LESLIE SPEAKER CABINET

Using a footswitch or switch connected to the organ itself, the player


could vary the speed of the horn and rotors from slow to fast and
back to slow. And the truth of the matter is that the Leslie cabinet
(invented by a man named Don Leslie) was designed to keep the
organ from sounding too static and boring.
The first Hammond organ, the model A, was introduced in the 1930's
by its inventor, an engineer named Laurens Hammond. Ironically
Hammond didn't play the organ himself, as he wasn't a musician. The
Hammond Model B was introduced in 1955, but was basically the
same organ as the Hammond A, with a different cabinet. The
Hammond B, in all its incarnations (B, B2, and B3) was followed by
the Hammond C3, M3, L100, and others. However, it was the
Hammond B3 that gained the most popularity and is still the most
widely sought organ sound.

In the mid 1970's the last of the original Hammond B3's was built.
Since then, a number of "B3 wanna-be's" or clonewheel organs
have been designed, built and sold to musicians. These are all
digitally-controlled keyboards, most with wood cabinetry that mimics
the original B3's look. The first Hammond B3 soundalike was Korg's
first CX3, introduced in the early 1980's. It was later discontinued but
a "new" CX3 was introduced by Korg for the new millennium.
Roland's first B3 wannabe was the VK7, and the Hammond-Suzuki
company (owned by Suzuki) produced the XB and XK series organs
to address the demand for the B3 sound. Currently Hammond-Suzuki
markets a new B3 which looks exactly like the original B3 and uses
digital modeling to reproduce the electromagnetic B3 tone.

A REAL B3
Has two 61 key keyboards, called manuals. Each manual is
controlled by a row of nine drawbars, labeled 16, 5 1/3, 8, 4, 2 2/3,
2, 1 2/3, 1 1/3, and 1. (see picture below).

Each manuals drawbars are pulled out to varying degrees and in


various combinations to produce different organ sounds.

The Motif XS would need nine elements per voice to allow all nine
drawbars to be represented (plus an additional 4 to include keyclicks
and percussion). Since the XS has only 8 elements, some Bs
Knees voices include up to 8 drawbars but no voices include all 9.
To conserve polyphony in Performance and Song/Pattern Mix modes,
there are many Bs Knees voices which consist of just 2 to 4
elements. Thus, the voices in Bs Knees could be thought of as
emulations of Hammond B3 presets featuring the drawbar settings
appropriate for those presets.

TO LOAD THE VOICES:

FROM THE DOWNLOADED ZIP FILE TO USB DEVICE (JUMP


DRIVE or FLASH DRIVE):

CAUTION: Before you load Bs Knees into your Motif XS,


MAKE SURE you have backed up any data you want to
save onto a USB storage medium (and your computer).
Loading Bs Knees will overwrite the data that exists
in the Voice and Performance User 3 banks.
1. Insert your USB device into your computers available USB slot. Its icon
should appear on your desktop.
2. Navigate to the Bs Knees Motif XS folder and double-click on it to open
it.
3. Navigate to the folder called Bs Knees XS ALL File and double-click to
open it.
4. Copy the file called BsKnees.X0A to your USB devices icon (by either
dragging the file directly to the icon, or going to your file menu and
choosing Copy and To and selecting the USB device as your
destination).
5. When the file has copied completely to your USB device, properly eject
the USB device and insert it in the slot labeled TO DEVICE on the rear
panel of your Motif XS. You will see a screen message that says
Connecting to USB device.
6. Press the FILE button on the front panel of the Motif XS. Use the cursor
buttons to move up to the top of the screen so that the Device field is
highlighted and turns blue-green. If necessary, turn your jog wheel to the
right until you see the name of your USB device in the field. This will
indicate that your USB device has been selected.
7. Using the cursor down buttons, cursor down to the first named folder in
the display and then turn the jog wheel to further move to the file called
BsKnees.X0A. The file name will highlight in blue-green.
8. Using the cursor buttons, cursor down to the field marked Type and
make sure it is set to all.
9. Press SF2 LOAD. Then press the YES button on your XS.
10. The Bs Knees library will load 128 voices to your VOICE User 3 bank
and 8 performances to your PERFORMANCE User 3 bank.
11. To select the first voice, press the VOICE button, then the User Bank 3
button, and then button A1 to begin.

FROM THE DOWNLOADED ZIP FILE TO USB CD DRIVE:

CAUTION: Before you load Bs Knees into your Motif XS,


MAKE SURE you have backed up any data you want to
save onto a USB storage medium (and your computer).
Loading Bs Knees will overwrite the data that exists
in the Voice and Performance User 3 banks.
1. Connect a USB CD-ROM drive to your Motif XS To Device slot located
on the rear panel of the Motif XS. Power up the drive. You will see a
message in the XS display that reads Connecting to USB device.
2. Insert a blank CD in your computers CD drive. Its icon should appear on
your desktop..
3. Navigate to the folder called Bs Knees XS ALL File and double-click to
open it.
4. Copy the file called BsKnees.X0A to the CD (by either dragging the file
directly to the icon, or going to your file menu and choosing Copy and
To and selecting the CD as your destination).
5. When the file has copied completely to your CD, rename the CD to
something you want (like Motif XS stuff), properly eject the it and insert it
in the CD-ROM drive connected to your Motif XS.
6. Press the FILE button on the front panel of the Motif XS. Use the cursor
buttons to move up to the top of the screen so that the Device field is
highlighted and turns blue-green. If necessary, turn your jog wheel to the
right until you see the name of your CD in the field. This will indicate that
your CD has been selected..
7. Using the cursor down buttons, cursor down to the first named folder in
the display and then turn the jog wheel to further move to the file called
BsKnees.X0A. The file name will highlight in blue-green.
8. Using the cursor buttons, cursor down to the field marked Type and
make sure it is set to all.
9. Press SF2 LOAD. Then press the YES button on your XS.
10. The Bs Knees library will load 128 voices to your VOICE User 3 bank
and 8 performances to your PERFORMANCE User 3 bank.
11. To select the first voice, press the VOICE button, then User Bank 3
button, and then button A1 to begin.

IF YOU HAVE A MOTIF XS RACK:


YOU MUST USE THE MOTIF XS EDITOR TO LOAD THE SOUNDS.
TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CONNECTYED THE EDITOR TO THE RACK
PROPERLY, CONSULT THE DOCUMENTATION THAT CAME WITH THE
EDITOR. BELOW ARE EXCERPTS FROM THAT DOCUMENTATION:
1. Change the mode to the Voice mode by clicking the [Voice] indication (at
the top left
of the display).
If the MOTIF-RACK XS has been connected to the computer properly and the
MIDI Port (page 40) has
been set properly, starting the MOTIF-RACK XS Editor will set the
[ONLINE]/[OFFLINE] indication to
[ONLINE], meaning that the settings of the MOTIF-RACK XS Editor and the
MOTIF-RACK XS instrument
are synchronized with each other. In this case, the Auto Sync window is called up
automatically via this
step 1, making step 2 is unnecessary. Go to step 3.
2. Click the [OFFLINE] to call up the Auto Sync window if the
[ONLINE]/[OFFLINE]
indication is set to [OFFLINE].
3. On the Auto Sync window, set communication-related parameters such
as Input Port,
Output Port and Device Number in the Data Port section, then set the
direction of Data
Auto Synchronization (Global, Current and Voice) in the Auto Sync Setting
section.
When you want to use the settings on the MOTIF-RACK XS itself as starting data
for editing, set the
boxes of Global, Current and Voice in the Auto Sync Setting to on so that the
data flows from the
instrument to the computer. To use the settings on the MOTIF-RACK XS Editor
as starting data, set both
Global, Current and Voice to the opposite, so that the arrow indicates data flow
from the computer to the
keyboard. For details, see page 40.
PROCEDURE FOR SELECTING AND LOADING THE SOUNDS IN BS
KNEES TO YOUR XS RACK:

1.Launch the XS Editor, either within Studio manager, or within


Cubase if you are using a version of Cubase. Make sure your

connections are set up properly ( refer to the documentation for the


XS Editor for further info on connection setup).
2. When you go to FILE > select IMPORT >.
A screen pops-up that allows you to click on the Open Folder icon
and browse your computer.

On a Windows computer you set the "FILES OF TYPE" option so


that you can search for files of type: "Motif XS All (*.x0a)"
On a Mac computer you set the "ENABLE" option so that you can
view "Motif XS All (*.x0a)" files.
Locate and select the file called BsKnees.X0A, which is located
within the Bs Knees Motif XS ALL File folder included in the
download.
3. This will populate the left side of the IMPORT window with a list
of the Voices within that ALL data file - which you can look at by
"Category" (A.Piano, Keyboard, Organ, Guitar, etc) or by "Bank"
(USER 1, USER 2, USER 3, DRUM USER)
4. You can then select the entire USER 3 folder, for example, on the
left and select the USER 1 folder on the right of the screen (which
represents their current internal USER bank...
5. Double click IMPORT and the Voices will be bulked to the target
location.
6. The Motif XS and the Motif-Rack XS share System Exclusive ID, so
you can bulk data between the two but in order to transfer
PERFORMANCES it is not direct at all. There is not a PERFORMANCE
mode as it is in the keyboard version...
Libraries that contain Performances will not load the Performances
directly, as there is no Performance mode on the XS Rack.
Libraries that employ user arpeggios will not load arpeggios to the
rack XS, as it is not capable of importing user arpeggios.

About the voices


There are 128 voices and 8 performances in this soundbank. All but
two voices are Hammond B3 recreations or B3 "soundalike"
recreations (such as the Korg CX3 and Hammond XB2). The "H"
section (voices 113 thru 128) contains a collection of "best of" voices
from the other banks, with the difference that voices 113-127 have
control of Leslie speed assigned to aftertouch. The last voice, H16
No Leslie does not have the Leslie effect, so that you may use it if
you are running your Motif XS into an external rotary speaker cabinet.

SLIDER CONTROLS
Some Bs Knees organ voices consist of 8 elements, most consist of
fewer than 8 elements. Each elements volume can be controlled via
its corresponding slider. You can adjust the organ sound this way,
similar to how you would move the drawbars on a real Hammond
organ.
CAUTION - MOVING SLIDERS TOO FAR UP MAY CAUSE THE
SOUND TO "OVERLOAD" OR CLIP BECAUSE YOU ARE SETTING
THE VOLUME OF THE UPPER DRAWBARS TOO HIGH!
If a slider controls an element that contains a sound other than a
drawbar (such as keyclick or percussion) then moving that slider up
and down raises or lowers the level of that sound.
To restore the original settings for a voice, re-select it. For example, if
you are on voice A1, select voice A2, then select voice A1 again..

PITCH BEND, MOD WHEEL, RIBBON CONTROLLER


The pitch bend controls the pitch of Bs Knees voices. The mod wheel
controls Leslie speed (slow to fast or fast to slow). The ribbon
controller is not assigned in the Bs Knees voices.
ASSIGNABLE FUNCTION SWITCHES
In most Bs Knees voices, Assignable Switch 1 controls
vibrato/chorus on/off. Assignable Switch 2 will usually be inactive,
except in the case of some split voices (left hand bass/upper
manual voices, or double-manual split voices).
All special assignments or notable voice characteristics will be
included in the information for each voice.

EFFECTS ROUTINGS
In almost all cases the sound of the organ is fed first thru the amp
simulator (Insertion A) where the amount of distortion drive can be
adjusted and either tube or solid-state amplifier character can be
added. Then the sound is fed from there to the rotary speaker effect
(Insertion B). This simulates the routing in a "real-life" situation where
the signal from the organ is first fed through a pre-amp/amp which
then drives the Leslie speakers.
In some voices there is no amp simulator engaged, and the effects
routing is organ sound to rotary speaker first (Insertion B), then to the
equalizer (Insertion A). The roatry speaker (Leslie) is always Insertion
B.
ADJUSTING THE LESLIE EFFECT

You can even adjust the rotary speaker (Leslie) effect for each voice
according to your personal taste. Here's how:
1. Call up a Bs Knees voice.
2. Press EDIT and F6 (EFFECT).
3. Press SF3 (InsertionB) to access the Leslie parameters page.
On the left side of page 1 of this display, you will see:
"Speed Control - sets the default speed for the Leslie, either slow
or fast.
Drive Rotor sets the depth of the rotor (rotating baffle in the
lower portion of a Leslie which the woofer or low end speaker is
fed to).
Drive Horn sets the depth of the horn (rotating speaker
assembly which produces the highs)
Rotor/Horn Balance sets the balance between the highs and
lows (the horn and the rotor).
Mic L-R Angle - adjusts the angle of the "virtual microphones"
used to pick up the Leslie cabinet's sound. Values closer to 0
produce a narrower image with more pronounced highs, values
closer to 180 produce a wider, more diffuse image with more low
frequency content.
Slow-Fast Time of R sets the rate at which the rotor goes from
slow to fast speed.
Slow-Fast Time of H sets the rate at which the horn goes from
slow to fast speed.
On the right side of page 1 of this display you will see:
Rotor Speed Slow - Rotor slow speed setting.
Horn Speed Slow - Horn slow speed setting
Rotor Speed Fast - Rotor fast speed setting
Horn Speed Fast - Horn fast speed setting.
EQ Low Frequency - adjusts the Leslie Equalizer's low
frequency (bass) setting.
EQ Low Gain - adjusts the Equalizer's low frequency amount.
EQ High Frequency - adjusts the Equalizer's high-frequency
(treble) setting.
EQ High Gain - adjusts the equalizer's high frequency amount.

MORE NOTES:
SPEEDS: Setting the horn or rotor speeds to values that are too
high will result in rotary speaker sounds that are less
authentic/realistic.
EQ: In most cases it is better to reduce the EQ Low Gain setting
to make a sound that is brighter.
AMP/DISTORTION: In organ sounds that employ an amp
simulator feeding the rotary speaker, setting the drive parameters
too high can result in an ugly fuzzy, buzzy, or clipping sound. The
amp simulator settings in Bs Knees have been carefully designed
to provide optimal realism and overdrive tone in most cases it is
not necessary to adjust the amp simulator/distortion drive
parameters.

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PRESS VOICE BUTTON, THEN USER BANK 3 BUTTON, and then press A1 to
begin.

A1 - THE B3 - Basic "all around" Hammond B3 sound with 7


drawbars and percussion.
A2 - Leakage - Characteristic sound of Hammond
with"leakage"noise caused by tonewheel/magnetic field interaction.
A3 Whistle Vibrato - Hammond sound with emphasized "whistle"
caused by spinning horn and rotors in Leslie cabinet.
A4 - 16-8-4-2 - Hammond organ with 16', 8', 4' and 2' drawbars pulled
out.
A5 - 16-4-2-1 - Organ with 16', 4', 2' and 1' drawbars out.

A6 Chorus Vinrato 1 - Full organ sound with chorus vibrato


switched on. Third harmonic percussion is engaged.
A7 Chorus Vibrato 2 - Same as A6 but without percussion.
A8 Purple Smoke - Classic organ sound from Deep Purple's
"Smoke On The Water" song. Jon Lord, Deep Purple's organist,
actually used a Hammond model M organ and fed Leslie cabinets
driven by guitar amp heads. He had the Leslie "braked", so the rotors
wouldn't spin unless he kicked the Leslie into high speed. In this
voice the Leslie is set to a very slow speed but not entirely stopped.
A9 - Thank You - organ sound from Led Zeppelin's "Thank You" song
on their second album, Led Zeppelin II.
A10 Ladies Man - "Ladeez, if any of you out there are not too
skanky and weigh less than three hundred pounds" if you
remember that comedy bit from Saturday Night Live, this was the
type of organ sound that accompanied the bit. It's actually based on
the organ sound from Booker T.'s version of "Green Onions".
element 4 = percussion level; element 5 = note-on keyclick level;
element 6 = note-off keyclick level.
A11 - Pale Shade - Organ sound similar to the one heard on Procol
Harum's classic rock hit, "A Whiter Shade of Pale". 8-drawbar (8
element) sound.
A12 Tube Drive 1 - Hammond B3 thru slightly overdriven, gritty
sounding Leslie.
A13 - GimmeSome - Heavily distorted Hammond organ sound from
"Gimme Some Lovin" the old Spencer Davis Group hit (note: Steve
Winwood sang the lead). Quite possibly the most wildly distorted
Hammond organ sound ever heard on a record.

A14- Green Eyes - Percussion-heavy sound from Sugarloaf's hit,


"Green-Eyed Lady". Plonk single bass notes, lower the first drawbar
amount and turn up the reverb for the most authentic recreation of the
sound.
element 6 = note-on keyclick level; element 7 = note-off keyclick
level; element 8 = percussion level.
A15 - Jazz Fast - Four-drawbar jazz organ sound with Leslie set to
fast, no percussion.
A16 - Jazz Slow - Similar to Jazz Fast but with slow Leslie at default.
B1 - Yes Organ - Not Rick Wakeman's sound - Tony Kaye's sound.
Tony was Yes' first keyboardist, and it's quite possible that his organ
sound was more distinctive than Rick's. Thin on the low end,
unusually heavy on the overdrive, it was most likely the kind of organ
sound achieved by pulling one of the tubes out of the Leslie's power
amp section which caused heavy distortion at a lower volume (it also
shortened the life of the remaining power amp tubes).
B2 - ELP C3 1 - Hammond C3 organ sound similar to the one used
by Keith Emerson on "Tarkus" - percussion heavy,
overdriven,somewhat less vibrato and reduced volume on upper
drawbars.
B3 - ELP C3 2 - Emerson's C3 sound with upper drawbars added
back in, slightly less percussion, heavy chorus/vibrato and a little less
overdrive.
B4 - ELP C3 3 - ELP C3 sound with no vibrato/chorus and no
percussion, similar to diapason church organ setting.
B05 - Burn Marks - Old school Hammond players remember that
back in the day, you hadn't paid your dues unless your B3 had burn
marks on the cabinet top caused by placing your cigarettes there
while you tore into a slammin' solo. The more burn marks, the more
dues you had paid - kind of like the Old West gunfighters belts with
notches for each man they gunned down.

Wheezing, whirring, noisy - that was the old smoky blues-club


Hammond sound, recreated here.
B6 Burn Marks 2 - Variation on Burn Marks, different drawbar and
percussion settings and amp/Leslie tone.
B7 Burn Marks 3 - A third variation on the Burn Marks voice.
B8 - New CX3 1 - Around the turn of the millennium, Korg released
their updated CX3 organ. Their first CX3, which was marketed for a
few years in the 80's was the first Hammond organ soundalike (I can't
count Crumar's T1 as sounding anything remotely like a Hammond,
sorry). The "new" CX3 sports a lot of improvements in the sound,
physical modeling of the Hammond tonewheels and Leslie effect,
more programmability and a larger screen than the original CX3.
B9 - New CX3 2 - Variation on the sound of A24 organ.
B10 - Purple Hush - Organ sound from Deep Purple's first hit "Hush".
B11 - 80's CX3 - Sound of Korg's first CX3 introduced in the 1980's.
The overdrive was somewhat less than authentic, with a buzzy
compressed quality, and that sound is reproduced here.
B12 - Zombie B - Plinky percussive organ sound from the Zombies'
hit "Time of The Season".
B13 - Keyclick 1 - B3 with heavy "keyclick" sound, which was caused
by dirty key contacts. Deemed undesirable at first, it fell into favor
with Hammond jazz organists and became part of the classic
Hammond "vibe".
element 5 = percussion level; element 6 = note-on keyclick level;
element 7 = note-off keyclick level.
B14 - Keyclik 2 - Variation on B13.
B15 - Keyclik 3 - Variation on B13.

B16 - Stormy 1 - Basically a vibrato Hammond organ sound, with just


the 16' and 1'3/5 drawbars pulled out. For those slow, "Stormy
Monday Blues". 8-drawbar voice.
C1 - Stormy 2 - Same as Stormy 1 but with no vibrato. 8-drawbar
voice.
C2 - XK 2 - Recreation of the Hammond Suzuki company's XK 2
organ sound. 7 drawbars and percussion.
C3 - Theater 1 - Full drawbar sound with no percussion and vibrato
switched on. Think "church", cleaner tonewheel sound.
C4 - Theater 2 - Variation on C03.
C5 - Wedding - Hammond "wedding" church organ sound, with no
vibrato or Leslie.
C6 - Tonewheels - "Unstable" Hammond tonewheels sound. If the
voltage fluctuated (either at the AC circuit or within the Hammond
circuitry itself) the tonewheels would spin at a fluctuating rate and
cause a sound similar to this.
C7 - Leslie Stopped - Sound of Hammond through "braked" Leslie,
with the horn and rotor not stationary. Savvy Hammond players could
change the tone of the Hammond simply by releasing the Leslie
brake for a very brief moment, then stopping it again, then releasing it
again, then quickly stopping it again. This put the horn and rotors in
different physical positions. You can simulate this by pushing the mod
wheel forward VERY briefly and IMMEDIATELY returning it to the
bottom position. The Leslie rotors will only move a "little bit" and then
stop in a different position. This type of sound is favored by Joey
DeFrancesco and other jazz organists.
C8 - Stormy 3 - Variation on Stormy 2 (C02)with Leslie set to fast.

C9 Double Manual 1 - The Hammond B3 has two keyboard


manuals, with two sets of drawbars, one set controlling the upper
manual, and one set controlling the lower. Thus on the Hammond you
can set the lower manual for a different sound for comping, and the
upper manual a more cutting sound for solo work, or vice versa.
This voice recreates the "double manual" setup of the B3, with the
split at C3 on the keyboard - lower manual to the left of C3, upper
manual from C3 on up.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for lower manual; Assgn Switch 2 =
chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
C10 Double Manual 2 - Variation on C09.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for lower manual.
C11 Double Manual 3 - Another variation on C09.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for lower manual; Assgn Switch 2 =
chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
C12 - Bass Walk 1 - Split Hammond organ sound with bass notes in
left hand below C3.
Assgn Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
C13 - Bass Walk 2 - Bass/organ split with different drawbar sound on
the right.
Assgn Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
C14 - Bass Walk 3 - Variation of bass/organ sound.
Assgn Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual
C15 - Bass Walk 4 - Variation of bass/organ sound
Assgn Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual

C16 - Bass Walk 5 - Variation of bass/organ sound.


Assgn Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual
D1 - Shutdown - The Hammond had two motors - one to start it up
(like cranking the engine on an old car) and one to keep it running
and the tonewheels spinning. If you shut the run motor off, the sound
died away and descended in pitch, rather than just abruptly cutting
off. The result was the kind of sound recreated here.
D2 - Flute Vibrato - Flute tone (Single 8' drawbar out) with vibrato.
The Wallflowers song "One Headlight" features a Hammond with this
kind of setting.
D3 - Flute Non-Vibrato - Similar to D02 but without vibrato.
D4 - Tibia 8' - Hammond "church" organ drawbar setting used in
place of Tibia "tab" which was found on early pipe organs.
D5 - Diapason - Hammond "church" organ setting used in place of
"Diapason" tab setting on pipe organ.
D6 - Clarinet - Hammond "clarinet" drawbar setting.
D7 - Full Tibias - Full tibia organ setting for church.
D8 - Black Magic - Hammond organ sound from Santana's classic hit
"Black Magic Woman" which was originally recorded by Fleetwood
Mac. Gregg Rollie was Santana's organist at the time
this song was recorded by the band.
D9 - I'm A Believer - The organ sound from the Monkees hit song "I'm
A Believer". Many believe that it was a cheezy plastic combo organ
on the record, but it was in fact a Hammond B3.
D10 - PhoneOrgan - Thin sound of Hammond with only the upper
drawbars out.
D11 - *-*-5-2 - Another (upper drawbars only" Hammond sound.

D12 - Ringmod 1 - Ring modulated "effect" organ sound similar to the


one found on Roland's VK7 organ.
D13 Ringmod 2 - variation on D12.
D14 - Ballpark - Heavy vibrato "baseball park" organ.
D15 Vox Jaguar - Yeah, baby, yeah!! Cheezy, buzzy, a big part of
the sound of Paul Revere and The Raiders, the Dave Clark Five, and
other British Invasion groups of the 60's. It reappeared with a
vengeance on the Austin Powers soundtracks. (see picture below).

D16 Elka Panther - The Panther was built by an Italian company


and was designed to compete with the Vox Jaguar. It was red shiny
plastic, same color as the Vox organ, with stainless steel tubular legs.
The sound was closer to a Vox continental, with more overtones and
a deeper fundamental than the Vox Jaguar. How do I know this? I
had one back in the late 60's, and I'm sorry I let it go.
(see picture below).

E1 - 2ndPerc - Basic Hammond organ sound with 2nd harmonic


percussion instead of third harmonic percussion.
E2 James Gang - Organ sound heard on Joe Walsh and the James
Gang song "Tend My Garden", from their James Gang Rides Again
album. The sound was similar to Tony Kaye's early Yes organ sound,
with very heavy overdrive and a lot of grit. Reliable sources tell me
that Joe Walsh achieved the sound by pulling one of the power amp
tubes out of the Leslie, resulting in a heavier distortion at a lower
volume.
E3 - 16-5-2-1 - Specific Hammond drawbar settings sound.
E4 - 16-8-2-1 - Another drawbar setting.
E5 - 16-5-2-2 - Yet another Hammond drawbar setting.
E6 Purple Truckin - Sound similar to Jon Lord's Hammond organ
on "Space Truckin" from Deep Purple's Machine Head album.
E7 - Ladies Two - The Saturday Night Live organ sound is back again
with a slightly different flavor.
Element 4 = percussion; element 5 = note-on keyclick level; element
6 = note-off keyclick level.
E8 - Foreignerr - Classic rock organ sound from "I Wanna Know
What Love Is" on Foreigner's album Foreigner 4.

E9 - Styx - Organ sound from Styx's classic rock song "Blue Collar
Man".
E10 - Jazz Fast2 - Jazz organ sound with fast Leslie, variation on
A15.
E11 - Jazz Slow2 - Same as E10 but with slow Leslie.
E12 - Jazz Fast3 - Variation on E10, fast Leslie.
E13 - Jazz Slow3 - Same as E12 but with slow Leslie.
E14 Burn Marks 4 - The smoky, gritty, wheezing blues club
Hammond with different settings, fast Leslie.
E15 BurnMarks 5 - Variation of E14.
E16 BurnMarks 6 - Variation of E14.
F1 BurnMarks 7 - Variation of E14.
F2 - XK2 2 - Variation of Hammond Suzuki XK 2 organ sound.
7 drawbars and percussion.
F3 - *-5-4+Prc - Upper drawbars plus percussion, lower drawbars
pushed in.
F4 Full Drive - Full drawbar Hammond organ with heavy tube
overdrive and no percussion.
F5 Full Drive 2 - Variation on F04.
F6 - 16-5**+Prc - 16' and 5' drawbars out, with percussion.
F7 - Ballpark 2 - Another version of the "baseball" organ sound.
F8 Super Whistle - 16' and 2' drawbars out.

F9 - Bass Walk 6 - Another version of bass/organ split voice. Organ


with Leslie on fast.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
F10 - Bass Walk 7 - Variation on F09.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
F11 - Stormy 4 - Another version of the bluesy "Stormy" organ sound.
F12 - Theater 3 - Another full drawbar, cleaner church organ sound
with vibrato.
F13 - Tonewheels 2 - Variation of "Tonewheels" voice, typical of
sound caused by fluctuating AC voltage.
F14 - 8-4-2-2 - Hammond drawbar setting.
F15 - 8-5-2-2 - Hammond drawbar setting.
F16 - 8-4-2-1 - Hammond drawbar setting.
G1 - 16-*-*-1 - Hammond drawbar setting.
G2 Double Manual 4 - Split organ sound, recreating "double
manual" or "dual keyboard" settings.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for lower manual.
G3 Double Manual 5 - Dual manual organ sound variation.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for lower manual. Assgn Switch 2 =
chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
G4 Double Manual 6 - Dual manual organ sound variation.
Assgn. Switch 1 = chorus/vibrato for lower manual. Assgn Switch 2 =
chorus/vibrato for upper manual.
G5 Chorus Vibrato 3 - Chorus/vibrato organ sound variation.
G6 Chorus Vibrato 4 - Chorus/vibrato organ sound variation.
G7 - Pastoral - "Gentle" or "peaceful" organ sound for interludes.

G8 Thru Guitar Amp - Hammond B3 thru guitar amp instead of


Leslie. Yes, back in the day, it was done often in heavy rock bands.
Usually the amp of choice was a Marshall or Hiwatt stack.
G9 Thru Guitar Amp 2 - Organ through guitar amp variation.
G10 Thru Guitar Amp 3- Organ through guitar amp variation.
G11 - Vintage - Lower drawbars organ sound with vintage tube
warmth.
G12 - 80's CX3 2 - Vintage Korg CX3 sound with vibrato.
G13 - Arrgent - The Hammond organ sound from the classic 60's
Argent rock hit "Hold Your Head Up".
G14 - Throaty - Warm, dark, tube-driven Hammond sound with extra
grit.
G15 - ELP C3 4 - Variation of Keith Emerson's C3 vibrato sound.
G16 - Leakage 2 - Variation of classic Hammond "leakage" sound,
characterized by metallic noise created from interaction of
tonewheels and magnetic fields.
H1 THE B3 (AT) - Same as A1, but with Leslie speed controlled by
aftertouch (LEAN on those keys..)
H2 - 16-4-2-1 (AT) - Same as A5 with Leslie on aftertouch control.
H3 Pale Shade (AT) - Same as A11 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.
H4 Gimme Some (AT) - Same as A13 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.
H5 Green Eyes (AT) - Same as A14 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.

H6 - Jazz Slow (AT) - Same as A16 with Leslie on aftertouch control.


H7 - Zombie B (AT) - Same as B12 with Leslie on aftertouch control.
H8 - Keyclick 1 (AT) - Same as B13 with Leslie on aftertouch control.
H9 - Keyclick 2 (AT) - Same as B14 with Leslie on aftertouch control.
H10 Keyclick 3 (AT) - Same as B15 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.
H11 - Stormy 2 (AT) - Same as C1 with Leslie on aftertouch control.
H12 Bass Walk 1 (AT) - Same as C12 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.
H13 Bass Walk 2 (AT)- Same as C13 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.
H14 FluteNon-Vibrato(AT) - Same as D2 with Leslie on aftertouch
control.
H15 - 2nd Perc (AT) - Same as E1 with Leslie on aftertouch control.
H16 - No Leslie - Hammond organ sound with no Leslie effect. Use
this sound if you are running your Motifs outputs into a Leslie
simulator like Voce's Spin or any Motion Sound product, etc.

PERFORMANCES 1-8
There are 8 demonstration Performances included in the Bs Knees library.
These are simple organ duo/trio performances set up with a drum backing,
left hand bass, and organ sound on the right. The performances can be
accessed by the following method:

1. Press the PERFORM button on your Motif XS.


2. Press the USER 3 bank button and then select A1.

A1 Be-Bop Duo
Be-bop jazz organ performance with drumkit, left hand bass and organ.
A2 Shortcakes
Funk organ performance with drumkit, left hand bass and organ.
A3 - Movin
Driving organ performance with drumkit, left hand bass and organ.
A4 6/8 Time
Slow blues shuffle organ performance.
A5 Rock Purple
Classic rock organ performance (think Deep Purple).
A6 Funkin It
Funky organ performance with drumkit, left hand bass and olrgan.
A7 SmoothJamm
Straight-ahead organ performance.
A8 ReggaeHouse
Reggae with a house beat organ performance.

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