KORG EASYSTART CX-3 - Manual (Page 5)

CX3 EasyStart
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Using another keyboard as the ‘Lower Manual’
…Taking advantage of the two independent tone generators:
1. Using a short MIDI cable, connect the MIDI Out of any MIDI keyboard/controller to the MIDI In of the CX-3 and set its
MIDI channel to Ch. 2.
2. The parameter for the MIDI Channel of the CX-3’s Lower tone generator defaults to Ch 2, but it can be set to any
channel: Press GLOBAL, then press key #4, and CURSOR [>] four times until the display reads “MIDI Lower Rx ch:”.
3. If you call up a Program that has an active Split (SPLIT Key is lit), press the SPLIT Key once to turn it off. You now have
a dual-manual tonewheel organ, with each manual having its own fully-polyphonic (61-note) tone generator.set of
drawbars!
Overview of the Edit Mode Groups
Group 1 LEVELS Output, tone wheel type, overtone level, leakage noise level, key on and key off click levels
Group 2 DRAWBARS Settings of the drawbar levels (some different parameters in EX Mode)
Group 3 PERC Percussion level, soft perc. Offset, normal perc, attenuation, perc fast decay, perc slow offset
Group 4 AMP Amp Type, Amp Gain, Tone: treble, middle and bass
Group 5 REVERB Reverb type, time, mix level, and routing (before and after the Rotary effect)
Group 6 ROTARY Horn/Rotor balance, Horn and Rotor fast and slow speeds, Horn and Rotor Down, Up and Stop
transitions, miking characteristics
Group 7 SPLIT PT/PEDAL Split Point, Split Octaves, Pedal assignments (different parameters in EX Mode)
Group 8 NAME Rename the Program
Brief Explanation of Extended Drawbar Mode
…The CX-3 is the only organ to extend the harmonic possibilities of the tone wheel organ tradition!
Drawbar set #1 is governing the levels of the standard nine harmonics of a traditional tonewheel organ, while Drawbar set #2
controls the extended harmonics of EX Mode. This included four additional tone generator harmonics, and four additional
percussion tone harmonics.
• The first four drawbars of set #2 add additional, higher harmonics to the basic tone-generating system. There are four
Presets for these extended harmonics. These tables can be found in GLOBAL mode, Page 8 > scroll right.
• EX Drawbar #5, [2 2/3] controls the level of the entire traditional percussion section when it is ON.
• EX Drawbars #6 and 7 provide 16’ and 5 1/3’ percussion harmonics; and EX Drawbars #8 and 9 provide a percussion
harmonic of the pitches assigned to EX Drawbars #1 and 2.
CX-3 Version 2 Features
• Rebalanced drawbars for better performance across the full key range (Drawbar Level Curve=“Mellow”). Original setting (“Bright”) is
available for those that like the extra “scream” in the upper octaves.
• Noise parameter added to recreate the standing-state noise of an old, beat-up organ when desired.
• Improved Vibrato/Chorus emulation as well as Rotary Speaker algorithm improvements
• Speaker simulator bypass in the Preamp for a whole new world of tonalities.
• Added a 4 th Reverb algorithm (Dark)
• Added a three-drawbar sound source for the lower manual in EX mode, allowing for split-keyboard settings.
• Pedal assignments can now be set to momentary or alternating and Wheel Brake “return” setting has been sped-up to better-emulate
the classic effect.
• Selectable key triggering (Shallow and Deep) to allow tailored response of the keyboard based on a player’s style