Precisionsound Gospel Drawbars - Manual (Page 2)

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Gospel Drawbars for NI Kontakt 3, 4 & 5
The file in NI Kontakt 3, 4 & 5 format requires the full version of NI Kontakt and does not work fully
with the free Kontakt player!
Drawbars page
On the Drawbars page, you can choose organ sounds and combine them in different ways. Each organ
sound represents a unique drawbar setting on the Hammond AB.
Organ sounds are loaded into two slots, which can then be played simultaneously across the keyboard
(stack mode) or assigned to different areas of the keyboard (split mode).
Whichever mode is chosen, the lowest octave (C0-B0) always plays bass pedal sounds.
You can have as many as three organ sounds mapped across the keyboard at once – the bass pedals in
the lowest octave, then slot 1 mapped over a range of your choice, followed by slot 2 mapped over the
remaining keys.
The mode button, on the left of the GUI, changes the arrangement of the sounds in slots 1 and 2. In
stack mode, they both play at once when you press any key between C1-C6. In split mode, each slot
plays in its own area of the keyboard, which you can assign anywhere between C1-C5.
Depending on which mode is selected, different controls appear on the Drawbars page of the GUI. Let’s
examine the modes in turn.
When the mode button is set to Stack, the GUI looks as follows: