Precisionsound Gospel Drawbars - Manual (Page 4)

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Slot 1
Setting: chooses a combination of drawbars for slot 1. You can also disable slot 1 by changing the Setting
menu to ‘Off’.
Octave: transposes the sound of slot 1 by up to +2 octaves. This means that even though slot 1 is
mapped to the lower octaves of your MIDI keyboard, you can play higher notes there. The Octave
control does not repitch the samples, so it sounds exactly as if you were playing the slot 1 sound higher
up the keyboard.
Volume: sets the level in decibels of the sound in slot 1.
Tune: sets the tuning of the sound in slot 1, between -/+ 5 semitones.
Slot 2
Setting: chooses a combination of drawbars for slot 2. You can also disable slot 2 by changing the Setting
menu to ‘Off’.
Octave: transposes the sound of slot 2 by up to -2 octaves. This means that even though slot 2 is
mapped to the upper octaves of your MIDI keyboard, you can play lower notes there. The Octave
control does not repitch the samples, and sounds exactly as if you were playing the slot 2 sound lower
down the keyboard.
Volume: sets the level in decibels of the sound in slot 2.
Tune: sets the tuning of the sound in slot 2, between -/+ 5 semitones.
How the Bass Pedals Work
In addition to its keyboard, the Hammond AB has two pedals that play bass notes between C0-C2. The
pedals are called Pedal 16 and MixturPedal.
In Gospel Drawbars, we’ve mapped the bass pedal samples to the C0-B1 octave, where they’re always
playable irrespective of whether the instrument is in stack or split mode. On the Dynamics page (see
below), there is a Bass mix dial to adjust the blend of the pedals in that lowest octave.
Additionally, you can load bass pedal sounds into the slots. You can then stack or split them as you
please. Slot 1 can load the Pedal 16 sound, and slot 2 can load the MixturPedal. These are available in
the drop-down Setting menus, beneath the other drawbar configurations.
Because the bass pedals have a maximum range of two octaves (C0-C2) on the Hammond AB, we’ve not
stretched or transposed them artificially in Gospel Drawbars. This means that by default, when you load
a bass pedal sound into a slot, it will play only in the C1-C2 octave. By setting the Bass mix (see below)
dial to the same pedal sound, you can play your chosen pedal sound continuously across C0-C2.