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Chapter 15 Vintage B3 398
Use Vintage B3 preset keys
The Hammond B3 is equipped with 12 buttons, located below the draw bars. These preset keys
are laid out like a keyboard octave, but with black keys and white sharps. They are used to recall
draw bar registrations (draw bar positions).
Click to view preset keys.
Upper manual preset keys are to the left of the Upper Morph slider, and lower manual preset
keys are to the right. Draw bar positions are indicated by small vertical lines on each key. These
miniature draw bar representations update in real time. You can edit the draw bars of recalled
presets immediately, with changes to draw bar positions being automatically memorized as you
make them. You can, however, use the Save To function to save a registration to a specic preset
key (see Save a registration while morphing).
Important: The presets relate only to the registration (draw bar) settings of a single manual.
They do not store vibrato or other parameter settings. If you want to save and recall the
overall instrument settings (including eects), use the Settings pop-up menu in the plug-in
window header.
On keys C# to A#, the percussion works only if the Perc parameter is set to Always (see Vintage
B3 Percussion eect).
Vintage B3’s default range for preset (registration) keys spans MIDI note numbers 24 to 35 (C0
to B0). This means that the lowest playable MIDI note number is 36 (C1). You can transpose the
keyboard range in your host application or Vintage B3 itself. A 61-note keyboard—which spans
notes C to C—can be played across the entire range when the Transpose values of your host
application are set to 0. The preset (registration) keys are positioned one octave below this
transposed or non-transposed range. See Transpose keyboard zones by octaves on page 402.
Choose a registration
1 Click Main in the control bar, then click the Preset button at the lower right.
2 Click a preset key shown to the left (upper manual) or right (lower manual) of the Upper
Morph slider.
3 Play one of the preset key MIDI notes (MIDI note numbers 24 to 35).
Initialize a registration
1 Click Main in the control bar, then click the Preset button at the lower right.
2 Click the C key for the upper or lower manual. The lowest preset key (shown as “C”) is the Clear
key. The other 11 keys, from C# to B, recall registrations.
3 Play MIDI note number 24.