User Manual

ARTURIA – B-3 V – USER MANUAL 11
3 USER INTERFACE
B-3 V has many great features, and in this chapter we’ll make sure you know
what each one does. We think you’ll be amazed at how quickly B-3 V provides
you with sounds that are inspiring and perfect for all sorts of projects.
It’s also really easy to work with: just a few tweaks here and there and suddenly
you’re in a new world of sound. That will always be the main focus of every
Arturia product: unleashing your creativity while remaining easy to use.
3.1 The virtual keyboard
B-3 V has two keyboards, one upper and one lower just like an original
tonewheel organ. These correspond to the left hand (upper) and right hand
(lower) sets of drawbars located above the keyboard.
The first octave of each keyboard (the notes with their colours reversed) does
not actually generate sound but rather acts as a preset selector for a fixed set
of presets, like in a real organ. Pressing one of these notes will call up a specific
drawbar configuration but will not change any of the other settings on the
organ. These presets are fixed though you can of course make edits to the
drawbars and then save a new preset in the B-3 V’s own preset browser.
3.2 Toolbar
The toolbar that runs along the top edge of the instrument both in standalone
and plug-in mode provides access to many useful features. Let’s look at them
in detail. The first seven of these options can be found by clicking on the B-3 V
section at the very top left hand corner of the instrument window.