Keyswitches on Vintage Organs?

Johnbee

I've had Vintage Organs for a few years now but I never used it much. Is there any way to use keyswitches for vibrato and Leslie tone cabinet control. I want to be able to use keyswitches to activate/deactivate those functions in a DAW if it's possible.

Any help would be appreciated. Please be as detailed as possible in your response.

Thanks;

John Bowen

Nicki_NI

Hello John,

there are no key switches for complete sound settings in Vintage Organs. The key switches C0-B0 act as drawbar preset selectors, similar to how it's implemented on actual B3's.

Depending on the DAW you're using, you could set up one or more MIDI notes to be transformed to MIDI CCs, and then use these MIDI CCs to automate parameters like Leslie On/Off or Vibrato On/Off.

There's actually a Multi Script in KONTAKT that could be used for this purpose, it's called "Note Numbers To CC".

Hope this helps,

nicki

DunedinDragon

It's in the documentation of the Vintage Organ in the documents folder wherever you have it installed. There's not much there other than saying it uses C0-B0. You'll just have to experiment to find out what they do by default. I know they're tied to whatever presets you have defined for your organ presets so you can control whatever each keyswitch does.

Johnbee

I appreciate your comment, DD. 😀 I've already experimented with the presets and all they seem to control is the drawbar settings. I just want to have a situation where the rotor is going slow in 4 bars and fast in the next 4. It seems crazy that they wouldn't have made a keyswitch provision for that. Real organists do it all the time.

John B

Gee_Flat

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/50875#Comment_50875

Keyswitches are applied to groups, while the Leslie is an effect that is being applied to select groups or maybe all groups. I don't own this instrument so I can't help with regards to editing.

In regards to the Leslie you said 'tone' in your original post, but in your comment above you said speed.

If it's the speed you can adjust the acceleration so that the Leslie is applied instantly or smoothly while applying midi controller like 'Sustain Pedal'.

Nicki_NI

Hello John,

there are no key switches for complete sound settings in Vintage Organs. The key switches C0-B0 act as drawbar preset selectors, similar to how it's implemented on actual B3's.

Depending on the DAW you're using, you could set up one or more MIDI notes to be transformed to MIDI CCs, and then use these MIDI CCs to automate parameters like Leslie On/Off or Vibrato On/Off.

There's actually a Multi Script in KONTAKT that could be used for this purpose, it's called "Note Numbers To CC".

Hope this helps,

nicki

Gee_Flat

Hahaha, I've only seen Nicki comment on these boards twice since I've been here, and it always follows a comment I make using the word 'Edit' regarding instruments he created.

I'm sensing a pattern here Nicki.😊

Nicki_NI

There's no pattern involved. I'm just trying to help people out whenever I can, that is all.

Johnbee

Thank you very much, Nicki and thank you to all who've responded. I was hoping it would be easier but if it's not built in, it's not. Oh well.....

😀JB

Gee_Flat

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/50908#Comment_50908

The script - also created by Nicki - should make it pretty painless or I don't think it would have been recommended.

But like I said, adjusting the acceleration to 100 should take you from slow to fast with out gradually speeding up or slowing down.

Johnbee

I'll play around with it next time a have some time time to spare. The project in question I was working on I've created a "work around" for so I wouldn't want to change it now anyway, but for the future...........

Thanks

😀JB

Johnbee

Also, I might add, I'm not real familiar with Hammond B3s or C3s as far as their operation. I know some points about them (like the infernal "Start Button") but I've never really owned one or played one. They are fascinating to me though. When I was a kid my family had one of their chord organs in our living room which my Mom played the ***** out of.

😀