HAMMOND XK-1 ORGAN

This is a portable, single-manual digital organ introduced in the 2010’s that emulates the classic Hammond B3. It is in excellent functional condition (although it needs to have a new battery for battery-backed RAM (CR2032 3V coin) if you need it to remember changes to Parameters - Presets etc. Change out is pretty simple). Cosmetic condition is mostly excellent with a few scuffs and scratches on the side panels. Weighing around 33 lbs, it features 61 full-size waterfall keys having authentic B-3 feel, classic physical drawbars, and Hammond’s VASE III tone-wheel sound generator. It is capable of upper, lower, and pedal parts, with an adjustable split point and a “manual bass” function that makes the pedal part playable at the bottom end of the keyboard. It has two MIDI in jacks for MIDI controllers for different parts. Full polyphony across the entire keyboard without loss of any notes. The core drawbar tones on the XK-1 are sample-based using the same “long loop” sampling method as the later model B-3’s. The drawbar tones interact with one another as they do in a vintage B. All the expected effects here.  It has a great harmonic percussion – that jazz “ping”. And you can select a mode where key velocity affects percussion volume. You can also have the second and third harmonics sounding at the same time. The foldback feature – the re-cycling of very high or very low drawbar tones as you move up or down the extreme ends of the keyboard – is adjustable. There are ten tonewheel sets offering variety when it comes to leakage, frequency response, and other character details. There’s a “Cheap Transistor” set for that Vox/Farfisa sound.  There is onboard EQ (boost or cut to bass, midrange, or treble). This organ includes pitch and modulation wheels, an interesting addition, and up to three-zone velocity-sensitive control of external sound modules.

FEATURES:

• Sound Engine: Two VASE III digital tone-wheel generators.
• Presets & Controls: 64 user presets and 64 factory presets, plus touch-response percussion and chorus-vibrato.
• Internal Memory: 11 Presets x 12 Banks + Adjust
• Virtual Tonewheel Sets: Real B-3, ’80’s Clean, Noisy, Noisy 60, Full Flats, Husky, Flute Lead, Classic X-5, Voxy Full, Cheap Transistor.
  Leslie: High Quality 2 Rotor Digital Leslie.
• Leslie Models Simulated: 122, 147, 760, 710, and 825.
• Connectivity: An 8-pin jack: lets you connect the organ directly to a Leslie 2101 system, and with Hammond adaptor 11-pin models like the Leslie 771, MIDI In/Out, stereo line outputs, headphone jack, and inputs for footswitches and expression pedals.
• Waterfall keys: square shape and slightly rounded front edge with no lip, a little springier than a B-3.
• “Manual Bass” brings the pedal part to the keyboard’s bottom two octaves.
• “Adjust” preset button instantly switches to the current physical drawbar settings.
• Waterfall keyboard can transmit velocity to internal non-organ sounds and external MIDI devices.
• Three independent parts for upper, lower, and pedal keyboards.
• 3-band EQ.
• Drawbar: 1 set of Drawbars.
• Sound Generator: 2 x 96 Digital Tone Wheels.
• Waveform: B-3 Long Loop Sampling.
• Polyphony: Full Unlimited Polyphony.
• Pre-amp & Overdrive: Vacuum Tube Amplifier effects.
• Reverb: 10 Programs.

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