The Hammond SKX is a full-sized dual-manual organ with three drawbars and a wide-ranging set of authentic organ sounds. Lightweight for a Hammond at 37.25 lb, the unit is also a comprehensive stage keyboard, featuring a variety of high-definition sounds for the gigging musician including pianos, electric pianos and clavinets, along with accordion, orchestral, and brass voices.
Dual Independent Extra Voice Divisions
Layer different voices on one manual, or assign a different voice to either manual.
Combine the Extra Voices with the Tonewheel, Transistor, or Pipe Organ voices.
Balance between the chosen Extra Voices with the dedicated Mix/Balance knob.
The inclusion of hi-definition acoustic and electric pianos, clav, bass, and accordion voices compliment the organ tones, for a comprehensive set of stage keyboard sounds.
The keying system replicates the feel of a weighted keyboard when playing piano-type voices, yet remains supple and responsive to every Hammond organ technique.
Orchestral voices including strings, woodwinds, and brass are represented, many featuring Hammond’s exclusive ProChord, which brings complex voicing to single key play based on the chords you provide.
An extensive library of elective Extra Voices is available without charge from www.hammondorganco.com to expand the SKX in the directions you choose.
Easy to Play and Ready for the Stage
Define your 10 most-used patches from the 100 User and 100 Factory patches and assign them to the 10 Favorite quick-recall buttons on the SKX control panel.
10 banks of Favorites are available for instant recall.
Expanded Extra Voice Memory storage memory, allowing you to load-in more voices downloaded from the Hammond website than previous models.
Three Sets of Drawbars
Real Drawbars in the style and operation of every classic Hammond organ allow you to register each manual and the pedal in the traditional manner.
That Vintage Sound without the Moving Parts
An authentic Hammond tone is produced by a Virtual Tonewheel Generator closely following Mr. Hammond’s original design, but in the digital realm for reliability onstage.
All the characteristics, and yes, all the imperfections that have come to define the classic Hammond sound are provided.
SKX is set to the same factory tolerances to which a B-3 was set during its production run, but the digital control allows you to tailor nearly every aspect of the tone to your personal taste.
The Wave Composition system adds the popular Transistor Combo Organ Voices, which you can register in the original fashion, plus 32 ranks of high-definition digital Classic Pipe Organ Voices.
Hammond’s exclusive Touch-Response Percussion as found on vintage Hammonds is included, with user-tweakable parameters.
Chorus-Vibrato and Leslie Effects
The classic Mechanical Scanner is precisely digitally modeled, providing the timeless Hammond Chorus-Vibrato effect. The effect may be applied independently to each Manual and can be tailored to your taste, including the characteristics relating to age and wear so desired by discerning players.
8 factory profiles of the most famous Leslie models (122, 147, etc.), and 8 user-definable profiles allowing you to tailor the response, matching the Hammond you create with its perfect mate. A traditional 11-pin jack is located on the rear panel, if you decide to hook up a physical Leslie cabinet, and the onboard controls (including the optional CU-1 half-moon switch) perform exactly as you expect.
Digital Effects and EQ
Two independent high-quality DSP units are onboard to provide multi-effects for both the organ and Extra Voice divisions.
Effects include Overdrive, Tremolo, Auto Pan, Wah Wah, Ring Modulator, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Delay, and Reverb
The Master EQ provides bass, mid gain, mid frequency, and treble controls
Performance Operations
Octave: unlike a vintage Hammond, digital control lets you independently raise or lower the upper and lower manual’s range by one octave for more comfortable playing.
Pedal Sustain: allows the pedal voice to smoothly decay upon release, much in the manner of a string bass.
Manual Bass: allows the pedal part to be played on the lower manual of the SKX. You can choose from 3 modes: Lowest played note only, Chord, and Root notes as discriminated by chord played.
Lower to Pedal: couples the lower manual registration to the pedal part.
Transpose: allows you to shift the entire pitch of the keyboard to match singers, soloists, and the other instruments, or to simplify key changes.
ProChord: certain Extra Voice instruments are enhanced with the ProChord function. This allows complex voicings to be played with one finger, based on chords played on the lower manual. The 26 distinct chords are parsed by the ProChord function, with proper passing tones provided to insure proper enharmonic continuity.
MIDI Master Keyboard: external Zones are available to enable the SKX to be used as a MIDI master keyboard, with three on the upper keyboard, two on the lower keyboard, and one on the pedal clavier.
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