EMU B-3 Manuale utente

64-Voice Tone Wheel Organ

OPERATION

MANUAL

B-3

Operation Manual

Getting Started PN: FI10666 Rev. B

CD PN: CD10562 Rev. B

E-MU World Headquarters Europe, Africa, Middle East

E-MU Systems U.S.A. E-MU Systems, Ltd.

P.O. Box 660015 Suite 6, Adam Ferguson House

Scotts Valley, CA USA Eskmills Industrial Park

95067-0015 Musselburgh, East Lothian

Telephone: 831-438-1921 Scotland, EH21 7PQ

Fax: 831-438-8612 Tel: +44 (0) 131-653-6556

Internet: www.emu.com Fax: +44 (0) 131-665-0473

Important Notice:

In order to obtain warranty service on your B-3 unit, the serial number sticker must be intact and you must

have a sales receipt or other proof of purchase. If there is no serial number sticker on the B-3, please contact

E-MU Systems at once.

This product is covered under one or more of the following U.S. patents: 4,404,529; 4,506,579; 4,699,038;

4,987,600; 5,013,105; 5,072,645; 5,111,727; 5,144,676; 5,170,367; 5,248,845; 5,303,309; 5,317,104;

5,342,990; 5,430,244 and foreign patents and/or pending patents. B-3 is a registered trademarks of E-MU

Systems. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies.

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Introduction 1

Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Important Safety Instructions 3

Grounding Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Danger! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Caution! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

User Maintenance Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Radio and Television Interference . . . . . . . . . .5

Warnings - German 6

Wichtige Sicherheitsvorschriften . . . . . . . . . . .6

Erdungsinstruktionen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Gefahr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Vorsicht. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Unterhaltsinstruktionen für anwender. . . . . . .7

Vorsicht. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Warnings - French 9

Instructions de Sécurité Importantes. . . . . . . .9

Instructions de Mise à la Terre. . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Danger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Attention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Instructions de

Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Interférences Radio et Télévision . . . . . . . . . . .11

Declaration of Conformity 12

Setup 13

Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Connection Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Basic Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Studio Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Power Up! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Instant Gratiﬁcation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Playing Demo Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Auditioning Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Selecting and Quick Editing Presets . . . . . . . . . 18

Bank Select Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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Basic Operations 21

Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Volume Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Master Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Edit Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Control Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Audition Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Left/Right Cursor Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Multisetup Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Save/Copy Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Home/Enter Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Data Entry Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Controller Knobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Front Panel Controller Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Real-time Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Quick Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Deep Edit Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

MIDI Channel Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Preset Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Channel Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Channel Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Sound Navigator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Preset Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Instrument Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Multitimbral Operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Multisetup 31

Multisetups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Restoring Multisetups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Multitimbral Sequencing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Master Menu 35

Deﬁning Master Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Transpose/Tune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Bend Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Velocity Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Mix Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Master Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Effects Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Effects Multi Mode Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Master FXA Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

FXA Parameters: Decay/HF Damping FxB -> FxA 41

FXA Send Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Master FXB Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

FXB Parameters: Feedback/LFO Rate Delay Time 42

FXB Send Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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MIDI Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

MIDI Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

MIDI SysEx ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

MIDI Enable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

MIDI Program Change -> Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Receive Program Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Real-time Controller Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . 45

MIDI Footswitch Assign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Tempo Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Knob Preset Quick-Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Knobs Deep Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Knobs/Riff MIDI Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Preset Edit All Layers Enable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Front Panel Knob Calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

MIDI SysEx Packet Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Send MIDI System Exclusive Data . . . . . . . . . . . 50

User Key Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Base Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Screen Viewing Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Programming Basics 53

Modulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Modulation Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Random Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Modulation PatchCords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Envelope Generators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Low Frequency Oscillators (LFOs) . . . . . . . . . 59

Clock Modulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Modulation Destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Modulation Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Preset Modulation Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using the Modulation Processors . . . . . . . . . . . 67

More Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Dynamic Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

What is a Filter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Parametric Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Z-Plane Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Signal Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

MIDI Channels & Real-time Controls. . . . . . . 78

Bank Select Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Stereo Mix Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Edit Menu 83

Preset Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Four Layer Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Selecting Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Deﬁning Layer Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Selecting an Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Defining Key Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Defining the Velocity Crossfade Range . . . . . . . 90

Defining the Real-time Crossfade Range . . . . . . 92

Transposing the Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Volume Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Chorusing the Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Sound Start Offset and Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Non-Transpose Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Solo Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Assign Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Glide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Z-Plane Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Filter Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Auxiliary Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Low Frequency Oscillators (LFOs) . . . . . . . . . . . 108

PatchCords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Pitch Bend Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Mix Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Common Preset Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Preset Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

FXA Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

FXA Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

FXA Send Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

FXB Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

FXB Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

FXB Send Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Preset Patchcords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Initial Controller Amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Keyboard Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Preset Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Preset Tempo Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Audition Riff Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Play Solo Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Programming Tutorial 129

Editing Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129

Changing the Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Changing the Tuning of an Instrument . . . . . . 130

Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Volume Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Working with Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Practice Modulating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Linking Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

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Effects 141

Effects Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

The Effects Sends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Effect Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Effect Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Effects Programmed in the Preset . . . . . . . . . 145

Master Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Effects Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Flexible Effects Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Effect B Into Effect A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

General Effect Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Reverb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Doubling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Slapback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Stereo Flanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Stereo Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Panning Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Dual Tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Vibrato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Distortion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Save/Copy Menu 155

Saving a Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Copying Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Copy Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Copy Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Copy PatchCords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Copy Preset Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Create Random Preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Copy User Bank to Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Rename Flash SIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Duplicate Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Appendix 163

Front Panel Knob Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

B-3 Preset Nomenclature 164

Preset Listing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Preset Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Preset Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

B-3 Preset Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Riff Listing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Instrument Listing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Instrument Listing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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B-3 Instrument Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Velocity Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171

PatchCord Amount Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173

MIDI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174

Received Channel Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

SysEx Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Technical Speciﬁcations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177

Warranty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178

Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Warranty Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

How To Obtain Warranty Service . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Index 181

B-3 Operation Manual

Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of the E-MU B-3 - 64 voice tone wheel

organ sound module. This custom module was carefully engineered to

capture the sound and feel of the original legendary B-3. The rotating

speaker effects can be spun-up and spun-down independent of note-on

events and a single trigger, polyphonic harmonic percussion generator

perfectly simulates the playing behavior of the original. Meticulous

sampling and advanced synthesis technology combine to provide a perfect

recreation of the original instrument.

Product

Description

B-3 contains two user-upgradable sound SIMM sockets, allowing you to mix

and match sound sets according to your needs. New sounds can be added as

easily as plugging in a new 16MB or 32MB SIMM module. Each E-MU

sound set has been painstakingly crafted to be the best of its kind. Samples

are matched across the keyboard, perfectly looped, and rich in harmonic

texture.

B-3 has enough memory for 512 user presets and can hold literally

thousands of factory presets.

(ROM presets are automatically added when

sound SIMMs are installed. As an example, a 32 MB SIMM may contain up to

1024 ROM presets.)

B-3’s Sound Navigator is a major improvement to the

main screen that makes it easy to ﬁnd the exact sound you want. It’s

powerful, yet simple to use.

The real power and value of B-3 becomes apparent when you want to

customize your own sounds. The extremely ﬂexible yet easy to use, 4-layer

synthesizer voices make it easy to build sounds of any kind. Layers can be

switched or crossfaded using key position, velocity, real-time controllers or

any modulation source. B-3 also contains 50 different 6th and 12th order

resonant & modeling ﬁlters which are used to shape and modify the raw

samples.

The 64 modulation sources include three multistage envelopes and two

LFOs per layer, as well as full MIDI control over virtually every parameter.

The digital patch bay, with 24 cords per layer, (and 12 more cords per

preset) lets you connect modulation sources to 64 destinations in any

imaginable way.

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Overview

The patch bay also contains a set of arithmetic modiﬁers, letting you create

complex synthesis models.

Four front panel real-time controllers give you control over 12 user-

selectable parameters. The real-time knobs can adjust multiple parameters

at once, allowing complex levels of control. For example, one knob can

simultaneously turn up ﬁlter cutoff, while detuning one sample, and

adjusting the release time of the volume envelope. Virtually every synth

parameter in the B-3 is controllable using the real-time knobs or by any

internal or external control source.

Two 18-bit analog outputs and four internal effect sends let you process

separate sounds inside B-3 and output a complex mix controlled by MIDI or

internal sources.

Once you have created your preset, you can add richness to your sound

using B-3’s 24-bit stereo effects. You can choose a different effects setup for

each preset from over 60 algorithms. B-3’s effects section is actually two

separate effects processors with control over each wet/dry mix level on four

effects sends. Effects Processor “A” contains primarily ambiance algorithms

like reverb and delays, while effects processor “B” contains primarily

spectral algorithms such as chorus, ﬂange, phase, distortion, and delay.

Effects can be linked to each preset or used globally to further enhance your

sound.

Other features include multiple solo, voice assignment and performance

modes for expressive control, 12 user-deﬁnable alternate tunings, an

extremely easy to use interface and, of course, an extensive MIDI

implementation.

Overview

This is the Getting Started manual for setting up and playing B-3, which

contains only the ﬁrst four chapters of the complete manual. This short

manual is intended to give you the basics of playing and controlling B-3.

To get the most out of this extremely powerful instrument please refer to

the complete B-3 manual, which is provided for you in PDF format (PC and

Mac formats) on the supplied CD-ROM.

The manual provides step-by-step instructions for all of B-3’s features. Each

parameter is described in detail, with examples where deemed appropriate.

Although a short synthesizer/synthesis tutorial is provided, you may

require more information than this manual provides. Many excellent books

and periodicals have been published on the subject of music synthesis.

There are is also a large amount of information available via the www.

The appendix provides technical information, product speciﬁcations and

the Index.

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