Korg BX-3 Drawbar Select section, Pitch Bend wheel, Modulation wheel, Rotary section, Treble knob

Introduction

9. DRAWBAR SELECT section

The upper three drawbar select keys are for the upper keyboard, and the lower three are for the lower keyboard. When you press a key to turn it on, its LED will light.

Use these keys to select the drawbar settings that will be played by the upper or lower keyboards.

If you select the [DRAWBAR 1] key, the keyboard will play the settings of the front panel Drawbar 1 section. The Drawbar 2 settings will be used if you select the [DRAWBAR 2] key, and the drawbar parameters specified by the program will be used if you select the [PRESET DRAWBAR] key.

If you press the [PRESET DRAWBAR] key when its LED is blinking or dark, the drawbar parameter settings will be shown in the display for approxi- mately 1 second.

In EX mode, the [PRESET DRAWBAR] key will automatically be selected for the lower keyboard (neither of the other Drawbar settings can be selected).

10. Pitch Bend wheel, Modulation wheel

These wheels let you control tone, pitch, and volume etc. in realtime while you play. The bender wheel is at the left, and the modulation wheel at the right.

Pitch Bend wheel

Move this wheel away from yourself to raise the pitch. Move it toward yourself to lower the pitch.

Modulation wheel

Move this wheel away from or toward yourself to apply the effect that is assigned to the modulation wheel.

11. ROTARY section

Here you can control the rotary effect.

For details, refer to “5. Rotary” (p.18).

[ON] key

This key turns the rotary speaker effect on or off. When this is off, pressing the [FAST] or [STOP] keys will have no effect.

LED lit: The rotary speaker effect is on.

[STOP] key, [FAST] key

These keys control the rotary speaker.

When the [STOP] key LED is dark: The [FAST] key will switch the rotary speaker between fast and slow. The rotary speaker will turn rapidly when you make the [FAST] key LED light.

The rotary speaker will turn slowly when you make the [FAST] key LED go dark.

When the [STOP] key LED is lit: The [FAST] key will switch the rotary speaker between fast and stopped. The rotary speaker will turn rapidly when you make the [FAST] key LED light.

The rotary speaker will stop turning when you make the [FAST] key LED go dark.

When the [FAST] key LED is dark: The [STOP] key will switch the rotary speaker between slow and stopped.

The rotary speaker will stop turning when you make the [STOP] key LED light.

The rotary speaker will turn slowly when you make the [STOP] key go dark.

12. AMP section

[MASTER LEVEL] knob

Use this knob to adjust the volume as appropriate for the equipment to which the BX-3 is connected.

Use the [EXPRESSION/OVERDRIVE] knob and a connected expression pedal to adjust the volume and distortion of the sound, and then use this knob to set the final output level.

[TREBLE] knob

Adjusts the high-frequency level.

[BASS] knob

Adjusts the low-frequency level.

[REVERB OFFSET] knob

Adjust the reverb depth.

When this knob is at the center position, the reverb will be the depth specified by the program. When this knob is turned to the far left there will be no reverb, and when turned to the far right the reverb will be deeper.

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