Product Overview
The Hammond XK-5 Portable Organ is destined to become The New Original™.
The XK-5 employs new proprietary technology digitally recreating Hammond’s storied tone wheel generator with unprecedented accuracy and flexibility. Tone wheels were spinning discs on shafts, each with its own pickup pointing at the edge. The pattern of “teeth” cut into the edge of the wheel determined the pitch. Modeling and sampling are combined in an exclusive process to capture the frequencies of all 91 tone wheels found in the original organs, along with other important sonic details such as key click, Touch-Response Percussion™, vibrato-chorus, and more.
Features
- 4 full sets of Harmonic Drawbars plus pedal drawbars, as on original Hammond console organs.
- 12 additional virtual tone wheels for complex pedal tones
- Latest-generation Digital Leslie effect is improved and can use continuously-variable speed
- Dedicated octave shift / transpose buttons
- Improved DSP-based overdrive complemented by vacuum tube preamp
- Improved vibrato-chorus.
- Dedicated on/off buttons and amount knobs for reverb, overdrive, and assignable multi-FX
- Lower B drawbars can alternately control 9 MIDI control messages for external gear
- Left and right ¼” outs can be used at the same time as Leslie output
- More key-triggering modes for pedal-to-lower coupler (Manual Bass function)
- Firmware updatable via USB flash drive or directly from computer
- Crisp new OLED display is more readable under different lighting conditions
Specifications
- Pedal (optional)
- Tone Generator:
- MTW™ (Modeled Tone Wheels)
- 61-note polyphony for Manuals
- 5-note polyphony for Pedals
- Virtual Multi-Contacts™:
- Custom Contacts (3 Factory, 3 User)
- 3 Physical Contacts, 9 Assignable Virtual Contacts
- Adjustable Attack, Release, Decay
- Harmonid Drawbars®:
- 5 sets (4 Manuals, 1 Pedal)
- Upper 2 X 9 pitches
- Lower 2 X 9 pitches
- Pedal 2 pitches
- Vibrato & Chorus™:
- Virtual Scanner™ (3 settings)
- Adjustable rate, Vibrato/Chorus Mix
- Vibrato on Pedal ON/OFF
- Preset Keys:
- 9 Presets plus Cancel each Manual
- 2 Adjust Presets each Manual
- 9 programmable Preset Banks
- Multi-Effects: Tremolo, Auto Pan, Wah-Wah, Ring Modulator, Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Delay. Adjustable parameters for each effect.
- MIDI:
- 5 MIDI Templates
- 3 Keyboard Channels (Upper, Lower, Pedals)
- 6 External Zones (3 Upper, 2 Lower, 1 Pedals)
- Assignable MIDI channels, key range, Program Change, Pan, Velocity Curve, Min/Max Volume
- IN 1, IN 2, OUT Connections
- Audio Connections:
- LINE OUT L/MONO / R
- Headphone Jack
- Display:
- OLED, 20 character, 2 line
- 7 Control Buttons & VALUE Rotary Knob
- Dimensions (WxDxH): 46.8” x 15.8” x 4.7”
- Weight: 34.6 lbs
