B3 Classic

The Only Way to play in that very special Hammond Style is to use a real Hammond Organ

Stunning Authentic Retro Styling

Phenomenal Stage Presence

A 100% Real Hammond Organ Playing Experience

Exact same specification as the B-3 Classic

MIDI OUT

Awesome Sound in any style of music

Just Like the original if you just feather touch the keys you only produce the sound of the 1' drawbar and then progressively trigger the other 8

This is the ULTIMATE Hammond Organ

Check it out and very will be impressed

Waterfall keys & harmonic drawbars

Only Hammond, inspired on the longest tradition of drawbar-generation, can offer you the experience and emotion of such truly "virtual tone-wheel generation"...

Mechanical multi-contact system
It is by utilising several tone varying features that the B3 performs so uniquely. Upper and lower pitch foldback subtly effects the overall sound, while, probably, the most important and interesting feature is the nine key contact system operating on each key. These contacts connect from each of the nine drawbar pitches and by pressing a key slowly each pitch level can be determined, high to low. This system created the earliest form of touch response for tone variance as well as expression. This mechanical contact system is also responsible for Hammond's famous key click noise, an unintended feature that became an essential component of the B3 character. The new B3 incorporates a complete mechanical contact system, totally unique in a modern instrument.

Two, 61 note, B3 style, waterfall key, keyboards allow for the essential performance characteristics of the Hammond masters, especially effortless palm glissandos. While four complete sets of nine traditional harmonic drawbars and twenty four reverse colour key presets achieve total ease of set up.

B3 expression curve
Sound dynamics are controlled by an exact copy of the original B3 expression curve incorporated in the new instruments foot volume controller.

Knowledge
The challenge for many years has been to recreate the look, sound and feel of this legendary keyboard instrument. Only Hammond has the qualifications and knowledge to accurately achieve this

Now the B3 is re- born...

The Legend Lives on....

This is it .....The grandfather of them all .... Critically acclaimed by all who grace its console including the 'Late Great Jimmy Smith' the New B-3 is the Ultimate in the Hammond Organ Playing Experience

You will not believe how accurate the New B-3 is until you try and hear it for yourself.

Its not just about the sound. Its about the feel, the feedback, the tactility, the unlimited expressive variations of the tonewheel. The New B-3 delivers all this and more ...

download the brochure here

The Only Way to play in that very special Hammond Style is to use a real Hammond Organ

Stunning Authentic Retro Styling

Phenomenal Stage Presence

A 100% Real Hammond Organ Playing Experience

Exact same specification as the B-3 Classic

MIDI OUT

Awesome Sound in any style of music

Just Like the original if you just feather touch the keys you only produce the sound of the 1' drawbar and then progressively trigger the other 8

This is the ULTIMATE Hammond Organ

Check it out and very will be impressed

Waterfall keys & harmonic drawbars

Since its introduction in 1955, the Hammond B-3 has become the essential performance tool for the worlds great keyboard players. The instantly recognisable B-3 sound is synonymous with the world of popular music, while no concert stage would seem complete without a B-3´s imposing wooden cabinet.

B-3 design specifications
Now, for the first time Hammond have exactly replicated the original B3 design specifications with the introduction of the New B3.

Sound generator system
The unique B3 sound is reproduced by a revolutionary newly designed sound generator system (96DigitalToneWheels™), which recreates all of those wonderful idiosyncrasies of the Tone wheel generator which have eluded all previous digital systems.

Almost all contemporary electronic musical instruments generate their sound "on the fly" : this means that whenever a note is pressed, the computer figures out which key and sound-characteristics are needed and fetches this information out of a sample-table from the computers memory-banks.
This information is then processed to produce the actual sound. All of this happens within mille-seconds after any key is pressed.

In contrast to the above the New B-3 has an " all-note continuous " sound-generator: Inspired by the original Hammond tone-wheel generator in which 91 wheels are spinning continuously, the new generation Hammond is producing every single one of 96 sine-waves all the time...
Each of these 96 signals is mapped to the multi-contact system, which is again inspired on the original B-3 : whenever a key is pressed each of the 9 corresponding drawbar sine-waves is "un-blocked" by its individual contact...

The implications of this are staggering...just think about it for a while...
think about the dynamics involved... instead of any note needing to be retrieved any generated after the key is pressed, the sound is actually already there, but is being detained by the key-contact, ready to spring out...
This explains the incredible dynamic sound experience that only Hammond creates... you will be impressed by the sheer massive pressure-wave that this instrument can release... It all has to do with "continuous tone-generation "

Another aspect is the polyphony : over are the days of 16, 32, 64, 128-note polyphony... over are the days of "note out-phasing"... every single drawbar-note is there... all the time... that's what we call " all-note generation".

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