Hammond SKX Dual Manual Keyboard

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The SKX Stage Keyboard – the smallest, lightest, full-featured dual-manual in the company’s history. Evolving from the highly successful line of Sk series Stage Keyboards, the SKX has embraced design recommendations from Professionals and Hobbyists alike. The result is a comprehensive instrument combining an authentic Hammond Organ featuring 3 sets of Harmonic Drawbars, Vibrato-Chorus, Touch-Response Percussion, and digital Leslie; with a complete array of the most desired Keyboard Voices, such as Grand Pianos, Electric Pianos, Clavs, Orchestral and Percussive voices, and more. These may be combined with the Tonewheel voices, or with each other, in the twin Extravoice divisions. The Organ division is further equipped with 32 ranks of Hi-Def Classical Pipe Organ voices, and accurate models of the two most popular combo organs of the Sixties, which may be registered and played exactly as the originals.
Further improvements are found in the expanded Voice Library memory allowing users to install their choices of custom voices obtained without charge from the Hammond Website. Multiple banks of favorite preset collections are now standard, as is a new set of factory presets created by Hammond’s Artist roster. New to this instrument is the traditional 11-pin Leslie jack for connecting a Leslie Speaker cabinet. The classic “Half-Moon” switch (optional) can be added to control the speed of either the onboard digital Leslie or external Leslie Cabinet.

THREE SETS OF DRAWBARS

Independent set of DRAWBARS for each Manual as well as the Pedal clavier. REAL Drawbars in the style and operation of every classic HAMMOND ORGAN.

DUAL INDEPENDENT EXTRA VOICE DIVISIONS

The SKX features TWO independent EXTRA VOICE Divisions, allowing you to layer different voices on one Manual, or assign a different voice to either Manual.

EASY TO PLAY, READY FOR THE STAGE
The SKX is designed for smooth use onstage and off. 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.

THE VINTAGE SOUND, WITH NO MOVING PARTS

The SKX’s authentic HAMMOND tone is produced by a “Virtual Tonewheel” Generator closely following Mr. Hammond’s original design, but executing it in the Digital Realm, without moving parts.

PERCUSSION
Hammond’s exclusive Touch-Response Percussion as found on vintage Hammonds is included, and its parameters are user-tweakable.

CHORUS-VIBRATO
As the Virtual Tonewheel Generator provides tonal accuracy, the classic “Mechanical Scanner” is precisely Digitally-Modeled, providing the timeless Hammond Chorus-Vibrato effect.

LESLIE
77 years of building Don Leslie’s Masterpiece has given us the edge in developing its 21st Century Digital Edition. The HAMMOND’S essential partner is yours at every moment, with 8 factory profiles of the most famous Leslie models (122, 147, et. al.), and 8 User-definable profiles allowing you to tailor the response matching the Hammond you create with its perfect mate. The accuracy of sound is remarkable. Of course, should you wish to hook up a physical Leslie Cabinet, the traditional 11-pin jack is located on the rear panel, and the onboard controls (including the optional CU-1 “half moon” switch) perform exactly as you expect.

THE EXTRA VOICE DIVISION
includues Hi-Definition Acoustic and Electric Pianos, Clav, Bass, and Accordion, Orchestral Voices-Strings, Woodwinds and Brass are represented.

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Two independent high-quality DSP units.

PERFORMANCE OPERATIONS
OCTAVE
Digital Control allows flexibility of performance a Vintage Hammond is incapable of. You may independently raise or lower the Upper and Lower Manual’s range by one octave, allowing greater comfort of playing.

PEDAL SUSTAIN
A popular option for playing the Pedals or Manual Bass is Pedal Sustain, which allows the Pedal voice to smoothly decay upon release, much in the manner of a string bass.

MANUAL BASS

LOWER to PEDAL
Couples the LOWER manual registration to the PEDAL Part.

TRANSPOSE
Allows you to shift the entire pitch of the keyboard.
MASTER EQUALIZER
Bass/Mid Gain/Mid Frequency/Treble

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. 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. 3 on the Upper Keyboard, 2 on the Lower Keyboard, and 1 on the Pedal Clavier.

USB TYPE “A” PORT
A USB Type “A” port is included, intended for saving/loading setups, system updates, downloaded Extra Voice libraries, and the music player. The Music Player allows WAV/MP3 audio files to be controlled and played through the SKX Audio Outputs.

LESLIE 11-PIN JACK
A standard 11-pin Leslie jack is included on the rear panel. Attaching a Leslie here disables the Digital Leslie effect from the output, and allows the Leslie Cabinet to respond to the onboard Leslie Controls. If the attached Leslie is a 1-channel Model, the EXTRAVOICE Division remains at the LINE OUT Jacks. (requiring an additional non-rotary keyboard amplifier such as the Leslie Model LS2215 or LS2012)


Dimensions…37”(W), 18”(D), 7”(H)
Weight…37.25 Lbs