Korg EASYSTART CX-3 user manual

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CX-3 Modeled Combo Organ Main Features

• Tone Wheel Organ modeling system that perfectly • Innovative EX mode for additional harmonics and
reproduces a tone wheel organ’s sound-producing percussion harmonics (allows both sets of drawbars to

mechanism be linked)

• Modeled parameters include leakage, key click (on and • Fully polyphonic (for upper/lower, or dual manual
off), vintage and clean tone wheel simulations, performance)

adjustable o

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CX3 EasyStart Making connections 1. Connect the CX-3’s L and R outputs to a stereo monitoring system, or plug in headphones to the headphone jack, located on the left front edge. 2. Connect the included OXP-1 expression pedal (or any compatible expression/CV pedal) to the appropriate jack on the rear panel. ! You may need to calibrate the CX-3 to recognize the pedal’s minimum and maximum levels. To do so, press the GLOBAL key, then press key #8 press the left CURSOR twice: the

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CX3 EasyStart The CX-3 features two types of preamp sounds… Type 1 models the classic tonewheel organ through a rotary speaker. Type 2 models the classic British Rock sound of a tonewheel organ run through both a rotary speaker and a tube guitar amplifier. For a couple examples of the Type 2 sound, try Presets A7 – DS Balls!, B7 – Turkish, C7 - SmokeInJapan, G7 – BC RockSolo, or F3 – Gimme Some. A word on Expression / Overdrive… Notice, as you play through some of the Programs

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CX3 EasyStart ! The Rotary Stop function can be assigned to a second PS-2 footswitch on a per-Program basis, for hands-free Rotary control! Editing the Drawbar settings of a Program: “Live” drawbars in Drawbar Preset mode 1. Press the [EDIT] key, then press key #2. The Display reads “UPPER” and shows a graph of the programmed drawbar levels. The display is now in an interactive state: move the Upper drawbars, and the Display reflects the change press the right cursor key [>] an

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CX3 EasyStart Using another keyboard as the ‘Lower Manual’ …Taking advantage of the two independent tone generators: 1. Using a short MIDI cable, connect the MIDI Out of any MIDI keyboard/controller to the MIDI In of the CX-3 and set its MIDI channel to Ch. 2. 2. The parameter for the MIDI Channel of the CX-3’s Lower tone generator defaults to Ch 2, but it can be set to any channel: Press GLOBAL, then press key #4, and CURSOR [>] four times until the display reads “MIDI Lower Rx ch:”