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 | "Derived from the technology of the already legendary New B-3, now a portable keyboard with digital tone-wheels" |
| This new instrument does what has never been done before - offering you the classic "tone-wheel" sound by utilizing 96-DIGITAL TONE WHEELS! This new VASE III soundgenerator now makes it possible to reproduce all of the characteristics of the vintage Hammond B-3. Additionally, the Hammond XK-3 houses two INTERNAL VACUUM TUBES that will change continuously from PRE-AMP MODE to OVERDRIVE MODE via control knob. But wait! The new Hammond XK-3 also includes 12 REVERSE COLOUR KEY PRESETS, 3 SETS OF DRAWBARS, A 2-ROTOR DIGITAL LESLIE, AND A 6 -POSITION ROTARY VIBRATO/CHORUS KNOB, all the features you would expect to find on a Hammond Vintage B-3. | |
| XK-3 is the single keyboard version of the famous Hammond New B-3 |  |
| But there's more... The XK-3 will perform like no previous tone-wheel Hammond could ever do, with features like PITCH BEND/MODULATION, TRANSPOSE and MIDI. A library of 132 PROGRAMMABLE PATCHES allows you to save and store your own Drawbar combinations, MIDI information, whatever you like. And just think, all this in a 19,5 Kg. package that won't break your back or your budget. | |
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| Specifications | |
| KEYBOARD | 73 (61+12 Preset Keys) Water-fall Keys with Velocity |
| DRAWBARS | 3 sets of Drawbars, 9-Upper, 9-Lower, 2-Pedal |
| SOUND GENERATOR | Vase III sound generator creates 96 digital Tone-wheels™. Tone-wheel™ leakage-noise and motor-noise are adjustable wheel by wheel. |
| PRESETS | Original B-3 reverse-colour preset-keys 11 Presets x 12 Banks + Cancel |
| POLYPHONY | Full polyphony (unlimited) |
| LESLIE© | Next generation digital Leslie© and scanner vibrato |
| PREAMP & OVERDRIVE | Real dual tube amp for pre-amplification and Leslie© overdrive |
| REVERB | 8-Modes |
| TONE CONTROL | Bass, Mid range, Treble |
| SUSTAIN | Pedal Drawbars |
| WHEEL | Pitch Bend, Modulation |
| PANEL CONTROLS | LESLIE©: Slow/fast, on/off, break/thru, effect, send/return Vibrato/Chorus: ON, V1, V2, V3, C1, C2, C3 with 6 position rotary knob Percussion: Second, third, decay fast, soft Control: Manual bass, split Effect: Tube amp, reverb on Demo: Demo/pedal sustain Display switch: Page up/down, parameter value +/-, rotary-encoder, Menu/exit, play, rec, bank Volume control: Master volume, tone control, tube overdrive |
| DISPLAY | 20-Character, 2-Line back-light LCD |
| TERMINAL | AC-input, Line out L/R, 11-Pin Leslie©, Midi IN1/IN2/OUT/THRU (Addition of lower keyboard and/or pedal possible via midi), Headphone, Foot-switch/Leslie©-switch, Expression pedal (EXP-100F with Leslie©-switch). |
| CARD SLOT | CompactFlash™ Card slot |
| POWER SUPPLY | 230V (CE), 240V (BS) |
| DIMENSIONS | 119cm(W) x 40cm(D) x 12cm(H) |
| WEIGHT/FINISH | 19,5Kg / Walnut finish |
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| High-resolution image of Top-view XK-3 (3109 x 1189 pixels) 244KB |
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| High-resolution image of Front-view XK-3 (3091 x 945 pixels) 180KB |
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| "Demo explaining the main features of the XK-3" by Tony Monaco (Windows Media Player 3173KB) |
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| CD-track "The Green, Green Grass of Home" by Paul Flush (Windows Media Player 3922KB) |
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| The cd 'Good Vibes" by Spanish Hammond endorser Mauri Sanchis was released on september, 22nd 2006 (Windows Media Player 10912KB) |
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| CD-track "Latin tune Number 4" by Paul Flush (Windows Media Player 3957KB) |
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Brochure(s) | |||||
| Brochure XK-3 (PDF-file 364KB) |
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| Brochure Pro XK-System (PDF-file 219KB) |
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Owners manual(s) | |||||
| Owners manual XK-3 English (PDF-file 3753KB) |
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| Owners manual XK-3 German (PDF-file 6124KB) |
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| Owners manual XK-3 French (PDF-file 11260KB) |
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| Owners manual summary XK-3 Portugese (PDF-file 461KB) |
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| Owners manual XK-3 Italian (PDF-file 3818KB) |
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| Owners manual XK-3 Spanish (PDF-file 7311KB) |
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| Type | Description | Action |
| Reset | Reset the instrument to the factory-defaults | Power-off the instrument. Press and hold the red 'REC/JUMP'-button and power-on the instrument. The display will show 'HAMMOND ORGAN Loading Default...' After 10 seconds the display will show the normal play-screen. |
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Makis Tselentis
Dr. Makis Tselentis or "Dr. MaKeys" is a Hammond Organ player & Composer-Arranger-Sound Engineer & Music Producer.He was born in Athens-Greece on August 7, 1968 and start dealing with music from the age of nine. Profesional worker with the music and production since 1986. In 1989 created the first part of Music Technology at the Contemporary Athens Conservatory and in 1997 created the technical school for sound engineer "Media Audio Visual". In 2005 create the Hi-End Recording and Hi-End Mastering sound studio "Studio R-mic Athens", both with Mic Roussos.
Since 1978 he studied music, orchestration and composition as well as music technology and has a Master degree in Fine Arts and PhD in Acoustic and Sound Engineering.
He is a professor at the Contemporary Athens Conservatory from 1987 until now.
Dr. Makis Tselentis playing Hammond Organ with the Band "2002GR". The "2002GR" is the oldest and most popular and multiple-gold and multiple-platinum album Pop-Rock Band in Greece. In 2014 the band celebrated the 40th Anniversary from the first release album.
He has played Hammond Organ with Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions ex-Guitarist) and with Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne Guitarist) at "Unity I".
From 1986 until now has played with many Artists and Bands from Europe and USA and he is a member of music Bands: Velvet Gang (Hard/Heavy Rock), Weevil (Hard Rock) & Weevil "in Rock" (Deep Purple Tribute Band), Saints & Sinners (Whitesnake Tribute Band), Last Will (Rock), Buzz (Blues Rock), Power of Fusion (Jazz Fusion), Music Mafia Syndicate (Pop Rock), Nostos (South Rock), Hammond Trio (Jazz), Electra (Pop Rock)... and many others !!!
In 2016 he formed the "Dr. MaKeys Band" to support his personal music albums. Dr. MaKeys Band playing a Jazz-Rock-Fusion style with Ethnic and Minimalist musical elements.
At the end of the February 2017 he released the new personal album titled "ConFusion Minimale".
"When I was a young boy and I had listen for the very first time this sound back to '70, I feel that I was born for the Hammond... this organ made it for me... we are 'one'. This Beast, it can scream and at the same time cry or sing for me. The Hammond is my Body, my Spirit, my Soul and the Leslie is my Voice to the Universe...!!!!"
Markus Momma
1981 - The journey began in Eschweiler - a little town in West Germany. From an early age on Markus Momma was interested in Punk, Ska and Reggae music and was part of the local music scene.He played in several local bands before he joined a Cologne based Reggae band called Masons Arms in 2010 which uses german lyrics. From that point everything went straight up.
Their album "Gepackt" was released in 2012 followed by many live shows in whole Germany and the Netherlands.
In January 2019 there will be a new album release by his band which will be more organ based.
The band creates an authentic Reggae sound which goes back to the 1960s when the Hammond organ had a special place in that music genre and gave that sound a deep footprint.
"To play authentic Early Reggae and create a sound from back in the days you will need one thing: a Hammond"
Tim Deats
Tim first started seriously playing on piano and Hammond organs at the age of 13 years old, when he would sneak into the auditorium of the High School next door to his home in Ottawa, IL. "Firing up that big organ and Leslie and listening to the tone wheels starting up was always fun….because I knew playing it was just moments away" He would practice for 8 hrs a day, trying to emulate the sounds and styles of Elton John, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Dennis DeYoung, Steve Winwood, Billy Preston among many other influences.From these early beginnings Tim traveled throughout the Mid-West and Canada working 6 nights a week 46 weeks a year in a traveling show band playing everything from `50`s music to whatever Top 40 music was popular at the time. "Covering classic organ songs like "Whiter Shade of Pale" and the like always made for a fun show" Tim has almost always carried around a Leslie even during the 1980`s when it was difficult to find a decent sounding "organ patch" from the synths that were around at the time," If you could run it through a real Leslie, then you could almost make it sound believable"
Tim has been playing keyboards for former Giantslayer records Country Music Artist Dustin Evans for close to 19 years, and has included a portable Hammond organ and a vintage Leslie 860 in his multiple keyboard rig since 1996 starting with the XB-2 and now with an MK-3-c for the last several years…all the while running them through his trusty 860 Leslie. "She has hardly any paint left on her, and the wood has seen it`s better days, but I`ll have keyboardists and sound techs from other acts tell me all the time how they love how she sounds"
Playing with Dustin Evans has given Tim the opportunity to share the stage with a great deal of different acts. They have been the opener for several Country and Rock acts including:
Huey Lewis and the News, Doobie Brothers, Travis Tritt, Clint Black, Charlie Daniels Band, Sawyer Brown, Chris Ledoux, Terri Clark, Sara Evans, The Temptations, Sugar Ray, Neal McCoy, Keith Urban, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry, Trace Adkins, Jo Dee Messina, Jerrod Niemann, Lee Brice, Dierks Bently, Diamond Rio, Zac Brown Band, and many others. "Getting to meet some of my idols and watching them up close and sometimes even from the stage has been the coolest part of my journey" "Watching and meeting players like Taz from CDB, Billy Powell from Skynyrd and Neal Doughty from REO, Sean from Huey Lewis or great women players like Becky Priest (also a Hammond endorsee) from Neal McCoy and even having Jerry Corbetta from Sugarloaf use MY gear for a set and watched him crush "Green Eyed Lady"…it`s been a blast!
Professional Drawbar-Keyboard with digital-tonewheels/tube-overdrive