Hammond XK3C Traditional

HAMMOND XK3C Details

Includes: Lower Manual and Traditional Stand

Hammond Suzuki USA is pleased to announce the addition of another outstanding quality product to the Hammond product line, namely, the XK-3c keyboard. The XK-3c has been designed with the professional musician in mind. Built upon the outstanding features and astounding tone-wheel type sound found on the legendary XK-3 keyboard which is no longer being produced, our engineers have added many of the most requested advanced features and effects never before found on a Hammond keyboard of this price range.

Like the XK-3 keyboard, the new XK-3c can be used strictly as a single keyboard or expanded into a two-manual B-3 like organ when used in conjunction with either our innovative PRO or Traditional XK Systems.

Vase III sound engine
Control multiple keyboards and sound modules from the XK3C improved digital leslie sound quality

New MIDI Control features make it easy to integrate your computer based software and MIDI instruments.

Assignable controllers for MIDI instruments
Advanced digital Leslie and vibrato scanner
Split Upper and Lower Vibrato/Chorus switches
Enhanced dual tube preamp and overdrive

Tone-Wheels
The new XK-3 C contains (96) independent oscillating digital tonewheels for accurate reproduction of the B3 sound. Importantly, this keyboard has full polyphony.

Vacuum Tube preamplifier
The XK-3 C is equipped with a vacuum tube preamplifier for warmth and rich overdrive. The overdrive circuit consists of two bands. Thus even if the sound is overdriven, you can still obtain purer harmonics.

Custom Tonewheel (and transistor) templates

There are a number of Custom Templates pre-loaded into the XK3C as follows:

B-Type

Real B3

This template is the classic B3 model. When purchasing a B3 you would maybe try three or four to find the best one of the bunch (they were all slightrly different from new- some great, some good, and some not so good)...well this is the best of the B3's

80s Clean

The 80s gave us sampling technology, and with it the 'clinically clean' 'Organ sound'. Basically take a Hammond B3, record it digitally, get rid of all of the grunge, noise and imperfections picked up in the sampled sound...hey presto... 1980s Hammond.

Noisy

Take an A100 and stick a couple of micrphones in front of the speakers..all that noise!, motor hum, leakeage..etc..etc. This is the sound most Hammond Clones try and replicate.

Mellow

Full Flats

Tonewheel generators are somewhat random, take out that 'randomness' and give each tonewheel a mathematical formula and this is the result. (Somewhat like a late 70s/early 80 Hammond Console/Spinet. e.g Concorde, Elegante, Aurora Classic.

Husky

Dropped Middle Ranges- accenting the high and low frequencies

Flute Lead

opposite to Husky- Bass and treble dropped.

Brite

Classic X5

Infamous Hammond X5- dull triangle waveforms and flat output levels on every frequency.

HAMMOND XK3C Specs

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© Advanced digital Leslie© and scanner vibrato
PREAMP & OVERDRIVE New dual tube amp for pre-amplification and Leslie© overdrive
REVERB 10-Modes, Leslie reverb
TONE CONTROL Bass, Mid range, Treble, B-3 Tone Control
SUSTAIN Pedal Drawbars
WHEEL Pitch Bend, Modulation
PANEL CONTROLS LESLIE©: Slow/fast, on/off, break/thru, effect, send/return

Vibrato/Chorus: Upper ON, Lower ON, V1, V2, V3, C1, C2, C3 with 6 position rotary knob, Tremolo, emphasis and depth can be adjusted

Percussion: Second, third, decay fast, soft

Control: Reverb, Manual bass, Split, User (pedal sustain), Demo

Assignable controller for MIDI instrument: Upper 1,2,3, Lower 1,2, Pedal, on/off, Value knobs

Effect: Tube amp, Tone type, reverb on

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©, Effect send, Return/Line in, 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 18,5Kg / Walnut finish

HAMMOND XK3C Demo

For immediate & free access to the MP3 demonstrations page please complete the registration form. You will be directed to Hammond.

HAMMOND XK3C Hear this product

Listen to XK3

Acid Wash
Cookin
Crazy
Shooting Star

Other views of HAMMOND XK3C (Click to enlarge):

Hammond XK3C Trad with Lower Manual

Hammond XK3C Lower Manual Trad Style

Hammond XK Stand Traditional

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M-Audio EXP Expression Pedal

DELKIN COMPACT FLASH 512 MEG