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You can never have enough hammond samples, therefor I created some sets that might be useful for owners of Nord Piano/Grand/Wave.

Drawbar settings, S: Slow, F: Fast, C3 D:Some Drive
So 888FD --> 88800000 fast with some drive

I've included samples for the newer boards: .nsmp and .nsmp4

Looping is done with the tooling from Björn Bojahr: Endless wave and included in the project file using my fixloop.py script.
Still took me longer than expected

The usage can be in different ways. In my Wave 2 I can use them als follows:
- slot 1: slow
- slot 2: fast
- slot 3: percussion
Fade between slot 1 and slot 2 by adding a morph from the MWheel to the sliders
Add reverb, chorus and overdrive to taste

Hope someone can use them.
For more samples see: nord-user-samples-nsmp-samples-f14/hamm ... 21307.html

Beautiful, it is a pity that samples are in USER, I prefer Organ category !

Given there are approximately 362,000 possible sound combinations that can be produced by the drawbars alone, it looks like our work is cut out for us

BTW, you can multiply that by every combination of other settings, like slow/fast Leslie, vibrato/chorus, 2nd/3rd harmonic,...

yeah, impossible to get all combinations with samples.
I play in a coverband and mainly use only those settings, so it works for me for a few songs. Perhaps others can benefit from it.
I can also use my stage 3, but sometimes I just bring my Nord Piano + nord wave 2

Small demo going through the different variations. Sorry for the bad playing, just to give you some impression of the samples.

• demo.mp3

I've noticed some others that post Hammond samples. Great to have several variations available!

WannitBBBad wrote:Given there are approximately 362,000 possible sound combinations that can be produced by the drawbars alone, it looks like our work is cut out for us

Let's nerd out for a minute!

How did you come up with that number? That number is very hard to calculate, also because it depends on how one decides to count certain things, whether being different sounds or just different volumes / octaves of the same sound.

The total number of possible “sounding” combinations of 9 drawbars is 9^9-1=387.420.488, so much more than the mentioned number. This excludes drawbar settings at 0 since this is a non-sounding setting. Adding all other elements gives you a nearly (well not really) infinite number

Schorsch wrote:The total number of possible “sounding” combinations of 9 drawbars is 9^9-1=387.420.488, so much more than the mentioned number. This excludes drawbar settings at 0 since this is a non-sounding setting. Adding all other elements gives you a nearly (well not really) infinite number

It's not that simple. 800 0000 000 is the same as 600 0000 000, only higher in volume. Would you count them as different?

Also, 800 0000 000 is the same as 008 0000 000, only the octave changes - except for foldback, which is in itself another variable to keep in mind, because a combination that sounds like X on a certain key, will sound like Y in lower or higher registers.

Yes I would count it as different since volume and octave are for me a parts of the sound, but that’s a highly subjective statement and others may think different. However, this shows the beauty of the tonewheel and drawbar concept

Schorsch wrote:The total number of possible “sounding” combinations of 9 drawbars is 9^9-1=387.420.488, so much more than the mentioned number. This excludes drawbar settings at 0 since this is a non-sounding setting. Adding all other elements gives you a nearly (well not really) infinite number

Yes, correct. I grabbed the number from a post but didn't read further that it's not 9!, but 9^9. The article goes on to multiple that number by the possible combinations of vibrato/chorus and percussion,..(9^9)*7*9, and I guess you could multiply that by 3 - no Leslie, slow Leslie, fast Leslie. Thanks!