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What Is “Key Click?”
On a tone-wheel Hammond Organ, each time a key is depressed with an active Drawbar registration, a Key Click (or Key
Pop) is heard just before the note sounds. This is due to the fact that, unlike other electrical or electronic musical
instruments, the sound is always present at the key contacts. Therefore, touching a playing key will likely intercept the
sound wave at some point along its excursion, creating a “spike” or attack transient. This transient is heard as “Key
Click.” Since the generated sound is interrupted when a key is both pressed and released, there is a Release Key Click
as well as an Attack Key Click.
The Key Click Advanced Features on your SKX allow you to replicate this characteristic of vintage tone-wheel organs.
From the previous screen, touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once. The number underneath the letters “AT”
should now be blinking.
Attack - Key Click
This Advanced Feature allows you to change the amount of Attack Key Click, or the click that is heard when a note is
first played..
Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to increase the amount of Attack Key Click.
Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the left to decrease the amount of Attack Key Click.
HA<O> SKX Owner’s Playing Guide
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