B4 OAS Edition User Manual - wersi
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1. B4 Soft Banking B4 Percussive Organ B4 Jazzy 1 B4 Clean 70s B4 16 8 4 2 1 B4 Smiley B4 Ekseptional B4 Entertainer A B4 Entertainer B B4 Entertainer C B4 60s Vibrato B4 6Os Beat B4 Percy B4 Full Rock B4 Purple B4 Gimme Some B4 Rock Ballad B4 Soft Rock B4 House Organ Dry B4 Jazzy 2 B4 Gospel B4 Jimmy B4 Vox Strings B4 French Horn Cello 99 B4 Tibias 8 te Duclian 100 B4 Clarinet Vibraharp 101 B4 Novel Solo Vox t Tibia 102 B4 Theatre Solo String 103 B4 Oboe Horn Diapason 104 B4 Full Tibias 16 Acco 105 B4 Trumpet Tibia Clausa 106 B4 Fill Brass Bombarde 112 OAS 107 B4 Full Swell Full Grea 108 B4 Full Tibias Bombarde 109 B4 Stopped Flute Gamba TIO B4 Flute Cello 111 B4 Dulciana Flute Str He 11s 14 15 B4 French Horn Clarinet B4 Salicional Diapason B4 Flutes Great no Reed B4 Oboe Horn Diapason 116 117 118 119 B4 Diapason Full Great B4 Trumpet Tibia Clausa B4 Full Swell Full Grea B4 Full Swell Diapason 120 B4 Oboe Open Diapason lel B4 Lower OAS INSTALLATION OF THE NEW B4 VST Software 1 Put the B4 Installation CD into your instruments CD DVD Blu Ray Dri2. ht amp Oh amp Advanced Organ lype Percussion Free Sound Free Fixed Sinus from Footing Wolume Lenght Amplifier Keyclick A ii fi l i Slow 43 40 o i oO Drive Body Brightness Wolume The B4 Sound editor mimics some of the classic controls of a real Hammond organ Additional settings specific to the Hammond organ that affect certain aspects of the unique B3 sound are presented in the B4 Sound editor allowing you access to some of the most realistic sound characters of the Hammond organ _ _ _ a i Unlike other Sound Editors the B4 Sound editor features 920 000 000 7 Blues _ vi le Ss the B4 Sound Preset drop down menu at the top of the On n screen The Back button allows you to exit the B4 Sound editor without making any changes to the sound gt H r WERSI OAS B4 Edition User Manual OA Ss 920 000 000 B4 Bues JALAN E To access the B4 Factory and User Sounds simply press gt on the downward pointing arrow to open the B4 Sound Lower Manual 020 000 001 B4 Scanner Full B Preset list ee eee eter 020 000 002 B4 Latin 66 020 000 003 B4 Soft Organ ru 020 000 004 B4 Theatre Organ Save Use the Tempo Data wheel or the Transpose Up and 020 000 005 B4 Distortion Main Down buttons to navigate through the list 020 000 006 B4 Progressive al 020 000 007 B4 Deep Scanner ordi ap 020 000 008 B4 Keyclicker To close the men
3. B4 Can t stand Rain 25 B4 Rockers HiFi 26 B4 Sth Organ 27 B4 Hush 28 B4 Kraut Rock 29 B4 Screamin 30 B4 Super Perc 31 B4 91 Wheels 32 B4 Fuzz Guitar 33 B4 America 34 B4 Hollow 35 B4 Break On 36 B4 Fuzzzzzzz 37 B4 House Base 1 38 B4 House Base 2 39 B4 House Scanner 42 B4 House Rotator 43 B4 House Perc Rotator 44 B4 House Perc Vibrato 45 B4 House Vibrato Drive 46 B4 House Bright 47 B4 House Church 48 B4 House Vibrato Drive 49 B4 The Worm 50 B4 100 Pound Berta 51 B4 Upper Chorus 52 B4 Acid Scan 53 B4 Holmes 54 B4 Jazz 2nd Perc V 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 B4 16 1 78 79 80 77 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 B4 Raindrops B4 Mc Duff B4 Champ B4 Ballsy B4 Jimmy Mc G B4 Lower Chorus B4 The Base B4 2nd Perc B4 end Perc Vibrato B4 3rd Perc Vibrato B4 3rd Perc B4 12 O Clock Drive B4 Overdrive 2nd Perc B4 Overdrive 3nd Perc B4 Ovd 2nd Perc Vibrato B4 Ovd 3nd Perc Vibrato B4 Vibrator B4 Flute 16 8 B4 Full B3 Clean
4. OpenArt System a Eee 1 Hl Ul Nhl id dl Native instruments B4 OpenArt System Edition WERSI OAS B4 Edition User Manual OA Ss WERSI OAS 7 B4 Edition 2 Native Instruments VST for WERSI OAS VERSION 7 1 REVISION 46 FIRST EDITION THIS MANUAL IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD AT www wersidirect com COPYRIGHT 2012 WERSI DIRECT LTD WERSI DIRECT LTD The Bells of Ouzeley Straight Road Old Windsor SL42SH FREE PHONE 0800 084 2013 info wersidirect com www wersidirect com Screen Shots Text Translation Imagery Benjamin Scott Hyde amp Robert New Wersi Direct LTD reserve the right to make technical modifications to hardware and software of the OAS instruments without prior notice We disclaim any liability for differences between the features of any of the shipped instruments and OAS instruments not supplied by Wersi Direct LTD and the features described within this manual This manual is designed and written as a guide to the B4 VST but may also contain references to the OAS 7 operating system too No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechani cal including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval systems without our express permission and contravenes copyright law OA Ss OAS B4 Edition User Manual WERSI B4 Functions within the OpenArt System 7 1 The B4 provides sounds for the Upper manual Lower man
5. Manual Vibrato Upper This virtual rocker switch allows you to turn the Vibrato effect on or off for the Upper Manual Vibrato Types You can either turn the virtual knob to choose the Vibrato type or highlight the Data field and use the Tempo Data Wheel to cycle through the Vibrato types V1 V2 amp V3 Vibrato Effects C1 C2 amp C3 Chorus Effects The Vibrato Setting switch allows for quick changes to the depth of the chorus or vibrato effect The switch has six set tings V 1 C 1 V 2 C 2 V 3 C 3 These settings determine the depth and mix of the Scanner Chorus Vibrato effect In fact changing these switches will change the Depth and Mix settings V stands for Vibrato effect and C is Chorus The number indicates the depth of the effect OA Ss OAS B4 Edition User Manual WERSI Organ Types The B4 goes beyond what is possible with an old Hammond organ in many ways One important feature is that it is equipped with a replaceable tonewheel generator as standard This means you can easily take out the whole set of 91 tonewheels and replace them with a new set In this way you can quickly change the basic sound of the organ In the old days if you weren t happy with the sound quality of your Hammond organ for example because the tones weren t pure any more you had to get a specialist to replace the filter capacitors in the tonewheel generator and cali brate the tone filter circuits With the B4 you can quick
6. ange between the Main and Advanced setting displays of the B4 Sound Editor save Save This button will open the Save screen allowing you to save User B4 sounds Main Main This button will take you to the Main B4 Sound Editor display Advanced This button will allow you to access the Advance Settings display Advanced OA 5 OAS B4 Edition User Manual WERSI Advanced Settings The Advanced Settings display allow you to access the Rotor Settings and Microphone placement The following dis play is shown The top section of the display continues to show the Drawbars for the B4 e eee 020 000 000 B4 Blues BA Bax Upper Manual 2 ly Wa T F fa 5 a J 3 Rotor Settings Microphones k y CE E E a Et i uy Accel Tone Spread Pan Horn A S 4 fa fa a i le E Ca EE Ca 63 86 Sou Accel Tone Balance Distance Rotor Settings Tone Horn Slow This data value box controls the speed and sets the rotational speed of the treble rotor Horn when the Rotator Speed switch is set to Slow This setting is continuously variable between 0 and 85 rpm When the knob is centered you get a typical chorale effect Fast This data value box controls the speed setting that determines the speed of the treble rotor when the Rotator Speed switch is set to Fast This setting is variable from 85 to 700 rom When the knob is centered you get a typical tremolo effect Ac
7. cel This data value box sets the rate of change acceleration or deceleration when the Rotator Speed switch is changed The range of this setting is 0 1 to 20 seconds Tone This data value box allows you to adjust the Tone of the treble horn rotor WERSI OAS B4 Edition User Manual OA Ss Bass Rotor Controls Slow This data value box controls the speed and sets the rotational speed of the treble rotor Horn when the Rotator Speed switch is set to Slow This setting is continuously variable between 0 and 85 rpm When the knob is centered you get a typical chorale effect Fast This data value box controls the speed setting that determines the speed of the treble rotor when the Rotator Speed switch is set to Fast This setting is variable from 85 to 700 rom When the knob is centered you get a typical tremolo effect Accel This data value box sets the rate of change acceleration or deceleration when the Rotator Speed switch is changed The range of this setting is 0 1 to 20 seconds Tone This data value box allows you to adjust the Tone of the treble horn rotor Spread This setting determines the difference between the left and right Microphones microphone signals by moving the microphones apart a certain distance This provides a perceived width or stereo spread when the Rotator is spinning With Spread at minimum both mics are in the same place As Spread is increased they move around the speaker cab
8. e bottom of the central column of buttons press the Plugin Adminis Gamndlies tration button PlugIn Soundlist 2 The screen to the left will be shown Remove Plugin Load Bank 3 Press the Load Overall Configuration button in the bottom left group of buttons Load overall configuration Load Program Load single Plugin Save Bank Save Soundlist Load Plugin soundlist Save Program Save config for one slot 4 A Yellow display will be shown Select the Factor Preset in slot 1 simply called B4 Press the Load button Load soundlist Edit Plugin Save overall config 5 Press the button Save Overall Config The follow ing display to the right will be shown Simply choose any free slot You can change the name of the file that you are saving but pressing on the long bar showing the name A virtual keyboard will appear Enter the new name and press Enter Press the Save button 6 The installation and integration into the OpenArt System is now complete NOW WHAT Now you ll want to play Now that you have completed both the installation and also the integration into OAS 7 you can access the sounds of the B4 or get creative with the B4 Sound Editor Access the B4 Sound Presets from Quickload Sound Devices 1 Press the Quickload button from the Main Display all devices LAN 2 Press Sounds 3 In the Sound Devices drop down menu choose B4 The sound
9. er folder You can choose not to install Natre Instruments B4 Wersi Edition by clicking Cancel to exit Setup Destination Foldet CAME RSI plugins b4 8 4 Wersi E dition Bicwse v5 Choose Plugins To install the VS T Plugin the installer must know the folders which the VST Hasts ute You can let the installer search automatically for those folders this will also allow pou to install the Plugins for multiple Hosts at once but vill take some time ot browse for the folder manually Install into the same folders as the last time C Seach tor VST Plugin folders allow multiple selection Install into the folder Y5 T Plugi Pedder C WERS fyplugine b4 V stplugins Browse WERSI OAS B4 Edition User Manual OA J ENTER YOUR ACTIVATION CODE Entering your OAS 7 B4 Activation Code 1 Go to the Settings tab at the top of the main display 2 In the central column of buttons press the Activations button 3 Press the B4 from the list and then press the button Activate Now 4 Enter your Activation code If you do not have one yet call WERSI Direct Ltd on 0800 084 2013 to purchase the code 5 If entered successfully you will be prompted and advised that your activation is now active CONFIGURING THE B4 VIA THE PLUGIN PlugIn Adminstration ADMINISTRATOR PlugIn Slots PlugIn Loading the B4 VST into VST Slot 1 PlugIn 1 Press the Settings button At th
10. hannel 1 is set to 7db for correct volume Save your Mixer Preset Please refer to your User and Programming manuals if you are not familiar with this process MAKE SURE THAT YOU FOLLOW THE CORRECT PROCEDURE WHEN SWITCHING OFF YOUR INSTRUMENT AT ALL TIMES CALL WERSI DIRECT LTD ON 0800 084 2013 FOR YOUR ACTIVATION CODES Technical Requirements for the B4 1 Processor of at least 2 gHz processing power 2 OpenArt Software 7 42 or higher 1 Native Instruments B4 Installations CD ROM Supplied from WERSI 2 120 Original Hammond Presets see sound list 3 Actual OAS Software discs if you have older OAS software and require an upgrade of the OAS software 4 Installation User Manual This is the user manual WERSI B4 Sound Presets OAS B4 Edition User Manual Found in the OAS Database gt Sound Manager gt Sound Group B4 VST 1 1 B4 Blues 2 B4 Scanner Full Bar 3 B4 Latin 66 4 B4 Soft Organ 5 B4 Theatre Organ 6 B4 Distortion 7 B4 Progressive 8 B4 Deep Scanner B4 Keyclicker 10 B4 Velocity 11 B4 J B Percussion 12 B4 Brasses 13 B4 A Whiter Shade 14 B4 Time of seasons 15 B4 Emmersons Basic 16 B4 The Cat 17 B4 Born to B4 18 B4 Green Onions 19 B4 Brians Choice 20 B4 Lord 1 2l B4 Samba Pa Ti 2c B4 Small Faces 23 B4 Seasons of Witch 24
11. inet in a circle but in opposite directions With Spread at maximum they are at opposite sides Pan This control can place the treble to one side and bass to the other side of the stereo output In the extreme positions one side will be pure bass and the other pure treble Center is neutral with both treble and bass going equally to both stereo channel Balance Distance Balance This control determines the relative mix between the treble and bass speaker outputs This provides control of the tonal characteristics of the speaker output and therefore the entire plug in When turned all the way to the right you hear only the treble rotor Fully left and only the bass rotor is heard With the knob centered you get an even mix of the two rotors Distance This control sets the apparent distance between the micro phones and the rotors This affects the amplitude modulation of the mic d sound the change in volume as the rotor horn passes the micro phone When the microphones are at a small distance there is a lot of amplitude modulation making the sound pulsate Balance Control side view Angle and Distance Controls overhead view Treble Rotor microphones m a determines the Rotator Bass Rotor microphone location relative to the two speaker sections Distance determines Doppler effect and Pan Control side view Amplitude Modulation of the Rotator Sound Treble Rotor determines the
12. lly simply press the Save button to complete the saving of your new User Sound pom 2 Save C WERSI WERSI Direct Ltd O800 084 2013 www wersidirect com info wersidirect com
13. ly switch between different tonewheels by selecting a set from the menu it activates instantly Just like the old tonewheel organs the B4 has no master tune control because tonewheels run at a fixed synchronous speed that cannot be changed The only way to change the master tuning is to change the transmission ratios in the tonewheel generator something that s completely impractical in hardware but easilyachieved with the B4 s replace able tonewheel generator You can now choose the B3 Classic Tonewheel Set in different tunings The B3 classic set is in standard 440Hz tun ing You can also choose the tunings 436Hz 444Hz 448Hz and 452Hz Another important aspect of musical instruments is age The filter capacitor in Hammond tonewheel generators de teriorate with age which leads to an increase in leakage and rattle in the basic tone sound To simulate organs with different degrees of ageing there are Sets with varying amounts of purity or dirt The Organ type section of the display shows a data value box You can scroll Organ Type through the different B4 organ types The types are listed below Use the data tempo wheel to navigate through the available organ types Free Fixed This button allows you to change between preset fixed drawbar Sound shapes and free where you can change the drawbars live Sinus From This button allows you to choose the source from either sound Sinus from Or Please
14. relative location of N J each stereo Bass Rotor microphone The Spread control determines the distance between the microphones At the minimum setting the mics are side by side At the maximum setting they are at opposing sides of the Rotator q p OA S OAS B4 Edition User Manual WERSI Saving A B4 User Sound B4 Blues Acoustic Guitars 02 021 000 001 Acoustic Pianos 02 021 000 002 Cavinets 02 021 000 003 Contemporary Kits 02 021 000 004 Contemporary Percusssion 02 021 000 005 02 021 000 006 02 021 000 007 02 021 000 008 02 021 000 009 FL Edition 2 Galaxis insert new name DEO oo ae oe a ee ee he ee fe oe oe Be Be Be ee i Be od CE re oe oe b Save To save an B4 Sound simply press the Save button The Yellow save screen will appear Choose a free location that you would like to save your new sound to by pressing on the location it will then be highlighted in Yellow You can also assign the sound to a sound group If you wish to create a new group simply press the New Group button New Group You will then be asked to name your new group If you wish to change the name of your sound simply press on the large black bar at the top left hand corner of the screen that displays the sound name B4 Blues The screen to the left will then be shown displaying the Virtual Typewriter Once you have input a new name press the Enter button Fina
15. remember that as well as the Hammond B3 organ there are also B3 clean the organ models from Continental Farfisa and Harmonium dirty excessive ageing B3 filthy very crunchy Let your imagination run wild with far bevon j organs of yesteryear B3 classic 436 B3 classic 437 tuned to 437Hz B3 classic 438 B3 classic 439 tuned to 439Hz B3 classic 441 tuned to 441Hz B3 classic 442 tuned to 442Hz B3 classic 443 tuned to 443Hz B3 classic 444 tuned to 444Hz B3 classic 448 tuned to 448Hz B3 classic 452 tuned to 452Hz Continental Soft Soft version of the Continental Continental Hard Bright version of the Continental Continental Mix Medium version of the Continental Farfisa Compact Farfisa Compact Boost brighter Farfisa sound Harmonium Derived from an Indian Harmonium WERSI OAS B4 Edition User Manual OA J Percussion Percussion p Footing This control data value box allows you to change the Per pe cussion footage Volume This control data value box allows you to increase or de crease the volume of the Percussion footage Length This control data value box allows you to change the length of Lenght the Percussion effect A low value will result in a short Percussion effect while a high value will result in a longer sounding Percussion effect Percussion On Off This rocker switch allows you to turn the Percus sion effect on and off Footing Wol
16. s will then be displayed on the left hand side Choose the sound to audition it and when you re ready press the Load button EXTERN 1 EXTERN 2 OA 5 OAS B4 Edition User Manual WERSI Edit B4 Sounds Optional Sound Expansion The B4 editor allows you to edit the B4 VST organ sounds if activated as it is an optional extra Sound Expansion activation The B4 is made by a third party the German company Native Instruments An exclusive arrangement exists between WERSI and Native Instruments to be able to provide customers of the OpenArt System range of instruments the pos sibility of having this fantastic Hammond B3 organ clone alongside their OX7 and OAS drawbars The B4 operates using the physical WERSI drawbars and also the Rotor push button in the normal way that the OX7 and OAS drawbars operate The B4 also includes 120 sound presets many recreating the famous sounds of the Hammond B3 found on famous recordings from greats such as Jimmy Smith Procol Harlem and Booker T to name just a few To access the B4 Sound Editor go to the Settings page On the left hand side of the Settings menu you will see the Edit B4 Sounds button Press this button The following display will be shown when the B4 Sound Editor is launched BA heave etiimene 020 000 000 B4 Blues BA Bak j a i ay Bly 1 He F g Jir p 2 Ty 4 Ty 1 i B 5T He F i 7 iry T ht C h Oh gh hI h Oh Gh 4 hI Oo e Oh Ge
17. u simply press on the upward pointing nig cain Peeler menu Our example to the left shows the small hand owe fl ou Im ye A icon pointing towards the upward pointing button This will Be ii Free Sond EACE CE close the menu C1 Footing Volume Lenght e Free Fixed Sinus from Rotor slow fast Amplifier Keyclick The Drawbars This section of the drawbar editor shows the Upper T com Lower and Pedal drawbars These virtual drawbars corre i spond to the physical drawbars of your instrument where n lee present Upper Manual ar 4 iy p 4s Ty 1 Advanced The set of drawbars to the right 9 drawbars represent the Upper Manual TOETEREN 8 E WY E y Wy T To the far left you can see a button marked Pedal in A the top illustration When Pedal is selected you can alter syss the 6 pedal drawbars Press the beige light green button marked title to change the drawbar set to Lower Manual When the Lower Manual drawbars are active the name on the beige light green button will change to indicate Lower Manual 9 drawbars are also available for the Lower Manuals Main Advanced Vibrato The Vibrato section of the B4 allows you to not only turn the Vibrato controls on and off for both Upper and Lowe manuals but also select from 6 classic B3 Vibrato settings Vibrato Vibrato Lower This virtual rocker switch allows you to turn the Vibrato effect on or off for the Lower
18. ual and pedals just like the original Hammond of course 2 The B4 has a large library of preset organ sounds many are popular and famous emulations that can be found of records Of course all presets can be edited in the inclusive special B4 Sound Editor within the OpenArt System or you can play them freely over the Drawbars and manuals 3 The B4 Sound Presets 1 120 are for the Upper Manual The Lower Manual sound is shown as Preset B4 Lower Sound 121 4 The original B3 has no individual volume control for the overall volume except for the individual Drawbar sliders Once you have chosen a B4 sound Upper 1 Volume slider acts as the volume control of the overall B4 5 The actual B4 software program must run always minimized in the background behind the OpenArt System This may only make any sense to customers who understand computers Do not worry this is only a technical point and as your instrument is actually an instrument you do not need to know about this in order to play your OAS instrument 6 You can edit the B4 sounds from the inclusive Sound Editor B4 must be activated to access the Sound Editor Refer to the OAS 7 Programmers Manuals for detailed information on the B4 Sound Editor 7 The Drawbar Percussion Not applicable for Scala and Louvre is like the original B4 2nd and 3rd pitches are available as standard like the original B3 8 In the Digital Mixer of your instrument ensure that the B4 VST c
19. ume Rotor Slow Fast Rotor On Off Keyclick This control allows you to change This rocker switch This control data value box allows you increase the Rotor effect between Slow amp allows you to turn or decrease the volume of the famed Keyclick Fast Switch the control between the Rotor effect On effect of the Hammond organ sound the two settings and Off u Rotor slow fast Amplifier Keyclick s s 5 we Ie i i3 3 40 oo E O Drive Body Brightness Wolume PLEASE NOTE Amplifier Tube Amplifier Tube Ampe Drive determines f This section allows you to control the Amplifier of the B4 The Amplifier effect cre the preamp level sent to the main ates feedback depending on the amount of Overdrive set tube amp model Drive On Off This Rocker switch turns the Drive Amplifier On and Off At high levels this will force the tube amp into overdrive and can add a beefy Body This control data value box allows you to set the value for the body shape Rock sound to the organ of the amplifier Brightness this control data value box allows you to set the brightness of the Amplifier effect A high value will produce a brighter sharper effect while a low value will produce a darker more muddy effect Drive This control data value box allows you to set the amount of Overdrive Menu Controls The three controls allow you to Save a B4 sound and ch
20. ve 2 B4 Wersi Edition Setup exe starts installation 3 When the display is shown for the B4 Press Next 4 Choose I Accept 5 Enter the following Serial Number 236 1548 94978 6 The Installation will start Select B4 Wersi Edition VST Plugin Press Next 7 You will then be prompted to choose an installation destination It is important that the following destina tion is used C wersi plugins b4 Use the Browse button to navigate to the correct destination and then press the Next button Choose the Install into this folder option Ensure that the destination is C wersi plugins b4 Use the Browse button if this destination isn t automatically shown Press the Next button 9 Press the Next button 10 Press the Next button 11 The Promgram data will copy to your instrument 12 Press the Finish button 13 Now restart your instrument shut down your instru ment and turn it on again OAS B4 Edition User Manual 2 Choose Components In the options list below select the checkboxes for the options that you would like to have installed M B4 Weni Edition Standalone application h Bd Wersi Edition VST Plugin chak tie 2 _ Cmo va Choose Destination Location Setup will install Native Instruments B4 wersi E ditian in the xj To install inte a different folder click Browse snd seleot anoth
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