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RAWBARS

The drawbars of Nord Electro 2 are represented by buttons and LED chain graphs instead of ordinary me-
chanical drawbars. This gives you a big advantage: when you change presets or Programs, the correct draw-
bar settings are recalled immediately and shown by the LEDs. In other words, no need for the regular ’trial 
and error’ method. It’s very easy to get the hang of changing the drawbar settings in a natural way with 
the buttons.

The drawbars of Nord Electro 2 
behave similar to their mechanical 
counterparts, i.e. you “pull out” 
the drawbars by pressing the 
L

 buttons and 

“push them back in” by pressing 
the U

 buttons. 

The D

 buttons are spe-

cial in the way that they auto-in-
crement/decrement the drawbar 
value when held. I.e. if you hold a 
D

 button the corre-

sponding drawbar value will con-
tinue to increment or decrement 
(within its range) until you release 
the button. Each drawbar repre-
sents a partial. The numbers 
printed below each D

LED C

 have a history. 

Originally, the B-3 was created to 
mimic a church organ. The num-
bers on the B-3’s drawbars re-
ferred to pipe sizes on a church organ. That’s why it, for example, says 16’, 5 1/3’ etc. It corresponds to the 
church organ’s pipe length in foot. In the figure above you can see the pitch interval among the nine draw-
bars. Note that the second drawbar from the left actually lies a 5th 

above the basic partial. However, in most 

situations it’s perceived as sounding 

below the basic partial. When you play different notes on the keyboard, 

the whole partial “package” is being transposed up or down with the fixed intervals.

D

RAWBAR

 

PRESETS

Below the U

 

buttons are print-
ed 8 drawbar pre-
sets plus RND 
(Random). Press 
S

 + the corresponding U

 button to select one of these presets. There are 8 different 

drawbar presets plus the ‘Random drawbar settings’ function. The Random function generates a new ran-
dom preset every time you activate it.