Anyone who's familiar with subtractive synthesis will find themselves thinking 'I'll just change that LFO speed and release time.

The lack of control is more frustrating with Pro 53 Xpress. This isn't too much of a problem, because the presets cover a decent range of drawbar settings, but you can't do those classic swells and fades, where you move the drawbars whilst holding notes. The obvious difference compared to the full-blown B4 is that there are no drawbars tone controls are limited to Bass, Treble and Brilliance. In each case, six rotary controls provide reasonable room for manoeuvre when it comes to sonic tweaks.ī4 Xpress allows you to adjust the amount of overdrive, percussion and vibrato, and to switch the virtual Leslie on or off and between fast and slow settings. Most of them are very usable, and deliver a good selection of classic Hammond, Prophet and DX7 sounds. You can load presets and make tonal changes to them, but can't program your own sounds from scratch.Ībout 50 presets are available for each of the three instruments. What's cut down is not the sound, but the amount of control available to the user.

Native Instruments' Xpress Keyboards features cut-down versions of their B4 tonewheel organ emulation, Pro 53 Prophet 5 emulation and FM7 DX-alike.

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