Viscount Legend SOUL 273 Digital Tonewheel Organ - Black

Legend Soul 273 organ, in collaboration with Joey DeFrancesco, excels for its powerful technology able to reproduce the iconic 9 contacts mechanic in digital way. Its innovative technology, combined with the improved keyclick simulation, gives to Legend Soul 273 a unique richness of the harmonic components and a realistic taste to the sounds. Its appealing style, mixed with its advanced technology, makes Legend Soul 273 one-of-a-kind.

• Premium waterfall keyboards with 73 keys (61 + 12 reversed keys)
• Virtual 9 contact keyboard
• Vintage transistor and pipe organ models
• Enhanced rotary simulation
• Powered DSP platform and new features
• Two full sets of drawbars per manual
• Harmonic percussion
• Improved keyclick simulation, diversified on the 9 drawbar contacts
• Effects volume vibrato and chorus
• Upper and lower real-time controls
• Half-moon switch
• 11-pins Leslie® connector
• Improved Fx send/return
• USB power charger

Perfect Arrangement

VISCOUNT Legend Soul 273 organ, designed and engineered in Italy in cooperation with Joey DeFrancesco, provides incredible expressive capabilities. It comes in a perfect portable solution with an easy-to-use interface. The Legend Soul 273 uses the latest in tonewheel modelling technology with the addition of our patented technology able to reproduce the iconic 9 contacts mechanic in digital way, allowing exigent musicians to play without compromise the fabulous original organ sound.

Full Set of Drawbars

Legend Soul 273 has two full sets of 9 drawbars for the upper keyboard, two full sets of 9 drawbars for the lower keyboard and 2 pedal drawbars.

Percussion

Located right where they belong are the rocker tabs to control the 2nd and 3rd harmonic percussion. Soft and normal percussion volume, fast and slow percussion decay.

Topper / Upper / Lower Realtime Controls

Topper Manual Realtime Controls include: Volume; Keyclick; Crosstalk; Reverb; Drive; Vibrato and Chours; Pedals Sustain; Percussion (Decay, Volume); Percussion (On-Off); Percussion Volume (Soft-Normal); Percussion Decay (Fast-Slow); Percussion Harmonic Selector (Third-Second) Upper Manual Realtime Controls include: Edit; Exit; Transpose; Model (T.Wheels, Pipe, Transistor); Lower Manual Realtime Controls include: Rotary/Amp Bypass; Pedals (Direct, To Lower), Equalizer (Bass, Middle, Treble); Effects (Ring Modulator, Flanger, Phaser, Wah, Tremolo, Delay).

Volume (Soft/normal) Vibrato and Chorus

You can use vibrato/chorus independently for the upper and lower manuals or together. Use the familiar rotary control to select all three Vibrato and Chorus settings.

9 Contacts Keyboards

Along with the best sound and being easy to play, Legend Soul 273 has two 73-note keyboards with the feel of a tonewheel organ. The innovation of Legend Soul line is the patent pending 9 contacts keyboard, which combined with the improved keyclick simulation, offers a unique richness of the harmonic components.

2 Drawbars Presets Realtime Controls

Two “Black Octaves” (one for each manual) are available on Legend Soul 273. You can change drawbars settings in real-time, like the original tonewheel organs; also there is the option of using the pre-sets keys as a proper key to play.

Latest in Modeling Technology

VISCOUNT Legend Soul 273 organ uses the innovative TMT (Tonewheel Modelling Technology) able to perfectly clone the classic tonewheel organ. The result is a natural sound that can’t be obtained by traditional sampling. In the Soul line our TMT has been combined with our patent pending 9 contacts keyboard and the improvement of the keyclick simulation, diversified on the 9 drawbar contacts, giving to Soul 273 a unique richness of the harmonic components and a realistic taste of the sounds.

Audio Connections

AUDIO IN/OUT: Legend Soul 273 can be connected to either a keyboard amplifier via outputs left / right. Possibly, via 11 pin connection, it can be connected to a Rotary Speaker.

Audio Pedals Output

Legend Soul 273 is the only one with a pedals output dedicated to the sound of the pedalboard, without getting into the channel of Vibrato/Chorus and Rotary Emulation.

FX Send/ Return

Be able to connect your favourite external effect. ANALOG IN: It allows you to use the effects of an external instrument. INPUT GAIN: It allows you to control the volume of an external instruments.

Pedal Controls

EXP: Expression pedal
ROTARY: To change the speed of the Rotary.

MIDI

FULL MIDI: In, Out, Pedals Keyb Only.
USB
USB TO HOST: useful to connect a computer for MIDI and Editing App.
POWER CHARGE DEVICE: useful for software update with a Usb Stick. You can power supply Smartphone / Tablet.