Hammond Gm 1000

GS Module (1994)

"Gm GM module with of course particular attention to organ, also branded as Sound Saurus BH-1000."

Overview

OVERVIEW half rack module, with 16x2 lines display backlit. General-Midi Expander with traditional (and variation) GM-sounds and Hammond sounds based on VASE (versatile advanved sound technology) developped by hammond-suzuki.
INITIALIZE RESET: turn on pushing (ALL MUTE) button

TERMINAL CONNECTORS: Not much on the front but headphones, rear:
-audio out cinch LR
-Serial I/O for old computer RS232 (select with dedicated nearby switch selector)
-2 Midi input + 1 out + 1 thru
-PSU input, negative center 10VDC

Sound and effects

SOUND plain rompler with 8mb wavetable at 16 bits 44kHz machine, includes 266 sounds (GM 128 voices + 138 variations) + 9 drums sets (102 voices) = 368 voices; Special, and most interesting the 32 hammons variations with dedicated digital leslie emulation
Sounds cannot be really edited, but module a couple of parameters such as envelope attack/decay/release, filter cutoff and resonance, plus LFO modulator vibrato depth, delay and of course rate. Module is fully compliant to sysex editor for advanced editing.

EFFECTS: 8 reverbs: like room hall plate and 8 choruses including also echo, and leslie , flanger and delays. Parameters can be adjusted basically on the screen.