how do you get this keyboard sound? OCEANS 11,12,13

[andygabrys]

thanks everybody for chiming in on this one!

[mojobone]

That's just a Hammond with percussion and delay; it sounds funky because the delayed repeats are coming back at about the same speed as the thumb gliss.

A Hammond organ produces a series of sine waves; a fundamental, based on the the key that you press, and a number of "harmonics" of related pitch, which are controlled by the drawbars, (as is the fundamental, which in most registrations is labeled 8') in amounts according to how far the drawbars are pulled out. The percussion note is based on the second or third harmonic and sounds rather like a marimba; (it has a fast decay, unlike the sine waves which last as long as a note/key is held) only the first-struck note gets the percussion layer; (and no new percussion note will trigger as long as a key is still held down) Hammond players tend to use this feature to accentuate notes within a line. (only the first note struck within a chord or diad will have the percussion note) THAT's how you know it's either a Hammond or a good emulator.

[mazz]

Yeah, the percussion on a real Hammond is monophonic. Another trick is to turn off all the drawbars and only have the percussion on. That could very well be the way this sound was created.

An example of a similar sound created with a clavinet is the intro to Stevie Wonder's "You Haven't Done Nothin" from the classic album Fufillingness' First Finale. Of course the Moog bass line from Boogie on Reggae Woman off the same album is unbelievable, but that's another subject!!!