How the gizmo works - 1

• The gizmo is a type of sound module called a ‘SoundFont synthesiser’.
• A ‘SoundFont’ is a collection of patches in one file.
• Each individual patch is a combination of samples ( usually of a real instrument ), and some parameters ( like vibrato or reverb ) that tweak the sample.
• So a SoundFont file looks a lot like a bank – and that’s how the gizmo treats it.
• It uses 8 banks ( it could use a few more, but it’s limited by the amount of memory they use ), and each bank is loaded from a particular SoundFont file. 7 files are ‘Hammond’ sounds, 1 is ‘General MIDI’.