While programming my new Drawbar Collection 1, I found out, that almost all the CX3 factory sounds do "internally overdrive" - No, I don´t mean the tube amp emulation, I mean the sound engine by itself, even before the output sound reaches internally the Kronos outputs.
You will hear these bad scratching noises of digital overdrive especially while playing chords with CX3 rotary sounds in the upper octaves... First I thought, the reason why I hear these noises might be broken loudspeakers, but then I tried to listen on different pairs of speakers, recorded some of the CX3 sounds to my DAW through the optical connection and as well listened to them by headphones, connected to the headphone output: It´s everywhere the same - no matter if you lower the master volume or not - It´s always there and was also confirmed by some other guy on a german forum, where I posted the problem already this afternoon.




I found out, that on the display, there´s a tab in EXi1 called Amp/Rotary, where you can set near the bottom line a Main Output for the CX3 Engine... Only if you lower the volume there down to something like 30, the digital overdrive will disappear (of course, this does not affect the overdrive tube emulation for some old sounding hammond sounds, it just lowers the output volume in total for the CX3 Engine...)
I suppose, Korg made some kind of big mistake in programming this - either in the sound programming or in programming the engine itself!

It is nescessary to edit every single programm now, to get rid of the problem... But this brings another problem: In comparison with the other sounds, the corrected organ sounds are slightly less loud now...



Of course, in my Drawbar Collection 1, I already took care of this problem and these sounds will not digitally overdrive the engine output at all... See my signature below for more info...

Cheers
Garfield