
However, I haven’t had a chance yet to get very in depth with these tools. This tutorial is designed to help you maximize your efficiency when working with the navigation and view tools in SketchUp. This tutorial will focus primarily on the view tools included in the getting started toolbar in SketchUp. A future tutorial will focus on the more advanced view and camera tools. Let’s go ahead and start off by taking a look at the navigation tools that are included in the getting started toolbar in SketchUp. These tools can be found at the top of your screen.


The first tool on the left is the tool that you’ll probably use the most when moving around in your models. You can use the orbit tool to move the camera around your model. There are several different ways you can activate the orbit tool. You can click once on the orbit tool icon in your toolbar, then left click and drag on your screen to move around. You can activate the tool using the “o” key on your keyboard, then click and drag on your screen to move around. Finally, if your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can click and hold down the scroll wheel while moving your mouse to orbit around your model (this is how I most often use the orbit tool). The nice thing about this third option (clicking your scroll wheel) is that it keeps whatever tool you were using at the time active.
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It makes a pretty good MIDI controller too and I'm thinking of gigging my JV-880 with the SR-JV80-08 card, because I love the "Blues Perc" patch and I can't seem to dial it in on the drawbars.This means that if you were drawing a line and you’d set your first point, then you click and hold your scroll wheel to orbit around in your model, as soon as you let up on the scroll wheel button, SketchUp would resume using the line tool while keeping the first point that you set. As an organist, I don't really need a bender, except to simulate the effect of quickly switching the organ off and on again for the tonewheel braking effect. The only issue I've encountered is the bender lever doesn't seem to return to center and if I'm not careful, I'll end up playing out of tune. The harpsichord is terrific, but isn't very useful in a blues band. I'm not any great shakes as a piano player, so the rather weak acoustic piano patches aren't too much of a problem, I like the Wurlie and Rhodes patches - better than my '75 Rhodes Stage 73 in fact.

The Leslie simulation is wonderful, and I wish Roland/Boss would incorporate it's technology into a second generation RT-20 pedal. The Roland was brighter on the higher octaves than the Hammond, but then the C3's never been (and probably never will be) recapped. When I first got it, I set up a shootout with my 1956 C Leslie 147, and the comparison was very impressive. The 760 does a great job for just about every tune my band plays, and as a multi-Hammond owner I can say that the feel of the keyboard is just great - the only thing missing is the nine contact keying.
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I'm so very happy to only have to carry my V-Combo plus a Roland JC120 to shows now. Previously, I used a chopped Hammond M3 with my old Yamaha DX-7 on top, plus JV-8 in a rack cabinet (overkill.). This is my first post here, and I thought i'd jump in - I've been gigging my VR-760 for about 10 months now.
