Almost all comtemporary electronic musical instruments generate their sound "on the fly" : this means that wheneven a note is pressed, the computer figures out which key and sound-characteristics are needed and fetches this information out of a sample-table from the computers memory-banks.
This information is then processed to produce the actual sound. All of this happens within milli-seconds after any key is pressed.

In contrast to the above the New B-3 has an " all-note continuous " sound-generator: Inspired by the original Hammond tone-wheel generator in which 92 wheels are spinning continuously, the new generation Hammond is producing every single one of 92 sine-waves all the time...
Each of these 92 signals is mapped to the multi-contact system, which is again inspired on the original B-3 : whenever a key is pressed each of the 9 corresponding drawbar sine-waves is "un-blocked" by its individual contact...

The implications of this are staggering...
just think about it for a while...
think about the dynamics involved... instead of any note needing to be retrieved any generated after the key is pressed, the sound is actually already there, but is being detained by the key-contact, ready to spring out...
This explains the incredible dynamic sound experience that only Hammond creates... you will be impressed by the sheer massive pressure-wave that this instrument can release...
It all has to do with "continuous tone-generation "

Another aspect is the polyphony : over are the days of 16, 32, 64, 128-note polyphonie... over are the days of "note out-phasing"... every single drawbar-note is there... all the time... that's what we call " all-note generation".

Only Hammond, inspired on the longest tradition of drawbar-generation, can offer you the experience and emotion of such truely "virtual tone-wheel generation"...