The entire speaker emulation can also be bypassed, providing the opportunity to send B5 through an external rotary effect plug-in. A ‘Paradise’ button, when engaged, prevents the percussion from decaying to silence (a nod to Jimmy Smith) and, rounding off this section, the percussion’s recharge time is also adjustable - very useful for bringing clarity to fast note repetitions.Įssential to any Hammond emulation, B5’s rotary speaker effect offers seven different modelled Leslie cabinets 25 different (non-rotary) amp/speaker models are also provided as alternatives to the rotary cabinet. You can also opt to defeat the drawbars’ volume drop when using the Normal tab. On B5, you can choose which drawbar is stolen - or even choose to have none stolen at all. When percussion is engaged on a real Hammond, the ninth drawbar is stolen for the purpose. It’s also possible to set the 2nd and 3rd percussion pitches to any of the nine drawbar pitches. The Percussion section is also highly customisable normal and soft levels are adjustable to personal taste, as are fast and slow decay times. The pedals’ optional ‘string bass’ mode adds a variable release time, helping to smooth out bass lines.

For players that don’t use a pedalboard, the drawbars’ ‘foldback’ can be disabled, allowing the bass tone to be assigned to either or both manuals. The overall character of the organ can be shaped by fine-tuning the volume range of each drawbar (rather like adding virtual resistance wires), and even altering the distance of each of the 91 ‘tonewheels’ from the pickups. All the crucial elements of a Hammond are reproduced: upper and lower manuals, pedals, drawbars, percussion, key click, scanner chorus/vibrato, tube distortion, rotary effect and more.ī5’s major twist, however, is the extent to which you can customise the instrument, in much the same way that Hammond owners ‘mod’ their instruments. Although based on samples, B5 utilises clever synthesis tricks to overcome the ‘sample stacking’ phase-cancellation artifacts typically associated with sample-based virtual organs. Acousticsamples’ B5 Hammond organ VST runs on UVI’s Workstation player.

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