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Vintage B3 overview
Vintage B3 emulates the sound and features of the Hammond B3 organ with two manuals
(keyboards) and a pedalboard, each of which can have its own registration (sound setting). You
can play all registers with a single-manual master keyboard, or you can use two manuals and a
MIDI pedalboard. Vintage B3’s Component modeling synthesis engine faithfully replicates the
tonewheel generators of an electromechanical Hammond organ, down to the smallest detail.
This includes charming aws, such as the Hammond’s enormous level of crosstalk and the
scratchiness of the key contacts. You can adjust the intensity of these characteristics, enabling
tones that range from awlessly clean through to dirty and raucous—or anything in between.
Vintage B3 also simulates various types of Leslie sound cabinets—with rotating speakers, with
and without deectors. A exible integrated eects section provides tube overdrive, an equalizer,
a wah wah, and a reverberation eect.
The interface is divided into two main areas with a third area visible in some windows. The
control bar at the top lets you access dierent controls in windows shown in the central display
section. The lower edge gives you direct access to Leslie speed controls when the Main or Rotor
Cabinet window is shown.
Click the control bar buttons to update the central display.
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Main button: Shows the draw bars, which are used to make changes to the basic organ sound
in real time. Additional performance and setup controls can be accessed with the Control,
Preset, and Split buttons in the lower-right corner. See Vintage B3 Main window overview.
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Rotor Cabinet button: Shows the Leslie speaker cabinet model and control parameters. See
Vintage B3 Rotor Cabinet window overview.
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Options button: Shows several tone controls that provide quick access to various aspects of
your sound. Advanced controls for Percussion, Scanner Vibrato, and Morph are also found in
the Options window. See Vintage B3 Options window overview.
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Eects button: Shows controls for the built-in EQ, Wah, Distortion, Chorus, and Reverb eects.
See Use Vintage B3 eects.
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Expert button: Shows Organ, Pitch, Condition, Sustain, and Miscellaneous controls. These
provide precise control over the tone of the organ and over other aspects, such as tuning,
draw bar leakage, key click characteristics, and crosstalk levels. You generally access
these parameters only when editing or creating an organ sound. See Vintage B3 Expert
window overview.
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