DigiTech RP500 rotary speaker effect

[Jazzman1949]

Any keyboard players here own a DigiTech RP500 effects unit? It has a really nice rotary speaker effect that I like using on my keyboards, and I was wondering if anyone had any "optimum settings" to most closely emulate a Leslie cabinet.

The settings in question on the RP500 are: Intensity, Doppler (pitch shift between horn & rotor positions) and Crossover (frequency between horn & rotor 200Hz to 1600Hz).

Thanks much.

 

[c7sus]

"Unearthing The Mysteries of the Leslie Cabinet"

The stock Leslie crossover is a 12 dB per octave, 800 Hz unit requiring both 16-ohm high- and low-frequency drivers for correct performance.

 

[Jazzman1949]

Thank you for your input.

 

[c7sus]

FWIW, the "intensity" setting of a real Leslie is 100%. The entire signal is going through the Leslie unless you have a tone cabinet too.

The Doppler setting is going to be personal taste.

A Leslie speaker has a couple different options for the speed of the horn, and the options are three different sized pulleys that the belt goes around. The difference in the diameters of the pulley settings is about 1/8 of an inch, so it's not much.

AFAIK the speed of the lower drum is fixed.

 

[Jazzman1949]

And thank you, too for your experienced input.

 

[wkrbee]

Not a direct reply, but have you tried a motion sound pro 3 or pro 3T?