HaNon B70 Hammond B3 VST

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I happened upon a nice B3 Organ VSTi yesterday. It's free, but I'm going to contribute (buy the guy a beer :drunk: ). I had to download VST, .exe, and .dll files separately. This wouldn't appear in Reaper's FX from my Plugins folder so I moved it over to the Steinberg/VSTPlugins folder and that did it.

I've been trying hard not to get back into synth music, but after listening to a basement recording of a song by our ex-lead guitarist/bandleader in a short-lived band, all I could hear in my head was a re-write with some good organ.

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spantini said:
This wouldn't appear in Reaper's FX from my Plugins folder so I moved it over to the Steinberg/VSTPlugins folder and that did it.
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I downloaded the instrument to check it out.

I simply downloaded the vst file which came zipped. I extracted it to my my usual vst folder, i.e. C: program files/vst plugins, and also found it missing when I loaded Reaper.

However, when I checked the preferences in Reaper, I noticed that folder wasn't in the path. I xied that, and it appeared.

Curiously, my 32bit Reaper had that path, but not the 64 bit version.
 
I have quite a lot of VSTs that have downloaded right into my Plugins folder, so the path is there for me - some of them don't and I have to move them into another folder. I haven't figured it out yet.
 
gecko zzed said:
I simply downloaded the vst file which came zipped. I extracted it to my my usual vst folder, i.e. C: program files/vst plugins, and also found it missing when I loaded Reaper.

However, when I checked the preferences in Reaper, I noticed that folder wasn't in the path. I xied that, and it appeared.
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What's your path? I'll compare it to mine.
 
spantini said:
I happened upon a nice B3 Organ VSTi yesterday. It's free, but I'm going to contribute (buy the guy a beer :drunk: ). I had to download VST, .exe, and .dll files separately. This wouldn't appear in Reaper's FX from my Plugins folder so I moved it over to the Steinberg/VSTPlugins folder and that did it.

I've been trying hard not to get back into synth music, but after listening to a basement recording of a song by our ex-lead guitarist/bandleader in a short-lived band, all I could hear in my head was a re-write with some good organ.

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Listen to the samples - the Organ sounds thin a lot of the time.
 
Some of the factory presets sound full - too me, but keys aren't my instrument so I can't comment too much there. Someone such as @TAE here could offer some objective feedback.
 
I listened to the demo and it sounds just fine.....totally can get the B3 sound...ran through a leslie you'd be hard pressed to be able to distinguish between the two. These days there are a ton of VST apps that do a great job even iPad apps amazing...

I totally thought I was going to go the app / vst way and midi keyboard controller until I did a gig with an ipad and found myself scrambling to use the internal sounds in the keyboard I was using...fortunately it wasn't just a controller...for me that sealed the deal for not using VST's live at least for now...
Love em in the studio but it is a cavernous dark hole.....I have a little box that is a hybrid from the creamware stuff of 20 years ago called the plugiator...holy shit I could spend months toodling around with the synths in that thing soo cool...but it sits in my arsenal almost never used...KVR is an abyss of VST's

The Mojo which is a sweet "hardware vintage keys" board is actually just a controller with a dedicated processor using VST's for the sounds...for the hammond sounds they actually use the VB3 vsti which is a damn good emulator
 
TAE said:
I listened to the demo and it sounds just fine.....totally can get the B3 sound...ran through a leslie you'd be hard pressed to be able to distinguish between the two. These days there are a ton of VST apps that do a great job even iPad apps amazing...

I totally thought I was going to go the app / vst way and midi keyboard controller until I did a gig with an ipad and found myself scrambling to use the internal sounds in the keyboard I was using...fortunately it wasn't just a controller...for me that sealed the deal for not using VST's live at least for now...
Love em in the studio but it is a cavernous dark hole.....I have a little box that is a hybrid from the creamware stuff of 20 years ago called the plugiator...holy shit I could spend months toodling around with the synths in that thing soo cool...but it sits in my arsenal almost never used...KVR is an abyss of VST's

The Mojo which is a sweet "hardware vintage keys" board is actually just a controller with a dedicated processor using VST's for the sounds...for the hammond sounds they actually use the VB3 vsti which is a damn good emulator.
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I guess most all keys today are like the mojo just most ( Roland, Korg, Yamaha, Casio ) use their proprietary software as opposed to VSTs out on the market
 
TAE said:
I listened to the demo and it sounds just fine.....totally can get the B3 sound...ran through a leslie you'd be hard pressed to be able to distinguish between the two...
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This VST does have Leslie set-ups and controls - it helps a lot.
 
spantini said:
This VST does have Leslie set-ups and controls - it helps a lot.
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Yep most do and they sound so damn good I got rid of my B3 and leslie! I was sold at an Amos Lee concert about 10 years ago or so..keyboard player was playing a Nord...Man it sounded great and where's the leslie? After the show I went and studied the gear on the stage ..nope no leslie anywhere...So I bought the Nord....I did a few more concerts with the B3 and then did one at the same venue with the Nord...No way you could tell the difference in the videos...Yes playing a B3 "feels much different" cooler and looks so cool too but the loading and unloading to and from a gig....after watching that video ........Hammond B3 and leslie FOR SALE a few weeks later...C-ya Bye to those back breakers... MAYBE someday in my studio I'll buy another b3 if I hit the lotto....I do have an m3 stashed in the room and the Lester K emulater but it NEVER gets broken out..
 
Here's a side by side with my old native instruments B4 - in fact it's amazing for a free vsti. I found this unmixed thing and replaced every other 12 bar organ with the freebie. I shoved the organs up in the mix and just took the others in a straight line - so there's bum notes and mess in places - it does expose the organ though. The clue is that the last organ is the B4 one I alway use - every other 12 bar swaps. I think it's just thin and a bit too clean - I'm keeping it on the system though.
 

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Thanks, Rob. Good comparison. It does fall away some in the low end. Maybe running it through an amp sim would fill it out.
 
I think it could definitely be warmed up with a bit of care and attention - it's not at all a bad sim. It actually reminded me of the difference between the B3 and C3 and the more home oriented spinet-type electronic versions that never had that roughnesss. I could have bought a C3 in 1984, and turned it down because I couldn't get it home.
 
spantini said:
I happened upon a nice B3 Organ VSTi yesterday. It's free,
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Cool I ll check it out.
spantini said:
I've been trying hard not to get back into synth music,
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It is USELESS to Resist US!

spantini said:
Maybe running it through an amp sim would fill it out.
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Could I just run it out the outputs on the interface? How would I do this?

Two computers, one with an apollo USB on the recieving side, and a Computer with my line 6 UX2 sending the VST output to amp. Two ASIOs. Wait..I went to far..
 
rob aylestone said:
It actually reminded me of... ...and the more home oriented spinet-type electronic versions that never had that roughnesss.
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I think you nailed it with that.
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This Leslie does have a Clean<-->Dirty Drive adjustment - sounds a bit rough to my ears but it could blend in with a mix, I suppose.
 
I've got to get into the soft synth thing. I'll just warn you, I'm going to need help. Lot's of help.

Nothing fancy. Pads, pianos, electric pianos, some strings, and definitely a B3.

And I'm not a keyboard player.
 
Just as a benchmark of what a hammond B3 can sound like ...My hammond 101 class back in 1969...damn boy could play and make that hammond scream and he could scream pretty well his damn self.... That's a Krueger bass added to the hammond bass pedals ..Just Lee n Frosty the whole album recorded in 6 hours o_O

 
Lachey is doing a pretty good job of carrying on the tradition...Love this guy...ya oughta see what he does with a wurlitzer and a whammy bar!
 
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