Xpack - Digital Sound Factory - B3 Tone Wheel Organ

Digital Sound Factory has designed for Cakewalk’s Rapture Pro and Rapture Session virtual instruments this collection of classic B-3 sounds. Each drawbar and combinations of drawbars were recorded and processed for the ultimate sound. Rapture’s powerful user interface allows for quick editing of drawbar settings and timbre.

The B3 generates sounds using a tone generator consisting of an AC synchronous motor driving a set of 91 tone wheels, each of which rotates adjacent to a magnet and coil assembly. The number of bumps on each wheel determines the pitch produced by a particular tone wheel. The Hammond uses a unique drawbar system of additive timbre synthesis and stable tuning. A note on the organ consists of the fundamental and a number of harmonics, or multiples of that frequency. In the B3, the fundamental and up to eight harmonics are available, controlled the drawbars which are labeled to represent pipe organ pitches. The two speed Leslie rotating speaker was a large part of the B3’s signature sound. Counterrotating sound deflectors (one for the woofer and one for the tweeter) create a wonderful Doppler vibrato effect.

Specifications:

• 1,148 mono samples (135MB)
  
• Resolution: 44.1 kHz, 16-bit
  
• Programs: 50 Drawbar Settings, 20 Grooves (Step Generator)
  
• Compatibility: Rapture Pro, Rapture Session
  
• Instrument Page controls: Drawbar Volume, Leslie Enhance, Tone, Harmonic Percussion Amount, Overdrive, Clip, FX Amount, and more
  
• Special features: Modulation Wheel controls Leslie speed

Program naming indicates each of the nine drawbars eight volume setting amount.
000000000 = All drawbars in – no volume
888888888 = All drawbars out – full volume.

Program Listing:

	Drawbars
Little Sweety		000808008
Harmonic Tone Vib		003787510 Vibrato
Harmonic Tone		003787510
Purity		008007008
Nice Comp 1		008504000
Nice Comp 2		008540000
Fundimentals		008808000
Lite & Airy Vib		086311580 Vibrato
Lite & Airy		086311580
Under Layment		088008000
Odd Harmonics		088070600
16'&1' Mix		16'&1' Mix
16'&1' Mix Vib		16'&1' Vibrato Mix
16'&1'		800000008
Edgy		800000880
Story Time		800060080
Churchy		803787510
Even Bars 1		808000008
Even Bars 2		808008000
Even Bars 3		808080000
Smultze		811003148 Vibrato
Solid Backing		860070000
Progressive Vib		886311588 Vibrato
Progressive		886311588
Jazzy Overdrive		888000000 Overdrive
Jazzy Vibrato		888000000 Vibrato
Jazzy		888000000
Lushness 1		888000808
Lushness 2		888000880
Beauty		888008008
Classic Vib		888080000 Vibrato
Classic		888080000
Eighties		888088000
First Four Vib		888800000 Vibrato
First Four		888800000
Classic Rock 1		888800008
Classic Rock 2		888800080
Classic Rock 3		888800800
Classic Rock 4		888808000
Classic Rock 5		888808008
All Out Overdrive		888888888
Overdrive All Out Vibrato		888888888 Vibrato
All Out		888888888
Bass Pedals
Digi Organ
Digi Organ 2
Digi Organ 3
First 3 Drawbars
Rock Organ 1
Rock Organ 2

Grooves

• All Out Groov'in
  
• Auto Drive
  
• Cascade
  
• Cruizer
  
• Digi Step
  
• Flutter
  
• Gate It Fader
  
• Ground Runner
  
• Ka Delic
  
• Magic Comper
  
• Melody Chaser 1
  
• Melody Chaser 2
  
• No Answer
  
• Rhythmic Comp
  
• Rock Pulse
  
• Shimmers Staggered
  
• The Code