Trend price : 200€
Rackmount expander based on proteus 1000 series aimed at Hammond organs emulation like Model B3, C3 and A100 with different Leslie settings.
Overview
(weight: 3 Kg) 1 unit. The front panel features a LCD display, 9 buttons + 4 knobs for real-time parameter controls (they do transmit Midi CC#)
Terminal connectors:
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Midi interface
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main out
- headphones
Voice
Coldfire processor manages 64 digital voices. A basic patch is composed by 4 tones PCM samples
Wavetable
many PCM are directly sampled from the authentic Hammond B3 with different Leslie and valves saturation or amplifications combinations.
PCM are divided in 2 main categories:
- simple pre-calculated digital harmonics.
- samples from most famous drawbars combinations (numbers), a lot of presets are ready to go and need no changes: the box is already loaded with the top vintage from many historical hits.
Performance
the global mode manages 16 parts with individual settings:
- pan and volume
- transpose
- split (link)
Filter
there are 50 models of Z-plane filters inspired from the previous module EMU Morpheus. First types are the classic ones including lowpass, highpass and bandpass and more sophisticated ones like swept octave EQ, phasers, flangers, vocal formant filters.
LFO
2 interchangeable delayed modulators both can be assigned to and open matrix structure that manages various sources and modulation destinations. Typical destinations are: pitch, amplitude or filter.
Envelope
EG1: amplitude (1 for each layer)
EG2: filter (1 for each layer)
EG3: AUX
assignable
Effect
- DSP1: 44 reverb and echo algorithms including hall, room, plate and delay
- DSP2: 32 modulation algorithms like chorus, flanger, phaser and vibrato
Memory
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512 RAM patches
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384 ROM patches on the B3 SIMM
- 12 ROM microtuning
- 12 RAM microtuning
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: hammond-related / some good presets
NOT : no drawbars / edit / too static
"Emu B3 is a box loaded with a lot of most famous B3 combinations, but maybe professional hammondists should look somewhere else"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci