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Blue3 Tonewheel Organ

by Cherry Audio4.7(15 ratings)
AU
macOS
4.7 (15 ratings)
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About

GG Audio's Blue3 tonewheel organ is back, better, and more affordable, with a whole new look from Cherry Audio.

Blue3 is meticulously modeled — not sampled — to replicate the most famous tonewheel organs in the world. With 31 tonewheel sets accurately capturing variations between vintage instruments, 91 modeled tonewheels with phase synchronization, and authentically emulated scanner vibrato/chorus, Blue3 delivers the iconic, soulful sounds associated with nearly a century of blues, gospel, rock, and jazz classics.

Cherry Audio’s Blue3 features a new, beautifully designed user interface with Main, Edit, Cabinet, and Perform sections. And it goes beyond the traditional B3 sound with the addition of three studio-quality stompbox-style effects: tape echo delay, reverb with spring, plate, and hall, and a seven-band graphic EQ.

Blue3 offers full upper, lower, and pedal manual polyphony, a customizable keyboard split function, and handy drawbar utilities including copy, swap, reset, and randomize. Tones can be further refined with settings for condition, key click, percussion, and multiple overdrive options.

Features

  • Painstakingly modeled replication of the world-famous tonewheel organs — no samples used
  • 31 tonewheel sets based on vintage B-3, C-3, A-100, L-100, CV and M-3 instruments
  • 91 modeled tonewheels with accurate phase synchronization
  • Full polyphony for upper, lower, and pedal manuals
  • UPDATED! Gorgeously rendered resizable UI with Main, Edit, Cabinet, and Perform pages
  • Registration (inverted) keys with A# & B drawbar presets
  • Adjustable Condition settings with tonewheel crosstalk, flutter, leakage, noise, and transformer settings
  • Selectable foldback for the 16’ drawbar
  • Customizable keyboard split function
  • Global three-band output EQ
  • NEW! Copy, swap, reset, and randomize options for Upper and Lower drawbars
  • Accurately simulated “scanner” vibrato/chorus with swell, great, and type and depth settings
  • Key Click options for volume and tone
  • Percussion for top manual with fine-tuning controls for volume, decay, and harmonic selector
  • Drive with four different tube simulations to emulate the preamp and rotary enclosure’s amplifier
  • Classic 122, 147, RA-200, 4x12 guitar amp, and custom rotary speaker simulations, along with direct
  • Adjustable rotary speeds with acceleration and deceleration
  • Accurate microphone simulation, with spread and distance controls, four mic (dynamic and condenser) selections, and click-and-drag placement with updated graphics
  • Diffuser, Front Stop, Memphis, and Wind options for rotary speaker
  • NEW! Three studio-quality stompbox-style effects: Tape Echo Delay, Reverb with Spring, Plate, and Hall, Seven-Band Graphic EQ
  • UPDATED! Now with over 200 fabulous presets spanning from classic to modern tones
  • Complete MIDI control and DAW automation for all controls, with easy-to-use MIDI learn and mapping (Preset and Global)
  • Cherry Audio’s popular Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag
  • Complete documentation available directly online from the instrument or in downloadable PDF format
  • Highly optimized DSP for optimal performance

Technical Specs

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