GSi VB3 v1.2.2 VSTi WIN

VB3 The Ultimate Virtual Tonewheel Organ

Instrument Description
VB3 is a virtual tonewheel organ which simulates an american
electromagnetic organ of the old days, but it's also capable of other
simulations like the italian transistor organs of the seventies or the
red-tolex organs played by famous pop bands of the sixties. Read more..

Main features:
- Full polyphony (147 notes)
- Virtual 91 modeled tonewheels generator with accurate phase
synchronization
- Adjustable leakage noise and cross modulation between tonewheels
- Three sets of waveforms: Set H (American Electromagnetic), Set F
(Italian Transistor), Set V (Red Tolex Transistor)
- Three different organ models
- Adjustable global tuning
- Foldback on 16" deactivable
- Realistic motor wow & flutter
- Busbars and 9 key contacts simulation
- 17 steps drawbars
- Two separate sets of drawbars per manual
- Full "inverted octave" presets
- String Bass with adjustable release time
- Dynamic pickup coil impedance loss
- Adjustable generator filters scaling
- Single triggered percussion with natural capacitor discharge/recharge
- Adjustable global Percussion Level
- Adjustable global Percussion Decay
- Vibrato/Chorus virtual scanner
- Adjustable Vibrato Scanner depth
- Electronic vibrato simulation when Sets F or V are selected
- Separated Upper and Lower V/C tablets with smooth switching
- Dynamic tube overdrive simulation
- Spring reverb derived from Type4
- Smooth action volume pedal with adjustable MIDI response
- Stereo wooden rotary speaker simulation with artificial environment
and microphones positioning
- Five different rotary speaker algorithms with adjustable "character"
- Tone Cabinet (stationary speaker) simulation
- Rotors brake position
- Adjustable background hum and noise
- Very low CPU consumption
- Midi controllable, supports VST automation
- vEasy MIDI Learn function
- Up to four separated outputs
- Upper and Lower manuals SPLIT with adjustable split point
- Upper and Lower manuals octave transposers
- Selectable output level

Changes in version 1.2.2:

- VB3 is now available for MAC OSX in VST and AU format
- New Spring Reverb algorithm derived from GSi Type4
- The code has been enormously optimized and the CPU load is amost
halved
- Fixed bugs with some hosts (Sonar, Tracktion3, Receptor) that caused a
crash when loading VB3
- Added option "Output Level" with 5 different levels. Use this to
prevent VB3 from generating audio clips at high dynamics
- Rotary speaker simualtor: improved control over rotors speeds;
improved algorithm "Jazz 122";
- Keyclick: improved and optimized
- Percussion: added the missing high-pass filter that gives it more
punch and enforces the attack
- Organ sound: the leakage factor, the whole balance between lows and
highs and the background noise have been noticeably improved
- Functionality: no more need to recompute the internal wavetables when
the plugin is set in standby by the host; improved the stereo widening
algorithm
- Many other things have changed internally that can't be explained in
few words, but your fine ears will be able to notice the difference
with previous versions.

Notes for the Mac version:
VB3 is known to function properly in Apple Logic, Ableton Live, Cubase 4,
EnergyXT2, RAX, GarageBand and in many other VST and/or AU hosts.
There is a known and unresolved (yet) incompatibility with MOTU Digital
Performer. There's no guarantee for it to function in ProTools (via its
VST-to-RTAS wrapper)

Excerpts from the manual...

How VB3 works
There is a "virtual tonewheel generator" which constantly plays 91
waveforms. When you depress a key, a connection matrix decides which
"tonewheels" have to be played according to the note played and the
drawbars setting. If more than one note requires the same tonewheel to
be played, this is amplified twice but no other "oscillators" are
required other than the 91 already available. Actually, only 79
tonewheels are used for the two manuals, while the first 12 are only
used for the first octave of the pedalboard. You can, however, choose
to use the first 12 tonewheels for the upper and lower manuals too by
deactivating the foldback on the 16" drawbars from the Global Options
Menu. Also, you should know that VB3 doesn't use any samples. All the
sound it produces is 100% calculated in real-time. The waveforms are
modeled after an accurate examination of actual electromagnetic organ's
output signals, and digitally reproduced with the help of mathematical
formulas and computations.

Nine key contacts simulation
The original american electromagnetic organ has, underneath each single
key, 9 mechanical contacts, one for each drawbar.
When a key is depressed these contacts are closed sequentially in a
very short time interval, near contemporarily. In most cases you won't
notice any particular effect due to this kind of mechanics, but some
great organists take advantage of this feature in order to create some
soft nuances during their playing. Unfortunately there's no way to let
the computer know exactly how deep a key has been depressed, since the
only message that a MIDI keyboard can send is that of note ON or OFF
(leaving apart velocity and aftertouch features which, in this example,
are unused). Thus, the simulation happens almost randomly. In VB3
version 1.2 the 9 Key Contacts simulation is always active. From the
Preset Options Menu you can set the maximum time between the
first and the last contact to be closed. The range is from 1 to 39
milliseconds. The effective time is calculated according to the MIDI
velocity: the harder you hit a note, the shorter is the time required
to close all 9 contacts. For softer keystrokes you'll have slower times
beween contacts. And if you have ever played one of those beautiful
vintage console organs, you do know what we're talking about, and you'll
notice a great similarity between the real thing and this simulation.

Virtual Acoustics
VB3 also provides an accurate simulation of the famous Rotary Speaker
vastly used to amplify those amazing organs, but it not only simulates
the speaker itself. As you surely know, all the sounds we hear in nature
are the result of the actual sound source (a car's motor, a human's
voice, a bird, etc.) and the natural reflections which happen in the
surrounding environment, that is what we also know as "reverberation".
VB3 recreates the environment where an imaginary Rotary Speaker is in,
and is recorded with three or four microphones at a distance from the
cabinet of about one feet each.

The sweet contour: the "Vibrato Scanner"
VB3 brings you a Vibrato / Scanner simulation 100% faithful to the
original. In the electromechanical organ, the vibrato is accomplished
using a series of LC filters which form an analogue delay line. This
line is divided into a number of "taps", and each tap is connected to
a terminal of a circular variable capacitor which, in turn, carries
the sound from the organ's generator to the preamplifier through a
moving pickup. This fast movement causes a variation in pitch that
generates the well known Vibrato effect. If this effect is coupled
with the dry audio signal, you have a Chorus effect. In VB3 each
single element of this electronic circuit is perfectly reproduced with
the use of digital synthesis, with the aim to bring you the warm and
alive sound of an electromechanical vintage organ. When you're using
waveform Sets F or V (transistor organs), the V/C effect automatically
switches to a common electronic vibrato simulation. The six steps are:
Type V Min, Type V Max, Type F Slow Shallow, Type F Slow Deep, Type F
Fast Shallow, Type F Fast Deep.

The warm element: the "Tube Overdrive"
VB3 uses an all new approach to tube overdrive simulation. This new
simulation is mainly based on the dynamic response of tube amplification
electronics. If the nominal dynamic range is exceeded, the sound gets
"saturated" and the result is a very musical and pleasant distorted
sound. On the interface you only have two knobs and a switch: use the
switch to turn on and off the distortion; the Drive knob lets you adjust
the distortion amount along an exponential scale; the Edge knob lets you
choose the harshness of the distortion: if you just want a sweet
saturation, mostly on the low-end, keep this knob low, but if you need a
very distorted sound for your hard rock songs, you may want to increase
this parameter. Move it at little steps and hear the result for
yourself. And what about the spring reverb? VB3 brings you the warmth
of the famous "Type 4" american spring reverb of the sixties, driven
by a tube preamplifier. The right tone for a great organ sound.

The digital breath
Among the many features that make VB3 a realistic simulation of the
electromagnetic organ, there are a couple of internal “facts” that make
it yet more “alive”. As you may know, the tonewheel generator of the
electromagnetic organ is driven by an asynchronous motor and is
stabilized by a long series of springs, and is hung by four springs for
more stability. Nevertheless, the intonation still flutters, even if in
some models this fluctiation is hardly noticeable. Also, you should
know that the passive components used for the generator filtering,
mostly responsible of the “leakage” defect, can vary their value from
time to time according to weather, humidity, wear, temperature, etc.
resulting in a slightly different leakage component in the sound. Not
to mention that not all the keys have the same keyclick.
Well, VB3 reproduces all these behaviours randomly every time it is
run.

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