"Wally" wrote in message
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The Korg G4 Leslie simulator arrived today, and I've been messing about to
get a feel for the sounds it can produce. Here's a very meandering
mess-about with a two-chord backing and improvised 'melody' (ie, somewhat
random series of notes)...
http://www.melodolic.com/Music/HammondTest-02.mp3
Same deal with recording - straight into the minidisc unit, then dumped
into
the PC using the minidisc portable. Converted to 256 mp3 to keep the size
down.
At times, I feel the Leslie sound is a bit strong. The G4 has settings for
balance between the rotor and horn, and simulated mic distance and
spacing,
which all seem to affect this, so I'll play around with those a bit more.
Given that I'm not a real Hammond player (not a real player, and don't
have
a real Hammond), the simulation sounds pretty convincing to me. I like the
passage where I dialled in a little overdrive.
I'll need to do a session of going through all the Hammond sounds that my
MIDI module has (about 25 to choose from) to see how they work with the
G4.
There are also possibilities in layering the sounds - the voices on the
module can be set to respond to any MIDI channel, so sending on one
channel
can trigger a mix of sounds. For this recording, I used the standard
sounds
and split the keyboard - left hand plays the percussive sound, and the
right
is playing both percussive and normal sounds layered together (probably
not
authentic).
Most interesting, and better than expected:-)
The Leslie is IMHO a bit too strong. It pans
side to side, but I don't get the impression
of a rotor.
But, its a pretty amazing emulator. The lack of the
Hammond signature, key click, gives it away. Maybe
it's there somewhere on the MIDI module?
The Leslie varispeed effect is very much to my liking.
Please post some more clips when you have had
a chace to go through the MIDI options.
Everyone knows Jimmy Smith, but Jack McDuff,
a great favourite of mine, is not so well known:
Here's a taster:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches/Music/JMcD.mp3
Iain