I would like for native instruments to update their B4. I do think it is an excellant intrument but if you noticed that most of there other software has been updated frequently. I would like to see more advancement in tonewheels, distortion (which is O.K. but i think could possibley use improvement) and there leslie simulation. i think that the leslie doesnt have that chorus like phasing when the rotor is on slow....just a though!!!....

Does anyone know anything about any updates...im only familiar with 1.1....with the tonewheel packs...I do use the crap out of this plug....!

And update Battery while you're at it NI . Enough with the AU convertions.

I am sure the B4 could use an update, but from what I have noticed, it is by far their most successful plug in a live/studio setting as lots of musicians prefer the B4 to other clonewheels, especially jazz and sould organists. Since it is quite stable, I guess the market pressure to update it is not that high. It sales slip, I am sure an update will happen

Updates for B4 were tossed about on various Hammond and clonewheel forums for a while, and at one point it was announced that NI was working on an update to the B4, but that seems to have been sidetracked.

When I got B4, it was to use as a standalone organ on a laptop (I have two vintage Hammonds in my dining room and one at church). It wasn't till almost two years later that I started messing with sequencers and VSTI's.

My problems with B4 are only aesthetic in nature - the pedal drawbars weren't "right", they didn't kill 9th drawbar when the percussion was on, little things... but if you save presets of what you want, it's easy to work around those issues. The other thing I'd like is optional smaller GUI when using it as a VSTI - something similar to Linplug's DaOrgan for example. Oh, and the "insert the CD" copy protection (worse than C/R ? probably, but that's another issue).

I had a Korg CX-3 (the new one - great keyboard, but I hardly used it - I got 90% of what I paid for it six months later). I've tried various samples and soundfonts (one soundfont I can think of was stretched so far between samples that you could hear the leslie speed difference). I like the Nord Electro and some of the software clones. If someone gave me DaOrgan I'd use it for the smaller GUI. But for now the B4 is my choice for sequenced Hammond sounds.

Doug