The Hammond B3 organ had a special (partly mechanical) chorus called a "scanner-vibrato". Because it is hard to get this exact effect out of a generic chorus I thought it would be nice to have a reasonably accurate dedicated plug-in. I believe such a plug-in is already included with Logic, but that is Mac only.
So here is a first version of Martinic Scanner Vibrato. It is a simple, one trick pony kind of plug-in, although you can tweak some aspects (speed, depth, mix), and it is stereo (the original was mono).
Free trial download:
http://www.martinic.com/scanner-vibrato/
Audio demos:
Vox Continental organ improvisation
Electric guitar dry/wet
Synth dry/wet
VB3 internal vs Martinic scanner-vibrato
I plan to release this as a commercial plug-in for Windows and Mac OS X. Because this is a prerelease it is still somewhat rough, and although I would like to keep things simple, I might be persuaded to add features on demand. This is the current known issues/to-do list:
- Fix clicks/pops/zipper noise on parameter changes. [Done in v0.9.2 beta.]
- Replace preliminary GUI. [Done in v0.9.0 beta.]
- Could be more CPU friendly (need to optimise). [Done in 1.0.0 RC1.]
- Maybe add MIDI learn, although I guess I could assume that the host already handles this.
- Maybe add host tempo sync, although I peronsally can live without it.