Best VST organs in your opinion?

[McLilith]

The best of the bunch were the Farfisa and the Vox Continental,but even they were super cheesy

I happen to own a Vox Super Continental. I don't see how you could expect a flawless VST emulation to sound anything other than cheesy, when most folks consider the original cheesy?

Good point

The Vox did power a lot of the hits in the 60's and 70's and it cut through the mix like a cheese knife

But the Hammond B3 is such a soulful beast that can take you from heaven to hell and back with no cheese

Eh, I used to repair Hammond organs for a living. I like both Vox and Hammond, but they're both just different varieties of cheese. That's not a bad thing though. Cheese is tasty and it's good for you!

The Vox is an extra-sharp aged Cheddar.
The Hammond B3 through a Hammond tone cabinet is Swiss cheese.
The Hammond B3 through a pair of Leslie 122s is American cheese.
A B3 played through an overdriven Marshall stack is spicy Pepper Jack.

[KIMCHRISTOPHER]

Hello everyone, Here are some presets I made for the Arturia B3 using the Native Instruments B4 as a base. They were very close, it can be a good option for those, like me, who had to abandon the B4 for the old x32 architecture...
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/b-3-v2 ... /downloads

[electro]

That Universal Audio UADx Waterfall B3 kills!

[Spitfire31]

That Universal Audio UADx Waterfall B3 kills!

Maybe. But you need UAD h/w, right?

[electro]

You can run it on any Mac/PC with just a physical ilok dongle by subscribing to Spark, but in order to own outright you must have some form of UAD hardware registered to your account. Waterfall is damn good and no way could I pick a real B3 over it in a blind test. Same goes for Pianoteq 8. We've been spoiled rotten.

[zvenx]

I recently was on a similar quest a few months ago.. My first two choices were UAD Waterfall and IK's Hammond B-3X.
The Waterfall was on sale at the time (and I own UAD hardware so I could buy it outright).
So I ended up with Waterfall, but I am also looking out for whenever next IK's Hammond goes on sale (though unlike Waterfall which I believe is purely algorithmic, the Ik also has samples as part of its tone creation afaik).

rsp

[zzz00m]

So I ended up with Waterfall, but I am also looking out for whenever next IK's Hammond goes on sale (though unlike Waterfall which I believe is purely algorithmic, the Ik also has samples as part of its tone creation afaik).

I have IK Hammond B-3X installed here and it is only using 448 MB on the hard drive. There is not a separate sample library for it, so I assume it is modeled.

"In true IK style, Hammond B-3X approaches the instrument the way the original hardware organ works. B-3X starts with 91 free-running tonewheels, based on several meticulously-maintained Hammond organs, and mixes those in real-time based on the note and the drawbar levels for absolute realism."

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/hammondb3x/

[zvenx]

One of the IK people on gearspace had said it was a combination, will try to find the quote.


For some reason I can't seem to access the original post quoted...
https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.ph ... stcount=36



Ahh.. Also found one on their forum:

https://cgi.ikmultimedia.com/ikforum/vi ... 4e6#p95527


rsp