From: mr
sikorsky
does anyone want to hazard a guess as to what kind
of MOTM system would be needed for Hammond / Leslie simulation..? come on guys,
put your thinking caps on...
meanwhile, has anyone any idea how to get fractal
type chaos / noise / controllers in a modular system without having to revert to
software..?
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Leslie simulation is an art, not a science.
The CLS-222 certainly came closest in my opinion. Hammond simulation is a
science in fact. And, not easily done with any type of synth. You
just need too many oscillators to properly do the job. If you stop and
look at what a Hammond will do and what it will not do, the you realize that
synth oscillators are totally different. You certainly don't need any wave
shaping or EG filtering. This is a subject that could be a LONG
thread. However, I will stop short by saying, proper emulation of a
Hammond with modular equipment would be too expensive and cumbersome in my
opinion. Sure, you could do the "cheap simulation with one osc and a self
oscillating filter. But then you get that genesis style organ sound that
synths like the Juno 60 do so well. Not at all a proper Hammond
emulation. Buy a Hammond clone is the best advice for emulation in my
opinion.
Now, I think Leslie simulation would be fun to play
with using a crossover, two very versatile phasers, and a couple of lag
processors. You could use a foot switch to go back and forth from a low to
high voltage into both lag processors (like the awesome MOTM-820). Each
lag processor would control the speed of one LFO (one low, one high). The
LFOs would then control the modulation of the two phasers. That would be
fun to play with. It still would not be as good as a CLS-222, but it would
be fun tweaking it. And, the simulation of the speed up and slow down
could be dialed in to exact taste with the advanced features of the MOTM-820
like shape control and separate up and down slope time controls.
Larry Hendry