From tymelys22@tadamson.greatxscape.net Sat Oct 06 13:53:45 2001
Subject:E-mu B-3 as a Leslie re-inforcer

Hi all,

I recently bought a Voce V3 and was pleased to find it was all I had
hoped for after having read so much about the Voce products. Voce is
not so well known in the UK and difficult to find.

I had used a Hammond XM1 and and OB3^2 and also I use a couple of E-
mu B-3 modules, one for swell and the other for great, which makes it
fairly simple to change patches ( drawbar settings ) for both manuals.

Some time ago I bought a Leslie 312, a small cabinet, with upper
rotor and simulated bass drum. I was disappointed with the Leslie
which didn't sound anything like as good as a friend's X5 through a
Leslie with no upper rotor, just a full frequency driver through a
foam drum.

It occurred to me that perhaps more of the roundness of the 'Leslie'
sound is generated by the lower rotating drum than is sometimes
credited.

The E-mu is pretty successful in its lower drawbar settings which are
sampled through Leslie both fast and slow but perhaps not quite as
successful in its higher drawbar settings so I have experimented by
combining the 88800000/85800000/88880000 Leslie'd patches with the
Voce's upper drawbar settings through the in-built SPIN. The SPIN
emulates the Leslie extremely well on its own. In practice three
modules are midi'd together and the result is superb. One E-mu B-3
would be perfectly acceptable but I have two so I use 'em.

The Voce combines with the E-mus beautifully, (as it is possible to
program a very successful Leslie sim ), but the Korg, Roland, OB
would probably work well too.

Now I can listen to an extremely realist and convincing Hammond
through Leslie sound on my headphones, but if I were gigging, I would
use the E-mus in the same way; this would allow the use of two stereo
keyboard amps for both the general keyboard sounds and also the Voce,
without tne need for a separate Leslie cabinet.

I am a previous happy Rotosphere user but the combination of E-mu
plus Voce SPIN is better. Obviously this is just my opinion but if
you could get the chance to try this for yourselves I think you would
be very happy with the result. It's another take on reducing gigging
fatigue without compromising sound.

Regards, Thomas.