First off, thanks to Soryt for inspiring this transformation for me!
Being trained on Hammond organs since I was five-years-old, the organ sound in any keyboard I own is important to me. One the reasons I bought my Genos was the concept of having that sound as part of the package, as well as the physical drawbars and an "upgraded" Leslie simulation with "grit", according to Martin Harris.
I was pretty disappointed once I got it, to say the least. You can read all kinds of feedback on this in other areas of the forum from orgain players and non-players alike.
Enough of the negatives...let's fix it!Thanks to a video posted by Soryt, a member here, and after chatting with him a bit, everything relating to this has changed!
I bought a brand new
Electro-Harmonix Lester K rotary speaker simulation pedal for $178 US. I hooked it up by sending the organ sounds out the Aux jacks to the Lester K and the output from the Lester K back into the audio input jacks, something of an FX loop.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE!The
presence, the
saturation, the
grit, the
spaciousness, the sound of the scanner bleed and even the keyclick is there in all its glory!
If you want to bring the tonewheel goodness alive in your Genos, I highly recommend this!
You can see Soryt's demo video that got my attention here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FHdjg5A7wENow, for a bit of a rant; a short one I promise.
To me, this begs the question...in a top-of-the-line keyboard like the Genos, why did I have to do this?
This pedal is $178 US. That's RETAIL. Take away the case, the knobs, etc. and all that's left is the software controlling everything and providing the processed sound.
Yamaha engineers couldn't come up with top-notch Leslie simulation programming to put into their flagship arranger that's already on the market with other companies in a freakin' foot pedal for under $200 US retail?!
Rant over, back to playing my new beast of a B3!