Zebra2 Mini-Tutorial #07 - Euro Organ

#07 - Euro Organ - 4m:12s

Today's tutorial is longer than usual because it's a walkthrough from initialize to an (almost) finished emulation. The only really important element still missing is "key click" (the short burst of noise caused by closing electrical contacts under each key). Note: The example at the end of the screencast does include key click -- simply noise through a different envelope. I called this tutorial "Euro" organ because I'm much more familiar with Prog-Rock than with e.g. Jimmy Smith!

Emulations
Emulating real instruments is quite demanding: Although having a specific goal helps, you will have to think harder about the best way to go about achievinge it. Electromagnetic instruments aren't as challenging as acoustic ones (because they don't have resonant bodies -- instant complexity!), but you still need know a thing or two about the original instrument... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_organ

Zebra2 gives you everything you need to make a pretty good emulation of a typical tonewheel organ. An oscillator in SpectroBlend mode is (are?) your tonewheels, an MSEG in single mode is your percussion envelope, Noise is your key-click, a Shaper in wedge mode is your tube distortion, chorus (from a ModFX module) is your rotary speaker.

Steps in the video
I.
- Initialize
- Adjust SpectroBlend "drawbars"
- Set up Rotary effect, with speed control
- Dual mode (wider, more animated sound)
II.
- Distortion
- OSC2 = percussion...
- MSEG in single mode
- Try out (and reject!) 5th instead of octave
- Reverb
III.
- Finished patch, including key click in lane 2 / envelope 2

Homework
1) Instead of using SpectroBlend, try applying the "Registerizer" spectral effect to a regular sawtooth.
2) Try using the SB3 module instead of the chorus -- with very slight offset, control via modulation wheel
3) Which particular elements would you need to emulate an electric piano?

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[joeyxl3456]

thanks great video

[Volento]

Too talented Urs.