Waterfall B-3 controller

[Over The Edge]

http://www.doepfer.de/B4.htm


Probably what many virtual B-3
owners have wanted.



FL
www.franklucas.net

[Awake]

Do you use the Native Instruments virtual hammond? How do you find it? It's on my list of "possible things to buy for the studio". I havea Micropiano that covers piano sounds, and I have plans for a Korg X5 and (eventually) a K2000R, but none of those have particularly good organs available. So I've been considering "going soft[ware]".

[Over The Edge]

I don't have the NI B4 but I've heard rave reviews
about it. I think that it would be a great match with
the waterfall keys.



FL
www.franklucas.net

[Tusker]

I've used it. It's the best out there. A clear step above the Korg emulator, which IMO is the best hardware version out there (closely followed by the Electro). The leslie is pretty good, the overdrive is musical, in short it's a great instrument. Even the key click responds like a real hammond, which is rare even in a good model.

Now if only I could get comfortable with a gigable laptop....

Jerry

[Awake]

I've used it. It's the best out there. A clear step above the Korg emulator, which IMO is the best hardware version out there (closely followed by the Electro). The leslie is pretty good, the overdrive is musical, in short it's a great instrument. Even the key click responds like a real hammond, which is rare even in a good model.

Now if only I could get comfortable with a gigable laptop....

Jerry
I've gotten used to having a laptop on stage. ;)
The last project I played guitar live for was a very, very structured show, out of necessity. The show had a live band, pre-recorded audio, 6-way surround video, a light show and 4.1 surround sound. Although I don't necessarily think that this is the best way to run something like this (it wasn't my project), here's how it worked: everything was driven from a master PC, running logic audio, putting out MTC and playing back pre-recorded audio tracks for the live band to supplement. The lights were also programmed in logic audio, and ran according to the MTC generated by the audio machine. A simple MTC to DMX converter gave the lights an output they could use. Lastly, the video was cued from MTC: each of the 5 PCs had a complete movie, painstakingly sync'd to allow rotation effects around the screens, and sent that output to a projector; each PC ran a custom program that listened for an MTC cue to start playing out at the start of the show.

Ihad quite a few patch changes in my rack, and I suggested (half-joking) that they should drive my rack from the master show program. The engineering team took me seriously, and after I gave them the relevant patch change information, they figured out a way to have a laptop send MIDI patch changes to my rack in accordance with the MTC from the show. It was excellent, all I had to do was play. :P

[augerinn]

Controller looks way cool.

As far as B-4, I haven't owned a NE2, VK, Voce or other, but I am QUITE happy with B-4. Bringing a laptop on stage gets some getting used to (note: turn power management OFF ! Went to sleep on me once), but overall works quite well. The pre-amp/overdrive is very Jon Lord(ish).

Had a problem with latency, but went to an M-Audio Mobile Pre USB running ASIO and reduced it to less than 5 ms....