Empty Square NuBi LE 1.1.0 – Free Drawbar Organ VSTi
Background
Quite a while ago I read a thread started by “GreenDoor2″ on Cubase.net. It was his opinion that there was no VSTi emulation of a Hammond Organ that actually captured the real power of the instrument.
After some disbelief and then some serious reflection I realized he was right. In short, the tone wheels on a hardware Hammond are locked in absolute synchronization – while this is not impossible to do in a VSTi; it does potentially require a lot of CPU power to manage over 100 active tone wheels.
Some years previous to reading greendoor2′s post I set out to do a Drawbar organ VSTi and, after a few trys, gave up – something was missing. That “something” was the very thing that Greendoor2 had identified. I set out again and the result was called “NuBi”. At first NuBi was simply a proof of concept. A very simple one manual “toy”. As time passed and more beta testers signed on, NuBi grew into a more-or-less real tonewheel organ.
Since then the project has gone through several ups and downs. Currently the project is in “full speed ahead” mode – there’s much more in store in the coming months!
Specifications:
- A Drawbar Organ clone with pure-virtual tonewheels
- 75-note range (standard 61 pitches + added low octave+2 extra high notes)
- 9 “standard” drawbars
- 3 scale modes – includes legacy gear tuning
- Adjustable Tonewheel Foldback Frequency
- 2 independent percussion voices with 4 mode algorithms
- Advanced algorithm, adjustable Key Click level on Attack and Release
- Fully configurable vibrato/chorus
- Zipper-less expression pedal support via MIDI CC# 11
- Very low CPU usage
- No Leslie sim – use your favorite or use Spinner LE
- PC-based VST hosts only
NuBi LE VSTi & Spinner LE VST
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More info:
http://www.nubi3.com/
July 13th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The Plus versions are now freeware. Lots of dead links around but this is working at present.
http://rapidshare.com/files/129432165/NuBiPlus_Pack-now-freeware.rar