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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!

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