Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven?

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2013/08/05 15:43:26 (permalink)

Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven?

I have just been building a Sonar track template for a "dual manual" version of Sampletekk's Tonewheel organ with two instances in Kontakt using different MIDI channels. I placed XLS Labs LX122 Leslie simulator into the FX bin. Now this is a pairing!
 
I turned off the rotor on both instances of Tonewheel, so now I have the wonderful cruddy sound of Tonewheel and with the versatality of the LX122 I am no longer limited to Kontakt's rotor effect.
 
I found LX122's lack of ability to really drive and distort disapointing but with grunge coming from tone wheel it does not need to.

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    Re: Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven? 2013/08/05 16:50:12 (permalink)
    That setup sounds cool, wicked.  I have not yet bought Tonewheel, but for the current sale price it is hard to pass.
     
    Is the rotor effect in the Tonewheel not that good, or did you turn it off because you were running two instances and it was not syncing the two.  Just curious.




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    Re: Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven? 2013/08/05 18:10:54 (permalink)
    cecelius2
    Is the rotor effect in the Tonewheel not that good, or did you turn it off because you were running two instances and it was not syncing the two.  Just curious.



    Tonewheel has a one speed (slow) rotor effect, I think its using Kontakt's rotor so you could probably go under the hood if you wanted a fast rotor. Its not bad, but nowhere near the feature set of LX122, and as you point out, if you want to sound authentic you do not want out of sync rotors so its better to to use the sane effect for both manuals.
    LX122 lets you vary parameters, room size and shape and mic placement so its far more versatile than the Kontakt effect.

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    Re: Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven? 2013/08/05 19:28:35 (permalink)
    Thanks.  I went on and purchased Tonewheel since I had an email from Per at SampleTekk for returning customer discount that expires today.  Kind of a no-brainer for under $20.00.  Sure,  SampleTekk has good sales a couple of times a year so I could have waited, but I want my dirty Hammond tone to play with now.
     
    Again, thanks for an intereseting thread.




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    Re: Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven? 2013/08/05 20:56:43 (permalink)
    I can't remember, but wasn't the rotor speed on the mod wheel?

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    Re: Tonewheel and LX122 - a match made in heaven? 2013/08/06 05:07:34 (permalink)
    drewfx1
    I can't remember, but wasn't the rotor speed on the mod wheel?


    Yes - how did I miss that
    I still prefer the added versatality of LX122. Of course if you have B4 II you can insert that as an effect and get lots of control over the rotor parameters.

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