I've long been a fan of VB3's sound, but have resisted buying it because I've got so many organs already. One of them even says HAMMOND on it in great big letters. But yesterday I realized I was just being mule-headed about it and bought the durn thing.
 
Holy crap, it's good. 

Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do Bit...

I dropped B4 in a heartbeat for VB3! It is my goto and has been ever since it went 64 bit.

VB3 is definitely awesome. The best Hammond sound outside the real thing that I've ever tried. So much control over every individual aspect, too. I love it.

Just retrofitted VB3 into two songs that I'd previously used the Hammond on. Big improvement. I'm automating drawbars and overdrive, which I've not been able to do before.
 
Best single advantage over the Hammond is the chorus effect, which sounds more authentic on VB3 than any clonewheel I've ever tried. The only thing I can still do better with other gear is the Leslie sim - I've got a stompbox called a Ventilator that does a Leslie better than anything else out there, including a real Leslie. I suppose I could re-amp VB3 and use the Vent, but that's a hassle.
 
I'm in tonewheel heaven tonight.

My goto tone wheel. I use to use the Korg Oasys prior to VB3 but that is just the controller for VB3 now.

Bitflipper, have you tried the Global Options in the upper right hand corner of VB3. There is a fair amount of settings to play with that cover a lot of the character of the real leslie. I especially like the wind noise of the rotors and the foldback features. The rotary speaker character gets that speaker breakup for that worn in speaker response pretty well. There is a fair amount of different leslie models to choose from, although, they may not be the best sims but with a little tweaking they do nicely.

Thanks for the tip, Sidroe. No, contrary to my usual M.O. I haven't done much dissection beyond the main controls yet. I was having too much fun with it out of the box.
 
Very cool that there is so much you can customize. Although after some experimentation it seems most of the defaults are well-chosen. Why MIDI velocity for key click is enabled by default is a mystery, though. Does that mimic some real B3 behavior I'm not aware of?
 
Changing vibrato scanner depth during playback caused it to crash with an access violation, but that was not repeatable.

I love  a really good Hammond. I wish I would have started saving for Black Friday sooner.

FSOSA!