Re: [LAU] Fons could you make us an Hammond ;)

Julien Claassen wrote: Well, here's a bit of research to get a start: http://b3world.com/hammond-techinfo.html (there are three pages worth of info here) Here's an interesting site, aimed at providing the technical detail needed for soft-synth makers: http://www.electricdruid.net/index.php?page=info.hammond I can't seem to find one article I had read once upon a time, that pointed out that the upper harmonics (the smaller tonewheels) are slightly out-of-tune with the rest of the wheels. That last link basically covers that detail in a different way, though. To emulate the exact waveform shapes (the tonewheels never made perfect sine waves, after all), you might consider using Bezier curves oscillators (I have a paper on it around here somewhere), but of course, you'd need to know what the shape for each tonewheel needs to be. Anyone have an old Hammond they wouldn't mind tearing apart? You could run some audio analysis on the output of the tonewheels if you could tap their output before they hit the preamp. For me, the most interesting part would be emulating the sound of the old preamps, plus the amp (you want the tube sound, right?). Then, there's the rotary speaker, the most interesting part of all. Look at lumped modeling for the tube preamp/amp parts of the chain. It's all quite doable, but non-trivial, I think. The Linux community in general (and this one as well) seems to me to have a bad track record when it comes to cooperating on large monolithic apps. A better approach might be different people making different parts as LV2 plug-ins which can then be brought together in something like Ingen. I think I'll stop there before I start pretending to be an expert. This is all just stuff I learned from my own research in wanting to do a Hammond emulator myself. -- Darren