This is not just another plug-in; it’s a musical tool that can take a sound and bend it into ear candy!
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An authentic Leslie speaker emulation
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The LX122 Premium Leslie speaker emulation is the indispensable companion for your keyboards and organ.
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A classic Leslie speaker consists of two driver units – a stationary treble unit with spinning horns (Horn in the LX122), and a stationary woofer and spinning rotor (Drum in the LX122), with two filters dividing the frequency spectrum between the horn and the woofer.
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Both the horns and a built-in sound baffle for the bass rotate to create Doppler effect based vibrato, tremolo and chorus effects. The rotating elements can be stopped, switched between slow (chorale) and fast (tremolo), or transitioned between the two settings.
This unit creates the classic ‘Leslie’ effect.
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Interesting Facts
The LX122 emulates the Horn and the Drum, as well as different small to large room environments. It also emulates the smooth creamy tube base amplifier as well as the intrinsic characteristics of the Drum (woofer response and drum size) or the Horn (Tweeter response, horn size and diffusers).
The internal cabinet reflections, which give the Leslie its famous mellow sound, are also present but with the unique added possibility of increasing or decreasing the reflections. So you can go from the standard closed cabinet to rotating speakers without any cabinet at all.
If you like to tweak parameters you will love the LX122 Premium. You can build your own cabinet even change its characteristics radically. If you want to experiment further in recording this device, you can do it with two independent microphones in various rooms of your choosing. A wide range of stereo effects, spacial environments, pitch modifications and are at your fingertips.
FEATURES
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Accurately emulated Leslie style rotating speakers, treble output in a rotating Horn, bass output in a rotating drum.
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True Stereo Dynamic Engine (TSDE) places the cabinet in a room of your choosing
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Three different Reverb types, to give even more space to your recordings
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Slow to Fast mode buttons, completely midi controllable
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Vintage Tube amplifier emulation.
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Reverb time and frequency response are easily adjusted.
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High pass filter before the reverb to add focus to the sound and avoid masking effects
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Recording microphone angles and position can be changed, adding more or less room effects.
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Drive parameter help you to get more distorted heavy rock sounds
HIGHLIGHTS
Core Module:
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One finely emulated rotating speakers, treble output in a rotating Horn, bass output in a rotating drum.
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True Stereo Dynamic Engine (TSDE) places the cabinet in a room, from which it is recorded by two microphones.
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Three Reverb types, to give even more space to your recordings
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Slow to Fast mode buttons, midi controllable to play with the inertia.
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Tube amplifier emulation.
MacOS
Latest Version: 1.0.3 BETA
Windows
Latest Version: 1.0.3 BETA
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Windows 7,8,10 and 11 (64 bits); VST2.4, AAX (native)
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Mac OSX 10.9 and later (64bits Intel&AppleSilicon): VST2.4, Audio Unit, AAX (native)
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Particular settings for the LX122:
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The speed of the Horn and the Drum can be tweaked at your convenience.
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The reverb time and frequency response are easily adjusted.
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A high pass filter before the reverb to avoid blurry sounds when organists are doing fool with their feet.
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The angle of the recording microphone can be changed, adding more or less room effects.
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A drive parameter help you to get more heavy rock sounds
Studio Panel:
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This panel allow you to record your Speakers.
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This means that you can put your microphones where ever you want, close or far the speakers, aimed to them or forward the walls, choose your room between 5 models and choose its size or add some reverb
Cabinet Panel:
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This panel allows you to build your own and unique Cabinet choosing to keep or remove the Horn or the drum, to keep a woofer or a tweeter.
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Acceleration and deceleration can be adapted to your music but you can also choose the rotating sense of either the Horn or the drum, even making them rotate randomly.
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Balancing between Horn and drum is very easy, but you can also remove the “deflectors” from the horn or increase its diameter, getting then more Doppler effects.
LX122 Premium parameters:
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Rooms can be changed, from an obvious “No Room” position to a “Complex” one, adding even more stereo and space feelings.
IMPORTANT NOTICE : Some rooms (Medium2 or Complex) can use a lot of CPU, especially in the “Dual Mode” as a lot of coherent reflexions are calculated. Don’t be afraid, it’s worth it, but you can bypass them if needed !
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Microphones can be moved independently in all the rooms, with an easily stereo balance feature. Stereo space has never been bigger.
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Not only one cabinet is available, you can build your unit with or without the Horn or with or without the Drum.
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A never seen feature is also available : You can change the Horn diameter, you can’t do that in the real world.
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Do you know that the Drum is driven by a belt ? Obviously, time is not kind to belts and the LX122 Premium allows you to control the stretch of the belt, emulating age.
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In most of the real units, the drum is turning clockwise while the horn is turning counter-clockwise. This can also be changed and the selector can be modeled so that it changes randomly.
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Balance control between horn and drum.
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On real unit, the horn has a small metal part that spreads the high frequencies in all directions, giving a more mellow sound. But some players wanted a more “straight in your face” effect and they removed it.
You can do this with the LX122 Premium !
Total Control:
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You can assign any Midi CC to any effect parameter to fine tune some midi parts, or achieve the most precise automation.
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Last but not least, LX122 provides a wide range of modulation options.
