sound DUST Hammr Plus KONTAKT-SYNTHiC4TE [oddsox]

Sound Dust has announced the release of Hammr+, a virtual tonewheel organ instrument library for Native Instruments, developed in collaboration with Oasis/Sheryl Crow keyboard player Mikey Rowe and recorded by Andy Britton.

You’d be right in thinking that he last thing the world needs is another Hammond clone, and I would be the first to agree, but the Hammr+ is a little different.

Of course she oozes classic character and has all the capabilities you’d expect of a tonewheel organ, but in true Sound Dust style this thing takes a huge leap of the imagination and moves way past the limitations of the original. By taking advantage of sampling technology and bespoke Kontakt architecture and a little bit of imagination Hammr+ can do things that were inconceivable in the original 1959 instrument.

Hammr+ features

Every note of every drawbar of an unmentionable tonewheel organ sampled for 7 secs through a 1959 Leslie cabinet for around 1GB of uncompressed samples.
Individual control of volume, pan, ADSR, vibrato, saturation (amount, bass and tone) and tremolo (speed, fade and depth ) for every drawbar.
Percussion 2nd and 3rds available at the same time, with control of octave and decay time.
Note off volume and decay control.
Velocity sensitivity control.
CC11 hardwired to volume for expression pedal swells.
Leslie simulator with speed, treble/bass balance and distance controls.
69 specially recorded reverb impulses from a variety of real spaces and classic gear.
Cabinet re-micing through a choice of 11 speaker cabinets.
Dirt, morphing EQ and master EQ effects.
Dirty contacts control adds small amounts of timing variation to note on /off to mimic the effects of aging key contacts.
70 presets including 30 classic sounds.
Chaos and reset controls for painless sound design.
Master/slave control system for quick adjustment of group controls.
Built in user manual.
It sounds great!