Sound Dust releases Hammr+ Tonewheel Organ for Kontakt

Sound Dust has released Hammr+, which is one part of the Hammr Suite - a classic tonewheel organ sample set developed by Sound Dust with Oasis/Sheryl Crow keyboard player Mikey Rowe and recorded at Toyroom Studios in Brighton.

Hammr+ has all the capabilities you'd expect of a drawbar organ. But in true Sound Dust style it also moves a long way from the limitations of the original. By taking advantage of sampling technology and bespoke Kontakt architecture, Hammr+ is capable of new levels of control and sound possibilities that were inconceivable in the original 1959 instrument.

Details:

• 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 hard-wired 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 ageing 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.
• €10 discount link for the MVintageRotary Leslie simulator by Melda Production.

Hammr+ is a downloadable Kontakt instrument that works in the full version Kontakt 4.2.4 and above.

Price: £30. Available from Sound Dust.

Here's a video walkthrough with Mikey explaining how it works and what it's capable of: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwhwTQKfl1Q

Here's a demo track by Fredo Viola who has also contributed to the preset design: soundcloud.com/sound-dust-1/hammr-demo-roma-by-nini-rota-demo-by-fredo-viola