Legacy Tonewheel Organ in MainStage

Tonewheel Organ, which is based on Vintage B3, emulates the Hammond B3 organ but it can also emulate Farfisa, Wurlitzer, and other electric organs.

If you’re new to using plug-ins in MainStage, see Add and remove plug-ins in MainStage.

• Drawbars slider: Drag to increase or decrease the level of sine tones and harmonics, resulting in a richer or thinner sound.

• Percussion Time slider: Sustains the second or third harmonic when set to a long value. If a short value is selected, the harmonics are heard only during the initial keystroke.

• Distortion slider: Makes the sound rough, dirty, and noisy.

• Rotary Speaker pop-up menu: Choose one of three speaker effects.

  • Slow: Makes the sound swirl.

  • Brake: Makes the sound swirl initially and then slow down.

  • Fast: Makes the sound wobble.

• Click slider: Introduces a click sound to the keystroke. Select a high level if you’d like this to be clearly heard.

• Volume slider: Sets the overall volume level of the instrument.

• Percussion Level slider: Sets the level of the second or third harmonic added to the sound with the Perc. Harmonic buttons.