Reason RE Combo 310 Unique Organ [WiN]

• Writer: Reason Studios & Jiggery-Pokery Sound
• Product: Combo 310 Unique Organ
• Model: 1.0.2-DECiBEL
• Format: Reason Rack Extension
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From a Dutch producer of digital organs, the 310 Unique stays a fairly exceptional instrument. Eminent’s dwelling/small church organ, an impressively weighty monster, first appeared in 1972. It featured a choice of typical pipe-organ fashion voices—tibias, diapasons, horns and so on.—created through analogue circuitry. The organ featured the de rigueur vibrato, however with the good thing about a moderately much less typical key-delay choice, fundamental low cross filter, a spring reverb tank, and the primary tab voices that includes a percussion choice, permitting the notes to decay. However what was genuinely distinctive in regards to the Unique, and which elevated the machine in direction of the sought-after legendary standing, was that it launched to the world the primary commercially accessible String Ensemble.

The 310U’s authentic String Ensemble stays the definitive instance of the shape, surpassing even later devoted iterations produced by Eminent themselves—after which licensees ARP—within the Solina String Ensemble keyboard. Its wealthy, three-channel sound, produced by the then new-fangled modulated BBD delay circuits created a lush, heat strings refrain that was arguably unmatched by something later, and most synth-makers, from the USA to the USSR and everybody in between, tried. Evaluate, for instance, to the later, brighter, smoother Rhapsody ensemble of the X~705, discovered elsewhere within the Retro Organs 2.0 vary.

Three Strings Ensemble picks had been doable: the “Strings 8’” and “String 4’” voices had no envelope as such, and are performed in a similar way to the usual organ voices, with no launch decay. The third choice, nonetheless, “Strings Sust.”, used an extra set of “Strings 8’” voices with, through the Quick Maintain tab, a semi-adjustable launch time. All three may very well be performed collectively, creating an enormous strings-scape.

All of the common organ tab voices may very well be run via both the ensemble circuits, or via an additional set of modulated BBDs, a pseudo-“Leslie” impact that Eminent labelled the “Orbitone”, a two-speed refrain ensemble.

Mixed with a delay and a phaser (Small Stone, in fact), it’s the “architextural” sound of Oxygene and Equinoxe, underpinning each these basic works of electronica with these mesmerizing strings and the percussive organ leads of components II and 4 respectively.

Finishing JP’s vary of basic “combo” organs, the Combo 310 Unique encompasses a fully new and unique set of top of the range samples, recorded at 24/96, from JP’s personal Eminent 310U organ. JP recorded each be aware of each Tab (in mono) and all three Strings Ensemble picks (in stereo with lengthy samples) through the organ’s rear-panel Direct output. Additionally included are stereo miked samples (7 notes per octave for the tab voices, each be aware for the Strings Ensemble choice) for all tabs and strings from the built-in cupboard audio system. As well as, a “Digital” set of tabs provides a tonal various, utilizing synthesized waveforms.

The 310U is not only for Jarre jamming. It’s for all times.

In placing collectively the Combo 310 Unique Organ for Reason, JP has endeavoured to maintain it trustworthy to the unique behaviour the place doable, with just some minor tweaks for usability. Thus the Ensemble Strings 8’ and Strings 4’ stay with out an envelope, however the Strings Sust. choice can now be finely adjusted for each Launch and Assault with devoted sliders, moderately than utilizing the Quick Maintain tab for launch decay alone, which now solely impacts the Sustains voice group. Pattern stretching as much as C7 lets you run two 310U’s with solely Strings Sust. enabled and transpose certainly one of them up an octave to successfully create a Strings Sust. 4’ alongside the Strings Sust. (8’).

Organ voices could be run via the Orbitone refrain. Like the unique, activate the Orbitone for a stereo output for the organ voices, then interact the Orbitone Selectors to route particular sections via the refrain (sluggish)/tremolo (quick) modulator.

A synced stereo delay, with independently adjustable left and proper delay time, and a phaser have been included, plus a deep Corridor reverb, for a cathedral-like high quality to your organ tones.

In your comfort, and to adjust to fashionable well being and security necessities, none of which had been relevant when JP and his roped-in neighbour hoisted the factor as much as the primary flooring, the load of the organ has been decreased from over 70 kilograms* to a mere 500MB.