We love tonewheel organs, but too often they sound a bit clean and polite for our liking.
FadeWheel is designed from the ground up to put "failings" such as leakage, crosstalk,
intermodulation and total component failure front and centre, making them the heart of the
machine's sound. This is the antidote to dull Hammond sims!

FadeWheel's core tone is dialled up using three simple but versatile waveform generators:
a clean B3 808000 patch; a more complex, upper-harmonic-rich B3 patch; and transistor Vox
patch with a lot of overtones and dissonance. By combining these you can get a wide range
of starting points for sounds.

These tones can then be driven deep into the dark side using the Crosstalk, X-Mod and Failure
controls, which dial up whatever levels of dirt, grit, graunch, instability, erraticism and
mayhem you want. You can even turn the three main operators down and just use the grunge
controls to create patches!

Further sound-sculpting comes courtesy of a simple Attack / Release envelope, twin high- and
low-pass filters, and a suite of carefully-tweaked vintage effects including the Circulator
rotary speaker sim and the Echolator echo effect.

Combining the waveforms with the grunge controls and effects yields everything from recognizable
tonewheel or transistor organ patches with a user-definable "age" component through to hissing,
sparking, crackling radiophonic sound-design tonescapes with just a hint of tonewheel DNA still
discernable through the smoke FadeWheel is designed to appeal whether you want a classic organ
tone, just with more of a vintage vibe (you can even layer it behind your favourite Hammond sim
and use its grunge controls to add age), or whether you're after strange pads and synthscapes
with a touch of tonewheel swirl still present.

FadeWheel is available now at an introductory price of £12 (normal price £15)

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