Rotary Speaker (Leslie Effect) in REAPER

Rotary Speaker (Leslie Effect) in REAPER

[@Mixthelightintogray]

Kenny... Seriously, you are awesome. I always learn a lot with your videos. Even when the video is about something I already know, you always add something that I didnt know. That 3 banda splitter.... Oh muy god, cant wait to experimental with a lot of things and create weird effects. Again, never enough, you are awesome Kenny, thanks for your hard work.

[@dindin3394]

I cant believe I found your video...At last a great fully versatile leslie speaker that I love so much for free...Thanx a million!

[@raindogred]

accessing LFOs ...thats a game changer..thinking effects such as phaser, univibe, vibrato, tremolo...some of those effects don't need to use LFOs and can be done with LDRs and such but, ok time to start looking at stompbox effects schematics again..breaking them down to the core functions and really working out what chunks are included in js plugs, Reaper is the best daw ever!! this is the best channel on youtube...deep. cheers Kenny

[@MrEcutler]

I seen this a few years ago. Just now checking it out while mixing a song with only stock plugins, plus the Tukan ones. This is amazing! With this, I can do stuff that my UAD Waterfall Rotary speaker cannot! Thanks Kenny!

[@TheAmandeepcom]

Your videos are mesmerizing and meditatively addictive to watch. Thanks a million.

[@AaronMorris611]

I didn’t even realize I wanted to do this 😄 thank you so much Kenny!

[@bobbaker1830]

This is spectacular --- I really appreciate finding this video, one of my favorite effects ever.

[@pursgo]

kenny you are the best resource for reaper. one tip for anyone if you mic one up live. usually you want the mics offset 90 degrees from one another. (1 mic left ight side 1mic front\back side)

[@Daysofsamara]

I do trainings and custom configurations of REAPER for studio. When I introduce the band splitting to people, often Protools users, their eyes and mouths are often wide open and they suddenly wonder how they could live without it :)

[@timmunion2709]

Thanks for another great video ! Definitely the best Reaper tutorial channel out there!

[@Mixthelightintogray]

Totally... And IMHO, one of the best teachers here on youtube. And I follow a lot of great people. But Kenny's vídeos are always one step above

[@leftfieldcrush5952]

I've always had guitar effects units with a Leslie effect, but I've never seen a real one, so it was great to see how it works and how you can reproduce that in Reaper. As always, you make the information accessible and super well presented - thanks so much Kenny! ^_^

[@keithaszilagyi]

About a year ago, I was given a Hammond M103... Long story short, I will be using this for it! Thank you!

[@TinCanBassMan]

You're a master artist, Kenny. An elegant solution that sounds great.

[@2kReels]

I swear to god..everytime I need a feature in Reaper, a few days later, Kenny comes over and sends a tutorial...just this weekend I needed a autopan/rotation feature and boom, Kenny delivers one :D Thanks, man

[@arthurmee]

I was just about to hunt for a rotating speaker FX and this comes along. This is a superb tutorial. Kenny I thank you. Your tutorials are just amazing.

[@mikemartin6554]

That.......was amazing. Kenny,you're videos hit all the right spots.I'm more fascinated with my Reaper every time I watch one of your vids. All I can say is thanks....

[@Byronic19134]

OMFG I Love you. I commented a couple days ago on a cabinet video i think asking you to make a Leslie speaker vid cuz I knew there was a way to do it in Reaper, and you're the only person who can make such a video involving such complex harmonics easily digestable and replicable. Amazing.

[@jimbeaux4988]

Wow that sounds way better than i thought it would. And the really wild thing is that you have the freaking code for those js fx available to tweak!

[@ArmanBaig]

absolutely phenomenal... many MANY thanks

[@kirillprilepko394]

Kenny you literally saved my project!

[@arielissaharoff685]

Kenny y Reaper lo más grande que hay.

[@DominicCraneMusic]

Genius Kenny! What a glorious sound. Thanks for the tutorials - not only informative but inspiring and liberating.

[@johnnymorell4974]

Excellent, Kenny. Enjoying the sound-shaping/effects videos, using stock plugins. Simple, highly effective... and they help inspire new song possibilities. Extremely grateful, all the best!

[@1smagil]

This is first time ever when I needed so highly specialized video and this is a treasure, thank you very much!

[@ajawam]

And as that page mentions, anything under 200Hz is practically mono. So you'd want to set thee lower crossover to about 150-200Hz to get a more accurate emulation of what we used to do back then with multiple mics... In fact, most speakers are pretty much omni at

[@rocketman374]

I keep forgetting you can run multiple signal paths in one fx bay. This is awesome. Thanks for the reminder!

[@Chocolatiste]

Learned so much here, splitting and joining signal, applying lfo to an effect, very, very useful

[@Thennecan]

Dude you're a beast, this is a ton more than I needed and it's pure gold. Thank you so much for this!

[@dawsondavidable]

Thanks, Kenny! I have been trying to emulate a Uni-Vibe effect by using a 4-pole Phaser. This helps a lot!

[@calebjameson2366]

You my friend are a wealth of knowledge. You are truly appreciated!

[@alastair883]

Really fantastic, thanks for all these amazing tutorials.

[@ChrisScharling]

This is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing. I'll be trying this out today. Terrific info!

[@Mixthelightintogray]

I wanted to add that adding 3 reverbs (spring reverbs sounds sjdfashd) for each band, you could also recreate the "room"/width of each part of the speaker, and the result is sajgjweriogjdfsgjsdkxcb Thanks again, Kenny! :D I think I could recreate this effect sending the source to different tracks, filtering each track, etc. (it would be a mess) But that way you showed... oh my god, its so simple and easy! Thanks again and again and again

[@Electricowlworks]

This is ridiculously awesome. Thanks, Kenny!

[@urasam2]

This is simply marvellous. If Kenny were British I would campaign to have him knighted.

[@jonmatthews4254]

Great sound, thanks Kenny, I'll be using that one.

[@BobbyPrinceMusic]

Thanks for another great lesson in using Reaper! I was sorry to discover that I couldn't automate the LFO speed setting to emulate the slow and fast switches on a real Leslie. After a lot of searches, I fell upon a JS Effect LFO Generator at stash.reaper.fm/v/9283/lfo. Since your Leslie effect here uses six channels, I added channels 7/8 for this LFO to automate the high and mid pitch and pan settings. To truly emulate a Leslie, it will take two LFO generators -- one for the "treble horn" and one for the "bass woofer." Each speaker has two speed settings, "Chorale" (slow) and "Tremolo" (fast). The two speakers spin at different speeds. Chorale is treble at 50 RPM, bass at 40 RPM. Tremolo is treble at 400 RPM, bass at 340 RPM. There is nothing like hearing a Hammond B-3 player make the change from Chorale to Tremolo (or vice versa) at just the right time in a song. The speed change on the Leslie wasn't instantaneous, thanks to belts that slipped and allowed the speaker baffles to ramp up or down at what I always thought was the perfect timing. Now I need to figure out how to limit the min and max speed settings being sent to the pitch/pan effects -- so they match the approximate speeds above. Some of this info is thanks to Wikipedia -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker.

[@BobbyPrinceMusic]

I added another LFO Generator so now the treble and bass speakers can spin at different speeds. The speed settings in that generator can be multiplied by ten to approximate the RPM of the speakers. Unfortunately, noise in the form of popping comes and goes, dependent upon notes played and some kind of timing cycle. It is the pitch shift plugin that causes this, and the popping seems to occur when the cent tuning bar crosses the center point. It's worse at faster speeds. You can hear what I'm talking about in Kenny's video starting at 8:04 and 10:30 -- when he changes the speed of the pitch shift. I tried ReaPitch and it does the same thing. Kenny's slower settings from the video don't seem to have this problem.

[@ChrisScharling]

I was wondering if this was possible! Did you have any luck with this method?

[@Greetling]

Kenny... many many thanks for that. The Leslie Effect was the secret key to create the voice of a Rhodian from #StarWars. absolutely perfect. I had just to add a ReaPitch (cockos) , et voilà. thanks!

[@allendepresidente1970]

dude, if you want, my body is ready. So much thank you

[@Byronic19134]

All I need to do now is find a the perfect lofi/sample rate reducer afterwards and saturator to get that vintage vibe. Possibly even the free Noiiz filter which can both filter the highs and add a vinyl crackle or tape noise.

[@thimovijfschaft3271]

Oeh this brings some cool ideas up to me, like doing this in paralel to create an awesome shake in the low end of one of those giant percussion boom canons. That would be great!

[@ifaber68]

Very nice technical tutorials, I know how it works and recreate the Leslie effect, thank you :-)

[@audio2u]

You're a clever fuck, Kenny.... and I say that with the utmost respect and love! :) Nice work, again.

[@southsideronnie]

Great info! Thanks Kenny!!

[@kellywamboldt6878]

That was brilliant!

[@midiman5045]

Totally Awesome Kenny.

[@scotthamrick5486]

Excellent tutorial! A word of advice for your viewers: Don't try to set the speed parameter of the two pitch shifters to the exact same speed. This gave me an annoying clicking effect. Set them slightly differently. 4.0 and 4.5, for example.

[@nusushika]

Oh my goodness! Nice video! Nice sound!

[@darrensmusicstudio]

This is brilliant, thanks Kenny!

[@djivanov]

'Bringing down dampening a bit' is where you can realy see a pro 👍

[@geroffmilan3328]

Really creative.

[@vivekteega]

Kenny my man, this is MAD!! :D

[@ruedassueltas]

This is soooooo cool!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@harddriverecordingandfilmsNY]

this is cool AF with my electric piano recording

[@Greetling]

whoa, u can explain really awesome...that's a new follower... thanks. u made ...no u saved my day.

[@Ashufrost]

Thanks a lot, Kenny! You rock! :)

[@OriginalSteve1]

Sounds awesome! When creating the fx for the woofer could you have copied the ones from the horn and changed the pins?

[@electricwhiterabbit]

Wow sounds great! 👍

[@ajawam]

And thanks for showing that when you remove all the multichannel plugins (ones with more than 2 or created with the pins) the track remembers it (it stays sticky). I always forget this...

[@piscesman54]

This is fantastic. But if you were to use this as a Leslie is traditionally used on a Hammond organ, how would you switch between slow and fast, or to be even more realistic, how would you modulate the acceleration/slowdown of a real Leslie speaker and assign it to a midi controller?

[@nomadlake]

Wow! Thank you Kenny!

[@sowellca6]

So cool. Thanks Kenny!

[@blackcanyonrevival]

You're a genius!!! ❤

[@trevsaudio]

Brilliant! Thanks Kenny

[@palusguitar]

Great one! Gonna set er up now! Thanks!!!

[@R.and.R.]

Brilliant.

[@winddealer1]

Could a second modulation source (LFO or Mod Wheel) be added to independently adjust the Pitch Shifter 2 (Pitch Adjust Speed) to simulate a "linear" acceleration (Ramp UP) and / or deceleration (Ramp Down) for the Horn and/or for and Drum speeds? If so the additional LFO or control could affect the Rate of Speed of the Pitch Shift to simulate a SLOW to FAST (and visa versa) transition of the Leslie. Perhaps the ramp up/down rate of change for the DRUM and Horn speeds could be independent so the rate of acceleration / deceleration for each are decoupled. It wouldn't surprise me that Reaper supports LFOs modulating another LFOs within an Effect. Just haven't explored it enough yet to find out. Gratefully.

[@EuropaMan]

Very cool effect. George Harrison could have used this on lead guitar on the "Let It Be Track". Well done Kenny

[@ajawam]

You'd really want to link the LFO's for the pitch and the pan . You want to try and emulate the Doppler effect...

[@atamanlive]

Yeah!

[@thegolfnut812]

Is there a way for this to be one effect? When I add it to the amp it opens all the effects and not one window. Also, it would be nice to be able to change a few things and save the changes as user presets. Not sure if I should have my amp before or after all these effects.

[@robthequiet]

Really cool

[@vladpavlenko]

Solid!

[@PC0067]

do you have a macro that is already prepared with this effect? If so could you share?

[@bobless5517]

Cool!

[@vexphoto]

Awesome

[@gustavor8556]

can i use this same configuration in my voice without to need a pedal effect to emulate this effect ? i mean when i'm recording my vocal lines. for example i remember Ozzy Osbourne in Planet Caravan.

[@vegardyrnes1793]

Thank you, Kenny. Really usefull stuff. Again. :-D

[@aletrejos]

🎸🎸🎸

[@xPowerShotx]

What are the exact three cords played in this?

[@fraga2009]

Can we use this in vocals...?

[@BluesLicks101]

Kenny, you are the best, and its cool this can be done (sort of) just with a few steps, and its great to understand how to do that... but its a lot easier and IMHO better sounding to just download Empty Square's "Spinner LE": Two-band rotary chorus (aka "leslie simulation"). Adjustable Distortion with Drive and Output level controls. Built in Crossover at 800Hz. Horn Filter with variable Frequency and Q Controls.

[@ADHDmakesMUSIC]

Better sounding is subjective. This is a lesson on plugins, parameter modulation, routing, and a sidebar on hardware emulation. This video is not about hardcore Leslie emulation, saturated circuits, or pristine micing techniques. Also it's DIY, which has been proven to increase comprehension and retention of a concept or subject. Kind of a strange place to bring up commercial plugins, but if people are just looking for solutions then ready-built is fine. If you can find it that is, as the plug you mentioned has been discontinued. And the original manufacturer, Nubi3, has a site that redirects to porn and advertisements www.kvraudio.com/product/spinner-by-fxpointaudio

[@carlosmaranhao5637]

👍

[@Zvukorezz]

tnx

[@ajawam]

Actually - the Treble Rotor (horn) has only one "live" output - the other is a dummy: www.theatreorgans.com/hammond/faq/mystery/mystery.html I used to fix these beasts...

[@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP]

if only REAPER had a feature of copy-pasting settings between effects