Mod wheel and Leslie Effect

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Mod wheel and Leslie Effect

I am using the Xboard 49-key USB controller for garageband 1, and am trying to figure out a way to set the mod wheel to turn the "rotary speaker" on in the built-in tonewheel organ set.
I see that on the "Electric Piano", when I scroll up the mod wheel, that it starts the panning effect that we all know and love on the Rhodes pianos and WurliTzers... But a Hammond organ without a Rotary Speaker (leslie) control is just hard to imagine. I can manually change the rotating speed via the radio buttons (Chorale, Brake, and Tremolo), So I think that there has to be a way to assign it to a control.

If anyone knows the channels or whatever these settings should be, please help out. It is much appreciated.

PowerMac Dual G5 (First dual 2.5GHz model) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 14, 2006 7:10 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 15, 2006 2:33 AM in response to Organgrinder010

I know of no way of assigning modulator wheels to certain effects "afterwards". Seems to be built into the instrument files.

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Answer 2

Jun 15, 2006 5:50 AM in response to Organgrinder010

A sustain pedal will turn change the leslie effect from fast to slow. You can also record it without (which is what I do), and then assign sustain pedal commands in the editor AFTER the fact, and/or change what you have if you missed one. Of course, as far as I know, you can only select one of the three selections, Chorale, Brake, Tremolo. If you want a leslie sound, Chorale is the selection to make. It even slows down and speeds up gradually like the real thing does.

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Answer 3

Jun 15, 2006 6:34 AM in response to Scott Laughlin-Richard

I thought that the sustain pedal only worked to control the leslie in GB2. I don't think there's any way you can do it in GB1 except to apply the leslie to a duplicate track and fade between effected and uneffected tracks.

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Answer 4

Jun 15, 2006 4:01 PM in response to James Bouchard

Hmmm, I was pretty sure I started the song I first used leslie in with GB1 and moved it to GB2.

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Answer 5

Shoes 9

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Jun 16, 2006 10:32 AM in response to Scott Laughlin-Richard

Scott, you are right. It works in GB1. I know 'cause that's all I have.

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Jun 18, 2006 7:37 AM in response to Shoes 9

Shoes, thanks, I thought so, but I have forgot about stuff that was in GB1 before LOL But I was sure I had learned about it when I had GB1. I never have used my sustain pedal, though. I am not much of a keyboard player, so I plunk down some chords and the edit them, and add the leslie in the editor. But one day I am gonna have to try it, and force myself to actually play more organ. I love it, so...

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