PSP release B Scanner

[Markay]

Received an email from PSP announcing the release of B Scanner - a dedicated Chorus Vibrato effect. Intro price $39 - less for existing customers.

 

I am going to get it at that price and see what difference it makes compared to the CV in Vintage B3. Based on the manual it provides a lot of options to independently tweak chorus and vibrato.

 

With this and l'Otary PSP have the ultimate Hammond effect tweaking suite.

[PianoMan51]

Thanks for the head's up. Read your post and just bought one. I love the L'Otary. It's on a totally different level than the built-in FX in VB3 1.4.

[burningbusch]

Coincidently Martinic (the people who made the Vox and Farfisa plugins) just released a scanner/vibrato for $39 ($19.50 intro)

 

http://static.kvraudio.com/i/b/screenshot.1461244295.jpg

 

Like their GIF

http://www.martinic.com/scanner-vibrato/scanner-vibrato_thumb.gif

 

http://www.martinic.com/scanner-vibrato/

 

Busch.

[Steve Nathan]

It's pretty cool. (Full disclosure: I Beta test for PSP)

They nailed the Hammond Chorus and Vibratos, but what I really like is that you can get a bunch of "non-traditional" effects with this thing too. Love that they've made the lever capable of being set anywhere "in the middle" (like L'otary) too.

[Geoff Grace]

For what it's worth, PSP L'otary2 and B-Scanner are on sale for $29 and $19 respectively until April 3.

 

Best,

 

Geoff

[RoadHousePiano]

Is the B Scanner a big improvement over the built in effects in VB3, B5 etc?

[LX88]

Since I am not adept at Software I am not sure how I might use it.

 

One thing I do know is that you would somehow need to separate any percussion harmonics from this to get an accurate Hammond sound.

 

The Roland VR-09 made the mistake of not separating vibrato from percussion, and as a result that board is useless to me. And I have loved the previous Roland organ engines too.

 

Also when Trek percussion is added to a BV or CV, percussion cannot be separate from the scanner. So Chorus Vibrato with percussion often sounds weird.

 

I think it is interesting that they did this. Wish I understood the software world a bit better.

[iluvchiclets]

I'm trying the PSP B-Scanner Demo download (14 days trial).

 

Everytime I click on one of the graphics/parameters to edit something, the image disappears and I can't edit anything. Some sort of glitch?

 

(edit - I just tried using the 32-bit version, this time it was a bit more stable and I was able to adjust some parameters. Sounds very nice, but ultimately all I do is use it on C3! All that tweakability!?)

 

LX88 brings up a very good point - I guess you'd need to run:

 

1) An organ Model, then

2) A scanner Vibrato Model, (with percussion after if possible?)

3) Then a Leslie Model,

4) then some reverb...

 

...whew!...

(My main interest would be using and improving the C/V on Acoustic Samples B5, and Native Instruments Vintage Organs. I don't think VB3 needs any help in the C/V section.)

 

 

[Mark Schmieder]

Both are on sale once again, but not quite as generous on the PSP side as the last sale.

 

It's probably not cool to post a link to a specific vendor here, as that could show bias, but A-D (figure it out) has Martinic Scanner Vibrato foir $19.50 and PSP B-Scanner for $37.95.

 

I bought the PSP product when it came out. The Martinic plug-in has a more traditional interface. Has anyone done a shootout between these two?

[Mark Schmieder]

Once again, both are on sale -- this time, at BF prices.

 

I couldn't resist the Martinic Scanner Vibrato for just $13 at A-D.

 

Such a low risk, and I liked the guitar demos, but not the synth ones.

 

If I end up only using the PSP B-Scanner, at least I didn't spend much.

 

Very surprised no one ever chimed in with a direct comparison of them!