Modartt, are you considering making a physical model of a Hammond B3?

That's a radically different proposition to physically modelling the behaviour of church organ pipes.

"based on physical model. By capturing the complex physics of flue and reed pipes"

Modartt do go to lengths to describe the specific nature of Organteq and I do not think that is by accident. I think it is to differentiate it from electric organ modelling.
It would be Organteq in name only. However I do think a lot of folks were hoping that's what Organteq was going to be - Any types of organs.

So don't hold your breath on that one. I think it could actually be more popular though - unless that market is too saturated?

Edit
An article for you:
https://v2.puremix.com/blog/hammond-org...20in%20it.

Arturia and GSI have modelled versions, IKs might be modelling (or hybrid) too. UAD in the article.

B3 seems unlikely, but then Modartt are full of surprises - such as the Classical Guitar model, which kind of came out of the blue! There is already an Experimental section in Organteq 2, which maybe hints at some exploration of electronic organ sounds in the future - but I don't work for Modartt, so I have no idea.

Sorry about that Stig, I deleted that post because I was worried I was too off topic.

Glad you liked the comment.

Sure bring on the JMJ

I am not from Modartt either, and I completely disagree.

First, it doesn't matter that another company already has a similar product, otherwise they would not be modeling pianos either, since there were many other companies doing pianos when they started. The question is more about them being able to do it "better" in either sound quality, or technical requirements on the hardware (e.g. less disk space for the samples) or software (e.g. Linux version), or perhaps even price, etc.
Of course what it *does* matter is if Modartt think they can do such "better".

Most importantly, from the technical point of view, if you read the various science papers, Ph.D. thesis and the likes, you'd see that there is no inherent limit on the modeling being limited to the electronic vs acoustic: pianoteq is just a very sophisticated synth that can indeed realistically synthesize the sound of the piano. The sound of the B3 organ is much simpler and hence within scope of what should be possible to do.

In fact starting with the existing electric pianos, increasing the attack envelope, zeroing the hammer noise, maximizing the impedance and reducing the spectrum profile of the higher harmonics, one quickly gets a decent sound of a electronic organ. I think that spending more time with the various other settings in both the design and voicing sections, one can get something really good. What you cannot do by yourself is giving the "infinite sustain" of the organ, obviously, because the impedence value in the user interface is limited in range. But as Modartt said in various occasions, they have internally access to larger ranges and more parameters that they use to model different instruments and I have no doubts that they could model a good (if not excellent) B3 organ with limited efforts, perhaps even less efforts than they spent for each of the branded pianos.

I am also sure that at the $50 regular ($35 discounted as it is now) it would be an instrument which would sell well on its own and would probably increase sales of Pianoteq itself too, with the Stage version (with the B3 and another instrument) for example being competitive with the VB3-II and having a much more competitive pricing update policy!

The fact that you use and like VB3-II has nothing to do with what others want. If Modartt followed similar suggestions from people when they started (there were many, many who said "Garritan CFX is great, Pianoteq version 1 sucks, Modartt should quit" -- and some still do!) we would not have the great product we have.

One easy to see thing that the Modartt engine does that VB3-II lacks is Linux support. Of course is minor in the great scheme of things, and there are more important ones, but I do hope that Modartt will embark in such a journey!

I'm not against the idea of a Modartt B3 either - but personally I'd much rather see them do something more obscure, like a harmonium.

Go Demo the IK multimedia Hammond B-3X and give it a spin.  I rather have Pianoteq keep their limited resources on what they do best.

What about a Okarina?

https://youtu.be/iKcrbAlZ9Jo?si=FrA1AuOLMJ6GSkax

I haven't tried this nor any B3 software but here is a free with Pro option of a B3 model: https://sampleson.com/collab3-free-tonewheel-organ.html

Pro is $10 for rotary speed control, and mic position for example.

--- Stephen

I would really like Modartt to develop a tone wheel organ. Physical modeling is my favorite synthesis option.

For example, I use and recommend the SetBfree software. It runs on Linux and is very good!