I imagined a version of myself living back in the 70’s listening all the time Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Yes, Who, Emerson Lake and Palmer and suddenly a Hammond came to my hands. I placed it in my garage and start to experimenting and record the sounds with a cheap mic that also captured the space of this garage.
 
And this is the result. 70’s Hammonds contains 50 Hammond organ synths for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2. Lo-Fi sounds with a generous touch of vintage saturation and much space to hug them. And all of them under the distinctive rich and rusty sound of a Hammond.
 
In those patches you could find some interesting variations especially for rock and lo-fi genres. They are all organs, based on the various Hammond Soundsources of Omnisphere 2 with the addition of distortion and/or cheap reverbs. Retro sonic results deriving for the progressive rock era is what this soundbank has to do with.
 
Hammond 01 sounds nostalgic and emotional, Hammond 02 is a bit darker and dirtier, Hammond 03 has more saturation and rust. Hammond 10 has this classic Leslie like movement in the highs and Hammond 11 sounds like merging the 70’s and the 80’s within a Hammond. Hammond 12 is more 60’s focused and Hammond 18 is a plucky low fidelity organ with mid frequency tail.
 
Hammond 22 has rounder sound and Hammond 23 mostly gives the sense of a church organ. 31st patch is more whimsical and weirder while Hammond 32 encloses a cheesy temper. Hammond 40 is a bit tricky and Hammond 41 is a toy organ. 46th one sounds more like an electric ballad piano and the Hammond 47 is sweet and dreamful.
 
For all patches the Mod Wheel adds vibrato which is perfectly fitting with the organic sound of the Hammond.
 
This soundbank has a specific goal deriving from the very characteristics of those instruments with their great history in many music genres, as well as the Lo-Fi character from the various eq, compressors, delays and reverbs that have been used. For most of presets the last device adds a movement between left and right places of the stereo field. A nice thing to experiment is to disable that and add a Leslie speaker emulation for even more “Hammondish” sonic results. I used the MVintageRotary by Melda Productions and it really adds more interesting dimensions to the patches.
 
Presets were created with Omnisphere 2.8 and run best with this or newer edition
• Software 2.8.5c
• Soundsources v2.6.1c
• Patches v2.8.1c