Cherry Audio
Cherry Audio

The Best is Back

  • $49.00

GG Audio's Blue3 tonewheel organ is back, better, and more affordable, with a whole new look from Cherry Audio.

Blue3 is a meticulously modeled — not sampled — virtual instrument that replicates the most famous tonewheel organs in the world: the B-3, C-3, A-100, L-100, CV, and M-3 models. With 31 tonewheel sets accurately capturing variations between vintage instruments, 91 modeled tonewheels with phase synchronization, and authentically emulated scanner vibrato/chorus, Blue3 delivers the iconic, soulful sounds associated with nearly a century of blues, gospel, rock, and jazz classics.

Cherry Audio's Blue3 features a new, beautifully designed user interface with Main, Edit, Cabinet, and Perform sections. And it goes beyond the traditional B3 sound by adding three studio-quality stompbox-style effects: Tape Echo Delay, Reverb with Spring, Plate, and Hall, and a Seven-band Graphic EQ.

Blue3 offers full polyphony for upper, lower, and pedal manuals, a customizable keyboard split function, and handy drawbar utilities including Copy, Swap, Reset, and Randomize. Tones can be further refined with settings for condition, key click, percussion, and multiple overdrive options.

The Cabinet page provides six speaker options and adjustable rotary speed with acceleration and deceleration. The microphone simulation includes spread and distance controls, four mic selections, and click-and-drag placement in an updated UI.

With MIDI mapping and a rich library of over 200 presets covering classic to modern tones, Blue3 is the ultimate package for both stage and studio.

Registered users of GG Audio's Blue3 who have confirmed their account with Cherry Audio automatically receive a upgrade discount! Sign in to see your personalized offer!

  • “Blue3 just sounds more “real" than everything else I’ve used. It’s going in the top position in my Sessions Template. I’m particularly fond of the 57 recapped C3 with the close miked 122, and the ability to dial in the “wind on the mikes” sound ”

    Steve Nathan Headshot
    Steve Nathan
    Nashville-based session keyboardist, “Keyboardist of the Year” by Music Row Magazine for 13 consecutive years, and advisory board member of The Music Player Network/Keyboard Corner
    Over 100 top talents from every genre including B.B. King, The Beach Boys, Billy Joel, Taylor Swift, George Strait, and countless others.

  • “Even as an electronic musician you want some dirt, fire and personality. The Blue3 is a terrific organ plug-in with tons of control. Another great everyday instrument from the geniuses at Cherry Audio.”

    Michael Whalen Headshot
    Michael Whalen
    Michael Whalen 2X Emmy® Award Winning Composer and Recording Artist with more than one billion streams to his credit.

  • “Congrats Cherry Audio, Blue3 is completely awesome! Authentic Hammond and Leslie rotor tone with an acoustic dimension and a realism that is hard to beat. Add a beautiful interface and several wonderful options makes this my favorite Hammond”

    Phil Bennett Headshot
    Phil Bennett
    Keyboardist
    Starship

  • “It’s warm and crunchy, just like the real thing! The layout is impressive, easy to navigate, loaded with crafty presets, and manipulating your sound on the fly is a breeze. I’ll be turning to it regularly in my production work.”

    Kevin Gerzevitz Headshot
    Kevin Gerzevitz
    Professional musician, composer and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and part of the Artist Roster at Hammond Organ USA
    B3B4 Organ Jazz Quartet, Vintage Jukebox, The KG Trio and Quartet

  • “Amazing! This sounds so close I wish I could take it on the road with Lucero. The interface is gorgeous. Effects placement just perfect. And, as always with Cherry Audio, the presets are abundant and so good. What a fantastic addition to your family.”

    Rick Steff Headshot
    Rick Steff
    Keyboard artist
    Lucero, Dexys Midnight Runners, Cat Power, and Hank Williams Jr.

  • “What surprised me most about your Blue 3 was the purity of the sound together with the minimal load on the processor. I expected that it would be some kind of standard organ emulator, but it turned out that this instrument can be used in almost”

    Majed Salih Headshot
    Majed Salih
    Musician, producer
    Medievil Music

The Sounds of Blue3 Tonewheel Organ

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Blue3 Tonewheel Organ
Blue3 Tonewheel Organ

Instruments | Cherry Audio

$49.00

Cherry Audio Blue3 Tonewheel Organ Features:

  • Painstakingly modeled replication of the world-famous tonewheel organs — no samples used

  • 31 tonewheel sets based on vintage B-3, C-3, A-100, L-100, CV and M-3 instruments

  • 91 modeled tonewheels with accurate phase synchronization

  • Full polyphony for upper, lower, and pedal manuals

  • UPDATED! Gorgeously rendered resizable UI with Main, Edit, Cabinet, and Perform pages

  • Registration (inverted) keys with A# & B drawbar presets

  • Adjustable Condition settings with tonewheel crosstalk, flutter, leakage, noise, and transformer settings

  • Selectable foldback for the 16’ drawbar

  • Customizable keyboard split function

  • Global three-band output EQ

  • NEW! Copy, swap, reset, and randomize options for Upper and Lower drawbars

  • Accurately simulated “scanner” vibrato/chorus with swell, great, and type and depth settings

  • Key Click options for volume and tone

  • Percussion for top manual with fine-tuning controls for volume, decay, and harmonic selector

  • Drive with four different tube simulations to emulate the preamp and rotary enclosure’s amplifier

  • Classic 122, 147, RA-200, 4x12 guitar amp, and custom rotary speaker simulations, along with direct

  • Adjustable rotary speeds with acceleration and deceleration

  • Accurate microphone simulation, with spread and distance controls, four mic (dynamic and condenser) selections, and click-and-drag placement with updated graphics

  • Diffuser, Front Stop, Memphis, and Wind options for rotary speaker

  • NEW! Three studio-quality stompbox-style effects: Tape Echo Delay, Reverb with Spring, Plate, and Hall, Seven-Band Graphic EQ

  • UPDATED! Now with over 200 fabulous presets spanning from classic to modern tones

  • Complete MIDI control and DAW automation for all controls, with easy-to-use MIDI learn and mapping (Preset and Global)

  • Cherry Audio’s popular Focus zoom-in feature, as well as standard UI zoom and resize via drag

  • Complete documentation available directly online from the instrument or in downloadable PDF format

  • Highly optimized DSP for optimal performance

  • User-adjustable oversampling quality control

Also available: B3yond Preset Pack ($9.99, sold separately) by James Dyson, featuring 100 more out-of-this-world presets that showcase how the Cherry Audio effects extend Blue3 beyond the typical tonewheel sound, and take advantage of mod wheel and aftertouch on compatible MIDI controllers.

Registered users of GG Audio's Blue3 who have confirmed their account with Cherry Audio automatically receive a upgrade discount! Sign in to see your personalized offer!

Cherry Audio Blue3 Tonewheel Organ is available in AU, VST, VST3, AAX, and standalone formats.

A free 30-day demo of Blue3 is available. This demo will play white noise periodically, but is otherwise unlimited.

macOS Requirements: macOS 10.13 or above. macOS 13 Ventura supported. 64-bit required. Native Apple M1 or greater processor support, including Ultra. 3.4 GHz Quad-Core or M1 CPU with 8GB of RAM recommended.

Windows Requirements: Windows 7 or above (including Windows 11), 64-bit required. 3.4 GHz Quad-Core computer with 8GB of RAM recommended.

Hard disk space: 182 MB

NOTE: Internet connection required for product activation.