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The Blue3 Tonewheel Organ Black Friday deal from Cherry Audio takes 40% off this modeled organ plugin, bringing it to $29 until Dec 1, 2026.
Blue3 is a tonewheel organ VST that the maker says is modeled rather than sampled. It targets the sound of the famous tonewheel organs behind decades of blues, gospel, rock and jazz records.
The maker describes this version as a return of the GG Audio Blue3, now with a new look from Cherry Audio.
The engine has 31 tonewheel sets based on vintage B-3, C-3, A-100, L-100, CV and M-3 instruments. It also uses 91 modeled tonewheels with phase synchronization.
The scanner vibrato/chorus has swell, great, type and depth settings.
The Condition page lets you dial in tonewheel crosstalk, flutter, leakage, noise and transformer behaviour.
Upper, lower and pedal manuals are fully polyphonic, and there is a customizable keyboard split. Drawbar tools cover copy, swap, reset and randomize for the upper and lower manuals.
The main tone controls include:
Registration (inverted) keys with A# and B drawbar presets are included.
The Cabinet page offers 122, 147, RA-200, 4x12 guitar amp and custom rotary speaker simulations, plus a direct option. Rotary speed is adjustable, with acceleration and deceleration.
The mic section has four dynamic and condenser choices, spread and distance controls, and click-and-drag placement. The rotary speaker also has Diffuser, Front Stop, Memphis and Wind options.
Three stompbox-style effects sit alongside the organ:
The resizable interface has Main, Edit, Cabinet and Perform pages. Cherry Audio's Focus zoom-in feature is included, and so is standard UI zoom.
More than 200 presets span classic to modern tones. MIDI learn and mapping work at preset and global level, and every control can be automated from your DAW.
The plugin comes as AU, VST, VST3, AAX and standalone. User-adjustable oversampling lets you trade quality against CPU, and the maker says the DSP is highly optimized.
On Mac, it needs macOS 10.13 or above, 64-bit, with native Apple M1 or greater support. On Windows, it needs Windows 7 or above, 64-bit. The maker recommends a 3.4 GHz quad-core machine with 8GB of RAM, and it takes 182 MB of disk space. Activation needs an internet connection.
Yes. The Blue3 Tonewheel Organ Black Friday deal takes 40% off Cherry Audio's organ plugin, bringing it to $29 until Dec 1, 2026.
You get 31 tonewheel sets, full upper, lower and pedal polyphony, drawbar utilities, six speaker options, mic simulation, and three effects: tape echo, reverb and a seven-band graphic EQ. Over 200 presets are included.
Blue3 comes as AU, VST, VST3, AAX and standalone. It supports macOS 10.13 or above, including native Apple M1 or greater, and Windows 7 or above, both 64-bit only.
Cherry Audio says Blue3 is modeled, not sampled, with no samples used. The engine runs 91 modeled tonewheels with phase synchronization, drawn from 31 tonewheel sets based on vintage B-3, C-3, A-100, L-100, CV and M-3 organs.
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