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LMAO! !!! Yeah. John Kay CANāT get a realistic Steppenwolf sound anymore.
Nice to see Steppenwolf still rockinā it out in 2017! 
(Michael Wilk on keyboards. This is from John Kay and Steppenwolfās 50th Anniversary concert in March. JK turns 73 on April 12th.)
Apparently, it requires TWO leslie speaker cabinets to get that āsoundāā¦ Iām stacking my sims accordingly!
Terry
MVintage is my go-to rotary sim. Like it a lot. Usually use this instead of the one which is built in VB3.
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āDeviant Leslie Use (And Abuse)
Steppenwolf organist Goldie McJohn was able to coax an amazing sound from a stock Leslie. He connected the stock bass speaker directly (āfull rangeā) to the stock amp and ran the thing flat on 10 (actually it sounds like he found a way to get ā11ā). You can hear this very clearly on that classic track, āBorn To Be Wildā. The organ solo features the glorious distortion of a grossly overdriven Leslie amp, and you can hear the big bass rotor slowly speed up and slow down throughout the take. I saw Steppenwolf live at the now physically non-existent Electric Factory in Philadelphia. Goldie used the same setup on stage, only he stacked a bunch of them up right next to him, and miked one through the PA system.ā
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I just tried out the trial version of Rotary with VB3, and I must say, I do really rather like the sound with the VB3 Leslie enabled but not rotating, and feeding that into Rotaryā¦
Neil
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Smegging smegheadsā¦ PACE wants net access to install a trial license and I keep that computer off the internet. No offline solution apparently. Then after the 1st fail it wont even rescan the plugin. I hate crap like this. Bite me, UVI. Bite me twice, iLok.
Canāt you activate it on an iLok on a different (online) computer?
Doesnāt look that way. I mean yeah, I can try to just install on this other laptop Iām on right now- OH WAIT I CANāT! Max downloads achieved for that demo and the copy I downloaded is on the other computer at work. And there seems to be no way to transfer that license overā¦ there probably is, but it wonāt giveyou that option. And once it scans it and fails it doesnāt even give you the option to scan it again. I have to completely uninstall Rotary and the iLok and start all over. Itās seriously not worth it.
Editā¦ I got a new link and dlāed the demos againā¦ now Iām stuck getting the iLok driver to install. This is a quest, dammit.
Welcome to the brave new world of Software As A Service.
They will become the absentee landlords of the computer age.
No nets no works
And thatās no garrentee either. I tried installing an unused virgin copy of Cubase 6.5 on a clunker and the license server is gone forever so I can just suck it up.
ā¦ oh, and the cloud is not the greatest thing ever, itās just someone elseās computer. 
Oh manā¦ if I had paid for this I would be PISSED off right now. I can not get PACE to work. It installs but then the vst hangs. If I run the iLok License software it just says thereās something missing and it canāt run. Iāve updated everything. Iāve read 15 threads on why iLok wonāt work on Win10. This sucks. I just want to try the s**t out! Dang.
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iLokās working reliably on my Win10 machine - no problems at all.
Having said that, I donāt disagree with youā¦
Neil
If on a PC, iLok runs a service that is on a delayed startup, so if you try to run it right after booting, it wonāt run. In the Computer Manager under Services, make sure both the Bonjour service and the Pace Licensing Support service are running.
What a pain just to try something out though!
Iām lucky like Neil is ā not having had any problems with iLok since I started with it. (For a freebie copy of SoundToysā āLittle Alter Boyā of all thingsā¦) I have 30 activations on my iLok key now!!! It has become pretty indispensable.
Terry
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Checked that- both PACE and Bonjour are running. I set PACE to delayed start anyway but no diceā¦ every thread says the fix to my issue is simply to get the service started but for me itās starting correctly. Thank God Iāve avoided iLok until now.
I didnāt meant that it wonāt run on Win10 of course- clearly it does for a majority of people. That was just one of my starting points to Google 
Iām seriously stumped though.
Do they still supply the LicenseSupportDiagnostic toolo in ilok folder??
Yes and itās showing no issues.
A NEW CONTENDER FOR THE THRONE!
I was alerted a few days ago to a new Hammond plugin and downloaded the demo. The GUI has a synth look, and I thought it was another cheap knockoff, but I was really amazed at what this thing could do. Very light on CPU. I am still trying it out, and kinda liking it so far. See what you think.
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Thanks for that Corky, sounds real good!
Dave
Thanks for the heads-up!!! Iām just playing with the demo now - sounds nice! Iām not 100% convinced by the distortion yet - I think VB3 still has the edgeā¦
Neil