Tonewheel Organ

a physically modelled B-3 and Leslie
MIDI off audio off
Swell
Tabs
Vibrato & chorus
Rotors Space
Generator motor `
1200 rpm

Tone generator — 91 wheels

Bars: each wheel’s tuning error vs equal temperament (gears are small-integer ratios). Glow: wheels the held keys are drawing on. Hover for details.

Leslie, from above

Output

live spectrum · markers: the nine tones of C4

Spectrogram

live output · ticks: the nine tones of the last key, in drawbar colours
Each drawbar is a steady line. Through the Leslie the lines wobble with the Doppler shift; switch from slow to fast and the treble (the horn, above 800 Hz) catches up in under a second while the bass (the drum) takes several.

What C4 really plays