Valkure Guitar Organ

What it does

An audio effect that turns a guitar signal into a polyphonic organ in real time, with no pitch to MIDI stage, so bends, slides, hammer ons and picking dynamics survive. Drawbars, three organ models, a leakage control, percussion and vibrato sit on the main page, and an effects page adds a tube amplifier, rotary cabinets, a compressor, an EQ and a delay.

In the demo

Jade drops it on a guitar channel as an effect and plays straight away without configuring anything. She works through the models and the amp and cabinet controls, then swaps the electric for an acoustic, and finally plugs in a microphone and hums the part to see how far the tracking stretches.

Worth knowing

Tracking is close enough that a wavering voice or sloppy fretting comes through as wobble. The cabinet section is doing a lot of the tone here, and Jade notes it sounds thin with cabinets switched off.