Voce V3

Illimitate poliphony+inside Leslie effect(the same as Spin)
effect loop(you can use effect out for use withe an ext Leslie.
Only the first serie had an 11 pin Leslie connector.
Beautiful drawbars box(the same look and touch feeling of the real deal!)

This unit gives you A GREAT HAMMOND B3 SOUND : In my opinion the three key words to describe its sound are: DIRTY,WARM,ORGANIC.
The first time I heard it I was tempted to open the box,looking for rotating tonewheels!!!
The Leslie effect is a bit noisy (analog effect,for more warmth and realism;also a tube 122 Leslie is a bit nosy!)
Percussion and Vib/Chorus are particular,and give it that "old fashion" sonic character.

Seems well built.I love drawbars' look and touch feeling(the best among clones!!!)

Dave Amels is a true "Sir".He answer your questions kindly and quickly.

Great!!!

Pretty easy to use, everything is pretty straight forward.

No built in effects, typical organ features like chorus, vibrato etc. I have the midi drawbars too but I never used them very much. I disovered that my modulation wheel would actually change the midi drawbar settings (odd that!), so I would just use that instead. The drawbar unit has everything the main unit has, other than the drawbars themselves.

Well, this thing sounds good, but only for mellower B3 stuff, doesn't quite cut it for the B3's nastier, grittier side. The overdrive is not that great. My unit did have a noticeable hiss and my sound man kept complaining about how muddy the thing sounded, which didn't really bother me. The double speed leslie sound is killer though I must say, it really screams, does the best leslie imitation at high speed that I'ver ever heard. I hard that they emulated all the 92 or whatever tonewheels of the B3 with 92 oscillators, so it does have a really warm analogy sound to it.

I bought my unit off of eBay, and the thing went steadily downhill ever since, first I lost the ability to change sounds, then the gain started cutting out. I brought it in to repaired, and they turned it into a doorstop, it won't even boot up now. :( I'm not sure if the thing was pooched to begin with, but it seemed to work okay when I plugged it in, but then just kept getting worse. I use to turn the thing on at gigs and cross my fingers, in a way I'm glad it's gone, but I do miss it's sweet tone.

Voce isn't around any more, I haven't even bothered trying to contact them.

At first I didn't like it, then I loved it, now it's gone, and good riddance. The closest thing I've found to it other than the mucho expensive Korg CX-3 and Roland VK-7 is the Yahama S-30.

Software ver. is 2.3.1 I think.
Presets sound great. Helpfull patch names like "JSmith", "Church", "BAuger", "Green Onions" etc. Editing patches is fairly easy once you get used to it. I'm tempted to use a patch editor/librarian but it's really quicker to just tweak the sounds at the box. Manual is very straight forward with helpful hints and interesting historical notes

Full polyphony, just like a Hammond. Keyboard is N/A.
Only has leslie effect and it seems pretty thorough with standard speed variations, cabinet types, distortion along with the normal Hammond percussion, key click. It's safe to say that any organ/leslie related detail could be tweaked. No expansion but there are some modifications available for do-it-yourself types. MIDI is well supported is ways that may not matter to organists. Seems to receive most MIDI messages. No sequencer. This is really just an organ module and in that sense, it's got fantastic features.

The organ sound is hard to beat. Some of the other aspects of a "Hammond" sound are questionable in my opinion. For example, simply hate the sound of vibrato only...that wobbly sound. I might like the C3 chorus to be a little deeper, but that just my personal taste. I set up about 5 things that I like to control in realtime and that doesn't include drawbars. Once the controllers are assigned, it's a breeze to work with. I don't know if the V3 reacts to an individual's playing but it does have a "random" feel to the sound...like it may sound just a bit different each time you hit that same note. The V3 responds to velocity and AT but I don't use it that way. The V3 has been known to be a little noisy at the outputs. Mine's was hotrodded by the previous owner and I don't notice any noise at all.

Unknown reliability. Voce Inc.is gone now. I had a Micro BII for about a year with no problems and sold it to get a VK7. The V3 gets hot inside a rack so that could be a factor. I could gig without a backup for it but only because every workstation ever made has a few hammond organ patches.

I felt I got lucky with this purchase. It was in great shape and was already hot-rodded. I got the MIDI drawbars with it too. These units are getting hard to find but I could use a Micro BII live if I had to. I find Voce units are more to my liking than the Kurz KB3, VK7, and NI B4. The NI B4 is a great emulation also. I've been using it for about 6 months. I got the V3 for live work and still planned to use the NI B4 for recording/MIDI stuff. I wanted to do a comparison between the two and I found that the V3 just sounds acoustically better. The only other way to explain this is to say that the NI B4 is like standing 25 feet away from a B3/leslie and the V3 is like standing 5 feet away.

There are about 50 factory presets. The presets have evocative names like "Yes Ham", Deep purpl, GRN onions or J.Smith. Patches are far more easy to edit than the patches on my Roland D5. Most of the parameters you can edit are the same parameters you would change on a real B3 : EQ, overdrive, position of the mikes on the Leslie, etc... Lots of other parameters are editable, like tonewheel leakage, key click level, etc...You can get the sounds of lots of differents hammonds, from mellow old pieces to brighter old models. The edition is supposed to be far more live and easier with the real-time controls available with the optional MIDI drawbar unit.

Full (really!) polyphony for 2 61-notes keyboards and a 25-note pedalboard at the same time. Keyboard action depends of your controller. The only built-in effects are those available on the B3 : Vibrato Chorus V1-3, C1-3, and the fully-programmable Leslie simulation, that simulates a 122 with 2 mikes on the horn and 1 on the drum. MIDI capabilities are nice. You can control virtually any parameter with a midi control number or aftertouch. It also has a 6-pin DIN interface to connect to a Leslie, and control also the speed of the real Leslie with MIDI! You can also control the percussion envelope with key velocity. There is an effects loop, too.

The V3 gives me the best B3 simulation I ever heard... It is very soulful for an electronic unit. The secret of its sound is 91 separated oscillators, like the Tonewheels in a real Hammond. There are also Farfisa compact and Vox Continental sounds that I found really useful a year ago with a Doors tribute band... The Leslie simulation is nice, though any electronic Leslie simulation is cheesy compared to a real tube Leslie.

The unit is quite reliable, tough it has some flaws :
-It is kind of noisy. There is a hiss coming from the Leslie simulator circuit. There is a noise gate built in for this, tough. You can also EQ it a lot, too. If you have a real Leslie, you can use the effect out jack as an output for the Leslie, and the hiss practically disappears. -Two times in gigs, some notes stuck on after I hit all notes on the keyboard at the same time. I had to turn off the unit and turn it on again, and after it was O.K.
Besides this, it is very reliable and easy to use in a gig.

If I could give a 11 on this, point, I would! The folks at Voce are helpful, even if you talk them negatively about their products. They explained me a lots of things : how to modify the V3 to boost the percussion and the Leslie output, how to plug it to my 251 Leslie, etc... They have the best customer support I hever seen...

If I had the choice, I'd buy the V3 again... What do i love about it? It has a WARM ANALOG SOUND and it SCREAMS in the top octave at 888000000 What I hate about it? It is'nt a b3 yet.... I compared it to the Hammond XB-2, the Viscount D9 (same as Oberheim OB-3) and E-mu Vintage Keys. For my ears, the V3 was the better of the 4 in Hammond-Leslie simulation. It sounded more organic, fatter. I wish it had a vacuum tube in it.
Overall, I love it and it helps me to become a better organist because it has a similar behavior than a Hammond, and I never had a Hammond.

Presets sound great. Editing is not bad - use one dial to spin to the parameter you want to change, another wheel to adjust the value. Manual is terse but well-written, with an excellent and interesting history of the Hammond's B-3 at the back. MIDI controllers can be assigned to almost any paramters. Has no drawbars, a real hassle.

Not sure about polyphony - there's gobs. No effects, save from leslie simulator and standard B-3 copies of effects (chorus, vibrato). No expansion capabilities. Can use MIDI controllers to adjust virtually every parameter of both the organ and leslie simulator. This is a single space rack unit, so keyboard feel is irrelevant.

The organ sounds incredible. I can't tell the difference (not that I'm that experienced with how a B-3 should sound). Leslie simulaator is great. I played without velocity and aftertouch, since I don't use those for organs. It has all the grit, grunge, and warmth of a B-3.

This is a single space rack unit. I think it's completely dependable.

I want one, and want it bad. I love how it sounds, and the degree of control you have over the organ and the leslie, not to mention the simulated position of the microphones and other details. I really wish it had a set of drawbars so that I didn't have to fart around changing the position of them.