From richardon@nexgo.de Tue Sep 04 11:26:50 2001
Subject:Aw: VK-7 debate...


Hi Roger !

Of course VK7 is an great organ. But if I spend 2000$ only for
organ sound, it should be allowed to examine every detail.
Why do we spend so much money if an synthesizer does the job too.

I planned to replace my old CX3 with VK7 because of
- the reverb unit
- the leslie
- leackage
- the better drawbar sound

I sold it because of the
- reverb bug
- Volume knob being on right side !!!
- Dissortion not my taste

Solution could have been
- Volume pedal
- Rotosphere or Pot

Ok I prefered another solution, because I want all in one instrument.

> ****************
> SOFTWAREBUGS !!! (perhaps in some models fixed)
> ****************
> 1) Under some strange conditions operating system of VK7 hangs up.
> I've never expereinced this!!!
Some models had that bug. Solution can be read in this forum

> 2) Another bug,
> You can programm reverb time 0-127. But you cant store all values !!!
> Again I've never experienced this maybe because I always adjust the reverb
> depending on where I have to play...

My Vk7 had this bug and that made me angry, because i bought
it because of reverb build in ! (using key submixer without reverb)
You can test the bug easy:
Chose value of reverb time bigger than 64. For example 100.
Now store it in "performance mode". Now go again to reverb
time. Hope you can read 100. If its 63 you have the bug !

> but you can't say there isn't any reverb!!!
In my VK7 it was. Time=64 sounds like playing in bath room :-)

> DISSORTION
> Again not true I use an Expression Pedal and tweaked my settings
> so that the distorsion comes in when I raise the volume on the
> pedal as is would be on a true hammond.

Does it really sounds like Leslie dissortion ?

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Drawbarsound
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> You can adjust the VK-7's drawbars in realtime too!
> And the sounds aren't at all bad: that's if you know
> how to adjust the settings on your mixer/amp!!!

I only had a look at sound of single Drawbar !
Yes it sounds ok, for my taste a little bit to close to
sinus. So wouldnt it be good instead the two Values
CLEAR VINTAGE controlling the overtones of the single
Drawbar continuesly ? You can do this on new CX3,
adjusting drawbarsound continuesly from MELLOW over
BRIGHT to old Cx3 endig by Farfisa.

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Keyclick
*********
>I think that the key-click is pretty much ok!
>I had to raise the volume to 8-9
>on mine because it wasn't loud enough...

Ok its all matter of taste. But you can really get
a big improvement by using one of the sampled clicks.
Dont remember which of the two it was. Play C in
the middle and adjust Frequencie of sample to your
taste. Now adjust frequencie keytrack of sample to
nearly zero. ( Dont know if it was possible)

> VK7 seems to be an bad clone ?
> If you dont use additional equipment: YES.
> I DON'T AGREE!!!

Ok, was a little bit too strong !
Our music programm consists of two parts:
Dinner music and dance music. For dinner music VK7
was great. Still missing some details of it.
But for dance music old Cx3 was better. In the end i
had both on stage. :-)

ciao
richy

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