From k2mojo@groovedaddies.com Mon Jan 21 22:53:31 2002
Subject:RE: Units on the market

Just to muddy things up a bit, I'm suggesting that the Kurzweil K2500 &
K2600 should be considered a Hammond clone, even though that is not it's
only role. The K2500/2600 has a special mode called "KB3 Mode" that uses
physical modeling to emulate nearly all the characteristics of a Hammond.
For live gigs I'm playing my CX-3, but I own a K2600 that doesn't leave my
house and I can attest that it's extremely close to any of the top tier
clones available to us now and easily surpasses most of the older clones.
Besides the usual stuff like percussion(s) and C/V, it has full drawbars,
48-note polyphony, key click, foldback, leakage; it's all there. And
because it's just one mode in an extremely powerful and versatile synth you
can go exploring in the same direction as EX Mode on the CX-3. A serious
drawback to the keyboard versions is that the keyboard feel is nowhere like
a CX-3/VK-7/XK-2, but a rack K2600 with an organ feel MIDI controller and
some MIDI drawbars/sliders would give any of the current clones a run for
their money. Anyone wanting to check out the features of KB3 Mode should go
to this link:
http://www.kurzweilmusicsystems.com/html/kb3_mode.html
I know we don't normally consider most workstation synths as true clones,
but as long as we're making lists, I think after taking a hard look at the
features of KB3 Mode on the K2500/2600 it should be listed along with the
others.

Ed Fliege
k2mojo@groovedaddies.com
www.groovedaddies.com

> Below is a list of the units on the market. Is the list complete or I am
> missing one?

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