From schultz@fig.cox.miami.edu Thu Oct 24 03:38:35 2002
Subject:Re: Nord Electro = MAJOR GEAR LUST

--- In CloneWheel@y..., Eric Lawson wrote:
> I'm literally salivating like Pavlov's dogs over this Electro 73.

I'm sure the sounds are incomparable, but I doubt that it would work
for me in its current incarnation. No splits or layers are
possible, and the board is not 88-key weighted. In my blues/RB gigs
I need piano/horns or /pads splits or layers in just about every
song. And coming from a classical and jazz piano background, I
can't feel inspired or expressive playing either acoustic or epianos
with an unweighted, less than 88 keyboard.

For me it seems there's only one kind of setup: one soft synth board
for the Hammond part, and another weighted 88 dedicated to
pianos/clav/horns/pads/etc. Right now the non-Hammond sounds of the
Electro rack would not be very useful to me because of the
split/layer issue, and because they do not include the highest
quality horns, strings, and pads.

If Nord made a V5-like module with just the Hammond sounds and
Leslie sim, maybe I would start salivating . . . . The rest I guess
will have to wait until they are packaged in a more flexible way.