From groovecake@yahoo.com Fri Apr 25 14:16:12 2003
Subject:Re: VK8

I have felt that way too. The only reason I didn't buy
a Vk-8 is that I didn't feel they fixed the things I
wanted fixed on the VK-7, so I still have it.

--- Robert Baker wrote:
> I feel that way about my VK7. I have always liked
> the sound of it better than the sound of the CX3's I
> have played at GC. I have gone back many times to
> retry the CX3 based on things I read in this group.
> It still just does not grab me. How does the sound
> of the VK8 compare to the sound of the VK7? The only
> negative for me is the lack of an LCD? I guess a
> Hammond B3 does not have an LCD either.
>
> Bob Baker
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Schomp
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:19 PM
> Subject: [CWSG] Re: VK8
>
> I've always thought there was something wrong with
> me because
> eveyone's been raving about the new CX for so
> long, and so
> earnestly! I thought that the CX's I'd played in
> the store must have
> been fiddled with and the settings were all
> screwed up...and I've
> never played a real Hammond, so what the hell do I
> know?
>
> But I agree - there's something about the VK8 that
> just sounds and
> feels good. And with zero tweaking! I feel like
> every time I play
> the CX I sit and try and change a bunch of stuff
> to get it to sound
> the way I want, but the VK8 already sounds that
> way. And the Electro
> is nice and all, but it just doesn't grab me the
> way the Roland does.
>
> I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks
> this way...
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, goff747@a...
> wrote:
> > The group has been silent as of late and thought
> I'd open some old
> wounds,
> > what with this being war year and all (jk).... I
> was at Guitar
> Center in La
> > Mesa, Calif., the other day after being overseas
> for three years
> and reading
> > the posts in this forum. The new store had in
> their keyboard dept,
> a new CX
> > with a new Vk8 on top of that and then a new
> Nord Electro. I went
> there to
> > try the CX, with its new waterfall keys, but
> after trying the VK8,
> I found
> > the keys, waterfall also, but perhaps slightly
> narrower than the
> CX's to be
> > more responsive like a real B3. I have been
> playing a B3/122 for a
> long while
> > and have one at home. The keys of the CX
> although looking like the
> original
> > B3's were clumsy feeling and hard to negotiate.
> I thought I was
> imagining
> > things but everytime I'd A/B the VK8, the
> response was immediate
> compared to
> > the CX. The sound of the VK8 was closer to a B3
> than the CX.
> Pulling the
> > drawbars on the VK8 also had a similar B3 sound
> and effect. The CX
> had
> > clumsy feeling drawbars and the sound was shrill
> on the high end.
> Even though
> > the VK8 only has one set of drawbars, I found it
> to be closer to a
> real B3
> > than the CX, much to my surprise as I used to
> own the orignal first
> version
> > of the CX years ago. I didn't get to try the
> Nord bec it wasn't
> plugged in
> > but the keys were sloppy similar to the CX's.
> And it had no draw
> bars so it
> > failed for that reason also. The thing that
> struck me the most was
> that the
> > VK8 had a touch response similar to the B3 and
> it spoke immediately
> when
> > touching the keys as would a real B3. The CX was
> sluggish and
> distant in its
> > response. Even the CX's BC setting (I saw the
> man perform live last
> week on a
> > real B) didn't save it. From key response alone,
> the VK8 has it
> closest so
> > far. Its sound and drawbar response is pretty
> darn close to boot
> and I found
> > myself thinking I could be sitting at a real B3.
> > Reliability issues using the VK8 live should be
> next on the
> list....but I
> > digress....
> >
> > My dos centavos.
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