From funkyhammond@yahoo.com Fri Dec 05 12:49:13 2003
Subject:Re: Xmas choices!

If you can't get to a music store to try out the Electro, you might
want to hunt down some of the audio demos online, if you haven't
already. That might give you a better idea of how good the
rhodes/wurly/clav sounds on it are. There are some demos at Clavia's
site (http://www.clavia.com/MP3s/index.htm#electro) and a few in the
files section of the NordElectro yahoo forum. There might be others, too.

The clav sample in the Electro has all the different pickup and filter
settings of the real clav (but doesn't have the mute slider feature).
The wurlitzer is great. There are two different Rhodes samples, but
also two more available at Clavia's website, which can be downloaded
via USB if you make room by deleting some existing samples. (I've
deleted the acoustic and electric grand samples, since I don't use
them.) Apparently there's yet another Rhodes sample that will be
available when v3.0 of the OS comes out (soon). There are also a few
different acoustic piano samples on Clavia's site to choose from.

One more bonus of the Electro is that you can run any of the
instruments through any of the effects (if you're into that). I've
gotten some pretty cool sounds by running the clav/wurly/rhodes
through a distorted, stopped leslie or by running the organ through
the ring modulator, phaser, wah-wah, etc.

On the down side, remember that you can only play one sound at a time
on the Electro (although you can have a second keyboard trigging the
lower manual for dual-manual Hammond), so that might be a deciding
factor for you, if you can't live with that limitation.

Y