From larry.a.schurr@boeing.com Tue Dec 23 08:58:56 2003
Subject:Re: Need your light... was gonna buy a Hammond XK2 those days but...



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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: Need your light... was gonna buy a Hammond XK2 those days but...

In a message dated 12/23/03 11:43:52 PM, djacques@csulb.edu writes:

<< musical performance
is greatly dependent on not only the sound, but the INSTRUMENT. Why
compromise with a whacky user interface of the Electro when you can have
a logical one like the Korg? Unless one just wants to be different. I
guess that is why people choose Flying V's instead of Les Pauls... Gotta
be different.... >>

here here. if the electro opted for drawbars, there might be more sales and
the way the B3 was laid out is the perfect way for the instrument and the
reason korg chose to copy the essence of the B. Sometimes the designer gets off on
tangents and negates the ergonomics of things and although he's pleased, the
buyer isn't.
[LarryS:]

Or MAYBE it's because it's high time to move on from the assumptions and limitations of that era, as many happy Electro owners will attest.

Yes, some players are happy with drawbars, while others are simply unable to adapt to anything else. But some of us function quite well with whatEVER user interface is placed before us: drawbars of drawButtons.

If all you do is beat on a hollow log, then even a standard keyboard would be a "whacky interface". If you're a died in the wool pipe organist, then a Hammond is "whacky interface". If all you do is pine for the days of B3 and only B3, then certainly the Electro would be "whacky interface". But if you're interested in making new music, new expression, and pioneering greater musical performance possibilities, then the Electro is adequately agile in both interface and frame to aid in accomplishing this. You'll not get that inna Korg, but hey, you don't have to if you don't wanna.

There is certianly nothing "perfect" about the B. It is useful and servicable and I enjoy it, but it's no more "perfect" than a well made wagon wheel: good for what it is, but not the last word in tranportation.

But hey, whatever yanks yer drawbar... or button...

L.


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