From goff747@aol.com Tue Dec 23 23:31:45 2003
Subject:Re: Need your light... was gonna buy a Hammond XK2 those days but...


In a message dated 12/24/03 3:03:39 PM, john@johncornicello.com writes:

<< Hmmm... I haven't seen a VK8M, but in pictures on the Roland site it
appears
to have the same basic shape as the VK8, that is shaped quite a bit like a
B3. >>

I've got one and after two months of hopping around every Guitar Center in
the LA -San Diego area trying all the others,(with keyboards) this does it for
me. I use it for recording in my studio and all the controls are in one
convenient location. The drawbars are nice to the touch placed on the left side of my
controller. I would like a nice waterfall controller which we talked about
some time back in this group under the "wouldn't it be nice" cloud, but after
tweaking the 8M, I can get a decent control out of my Kawai synth that I use for
controller and after that, its mind, ears, and fingers don't fail me now. I
find I can get sounds out of it that can give me the Hammond B3 rush. The only
thing missing with all these clones is the stacked triggering that a real B3
has....maybe someone will address that in the future.