From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Thu Jan 09 05:22:24 2003
Subject:Re: Electro vs CX-3 rig "lite"

Hey there...I have to be honest, as much as I love the
Electro's organs, I'm not so enamored of the pianos in
it. The acoustic piano is garbage (your Roland will
do it better, regardless of which module you own) but
the onboard elec pianos and clavs will sound better
than your Roland (again, regardless of which one you
own, even with a 60s 70s expansion board). However,
if I can make a suggestion...If you bought a Motif 6
(the 61 note), it has REALLY EXCELLENT pianos and in
my opinion better elec pianos than the Electro. In
addition, it is an EXCELLENT (read very flexible and
programmable) controller. It will do FOUR zones, so
you could realistically break your rig down to
Electro, Motif, and whichever module you like for the
analog synth stuff (in my opinion, the thing the Motif
does NOT do so great). With four zones, you have your
lower manual for Electro organ, your Motif for pianos
and clav, and 2 zones left for your bass module and
analog box. You really should explore that option. I
found that when I wanted to shrink my rig to modules
the flexibility of your controller is PARAMOUNT. And
after owning just about everything around, the Motif
is the best controller I've found, second only to
Roland's A90 or A70 (but the internal sounds that came
on the expansion card for the A-series leave a lot to
be desired...the piano card for the A90 sounded pretty
good for its time, but I just borrowed someone else's
to decide what to do for a REALLY shrunk rig for a
tour, and the pianos sounded much less impressive than
my Motif). And it's only second to the A90 because
with no internal sounds, the A90 does 8 zones and has
a bit more pedal controller flexibility (although I
never needed to exploit the full cabapility of the
controller interface...2 foot controllers, a damper
pedal and a footswitch were plenty for me, and you
have that with the Motif). Just my opinion, but I've
been there. And by the way, in my current situation,
I only use organ and piano, Wurli, Rhodes, clav, so
those sounds are used all night long, and after a year
of playing anywhere from 3 to 5 nights a week, I'm
still not tired of those sounds. That's saying a lot.

tony
--- "analogman10502 "
wrote:
> Ok folks...I know this has been trashed about here
> and there. The
> fact is...I'm looking to "lighten my load" and
> consolidate my rig. I
> have a CX-3 I purchased a few months ago...I use
> that along with a
> few Roland modules for Electric piano / acoustic
> piano sounds. I use
> a separate module for Bass Sounds. I carry an 88
> note Fatar
> controller as well as a Roland XP-30.
> I'd love to be able to use the Nord Electro 2 for
> all of my basic
> sounds...and just run my Bass module and maybe get a
> rack mounted
> analog module (Maybe an A-station).
> Any thoughts??
> Thanks
> Tom Bitondo
>

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