From groovecake@yahoo.com Mon Aug 23 19:50:40 2004
Subject:Re: XK-3 Leslie sim edit question.

< if so, how so?>>

Yes. I have played both. The V5 plus is a pale
comparison in my opinion. The Xk-3 is just deeper and
it "breathes" more. I honestly thought the V5 sounded
horrible on it's own. The Xk-3 doesn't. It sounds
closest to a straight B-3 that i have heard from a
clone.

Mitch

--- Thomas Adamson
wrote:

> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "Randal Muir"
>
> wrote:
> >There's a guy over on harmony central saying in his
> asessment of the
> XK-3 that this keyboard isn't a clone, it's the real
> deal, and the
> other clones are pale imitations compared. ( not his
> exact words, but
> the gist of his meaning )
>
> The XK-3 is in very short supply in the UK and
> expensive, and it will
> be a while before it could easily be auditioned.
> I get the drift of your arguments and it seems that
> this is really
> one great organ which works well with the Leslie
> 2101/2.
> The Leslie sim is 'passable' but no cigar.
>
> This then begs the question, what of the Voce V5, OK
> not a keyboard,
> but a digital tonewheel generator which by general
> concensus some
> while ago was said to be indistinguishable from the
> real thing when
> heard through a Leslie, OK not quite there with the
> percussion and C/V
> but this has been improved with the launch of the V5
> plus as I
> understand. Is the XK-3 way better sounding than the
> V5 plus and if
> so, how so?
>
> Thomas.
>


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