From goff747@aol.com Sun Jul 18 00:11:13 2004
Subject:Re: roland vk8m


In a message dated 7/18/04 1:40:57 PM, dfibraio@comcast.net writes:

<< I am wondering what
current VK8m owners have to say. >>

its a good unit, versatile and readily available. it sounds good enough for
what a B3 player would need on a gig. i use it in my recording studio through a
real leslie. the b3 won't fit. if you're a roland guy, you'll like this
module. i'm sure you'll get a few more owners to chime in on this. i looked
extensively mostly at GC to figure what clone i would like in the studio. first of
all it had to be a drawbar module. not only that, its closer to a B3 the way I'm
used to hearing. in all fairness, there were no other drawbar modules around
for me to demo against. in fact at the time i made my purchase not every GC
had one. had to go out of my way to find one which i thanked the salesperson for
reserving for me and bought it on the spot after an hour of "b3 heaven"
demoing. serendipity prevailing, the 8M has features other modules don't, like the
D-beam which is great for toggling leslie sim with the wave of your hand and
other params. i don't know if the "random" param is available on every clone.
this allows the leslie sim on the 8M to be adjusted so that it emulates a real
leslie's motors as the treble and bass rotor spin out of synch with eachother.
makes the sim a little more real. there are software upgrades for the 8M
which i haven't tried yet like Soundside out of germany. the nice thing about a
module, all the controls are in one small area not scattered over an entire
keyboard. it does not have the other instrument sounds the 7 &8 have. but they're
not needed. there's a motif rack for that.