From djacques@csulb.edu Tue May 11 22:55:44 2004
Subject:XK3 Leslie sim



Tony, et al....

The Leslie sim is the make or break feature for me. After speaking with a
few anonymous people in the Hammond/Suzuki food chain, they all admit that
the Leslie sim is lacking... For good reason... Hammond/Suzuki also sell
Leslies...

I agree that there is NOTHING that sounds like a real Leslie. When I tried
the XK3 at NAMM it was running through a Leslie 21 system and it sounded
pretty damn good. When I tried it through headphones with the sim, it
sounded pretty lame. As a matter of fact, it sounded exactly how you
described it "WOW WOW WOW..."

When I tweaked the Leslie sim on the CX3, I used several Leslies to compare
it to. I started with Bruce Wahler's excellent Leslie parameters as a
starting point and settled on my 122 as a reference. I then further tweaked
it once I played it in a live performance. I played with the mike distance
and rotor balance, acceleration and deceleration times, etc... Once I got
the settings right (after about a week) I never went back to further tweak
them. Try my settings and I think you will be pretty impressed with the
CX3's Leslie Sim...

Why don't I use a real Leslie? I can't fit in in the back seat of my car.
Believe it or not, I can fit my entire rig (CX3, Motif ES7, two Mackie
SRM450's, Speakeasy Rack, two keyboard stands, a mixer, a gig bag, and a
bench) in my BMW convertible... And I can raise the top if it rains
(although it never rains in Southern California...) Oh, one more thing.... I
can't lift a Leslie... My weight limit is 50 lbs, so forget about even a 145
(I own two)....

The Leslie sim on the CX3 is certainly good enough for me...

-----Original Message-----
From: tonysounds [mailto:tonysounds@yahoo.com]


I suspect this is the nature of the leslie tweak though. David Jacques, in
particular, I wondered if you went through this with your CX3: for a while
after first getting it, did you find yourself constantly adjusting the
speeds and accel and decel times cuz they just never sounded right, or the
same every other time you used it?

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