From drjoho@swbell.net Tue May 18 23:13:37 2004
Subject:Re: XK3 goes on maiden journey

The gig went great! And the XK3 was on fire!

My sound man summed it up best. He said that there were two
differences:

1. The B3 sound was right and he mumbled something about harmonic content...

2. It cut through the mix

My take is that B3 sound is dead on through a rotating speaker with tubes.

I didn't miss the speakeasy because the sound was already there, i.e., I
wasn't trying to
cover up or damp a digital sound. Also, the XK3 has plenty of output so no
need to get
a boost from elsewhere.

I really like the feel of the keyboard. In comparison, my Electro keys have
too much
resistance (I guess that were making a tradeoff between the organ and EP
feel) and it
is more difficult to "sputter" (quickly repeating one note), my CX3 has the
least resistance
of the three and it does not bother me in the least, but in the end I prefer
the XK3 keys.

Right now the XK3, MS Pro-145 is my gig rig.

Electro, Speakeasy, MS KBRM is my practice rig.

At home I have the XK3 and CX3 on a Standtastic stand. I use the XK3 as the
sound engine
and upper manual. I use the CX3 as the lower manual of the XK3. I use the MS
Pro-145.

So, far I have found 3 issues with the XK3:

1. When playing sometimes I get too excited and my glisses and smears get
out of control (some
times I have even used my head or other body parts). The result was during
the gig I hit the
preset keys by mistake and all of a sudden I had a different and unexpected
sound. After doing this
a couple of times I adjusted to be in more control. I would prefer the
option of a software setting to
lock a preset so that it would not be accidently reset during a performance.

2. The previously discussed fact that the C/V setting cannot be applied on a
per manual basis.

3. There was a bug in the most commonly used Tonewheel set "Real B-3". I had
to adjust the
Cut Off Frequency (LPF) of F2 thru F8 to fix F1 thru F3, if this sounds
weird there is a complicated
relationship between the tonewheels, harmonics and notes. Anyway I talked to
H/S today and they
gave me a way to report this to development so that can take care of it at
the factory. I will post the
fix to the group it only takes about 10 or so minutes to correct it if you
know what settings to change.

I won't go on about its good features as they have been touted sufficiently.

It's a pretty great world right now in that there are there are several
great clones and that means
you can probably find one (or more) that works for you.

regards,
joho

----- Original Message -----
From: "whirlyb3"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:11 AM
Subject: [CWSG] Re: XK3 goes on maiden journey

> Mulligans
> > tonight. The XK3 is going with me. Programming it has been easy. It
> also has
> > "plenty" of output. With the sweet tubes in the XK3 and the MS Pro-
> 145 the Speakeasy
> > is staying at home.
> >
> > BTW, I played for the Champions party at a PGA (that's golf for the
> sports challenged)
> > event last week with the Electro, Speakeasy and Pro-145. So, I will
> get a quick comparison.
> >
> > Oh, well, time to pack up... till tomorrow.
> >
> > joho
>
> Just wondering how it turned out? ie: did you miss the Speakeasy at
> all, and does the XK3/145 do as good a job as clones run through
> Speakeasy?
>
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