From fortepianonj@yahoo.com Mon Nov 08 05:23:40 2004
Subject:Re: Why did Hammond get the virtual B3 right?

"Virtual tonewheel technology" is a marketing term. HS
uses sampling (long loops) - not modeling. MODELING is
considered by many to be the more authentic
replication of sound. VOCE and Roland use modeling.
VOCE was using it long before anyone else.

If the sound of the HS B3P is indistinguishable from
the original, then let's challenge HS to put it up
against a good condition tonewheel Hammond in a
"blind" test. Has this ever been done with a HS
product? The only one I have ever heard of with a
clone is with a Diversi organ - which, by the way,
does use modeling in their replication of sound since
it uses the Voce V5+.

FP

--- cameldrone wrote:

>
> For a long time, many manufacturers have been using
> myriad technological
> resources trying to duplicate the sound of the
> original B3 and tone wheels as
> accurately as possible. Now, all the reviews I read
> point to the new B3P -- with
> "virtual tone wheel" technology -- as the very best,
> some going so far to say
> that it's indistinguishable. What I don't understand
> is what Hammond was able
> to do technologically in replicating the B3 so
> accurately that so many others
> couldn't? And why Hammond, and not Korg or Roland or
> Yamaha?
>
> Eric
>


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