From lskdgjh@yahoo.it Thu Feb 24 18:59:38 2005
Subject:Re: Roland VK-77--my two bits

Steve and Thomas,
thanks for the info.
Well, now I'm pretty sure I'm going to buy it because I'm getting a good deal.
It will be good enough for a long while to practice my organ playing
and for a few jazz gigs.
I play jazz piano professionally, but I really have to improve my
Hammond playing (how to deal istinctively with the two manuals,
drawbars, percussions, playing bass lines etc). It feels like a
completely different world.
Today I played it at the store for a looong time and I was amazed how
comfortable it feels to play with a two manual keyboard, compared to
a single manual clone with another controller midied to it.
I really enjoyed the keyboard action too.
I also played the XK3 through a Leslie 21 for a while. It sounded
really good, but I could't figure out if it had separate C/V for the
upper and lower manual, which seems important to me.
I didn't have a chance to play th VK77 through the Leslie.
nic

>
> Back to the VK-77. The tone is good, not great. The non-organ
>voices are marginal—30% of them are usable in the my playing
>context, the rest are "what?!" The VK does have good editing
>capabilities and a screen, something the VK--88 does not. Bottom
>line: I really enjoy playing it with the 122. I don't think there
>are any other options out there to be honest with you. Everything is
>either too heavy or lacking in a critical feature.
>
> What's it worth. I saw one on Ebay awhile ago. It sold for $1900.
>
>
> Steve Czarnecki