From walterwood26@hotmail.com Tue Nov 15 22:22:10 2005
Subject:Re: Hammond vs. Korg vs. Roland vs. ...

Of course, it's just my opinion, but I have a VK-8(about a year now), and I
absolutely love it.
The piano is OK.
The rhodes and wurly are more than OK.
Decent strings.
Organ and leslie sim really burn!!!!
And much cheaper than some others.
True waterfall keys also.
Has 11 pin plug for a real Leslie, if you want to lug one around.
I don't, and I own two leslies.
It also has midi jacks so you can have a lower manual, and pedals.
walter

Walter Wood
United TV Service
501 Poplar St.
P.O. Box 602
Pulaski, TN.
38478

>From: "Barry"
>Reply-To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
>To:
>Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: Hammond vs. Korg vs. Roland vs. ...
>Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:18:36 -0500
>
>I got a VK7 when they first came out and loved it incredibly. I got an
>Electro 73 for the electric piano and Clavinet sounds and realized I liked
>the Electro organ a little better than the VK7 (although there are parts of
>the VK sound that are better than the Electro sound), and I liked the
>Electro Leslie simulator and keyboard 100 times better than that on the VK.
>But I love and want real drawbars and some kind of normal control over
>turning the V/C on and off. So I am also thinking about a VK8 (from what
>I've heard - the best feeling keyboard, excellent organ sound, very good
>Leslie sim), the CX3 (From what I've heard - the best Leslie sim. excellent
>organ sound and keyboard), or the XK3 (from what I've heard - the best
>organ
>sound, very good keyboard, okay Leslie sim). I am in a small town and have
>no access to these organs, although my music store can order any of them at
>a really good price. So, I am just stuck...
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "jake92028"
>To:
>Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:14 PM
>Subject: [CWSG] Re: Hammond vs. Korg vs. Roland vs. ...
>
> >I honestly don't think there is any better Hammond clone than the
> > often dismissed ? taken too lightly Roland VK8 and VK8M module.
> >
> > The Electro for me gets the 2nd place nod for portability, overall
> > EP's and unbelievable effects at your fingertips w/almost perfect
> > Leslie - it should ramp up about a half second to a second slower for
> > my taste. A VK8 with Electro on top - 98% perfect, wish it was the
> > VK7.
> >
> > The CX3 is my next closest choice, not only because of its great
> > sound, but the fantastic editing possibilities and Leslie sim.
> > Editing second place would be, I think, the older Roland VK7 but the
> > sound's not quite up to the newer clones - I like it anyway, and it's
> > just EXACTLY the right size for me, with the VK8 a whole inch higher
> > top to bottom (Yes, it matters!) and editing a little trickier plus
> > global for rotary!
> >
> > In retrospect I'm sorry I sold my CX3 without realizing the MIDI
> > potential of that second set of "silly" higher pitched
> > drawbars/percussion with 127 programs that could so easily run, for
> > instance, an NE2 rack, or the best Yamaha Motif rack, maybe even
> > sitting on top. I did have one other personal negative about the CX3
> > = I didn't like the console design (and still don't) because I felt
> > the ergonomics incorporated extra and unnecessary height, about an
> > inch and a half too thick, top to bottom to add "touchy-feely" I'm-
> > sitting-behind-a-Hammond vibe - IMO, but if I still had it I'd keep
> > it.
> >
> > The XK3 just doesn't do it for me, although it sounds fine if players
> > are up to editing it which I know some members are, too bad about the
> > Lesie sim.
> >
> > Per the Nord Stage, I read enough posts, info, feedback, etc.. that I
> > decided to buy another Electro 2 '73.. : )
> >
> > I'm still looking for that small but perfect piano module to stick on
> > somewhere, has to be "the best," maybe the ME-1, but buying something
> > with 200+ other sounds just to use the one piano.. Yeesh.
> >
> > Walter j
> >
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