From formercakid@yahoo.com Thu Jul 26 05:44:19 2007
Subject:RE: XK-3 software update - XK3 Keyboard Action
I used to think that the XK3 keyboard action was not
that great until I acquired a Doepfer Keyboard Organ
Controller and found that the action on it was
terrible, much to stiff. It is a matter of just
playing the XK3 and adapting to the keyboard action.
--- Lawrence Goodman
wrote:
> I agree with the negative points regarding the
> keyboard.In passing I
> contacted a Hammond tech through their website about
> the harmonic beating in
> the “real b3 tonewheel mode” with questions about
> apparent solutions and got
> no reply.
>
>
>
> Lorrie
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Christian Schonberger
> Sent: July 25, 2007 5:00 PM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CWSG] XK-3 software update
>
>
>
> Point pricing? Sounds like marketing nomenclarure. I
> am very well aware of
> marketing strategies (I work as a composer in the tv
> commersdial field).
> What I will never understand is the immediate
> profit/chess game fashion /low
> risk capital stock holder mentality. Are there any
> people left on this
> planet who like to do things right? Please don't
> reply: welcome to reality.
> I am very well aware of the way things work as we
> speak.
>
> I simply see lots of keyboarders in highly
> successful acts who use hammond
> sounds which are clearly supposed to sound like a
> vintage Hammond. It's not
> easy to haul around a 250 kg B3 on legs that need a
> custom cradle to prevent
> them from breaking. C'mon this is 2007 - technology
> is 100% able to come up
> with something better than any available B3 clone.
> ..and they are on demand.
> Lots of classic top pop/rock acts touring who rely
> on hammond sounds. They
> all use MIDI/module/-software stuff that doesn't
> even resemble a B3. What
> the heck is going on? I was so glad to see the
> keyboarder of Lenny Kravitz
> in Sao Paulo, Brazil during the Live Earth concert
> using a real B3. hammond
> organ for church music and old ladies only? No sir.
>
> Christian
>
> tonysounds
>
"mailto:tonysounds%40yahoo.com"tonysounds@yahoo.-com>
> wrote:
> Relax, they're not going to offer new actions on any
> of these keyboards.
> It's called point pricing.
>
> Christian Schonberger
>
"mailto:c_schonberger%40yahoo.com"c_schonberger@-yahoo.com>
> wrote: Hmm... so
> what about all those people (including yours truly)
> who purchased a lower
> keyboard for the XK-3? I prefer two O.K. keyboards
> that are matching - over
> one supposedly superior one with a lower keyboard
> that has a different
> action. What's going on HS? Is the next step
> re-offering all lower keyboards
> with the new, improved action? Sorry but I have
> mixed feelings about all
> this.
>
> Christian
>
> joek1000
> "mailto:joek1000%40aol.com"joek1000@aol.-com> wrote:
> The action is improved on the XK-1 and it sounds
> like the same
> improved action will be on the XK-3c.
>
> Joe
>
> --- In HYPERLINK
>
"mailto:CloneWheel%40yahoogroups.com"CloneWheel@yahoogro-ups.com,
> "Chad
> Menge" wrote:
> >
> > I have debated whether to buy an XK-3 for a while.
> I had the Xk-2
> and
> > was moderately satisfied with it. I never used the
> leslie sim so
> that
> > helped. I currently own a BX-3 and I am happy with
> it. Every time
> I
> > play the XK-3, the action just leaves me cold. It
> feels really
> plastic
> > and cheap. No bounce and not meat to dive into. If
> they changed
> the
> > action on the XK-3C I would be tempted to switch
> from my current
> setup
> > (BX-3 and 3300). I have tried the new B-3 and the
> action is much,
> much
> > better due to the multiple contacts. I know it is
> a huge price
> > difference between the XK and the new B-3 but in
> my humble opinion
> the
> > action is what needs improvement on the XK-3.
> >
> > .
> >
> >
>
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