From paul@cometway.com Tue Sep 08 14:23:56 2009
Subject:Re: No more Leslie challenged clonewheels? Ventilator nails it.

I'm curious to hear anyone's comments on the Korg G4 and Line-6
Rotomachine. Any other good ones nobody else has mentioned?

I have both and use them each in different situations. I also believe
that my favorite way to control the leslie speed is with a CV pedal.
Not so much the settings in between, but just the motion.

Alas, I have no clonewheel aside from a Voce DMI-61 Mk II. I do quite
like it's raw sound (but its leslie and distortion are weak). I'm not
a serious enough Hammond player to have much experience with
controlling a real leslie, so even working a pedal like the G4 is not
quite as intuitive as playing organ patches on my X5 using a CV pedal.

Frankly, the Korg X5 has been hard to beat for rock organ. It's got
L-100 samples and full polyphony and when you use the built-in
overdrive and leslie effects, you can assign the mod wheel to sweep
the overdrive's resonant frequency, which boosts and distorts specific
frequencies that are further highlighted by its incredibly musical and
natural sounding leslie effect. I can also intonate the X5 like a real
Hammond which is a huge plus for the overall tone. All this in under
10 pounds, so I've not been in a hurry to get a clonewheel keyboard.

you can hear it prominently on this track if you are curious:
http://classb.netburgh.com/mp3/purple20050421%2F03+Bones.mp3

All that I want at the moment is a Electro 2 73, which serves to take
care of my wurlitzer fetish as well. In the meantime, I've combined
these pedals with various speaker cabinets (Hartke's are nice) and
using synths like the K1, K3, and Waldorf XTk for a variety of ear
pleasing rock organ sounds.

So I've not been impressed by *any* leslie effect device enough to say
it perfect, but I'm anxious to see if the Ventilator is any better
than what I'm using already. The only thing I'm aware that's better is
the Dynacord, and that's even harder to get than the G4. -pc