From fingerz@woh.rr.com Fri Nov 12 21:39:18 2010
Subject:Re: Korg CX-3 vs. Roland VK-8

Everyone is forgetting one clonewheel that I feel has the best balls of them
all and that's the Voce V5.(YMMV) I'm still kicking myself for selling mine
especially now that I have a Ventilator.The thought of those two combined
makes me want to spring for another one only now it would be a V5+ of
course.Anyone have one they want to sell???



From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of hkcx3
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:24 PM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CWSG] Re: Korg CX-3 vs. Roland VK-8





I have both the CX3 (circa 2001 model) and the VK8-M (which I believe is
basically the module version of the VK8 - although I have never played the
VK8 - which I carry to practices).

Both sound good although the CX3 is just more 'realistic' to me,
particularly re drawbar registrations/combinations (I think the CX3 responds
to the drawbars more like a real tonewheel, whereas the VK8M is just never
'quite right'). The CX3 rotary is also better IMO.

CX3 onboard overdrive is horrible however (compared to what's available
elsewhere - including the VK8M), but the Ventilator certainly fixes that.
CX3 + Ventilator through good PA (eg Mackie) really sounds amazing.

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com ,
"AnotherScott2" wrote:
>
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com ,
"Brian Fuller" wrote:
> >
> > I had a Korg CX-3 and sold it to get an Electro 2.
>
> Just goes to show how different people's perspectives can be. IMO, the
Electro 2 is nowhere near a CX-3. The Nord does have the virtues of the
other sounds (Rhodes, Clav, etc.) and of weighting half as much, which
should not be diminished, but to mention them together, I think I'd have to
say that the E2's organ is far inferior to the CX-3. Weak low end, pretty
wimpy sounding percussion, fake overdrive, fair leslie, and just too clean
in its basic sound. That's all just sonic stuff, not even counting how much
more tweakable the CX-3 is, or the real drawbars.
>
> But another poster here had an interesting slant as well, when he said "I
thought that the VK-7 was a good Jazz type, BookerT, Jimmy Smith organ while
the CX-3 was more of a Progressive rock, Keith Emerson organ." People do
approach these things from different perspectives, I'm more the progressive
rock and classic rock style player, so yes, the CX-3 sounds great. But if I
was a jazz type, I might be more content with the E2 and not miss what the
CX-3 has over it. Which to some extent can be summed up by "balls."
>
> When I compared a Nord E2 to a Roland VR-760 (which has an organ similar
to either the VK-7 or VK-8, I'm not sure which), I thought both were
inferior to the CX-3, but in different ways.
>

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