From acantralto@yahoo.com Wed Feb 23 15:30:50 2011
Subject:Re: Numa, Xk3c, Nord, most authentic?

what made you stick with the Nord ????

Mike

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From: M T
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 12:57:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: Numa, Xk3c, Nord, most authentic?


As someone who tried the Numa in-home and decided to return it, I can testify
that it does not feel cheap, especially when it comes to the feel of the
keyboard. I loved the action. It is better than my Nord E3, actionwise, even
though I elected to stick with the Nord.

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From: "MRK7421@aol.com"
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, February 21, 2011 2:28:45 PM
Subject: [CWSG] Re: Numa, Xk3c, Nord, most authentic?

One other thing I forgot to mention about the Numa. I really like the key click
adjustability and the overall effect of the keyclick.

I spend a lot of time practicing through phones, and there were some clones I
tried where the key click was not adjustable. Also, the keyclick would not be
aligned with the sound of the note.... it would seem slightly behind, and that
drove me crazy.

The Numa click is adjustable and very right. Brian Auger used quite a bit of
click on his settings at NAMM, and it works for that signature sound of his.

An advantage of the Numa is that you don't have to go into the internal settings

to adjust things like key click. It's right there on the panel.

But no, this thing doesn't seem to feel cheaper to me than any other popular
clone. And I haven't heard a trace of the pitch bend problem that was reported
late in 2010 when this first came out.

Only one thing. I would gladly trade percussion volume adjustability for
"leakage" adjustability any day of the week. The people who love clunk/ thunk
percussion are probably going to find that the Numa does it well. On a real
Hammond slow decay has a little less volume than fast decay. To compensate I
have been EQ ing the 3K range back a bit. The Numa slow decay volume is right up

there with the fast decay volume. So I would like to cut back the volume of slow

decay ideally.

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