From ccmacdon@rogers.com Thu Jun 09 06:12:39 2011
Subject:Re: NUMA - Joey's influence was NUMA (or whatever) - should you wait to buy?

RBM,

Glad to hear that the issues have been resolved, and I'm also glad to hear that you're really liking the Rock tonewheel download. I'm excited about trying that myself later this week.

For me the NUMA has been an experiment in building a gig rig around 2 separate keyboards, a single manual clone like the NUMA plus a synth/workstation, vs my double manual C2 plus the Roland Sonic Cell which has been my gig rig for sometime now.

Initially, I began this experiment thinking that it would be an either/or scenario.. if I liked the NUMA+synth combination I would sell my NORD C2/Sonic Cell, or vice versa. However, the more I play the NUMA the more I like it and I'm really tempted to maintain two gig rigs, my C2+soniccell for really small spaces (because it's very compact), and use the NUMA+synth when I have a little more space. I'm really looking forward to hearing the rock tonewheel set, and if it's really good, I suspect that may put the NUMA over the top.

BTW, Ken Hall dropped by my place on Monday night, he's a clonewheel group member, great player, and a Ventilator dealer (who I purchased my Vent from a year ago). He lives in Kingston Ontario but he was in Markham for a day or two and we sat down together Monday night and played my C2 and NUMA side by side through my QSC K10's. I expect that we'll have a post from him soon regarding his thoughts on the NUMA (perhaps the C2 as well). I think Ken is pretty particular about his Hammond sound and I expect that have some insightful feeback on the forum shortly. I'm looking forward to Ken's thoughts on it..

Craig