From jackoverfull@gmail.com Sun Jan 22 08:38:30 2012
Subject:Re: This is a great age for the Cloners - lots of affordable good sounding ones
Well, most of our audiences doesn't even know that anHammond is a keyboard-equipped musical instrument…Or that's a musical instrument at all, actually. or that you can play an organ that doesn't reside in a church…
Actually I have nothing against Casio, in a previous post I was even underlining the qualities of their low-end pianos!
Il giorno 22/gen/2012, alle ore 15.24, Bdec ha scritto:
> Surely this is not a Nord C2 or Hammond XK3 but it is not intended to be. Casio has been producing the Clonewheel or "Drawbar Organ" options for 2 generations before this, the WK3XXX series and WK-7500/CTK7000. They are intended to be more of a multipurpose keyboard and work station arranger/sequencer. I don't know enough about the new one yet but the"Drawbar Organs" and other voices have improved with each generation. I had the 3800, have theWK-7500 and properly tweaked and EQ'ed and combined with a Neo Ventilator, IMO, you would be hard-pressed to find anothermultipurpose keyboard that sounds as good as this with this many features for less than 500$ new. I also have an A100 and M3 I play through a real Leslie and although my Classic Rock band members have heard both my Hammonds and the Casio/Neo, they are perfectly happy when I gig with the 7500/Neo as my "organ." Most of our audience in front of the PA would not know the difference between this and
> the real Hammond sound anyway. In that demo they were probably not using the organ "Vintage" (leakage) setting, or had it EQ'd properly, which improves and also fills the sound. A nice feel to the keyboard and pretty decent pianos and other tones IMO as well on the 7500. Before you reject the Casio due just to its brand name, actually try one and also be thankful that more competition like this in this keyboard genre may also help lower prices!
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> Subject: Re: [CWSG] Re: This is a great age for the Cloners - lots of affordable good sounding ones
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> Lol, the CSound Hammond plugin sounds more realistic than that!
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> Il giorno 21/gen/2012, alle ore 22.39, dave ha scritto:
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> > Fox -
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> > I don't know Jim personally but I'm fairly sure this group will not like the new Casio as a clonewheel.
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWs87ebi-o
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> > Clonewheel starts at 2:00 minutes or so into the video. Let the opinions fly!
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> > dave
> >
> > --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "jukefox" wrote:
> > > Looks like Casio, of all companies, is jumping into the frey... Jim Alfredson's at NAMM and says he can't wait to get his hands on their new XW-P1. It evidently has a tonewheel model...more information at their link here:
> > >
> > > Peace,
> > > Fox
> > >
> >
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