From dsurkin@optonline.net Wed Jul 31 10:06:46 2013
Subject:Re: Can someone ID this clone?

The original poster referred to the Roland as being one of the first clones to use digital modeling, and I think he's right. The Korg from the early 1980s used analog circuitry and the top-octave divide-down method. To my ears, the top-octave divide-down method loses realism when playing octaves (e.g., a four or five note chord with the highest and lowest notes one octave apart)--I do not know why, but that's what my ears tell me.

Nevertheless, the Crumar Organizer (which predated the Korg) and the Korg were great instruments for the time. As I mentioned elsewhere, in terms of release date (i.e., U.S. general distribution), the Crumar came first, then the Hammond X-2 and X-5, then the Ace Tone GT7 (which was probably manufactured before the X-5, but I never saw it advertised before the X-5) and a couple of years later, the Korg CX3 with its analog on-board Leslie simulation

--Dean L. Surkin