From rafael2pop@yahoo.com.ar Tue Mar 12 08:01:37 2013
Subject:Re: Electro 2 plus DB-1 drawbars or Electro 4 ?

Still woul like to know where are best drawbars on clonewheel stuff, where "better"
those acting in a similar way  to old Hammond consoles's drawbars.

eg are HS SK1 better than simple faders ?

Or has to be learn a new way to play
same as happens with synth keys vs. waterfall keys ?

Rafael

  

Re: Electro 2 plus DB-1 drawbars or Electro 4 ?
Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:21 am        (PDT)        . Posted by:
"thefinalg"         thefinalg  
I'm not sure exactly what Nord's reasoning is for leaving
the drawbars off the NE4/73 and NE4HP.  If I had to guess, I'd say they
think the LEDs/buttons are still the better option/compromise for one
mechanism to control B3, Vox, and Farfisa organs.  The drawbars are only being added to the boards where B3 is clearly the focus, and thus where the compromise favors the more traditional interface.

With regard to the external drawbars, they aren't really
"necessary&quo t;.  You can get along fine with just drawbars (as on
the NE4d) or just LED's (NE4/73).  But IMO the drawbars + LEDs do offer
an advantage so that you can always see the current registration on the
LED, regardless of where the physical drawbars are.  This is how the
Hammond clonewheels are set up - physical drawbars and digital LED
indicators.  But plenty of great clones like the Mojo, KeyB, and Numa
that only have drawbars.  It's ultimately up to you to whether having
drawbars and LED's is a useful feature.

Also, the Ocean Beach drawbars are really more like drawfaders but they
work and feel much better than the drawbuttons on the NE/73.

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogro ups.com, rafael2pop wrote:
>
> Thanks Bruce for your complete report.
> It let me got clarified among different models /features