From ccmacdon@rogers.com Sat Oct 26 08:19:54 2013
Subject:Re: Re: Question about Roland VR-09 & Hammond SK1

Anotherscott, I agree 100%.. the CX3 engine in the Kronos is very good, especially through the ventilator. I haven't tried it with the Burn yet, but I will probably bet to that this week..  I purposely bought the Kronos because it had the CX3 engine, with the intention that I could get away with using JUST the Kronos for small gigs (and leaving my Mojo at home) and it works..  Now I have the VR-09 which serves the same purpose.. AND it's also backup for either the Mojo or the Kronos because it's has both drawbar organ and most of the other non-organ sounds that I need/get from the Kronos (not quite as good mind you but very workable). 
 
Regarding your second point.. I also agree that the VR-09 organ really isn't much of an improvement over the CX3 engine built into the Kronos, if you combine the CX3 engine with a Ventilator (without a ventilator the VR-09 leslie sim is better than the CX3 sim).  Maybe the OP is looking for smooth organ keys or just lighter keys (the Kronos 61 is semi-weighted)..  The original post was simply SK1 cs VR-09.  There may be other options.. or perhaps like me the OP is looking for an instrument that can do both Drawbar organ and backup his Kronos..

Regards,
Craig MacDonald


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From: "anotherscott@hotmail.com"
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 11:08:18 AM
Subject: RE: RE: Re: [CWSG] RE: Question about Roland VR-09 & Hammond SK1

 

Yes, Set List Mode and the ability to stream your own samples off SSD are, I think, the two most distinguishing features of a Kronos. And its CX3 organ really isn't bad at all especially if you're going to use a Vent or Burn. It's probably at least as good as the VR-760 or VR-09.

Which actually brings me back to the OP. If you have a Kronos 61, is *either* a VR-09 or SK1 the best complement? Gene, what exactly is drawing you to a clonewheel as your second board? Is the CX3 disappointing you in its organ action, sound, ergonomics...? Or is it just that your Kronos is occupied doing other things? If it's the latter, another possibility to take the burden off your Kronos is to use it for organ and let your second board fill in elsewhere. Do you need two unweighted boards (perhaps for double manual organ work), or might it make sense to consider a better piano action for your second board? There are lots of ways this could go...
---In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
The best implementation for organizing programs that I've ever used is the Kronos set list function... I have my entire list of songs loaded up in a master setlist and for every gig, I just cut/paste the songs into the right order and I'm done.. This generally takes me a about 1-10 minutes before a gig.. and it's so fast that it's easy to make live changes as necessary. The set list also allows for some space for text so I can store cheats (lyrics/chord patterns, whatever).. Korg's setlist function is a thing of beauty.. Craig
--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, wrote: