From mskremote@yahoo.com Thu Nov 27 00:49:37 2014
Subject:RE: Odd little clone discovery

Can't comment on hardware and don't have real ones to compare with but the exaggerated effect I find to be similar in the VST's I use. I am for ever modifying them to get a more realistic sound.

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From: "den121961@yahoo.com [CloneWheel]"
Sent: ‎27/‎11/‎2014 1:48 PM
To: "CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com"
Subject: [CWSG] Odd little clone discovery


I am getting ready for an R&B gig this weekend. I usually do the whole thing on my SK2, but I just got an SK1. I thought since it's not an organ heavy gig like my normal stuff is, and since I take the VR09 as a backup anyway I'd try SK1 on the bottom, VR09 on the top and see how they work out with the setlist. I figured I'd do the organ and EP's on the SK and the other stuff (vibes, brass, synth stuff) on the VR. I've messed with the internal sim on the SK and found something livable for the R&B gig (the vent still goes for organ heavy stuff). So I'm messing with the set list, and I get to Sarah Smiles. That song has organ and Rhodes, but it's too complicated to cover both at the same time for this old guy, so I usually use a heavy phased rhodes patch on the SK. The band likes that instead of organ. Well, I thought I'd try some of the VR's EP's. I get to pure EP and pure wurly, and it's like whoa, these sound better than the SK EP's! I know nobody likes the SK EV's, but I had a nord down here, and a motif, and I compared all them along with the SK to the real deals (I have a rhodes and wurly in the studio). The SK was always the closest. But I never compared the VR. SO I fired up both the rhodes and wurly, the SK and the VR. After about two hours, again, the SK won to my ears.

My question is this. Is it possible that whatever the nords and some other boards do when they set up these sounds, they actually exaggerate some of the idiosyncrasies of these old electromechanical piano's kind of like a caricature artist does when he paints a cartoon of someone? I noticed this same thing when I did the comparison with the Nord Electro some years back. Honestly, when I compare the SK to the VR, the VR's EP's do sound more like what I imagine the rhodes and wurly to sound like. But when you add the real deal to the mix the SK takes it for realism.