davinwv

Yes - JamStix and Logic's Drummer come to mind, but this is probably next-level type stuff (harmonic/melodic content versus just drum hits).

A bit OT, but it is already here: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-ai-bassist-sony-vision-paradigm.html

IMO - essentially, yes. That and the lack of tweakability compared to the other options. Guitarists have been screaming for this EKX for years. In the same way that we've been screaming for things like the NI Session Guitarist series and the UJam guitars. I don't need the part generation / MIDI features, I can play my own Hammond parts (and my remote tracking clients pay me the medium bucks to do so).

I don't think it is on the same level sonically as B-3X and Waterfall, but those don't have the part generation/ MIDI library(ies) of the EKX. The EKX also isn't as tweakable. Simply put, the EKX isn't for B3 players, it is for people who can't play B3, but want organ in their music - it's not for "us," it is for "them".

I'm not transplanted just yet. I still live in NCWV.

1. If the player isn't an endorser, they may not want to endorse a brand "for free"; or 2. If the player is an endorser, they may not be contractually permitted to play another brand of instrument in public.

I was the source of the OTness, so please accept my apologies.

We are both reformed-saxophonists-turned-keyboardists from West Virginia.

Scott Young?

Great guess - that's probably what it is.

Roland SRX Rhodes & Wurly Card?

There is a Listen link at the bottom of this page: https://www.toontrack.com/new-year-new-gear/

I think non-keyboardists have been asking for this more than players that actually know how to play B3.

T-minus 12 days until I'm irrelevant as a session Hammond player . . . Haha! Seriously, though - Users have been screaming for this since the first version of EZKeys, and the day has finally come. Some of the demos sound pretty good (the gospel ones sound great!), but others are more lackluster. I'm not sure that this can compete sonically with B-3X or Waterfall. Also, I wonder how it will handle evolving drawbar setting changes, etc.?

I have owned a 200a since the late '90s, and I will never part with it (even though I don't use it much because plugins are just easier to deal with). I did do some keyboard overdubs for a rock band here in WV a few years ago whose one caveat was . . . no VIs / plugins! So, their producer came to my home studio, and we tracked real B3/Leslie and Wurly for a day. I did sneak in a virtual piano on one track, though. It would've been really hard to record my Baldwin R5 upstairs correctly.