MrVegas

This is strange, but I was totally unaware of the Hammond Solo. Just looked at that thread and the video demo by Bonner's near the end of the thread. I honestly thought it sounded damn good. I assume it was being played through the sim onboard and not a Leslie, pretty impressive to my ears.

Thanks for all the incredible input, I have never seen a Numa. I love it when Outkaster says "SK Pro." I'm sure I could find one for a lot less money than the XK-5.

Long story. CX3 died. BX3 on iPad too fidgety for my tastes. I have a Fantom 06 but the tonewheel organ just sounds like shit, not really sure why. I need a Hammond clone, I own a Ventilator 2. I am extremely finicky about Leslie sims. I hate it when on fast speed you can hear a warbling sound (hard to describe). I think the key is that the source samples when completely "braked" have to just sound normal when processed through a Ventilator. I realize some may say that the SK Sim is perfectly good. I have not heard it. So I would like to make my starting point this .... "which Hammond clone sounds awesome on *fast* when being processed by a Ventilator or other Leslie simulator?" I should also say that I don't want to spend $3K plus. Haven't totally decided what my budget is, but would prefer to avoid $3K plus .... willing to go with used gear here.

+thank you guys

I decided to try IK media's BX3 software for my Hammond needs. So I have a powerful iPad Pro and I normally use Safari for web browsing. Prior to downloading BX3, I am trying to download the IK Multimedia program called IK Product Manager. I can see it downloading, but when I try to open it on my iPad, all it does is show me an image of a folder but it never actually opens and installs the software. This might have something to do with iCloud (which I hate). I need advice on how to actually get downloads to open on my iPad. By the way, I could not find IK Product Manager in the App store for Apple products.

I want to play Hammond organ patches on my Kronos but I want to route my cables into a Leslie simulator (similar to Ventilator). I can't figure out how to disable the rotating speaker (Leslie) effect on the Kronos Hammond patches. There must be a way to do it?

I assume you download the programs on the IPad which provides access to all the settings of the Hammond. How does one connect the iPad to the keyboard to get it all to work? I have a very lightweight Fantom 06 that I'm hoping can be the controller. Need some pushes in the right direction please.

Calling all Logic Pro users .... I am trying to learn Logic Pro. Right out of the gate I am having trouble figuring out some of the really basic tools for selecting, copying, pasting tracks etc. in the program. There are thousands of youtube videos out there but NONE of them are super basic, they all go way to fast and don't carefully explain how you execute these commands. I would happily pay somebody $50 or more to do a Zoom call with me to show me some of this basic stuff. Any takers?

My trusted Korg CX-3 has bitten the dust. I use in on Sunday morning worship sessions in about half of our songs. I recently purchased a Fantom 06 for messing around and realized it has a decent tone wheel organ with lots of customization ability. Curious if any other players are using the Fantom 0 series for Hammond sounds. I'm not sure about the on-board Leslie sounds, I might have to put a brake on them and use my Ventilator. Thoughts?

It was the Mk2. Does the Mk3 have a different keybed?

About a year and a half ago I bought an S88 keyboard controller (without trying it first) and HATED the action. It was very stiff. I sold it on Reverb a few weeks later. I didn't want to do it because I loved the way that Kontakt maps so nicely to the keyboard screens / knobs / etc. My question is this: has Native Instruments recently changed the core keybed in these boards. I don't know if they have Fatar guts or some other brand, but I remember hearing you guys talk in other threads about how sometimes the manufacturers evolve their instruments over time by changing the keybed/action.

This is embarrassing. I have been a CPA for a very long time. I'm not a tax expert but I'm somewhat familiar with basic tax law. I was dumbfounded today when I received a Form 1099-K from Reverb. I sold a keyboard for a few thousand and viola, a 1099-K. At first I was totally pissed to have to pay tax on selling a personal item from my hobby collection. I am not a pro, I am a hobbyist. But then I started thinking about how I paid more for the keyboard than I sold it for. So, technically, I sold it at a loss. If there's a place on the 1040 to report the purchase price AND the sale price, then it will calculate a loss and I won't have to pay any tax. Anybody else had to deal with this?

I have a dilemma to ask your opinions about. I was leaning towards the Adam AX7's ($1,500 range), and suddenly relalized that I might be able to re-purpose a pair of bad ass speakers currently used in my Meridian home theater system. Some of you may know that Meridian equipment is high end but, like a Jaguar, difficult to tune. These were used as rear surrounds but I almost NEVER listen to movies that way anymore. So I would need to purchase a pre-amp for about $400 and then connect my FocusRite 8i6 to the speakers with coax/SPDF cables. I'm guessing the sound would be amazing as these powered speakers cost around $6,000 new (I bought them slightly used about 8 years ago). The model number is Meridian DSP3100 . Should I drop $400 on a used Meridian preamp and hope for the best, or save up some more money for some regular "studio monitors" which is the easier, safer, more expensive way?

I'm launching into a new chapter of my keyboard hobby .... learning to compose and record using Cubase and my Numa X 73. As such, I will be needing a decent pair of studio monitors. I'm not looking to be super serious and accurate, just want something that sounds good mounted on a studio desk at ear level about six feet apart. My budget is $500 to $1,500. Suggestions?

Another issue just popped into my head. I might want to get one of those bracket things that would allow me to move the screen around, closer, further away, higher, lower etc that clamps to a desk. Do they work with all monitors or only certain kinds of monitors?

That's a really good point, it would be nice to see the plugins separately

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I'm getting ready to purchase a new monitor to plug my Dell laptop into to run Cubase in Windows. I need a larger screen than a laptop to prevent having to squint too much while learning and then using Cubase. I do NOT want two screens. For my day job I use two Dell montiors that are 26" diagonally. Looking for input on a good screen size for DAW. I don't like the HUGE screens because there's just too much real estate to cover when they are overwhelmingly large.

My setup is a Numa X 73 piano/controller, a Dell laptop with DAW, a 27" monitor screen and smallish speakers to be determined. I want one of those setups where the keyboard controller sits a little on the low side and can be pushed in and out of the way easily. The "desktop" area where the laptop keyboard and mouse are easily accessible. In the past I have seen ultra-expensive versions of these desks but my budget is less than a thousand if possible. Any suggestions?

Such good information and insights. Thanks!

I can't really think of any examples off hand, but I think what Tusker said gets very close to answering my question. I just want to know if it is relatively easy to assign filter sweeps to physical knobs on the controller keyboard.

I'm going to ask a question that I don't even know how to ask. You know how in trance/house/other kinds of electronic music there is a technique where filters are applied to synth sounds that causes them to modulate from soft and smooth the grainy and edgy? Is that some kind of filter? For a short while I owned a Montage with this "super knob" that when you turned it would cause the patch to change it's texture. Let's call it a filter sweep. Here's my question. I want to buy a Controller keyboard to use for recording and composing using Cubase. I want to make sure that the Controller can be programmed to imitate the sweeping characteristics I describe above. I'm looking at the Numa X 73 as a Controller. How hard or easy is it to program a controller keyboard to replicate this kind of filter sweep? Right now I'm mainly thinking that the sample would be coming from something stored on my laptop/DAW, such as sounds from Omnisphere or whatever plugins are readily accessible to Cubase. How do you map the sweeping effect to a Controller (such as Numa X 73) from Cubase?

My very first keyboard back in 1969/70. I was a junior in high school and my Dad sent me this from Japan (he was stationed over there in the Air Force). I fell in love with all the rock bands using B3/Leslie. I wanted a Hammond but got a Farfisa instead. It kind of sucked but it was better than a Vox to my ears.

By the way, I had a Native Instruments S88 controller keyboard a little over a year ago and I thought the action was VERY STIFF. I don't have the strongest piano hands. I am looking for action that is easier to play. My Yamaha MOXF8 has a really nice feel to it.

I was scrolling thru Sweetwater and was kind of attracted to that Numa X piano 73 but I wasn't sure it could be used as a controller, it seemed more like a stand-alone piano type keyboard.