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oh great, a new colour, H-S as done by Korg’s marketing team🤦🏻

One of the 2-manual Mojos allowed you to have a different sound on each manual, but the pairing was fixed, I think the options were Hammond + Rhodes or Farfisa + Wurly. Someone will fill in my failing memory with the details

Nah, it’ll be “Hey Jackass, it looks like you’re writing a bridge, that’s so last century.” Other prompts will include “Hey Jackass, it looks like you’ve modulated up a semitone, what is this, an 80s ballad?” ”Hey Jackass, that looks like a guitar solo, that’s so last century.” ”Oh awesome, a harpsichord part, going back to the 1960s are we?”

And there’d be no headphone out 🤦🏻 . Then they could follow Korg’s lead and put out a you beaut version 2 special edition in puce with a headphone output and charge $1000 for the upgrade 🤗

it’s short for Lachlan.

nah, you’d have read the manual online plus 19 pages of largely speculative pre-release comments here and would have a pretty good idea how it works.

This. I like Jack. He'll pull up a Wurly patch and play some Donny Hathaway instead of noodling like most Youtubers. But he invariably sits down in front of a keyboard without bothering to find out a thing about it. He does tell you as much, but wtf bother? Kinda reminds me of the Top Gear hatch shootout where they got everyone's grandmother in to test the cars and the lady who got in the Honda Jazz couldn't work out how to start it, except that that challenge was in part about how easy a car was to operate. The shootout Jack did between the Roland VR730 and the Korg Vox Continental was a total waste of time. He couldn't find any clavs on the Vox - you'd never guess, they're filed under 'keys'. And he tried, and failed, to fade out all 9 touchstrip 'drawbars' at the same time and proclaimed it a fault, as if you don't have an expression pedal for that. The Vox manual is a huge 20 pages (excluding contents list, safety warnings and specs). Unfortunately his conclusions are usually unwarranted at best and simply wrong at worst. Here it's the Yamaha getting short-changed: I still don't care for the rotary fx but there are certainly plenty of options to warm, fatten or dirty it up.

The Nord Wave 2 has lighter gauge springs, just fyi really as it isn't a clonewheel.

For the string machine sounds it'll come down to the quality/character of the chorus and phaser fx. As mentioned above the SK1 could do a rather fine job, as can the SKpro.

Sounds about right. That lines it up against the Yamaha CK61.

WARNING: Adult content: What’s the difference between a flute player and a French horn player? The flute player wants to give you a blow job, the French horn player wants to stick her fist up your ass.

The chorus and phaser effects are key. As usual the demos aren’t very well done. So if H-S could just send me an M-Solo I’ll dial up the effects and record a single held chord and we can rejoice in the phat and lush sound of a Solina. Or not. Happy to take any requests from Shine on You Crazy Diamond or Dogs. And done. 😀

This. Took me some time to work my SKpro into my rig, swapped the B3 model out for the A100, lowered the crossover to edit the overdrive, changed the Leslie option, spread the mic angle, adjusted the tremolo speeds, adjusted the key click etc., i.e. tweaked pretty much everything. So yeh give me a software editor please.

There's some 10 official videos up: lots of organ plus some ensemble voices, string machine, bass synth. I'm in a Pink Floyd tribute and a 4-octave Hammond/string machine should be right in my wheelhouse. Sad to report I found them all underwhelming, ymmv.

MTWII is later, better. Colour me interested.

I can’t imagine you’ll get any argument about that, especially for a drummer, iirc Sting said the same thing of Stewart Copeland. I was in a funk band years ago that fired a drummer for committing the same sin.

I’m tempted to start a thread on reviews that got it so wrong: I came across this recently, it’s um … interesting reading: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/wish-you-were-here-3-96417/ Actually i just reread it, totally wtf gobsmacking stuff. Standout comments include: ‘The illusion of complexity that caused their drooling legions to make wild claims of high-art accomplishment was actually nothing more than the skillful manipulation of elements so simple — the basic three chords everyone else uses — that any collection of bar hacks could grind out a note-for-note reproduction without difficulty’ and ‘The cardinal offender is David Gilmour, by most counts the most technically efficient. No championship guitarist, he nonetheless had enough intelligent ideas [in Dark Side of the Moon] to maintain the group’s ultraimportant link to the bedrock demands of their mass audience. He oversteps his bounds in several places on Wish You Were Here, however, indulging in protracted solos that present him as just another competent guitarist who thinks with his fingers instead of his head.’

i think the confusion here is between ‘playing the ball’ and ‘playing the man’, in the case of the LD thread, between ‘I don’t like his vocal’ and ‘He can’t sing.’ The former is fine, the latter amounts to an ad hominem attack. Playing the man not the ball gets you a foul. We could choose our words more carefully.

Yes, but I might be asked to sub for the other team or even join them if they lose their keys player, unless they're just too f#^*ing loud or known to be high maintenance I'm not gonna burn bridges.

This guy sacrificed a promising career in plumbing to play piano with the likes of Jimmy Witherspoon and Nat Adderley as well as Australia's finest.

if it’s too loud for you it’s probably in part cause they’ve lost some of their hearing. I gig with a bass player who has lost a good deal of his hearing and turns up accordingly so he can hear himself. It’s gotten worse over the years and i now refuse to set up on his side of stage. If he gets any louder I’m out.

sorry i was light on info. I’m in mono, and everything from a Santana tribute to a soul jazz trio. For me Roland (owned a VR-09) is more ballsey but the top drawbars aren’t right and the rotary is chorusy/phasey syrup. The updated YC (owned one) rotary is still squirrelly with the top drawbars out. I’ve never heard Kurz (played and listened to a PC4) sound convincing either on the drawbar or rotary front but maybe tweaking can get you there. And i agree with Jim Alfredson’s statement about Nord’s clonewheel (briefly owned an Electro 5 and have heard Nords live more than a few times) it sounds like a synthesist’s idea of a Hammond, there’s something lifeless about it that just doesn’t remind me at all of a real wheezing spitting tonewheel monster, and I’d say the same of their pipe organ model, it sounds so lifeless to me. For those reasons I find none of them serviceable cause there’s something that will annoy me while I’m trying to focus on playing. Hope that helps explain a bit, and sure everyone is welcome to disagree 😀

I picked up a 61. Initial thoughts: Key action is similar to but better than that on the YC61 I had for a time. The initial weight hill isn't so much to climb, still pretty good for pianos, but also much better for Hammond playing: I can machine gun on it no worries. I like it, it doesn't get in the way and yet facilitates expression better than most synth-style actions. I generally like Yamaha pianos but these sound a bit thin. The distortion dirties up the wurli samples nicely. The Hammond is imo quite serviceable: I reckon I could get through a Hammond-centric gig without any embarrassment. I pull a drawbar combination and ramp up the rotary and get pretty much what I expect. No it's not in the same league as a Mojo/SKpro/HX3/Mag, but I don't find myself feeling there's something wrong with it (so for me better than Roland, Nord, Kurz or the Yamaha YC). The rotary effects are both better than that on the Reface, not sure if one is the same as that in the updated YC but I find the interaction between the drawbars, the rotary effect and the drive is more satisfying than on either the YC or the Reface. Cutoff AND resonance & attack AND release with their own knobs on the top panel is so much better than the wtf combo arrangement on the YC. Very easy to tweak things to what you want on the fly. Much easier to see at a glance what I need to tweak compared to the YC which always made me stop to think for a bit with the layout and colour scheme (or lack thereof). Haven't needed the manual yet. Such a turnaround from Yamaha's typical 'you can save one button press to complete a process compared to other companies' board's if you'd just rewire your brain to think like we want you to' approach. Very lightweight, I might need to velcro it to the stand so I don't send it flying with a palm swipe. Crazy good for the money. I think it'd easily win a poor man's Nord award. Except that I prefer it to Nord's Electro and Stage offerings 😮. I can definitely see why it's selling like hotcakes.

started a new topic, thanks to Old No7 for the OP