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Percussion problem fixed. No repair required. I was out of town for a week and had loaded a preset that must have had some squirrelyness built in. When I restarted the keyboard and set up the drawbars, percussion and split from scratch, I was unable to reproduce the no percussion on the top channel when in a split. I do have one complaint about my numa though. I do like the Pedal to Lower button which will add the pedal drawbars to the Lower register. However, this only works from the numa itself. If you plug in an external MIDI controller controlling the lower register, Pedal to Lower only works from the numa keyboard and not the MIDI keyboard plugged in to MIDI In on the numa.

Hi Mitch, I'll have to test out that trigger point behavior. I suspect that you're right because the numa doubles as a MIDI controller. I'm in the the Support Queue right now with someone over in Italy. Overall, I'd have to say I like the sound of the numa and numa 2. The 2 sounds a bit different than the 1, but it does offer a couple of other Hammond Models, Farfisa, Vox and a few cool Analog synth patches that remind me alot of Joe Zawinul Weather Report Korg sounds. (Sawtooth, Square Wave - pretty good and fat). They have some demos up on Studiologic's site that are worth listening to as well. I do like the numa's panel layout and have been able to rework it using a MIDI Solutions MIDI Mapper to control patches and settings on my Motif XF8. I haven't yet done it, but am certain that I could drive GSI Soundware VB3 easily if I wanted to. Almost every control on the top of the panel sends out an easily captured and mapped MIDI message. Sonically, I think the board is plenty fat on B3 sounds and have not noticed any lack of balls. (But I'm not playing in a Prog Rock band all night ;-)). I'm doing funk, jazz and gospel with the occasional rock tune thrown in. I really wish that I could spend more time on a real Hammond/Leslie setup so that I could compare some of the subtleties that other folks are pointing out: High Register C3 lack of realism etc. To my ear, the Nords always sounded a bit thin and the SK-1 didn't sound realistic to me. The Crumar MOJO sounds great on recordings, but I've never played one (pretty sure it's using the VB3 engine internally). These are my opinions only, I'm sure that if I showed up to the gig, I could make any of the modern clones work to my liking.

Hi, I've just traded to a numa 2 from the original. Overall, I'd say I'm very satisfied. One thing I noticed that's kinda weird though is if I turn the split on. When I turn percussion on on the upper manual and play single and multiple notes above the split everything works normally: i.e. the first note or notes struck together sound with percussion. Notes struck while another note is already held down sound without percussion (just like on a B3). But, if I turn the split on, if I hold a note on the keyboard below the split (i.e. in the channel 2 range) the percussion will not sound on the upper keyboard channel 1 notes above the split. I don't think this is correct. If I plug in an external controller and set it to channel 2 and turn the split off, the percussion seems to work normally. (i.e. notes sounded on channel 2 do not interfere with the percussion state on channel 1)