tommybuoy

as to this statement: As for your statement, "DO YOU KNOW HOW EASY IT WOULD BE TO PLUG AN APP INTO THE USB AND LET US CHANGE THINGS LIKE MIDI CHANNELS AND SUSTAIN PEDAL POLARITIES?" -- everything always looks easy to the people who aren't doing it. Just FYI - I've coded stuff like this on some very large machines. It's EXACTLY how you deal with a dumb machine that provides no customization externals. So your opinion on this subject is absolutely doo doo. (I guarantee U the engineers already have the app to to what I suggest. No way to debug a machine like this without it. They just don't want people playing with their sacred hard-coded constants.)

mak1457 - I'm dissing only the engineers that short changed config options - AND - the a-holes that reviewed this thing on the web. I had no access to this thing before I bought it - so now i have to pay to return it. If anyone had done a decent review ONLINE, perhaps I would have saved those shipping costs. Call this my online review.

to all defending this machine... (i suspect you all work for the company?) I do take your point about the volume knob sending the midi signal down and mucking up my mixes on remote machines. I should have filtered out (on the remote machine) whatever signal that is. Yes your point is taken on that one. I'm still freakin out about the organ changing sheeitload of internal parameters when i was just upping the volume with the expression pedal. I had the machine for like 4 hours and hit this. You saying none of you ever hit this problem? Whatever - studiologic loses because you basically look at yourself as just an organ, where I had been using a top keyboard (call it an organ) that had really really good Midi capabilities. (Yep - just a hammond XK1C. You can actually configure that thing to do what you want!) After dicking around with your machine for a full day - I realized I was not gonna get what i needed in time for next gig. So - I plugged my XK1C back into my rig and it was then obvious to me - not only does XK1C do what's expected, it also sounds a hell of a lot better than the Numa2. As other folks have posted - your overdrive absolutely blows and your leslie sim is not right. And your typical key click is just obnoxious. And of course - you give no fricking midi customization tool. DO YOU KNOW HOW EASY IT WOULD BE TO PLUG AN APP INTO THE USB AND LET US CHANGE THINGS LIKE MIDI CHANNELS AND SUSTAIN PEDAL POLARITIES? You guys really don't get it. HAMMOND WINS HANDS DOWN. I would suggest to anyone thinking about Numa 2 vs XK1-C: REALLY listen closely and then look @ midi and other-customization capabilities. And I think now there's less than a $200 price difference? DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE ON THIS CHOICE, MY KEYBOARD PLAYER FRIENDS!

Thanks DaveD - but StudioLogic support just got back to me and there's no way to do the midi customizations I want. Plus I just A/B'd the NUMA2 against Hammond XK1C and there's really no comparison, sound-wise, IMO. Hammond is a much better sounding instrument. And their midi does what I want. So Numa2 is headin back to Kraft Music.

My Numa 2 just arrived. My first impressions are mixed - I'm not sure I'm gonna keep this thing. I think their MIDI implementation is lacking - and English appears to be a second language for whoever wrote the Midi sections of the manual. (1) it makes no sense to me that the volume control on the far right should have an effect on the MIDI OUT signal (when the Numa 2 is acting as a midi controller for a patch in another machine). Yet it does. The volume control should apply ONLY to the internal sounds on the Numa 2, IMO. To me, this really looks like a bug. I mean think about it - you set up a Combi in the other machine with the mix you'd like. So why in the world should the midi controller be allowed to alter that mix? The way it's implemented, I need to set the Numa 2 volume @ 100% to get the mix I want -- which certainly will cause grief when I need to switch back to an internal sound (I'll likely blow eardrums if I forget to reduce volume before doing the switch back to the internal sound). UGH! (2) How to set polarity for a HOLD pedal? Mine is backwards. (3) How to customize MIDI transmit channel(s)? Is this thing truly hard coded to channels 1 & 2? I'm thinking there must be a Windows/Mac program out there to allow for customization of these things. Not finding any such program. HELP! ALSO: (4) while altering volume via a hammond expression pedal, a bunch of non-volume-related settings were altered on the Numa 2. Definitely a problem, but I haven't been able to reproduce it. How embarrassing THAT would be in a gig!