I have had the Numa Compact 2x for a month now after waiting 6 months to receive it. I had researched and read all about it by the time it arrived so I wasnt sure What to think by the time I actually got to play it.
I am primarily a guitar player in a band. We gig once a month or so and rehearse weekly. I had inherited a Roland VR700 a few years back and was lugging it around. Before that I had a Juno Stage. I wanted something lightweight with pianos and organs and maybe some strings and horns.
After a month of playing the Numa Compact 2x and carrying it to rehearsals and 1 gig (in the gig bag with shoulder straps!!) I can say that I love the board.
It is far from perfect. I had hoped that the Leslie sim would be better than the Leslie Sim on the Roland VR700.It isnt. its slightly worse. The drive effect for the organ is awful and unuseable. I bought a Lester K pedal for the Leslie effect and it adds a 3 dimensional swirl that the internal Leslie is severely lacking.
The piano sounds are a mixed bag. To my ear the Stage patch is the best sounding. The Wurli is good and the Rhodes is good too. I have lots of music apps on my IPad that I would like to integrate into my live setup but that is still in the testing stages.
The usb audio to and from iPad works. I notice that there are some glitches with certain apps. I think you have to turn on the Numa first and then fire up and load the midi apps.
The draw bars are great. When I had the Roland Vr700 and wanted to set up a dual manual patch there was no way to adjust the octave for the lower manual. You would have to use the drawbars to cheat. I Can now set up dual manual organ patches.
Saving patches is easy and the ability to Turn on and off pedals on a split gives you lots of room to create different layers and splits.
Overall Im very happy.
And its light as a feather!!
