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keyboardbill



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:36 pm    Post subject: Hammond Organ and Leslie Reply with quote

I'm considering the purchase of a P1000 but need to know how close the Hammond/Leslie sound is to my old B3 and 122 Leslie. I know there are lots of adjustments that can be made but wondering if the factor settings are real close.

Also, I have not located any organ demos that I could listen to and help determine how close the PA1000 is to the original Hammond.

Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated.

Bill
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Hammond Organ and Leslie Reply with quote

keyboardbill wrote:
I'm considering the purchase of a P1000 but need to know how close the Hammond/Leslie sound is to my old B3 and 122 Leslie. I know there are lots of adjustments that can be made but wondering if the factor settings are real close.

Also, I have not located any organ demos that I could listen to and help determine how close the PA1000 is to the original Hammond.

Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated.

Bill


I have the PA700, and I believe that the organ models are identical between the PA700 and PA1000. They are okay, but I have moved onto an external organ modeler for my organ sounds.

One big drawback for me is that the drawbars themselves (on the screen) are only adjustable one at a time. That makes for very slow timbres changes to my organ sounds. I stopped using the Drawbar organ programs on the PA700 as a result.

They do sound good though, but I wish that there was a way to tell, on the screen, when the Leslie effect is turned on. If you are in a bigger band or have multiple boards playing at the same time, the effect can be hard to hear.

I am not sure that you are going to find ANYTHING that will be really close to the original Hammond with a Leslie. Even Hammond's organs now are not the same (although they may come the closest). The only other one that I know of would be the Crumar Mojo, but that is basically an organ VST in a hardware configuration and VERY nice, especially the two-manual offering...

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:31 am    Post subject: Re: Hammond Organ and Leslie Reply with quote

keyboardbill wrote:
I'm considering the purchase of a P1000 but need to know how close the Hammond/Leslie sound is to my old B3 and 122 Leslie. I know there are lots of adjustments that can be made but wondering if the factor settings are real close.

It depends how fussy you are. I'd say there are lots of keyboards that come closer to the real thing that the PA700/PA1000 do. But there are keyboards that are worse, too. I'm not sure how these Korgs compare to the "Organ Flutes" in the competitive Yamaha PSR-SX700/SX900. If you don't necessarily need an arranger, but still want a board with lots of sounds, I'd say you'll find better organ in, for example, Nord Electro 6/Stage 3, Yamaha YC61, Hammond SK series.

On any of them, you can improve the Leslie simulation with a Neo Ventilator pedal, but it works most smoothly on boards where you can separate the organ sound from other sounds. On the Korg PA700/1000 and Nord Electro, you can send the organ out one side and all your other sounds (in mono) out the other (easily on the Nord, with some effort on the Korgs by panning your sounds and possibly avoiding effects which may only be stereo). On the Yamaha SX900, Nord Stage 3, and Hammond SK series, there are more outputs, and you can send organ out to the pedal while still having stereo outputs for all your other sounds. On the YC61, you can't separate the sounds, so you'll need to hit the bypass switch on the pedal every time you switch away from organ to some other sound, and reactivate it when you switch back, and you won't be able to use it when you're playing organ and another sound simultaneously (in a split/layer).
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