#Keyclick piano pro#
#Keyclick piano series#

#Keyclick piano series#

The Legend series and the Mag custom organs get similar praise and are more affordable.

#Keyclick piano pro#

The XK-5 Pro System gets a lot of praise from players I respect, but its price is astronomical. So for guidance I turned to - you guessed it! - the internet. Unfortunately the two-manual organ clone market is enough of a niche that I hadnвЂ™t gotten to play any of those competing models except the Mojo, and the Mojo didnвЂ™t make a strong enough impression on me to make me consider switching. Clavia, maker of Nord keyboards including the C2D, hasnвЂ™t brought out a newer two-manual organ, but here are just a few of the latest generation that have appeared since the C2D was introduced in 2012: Although the C2D sounds better than the C1 in some important ways, after another five years or so - enough time for yet another generation or two of industry-wide improvements to clones, my ear was weary of some of the C2DвЂ™s quirks that I couldnвЂ™t configure away.Д¬ompared to the past, there are tons of creditable clones on the scene now. The C2D also includes some changes in the sound engine and more configurability of the sound. In 2014 or so (long enough for another generation or two of clones to come out) I bought a newer model, the Nord C2D, which has physical drawbars. The system is workable, but I didnвЂ™t love that aspect of it when it was my main axe. Its user interface has a big limitation, though: The role of the Hammond drawbars that we use to change the sound of the instrument while we play is filled by a set of buttons and LEDs. I was happy with it for a long time - about five or six years. I started trying to get serious about organ in roughly 2008 or 2009, and as soon as I was ready to perform on organ in public I got a Nord C1.

The industry has produced many generations of these clones starting in about 1980 or so. Hammond players are very lucky that convincing digital simulations of Hammond console organs are easier to pull off than digital simulations of pianos, but itвЂ™s still a difficult thing. So thatвЂ™s why, when I play at venues that donвЂ™t have resident Hammond organs, I usually take a digital imitation that fits in the back of my Prius and weighs less than a tenth of a Hammond console. There are lots of different console models that are electrically and sonically identical to the B-3, but in addition to their functional similarities, they have another important thing in common when it comes to gigging with them: They are BIG and HEAVY! I play Hammond console organs, the kind whose best known exemplar is the famous B-3.