Hammond B3 1U Emulation
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:05 pm
Just wanted to warn anyone who was thinking that this is the real deal.....It sucks.
The Leslie emu, as on all of these is weak at best.
The tonewheel emulation is O.K., but leakage and percusion is far from accurate.
There are a few Klangboxes left that smoke the shit out of the Hammond.
You are forewarned.
I heard this unit live and thought it was a Kurzweil or Emulator as it sounded so cheesy. The poor chap heard my Klang through the Pro 3t and immeadiately walked over and asked what I was using. I said a Creamware Klangbox of course !! He replied I never heard of it. A small fault of Creamware's option to not hire a 5000 USD per month PR Company to aid in sales. Distributors never front paged these items either. Too bad. They are considered B-Stock, and I actually paid full pop, so they made 50% of the list price I am sure. As long as Soniccore got the other 50%, I do not care.
Now I use the hardware, and have the soft emu as back up,...perfect redundancy.
The Doepfer Fader Box will replace my Lexicon MRC as soon as it arrives from Germany. It's really nice to have a group of controllers on the left side of my keyboard, instead of pedals, or right sided faders as in the KS88. I often handcuffed myself while playing it, or used an expression pedal w/ 4 drawbars attached to it, which sucked, as the pedals lack the finess needed, unless you are using them to swell the overall volume.
The B4000 Klangbox is the best emulation out there, except for the B4000 ASB, and the soft B2003 !!
The Leslie emu, as on all of these is weak at best.
The tonewheel emulation is O.K., but leakage and percusion is far from accurate.
There are a few Klangboxes left that smoke the shit out of the Hammond.
You are forewarned.
I heard this unit live and thought it was a Kurzweil or Emulator as it sounded so cheesy. The poor chap heard my Klang through the Pro 3t and immeadiately walked over and asked what I was using. I said a Creamware Klangbox of course !! He replied I never heard of it. A small fault of Creamware's option to not hire a 5000 USD per month PR Company to aid in sales. Distributors never front paged these items either. Too bad. They are considered B-Stock, and I actually paid full pop, so they made 50% of the list price I am sure. As long as Soniccore got the other 50%, I do not care.
Now I use the hardware, and have the soft emu as back up,...perfect redundancy.
The Doepfer Fader Box will replace my Lexicon MRC as soon as it arrives from Germany. It's really nice to have a group of controllers on the left side of my keyboard, instead of pedals, or right sided faders as in the KS88. I often handcuffed myself while playing it, or used an expression pedal w/ 4 drawbars attached to it, which sucked, as the pedals lack the finess needed, unless you are using them to swell the overall volume.
The B4000 Klangbox is the best emulation out there, except for the B4000 ASB, and the soft B2003 !!