Amaryllis wrote:ericL wrote:Neo Ventilator = the industry standard for Leslie simulators. Yes, it is better than anything in Nord keyboards.
hi eric,
i hope this isn't wandering too far off-topic, but do you happen to know of any comparisons between the Vent II and the Nord sim? i've been looking around a bit on YouTube, but all i can find is people using them with guitars or other brands of keyboard...
Sorry for the late reply. Here it is:
Watch on youtube.comFrankly speaking, the Neo-Vent's a bit overrated. Especially since many of those who praise it never tried out the (unfortunately) now out of production Gsi Burn: it wasn't distributed widely in the US, but it's generally deemed as a superior simulator. You won't necessarily agree (de gustibus non disputandum est) but what I gather from that well-done demo is that the Vent isn't superior to Nord's own simulation, but simply different (a bit darker and more spacey?), just like many a Leslie model didn't quite sound the same. Even the reviewer, who openly prefers the Ventilator, ended the video saying that there isn't much of an actual improvement over their Nord's internal sim.
If you ask me whether Nord's Leslie simulation's the best one around then no, both Crumar and UHX3's superior (although there isn't an abysmal difference: personally speaking, I owned a Legend and regularly use both VB3-II and the recently released Hammond B3X, and only the latter, thanks to IK Multimedia's own Leslie simulation, sounds significantly more realistic than the others). But the Neo-Vent is no technological miracle: it's just a really good simulation which can spring old or bad clonewheels (anything as old or older than an Electro 3, or keyboards like the Roland VR-09) back to life. And if you take its relatively high price into account, even if you liked it better it wouldn't really be worth it for most modern clones.
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