No, you aren't alone - it took buying a C2D to make me retire my A100 and it is still a wonderful thing on many levels. And yes, you should be able to retain your pipe organ if you wish, I was thinking it would be good if those of us who never use it could have an electric piano instead.Hlaalu wrote: We partly agree -- at leaste we agree that "just stay off this portion of the market altogether" isn't the most desirable solution/recommendation for sure.
Personally, I like pipe organs too (and am satisfied with their emulation in the Stage 3), so I would never wish they took them out. Again, I can't but voice my wishes as a customer that they created a dual manual *organ*, with no extra sounds (don't care about those, as I'd still bring a Stage for that), but with the most and best customizations available for organs, click settings, rotary settings, percussion settings, V/C scanners, etc.. Pretty much like it is now but much deeper. That's it, not so complicated in my opinion. Am I really alone in wanting such a machine?
Completely agree that there's not enough tweakability. For example, I often wonder if a few more Leslie simulator editable parameters are all the current sim would need to be able to dial it closer to how we want it to sound, rather than a new sim. If I could sit and edit it using my Neo Vent as a yardstick, I'm sure I could get it close enough to live with any remaining minor differences.
I'd say 'fair enough' to that criticism if it wasn't the case that new Electro or Piano models seem to come along like buses, when there wasn't that much wrong with the previous ones - and yet no organ news when there definitely is a situation that Nord are trailing the clonewheel market now (or were until the Yamaha YC-61 came outHlaalu wrote:
EDIT: I know it's been two years without any news whatsoever, but for one thing I think that Clavia timeline isn't as fast-paced -- and rightly so, considering the scope of their products. I think it's normal not to expect updates on a weekly basis. For another thing, I also think that this whole "they are done with organs" thing has come *solely from the opinions of this forum*, putting this statement in no firmer basis that anything else fan-generated that may or may not turn out to be true. So yes, I absolutely want a successor of the C2D but let's also be cautious declaring we "give up" just because of some random people's opinions on the web -- with all respect, as I am part of that random people too!
) . The Mojo, Legend, the "Hoax" HX3 and - as you rightly say - the Suzuki XK5 are all better sounding tonewheel emulations. The HX system is particularly fine in a MAG built organ.I had my original C2D stolen in January 2019 and for some reason I bought another when a Mojo or Legend Live would have made more sense. I do hope this loyalty will reap at least an updated sound engine at some point....
There's a slight harshness to the overdrive that took some getting used to, but the EQ is quite powerful and really helps.