Re: Question - V3

["Mark Longo" <longo@zk3.dec.com>]

>    I musta missed a message or two and don't know how this V3 thing
> got started. Could someone re-post the original message(s)? By the
> way, I'm an IC designer. Need any custom chips for this thing?
> 

        The V3 is a new single rack space organ module from Voce which is 
reported to be the closest module to a tonewheel hammond sound yet, it accepts 
live MIDI drawbar input, has full double manual polyphony and has a high grade 
leslie simulator built in.  It will ship in mid-May.

        Dave Amels, a honcho, principle designer, support guy, marketeer, etc., 
etc., for Voce a is also a very knowledgeable life-long Hammond/Leslie 
player/fanatic and a subscriber to this list.  We're trying to talk him into 
building a double manual drawbar B3-type clone using the V3 for guts and 
modeling 
the tonewheel hammonds in keyboard, drawbars, etc.  Voce has done some very 
impressive clone products to date and with Hammond Suzuki charging a bazillion 
bucks (actually around $18K US) for the XB-3, many of us would LOVE to see Dave 
come out with a high quality B3 clone for pro musicians at a real world price.

        And as long as I'm asking Dave for a B3 clone, I'll tell him it'd be 
nice 
if the manuals had some basic controller functions with a split option and with 
the drawbars and chorus/vib/etc buttons sending MIDI too.  It'd be cool to play 
piano/strings/horns from a synth module with drawbar expression control for 
strings/horns/etc on the lower manual and a howling B3 on the top!  Many of us 
have to schlepp around two keyboards for live gigging anyway, this one could be 
two in one! 


        Mark

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  Mark Longo                                    Digital Equipment Corp. 
  longo@zk3.dec.com                             Nashua, NH
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