Originally posted by Fran Carango:
Fred, why not post your comments on the VR760?
I would be interested in what you have to say..Fran
Fran, I am not good in reviews
But to understand why I bought the board I give you the full story.
Anyway a friend of a friend (you know how that goes) needed a band about a year ago on his fifties birthday party, so a couple of old mucisians including myself joined forces and played on this party.
To our surprise we had great response and we loved it to play in a rock band again after so many years. (that was 25 years ago for me.)
So right on the party we decided to start a band again. ( a kind of revival with old guys like me" just for fun)
We are doing a lot of sixties and seventies rock and pop, so I just needed a board with good organ and piano sounds which was transportable,(not heavy) and easy in setup.
For a while I used my old G 800 which has reasonable sounds with some tweaking and equalizing, but I needed something better and I did not want to miss my K2600 at home which is way to heavy anyway for transport.
I first looked for the Gem Promega but the keys were weighted so pretty hard to do hammond glissandro's, while the hammond sounds were the most needed.
Anyway then the VK 760 came.
I was sold in 5 minutes by the keyboard feel alone..., Then the ease of use., Untill this day I did not look in the manual,
Basicly ofcourse because I use what's there.
The sounds are terrific.
It is a perfect performance keyboard in a band.
A transportable hammond and rhodes is what it is!
So all in all my reasons for buying the board are different if you look at it from arranger perspectives.
Nevertheless I would consider the board an excellent add on to an arranger if you don't mind carrying an extra board.
It is in our rehearsel place so I did not do much tweaking untill this day.
Maybe during the summer when we have a summer break. (I might even start reading the manual.
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Hope you enjoyed the story.
Fred