I could load my B4 into my laptop as a stand alone, maybe. I don't have a host. It is a 2006 HP Pavilion(1.8). It is a possibility.

Thanks
Bernie

Hi Russ

I know you have the real equipmet. I am just a little guy. Thanks, I really like the G70, but I am also a perfectionist re sound. Passable is not good enough, although for an arranger, it sounds pretty good. Most people wouldn't know the difference, but, I do.

Bernie, aren't the G70 drawbars good enough for you? Rather than invest in another keyboard or lug around a laptop, I feel the G70 drawbars are pretty damn good; so is the leslie sim. I owned a G70 and got rid of it for its weight and crappy vibrato/chorus section with the drawbars. But other than that, the G70 does drawbars excellently. As I said, the XK-1 is a killer organ, as good sounding as any XK-3 or C1. If you're just buying a board to have a new board, well that's your business. But a G70 should give you all the B3 sounds you want without having to add to you rig or subtract from your pocketbook. Good luck.

If you are willing to haul around another keyboard as well as the behemoth G70, I'd say go for the XK-1. If not, either the XM2 and drawbar module (or forget the drawbar section if you don't mess with them live, just use presets), or the Nord Electro Rack and drive it from a G70 Part. This would gain you some killer Rhodes, Wurli and Clavinet sims,, too (as well as a Farfisa/Vox for those sixties oldies!).

The only thing I wouldn't really counsel is the laptop B4 thing, unless you are VERY comfortable with a laptop onstage, and don't mind the fiddly little wires coming in and out of it, external MIDI interfaces and soundcards to hook up and break down, and the basic fragility of the whole thing. It can and does work great for many people, but you should be aware of he issues...

Finally... Why not pull the Muse from the big rack, and get it a little rack all it's own? That strikes me as the cheapest, most reliable solution...

Thanks, everyone, for your advice. The G70 was pretty good,today, after I tweeked it, but no cigar. I quess I am spoiled by the real thing. My first Hammond was model A( not A 100), followed by a new B in 1967, and four more Hammonds after that. Maybe, I will bring the Receptor again, and see. The case has to be bigger for cooling, but a three space case would be better than my twelve.

I am not sure the Hammond unit would be that much better than the B4 program.

Bernie

Bernie,
I understand when something just doesn't play or sound right to fit one's needs. You are obviously looking for a particular sound. Might I add that often a sound goes with a particular keyfeel. Get those two together and you'll have your winning organ sound. For me software is not the way to go live. You may have different experiences, but a keyboard that has the B3 stuff already going for it would be my route. - What about a Korg CX3? I heard Larry Goldings play one at the James Taylor concert and it certainly sounded authentic.

Try to hook up a motion sound (pro3)speaker on the 2nd output on youre G70,reroute the drawbars( if possible, it can on Ty2) to that output and you have the right sound on youre hands.

Regards,
Impuls

Bernie I see a New NORD C1 in your future
http://www.nordusa.com/c1organ.html

These are all good ideas, I'm sure. Before I go Willy Nilly, down to the music store, I'll give my Receptor another go. If that doesn't get it, I will audition some equipment

or maybe even an Electro .