Korg Cx3

[Jack Hammer]

This is one great keyboard. I tried one out in the music store yesterday and thought it sounded and felt great. I have the Native Instruments B4 plug-in which it a'ight, but I think the KORG simply blows it away, particularly in playable functionality. For instance, you can do much more real time changing and tweaking with all the knobs right in front of you rather than on your computer screen somewhere possibly burried behind other screens. My vote is for the CX3 and besides, I maintain that software, by definition, cannot and does not sound exactly like hardware. This is not a value judgment in every case, but in most, hardware is simply better.

 

[Badger]

Yeah, but the CX3 is software, not hardware. Its modeled, which by definition is software. Now the original B/C3 is hardware.

 

[Krakit]

What amp was it hooked up to?

I find that when auditioning keyboards in any music store, it's important to note what it's playing through.

 

[PhilMckracken]

Bdgr

What is hardware. Are you talking about a different Korg. No, I don't thinkg so, I guess you mean the real thing.

 

[Badger]

Re: Bdgr

What is hardware. Are you talking about a different Korg. No, I don't thinkg so, I guess you mean the real thing.

Yeah, I got a sweet deal on a real Hammond C3 a few years ago, and I just like to brag....BUT ACTUALLY, Korg made an old analog Hammond Clone many years ago. That was hardware also....THe new one I'm sure is superior, but I was refering to the OP's comment about software VS. Hardware. The new Korg is just as much software as the plugin he was talking about....just just done better.

 

[Jack Hammer]

Tell me about your C3

I know I have you beat. Quite a few years ago, I got a C3 with a Leslie 147 I believe (the big one in any event) and it was all in excellent condition. Total cost, $700.00. I later sold the whole lot for $1,000.00 still in perfect condition. I sold it becuase I had nowhere to store it at the time, could not move it and had nowhere hwere i could play it. Also, at the time, they had become slightly less popular. Polyphonic synths were coming on strong and nobody wanted a Hammond any more. Too big, not practical etc. Now, I wish I had never sold it. For that amount of money I should have looked harder for a place to store it or made a deal with a studio or church, let them use it in return for storage. Well, that is water under the bridge. A hard lesson learned.

 

[Krakit]

Vintage CX3

I have one of these sweet old boards. I use it alot but not as often as I used to.

I was well worth the $100 I paid for it about ten years ago.

Carl

 

[Badger]

Re: Tell me about your C3

I know I have you beat. Quite a few years ago, I got a C3 with a Leslie 147 I believe (the big one in any event) and it was all in excellent condition. Total cost, $700.00. I later sold the whole lot for $1,000.00 still in perfect condition. I sold it becuase I had nowhere to store it at the time, could not move it and had nowhere hwere i could play it. Also, at the time, they had become slightly less popular. Polyphonic synths were coming on strong and nobody wanted a Hammond any more. Too big, not practical etc. Now, I wish I had never sold it. For that amount of money I should have looked harder for a place to store it or made a deal with a studio or church, let them use it in return for storage. Well, that is water under the bridge. A hard lesson learned.

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I had a friend who's mom was an organist at a small town church. One day, I went over to his place and there was a C3 sitting in the living room, no leslie but a hammond tone cabinet. For years, I drooled over this thing. Apparently, his moms church had had it sitting in a store room for 20 years or so(its around a 1958 model), and she brought it home to practice on. One day, they tell me they are going to sell it, she never plays it, and the church just got a new organ. Somebody told them it was worth 750, so thats what they wanted. In reality, it's worth about 2-3 grand...theres a music store here that has one for 5 grand (but with the leslie 122) and its been painted white(and badly too). Its in near perfect condition, except where somebody knoced a chunck out of the wood in the front. Even has the bench and the pedals. This was only a couple of years ago.