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XK2by Hammond
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Features
- · In addition to authentic B-3 drawbar sound, the XK-2 features a new 61-note keyboard utilizing deluxe square-front keys to truly recreate the look and feel of the durable B-3 keyboard
- · This new instrument has an inbuilt 64-patch library that is user-programmable for Upper Manual, Lower Manual and Pedal Keyboard
- Digital Reverb, digital Leslie with horn and bass rotor simulation, Touch-Response Percussion and user-adjustable Vibrato and Chorus are also included
- The XK-2 features 32-note polyphonic and 16-part multi-timbral performance, and data can be saved to a MIDI data recorder via MIDI Data Dump
Product Description
XK-2 Drawbar Keyboard with square front keysReviews
The begining of better things to come...I owned an XB-2, then XB-1, then got this. This one really disappointed me.
I felt the FEEL was great (it was the first of the clones to have waterfall keys), but the chorus/vibrato/leslie effects were AWFUL... so bad I used to turn them off whenever I played it. This was really disappointing because the keyboard itself felt so good. (IMHO most of the Hammond Clones out on the market have keyboards that just are too cheap feeling for more "muscular" type playing - - you know smears, swooshes, whooshes and stuff. The XK-2 in my opinion was the sturdiest of all the pre-XK-3 clones.)
After this I got the NORD... which in contrasted I felt SOUNDED BETTER but didn't feel so good (less cheap feeling than Hammond's other competitors, but more like a weighted piano.)
Now Hammond has the XK-3... Its DEFINITELY worth the money with the exception of the reverse color keys... they don't stay down, so its easy to "play" them by accident. All in all XK-2's strong point is its feel.... which IS something that's important for a Hammond player... but the sound, in my opinion was a bit lacking.