I traded my Nord Electro 3 in for one of these babies and IMHO it takes the Nord downtown and smacks it around. The SK-1's B3 is much more ballsy, gritty, and realistic than the Nord. For the real organists the SK-1, unlike the Nord, has real drawbars. The SK-1's AP's and EP's are every bit as good as Nord's and like the Nord one can donwload new samples from the Hammond website. The SK-1's user interface and the midi capability leave the Nord in the dust.
@TxBluesDude Have you heard the HOAX Hammond? It's built on an FPGA board- I started a thread on the Organ Forum. Some guy in Germany builds them for about $400 and can be installed in anything really. You can use 9 contacts per key. If you follow the link to the site on the youtube posts for the Hammond HOAX you can listen to the MP3's. Personally I'm blown away by it's sound, but the real test for me comes with how any organ reacts to a real Leslie, or at least tube amp.
Wonderful playing, drenched in blue notes. It makes a strong case for the SK-1. It goes to show (again and again) that the instrument is often secondary to the performer/performance. No one's going to say the SK-1 is the new Clavia top piano/organ or a direct B3-replacement. Still prefer Bill Evans or Herbie Hancock on a bad piano to Alicia Keys on a Bosendorfer Grand! With all due respect to Alicia, a wonderful musician in her own right...
I would've like to have seen some action with the drawbars on the organ portion at the end. All in all. This looks like something I would like to own.
state of the art new HAMMOND portable, great sounds, pro keyboard, drawbars like on B3, and a full keyboard computer with incredible sounds. At the end, NOT expensive for these performances really pro.
I think Hammond should use this concept in making a new Hammond XE-1 series keyboard. A new XE-1 series would compete with the Yamaha Tyros 4 organ keyboard, Korg PA3x, and Roland products.
Put me down as another pro who would have loved pitch bend at least. I do understand it isn't traditional to bend a Rhodes, but that doesn't mean it can't sound incredibly cool in the right hands. Not enough room? Bet they could have found it if they'd imagined it would have helped sell the Sk1. Still looking forward to playing one, but I'm a little disappointed in this particular compromise so far.
I've been gigging for over 40 years, and FINALLY, one light weight board that does it all, ... Almost. WTF was Hammond thinking? Where's the pitch/mod wheels they've put on their other portable organs?!? I would buy this in a heartbeat, if I could control the expressiveness of the 'other' sounds. BIG mistake! I am truly disappointed. I NEED my expressions as much as I need my Hammond/Leslie sounds. No pitch/mod wheels on the SK1, is totally ridiculous!
@JoeStoneZone Hello JSZ ... You're kidding me, right? I set my (portable) Hammond's at +/-12 semitones to mimic turning off a real B-3. Not used frequently, but it's there when I want it. As for "other" sounds, I frequently use the pitch/mod wheels, because I play the "other" sounds (flutes, horns, synth leads, etc.) with taste, feeling, and emotion, that cannot be achieved without the wheels. I'll assume you don't cover any "other" instruments besides piano & organ. No offense.
It obviously isn't worth wasting space (that isn't available anyway) for pitch/mod wheels for a few crappy wind instrument solos.
The "other sounds" are just a novelty, and won't be used by most real musicians buying this model anyway (with a few exceptions). The wind instruments will probably be only passable, and I doubt your imaginary audience will want to be subjected to you bending crappy flute sounds.
@antimarxism Just because you don't know how to tastefully apply pitch or modulation to add realism to your sounds, doesn't mean that others (like me) sound crappy when they use them. Of course the pitch & mod wheels will make for crappy sounds when a novice tries to use them.
@johnaka999 Did you happen to notice that there is no SPACE for that shit? They tossed in a few extra sounds and YOU happen to want space made for controls for them. Why stop at pitchbend/mod? If you are going to grace everyone with your wind instrument skills (obsessively on this ORGAN for some strange reason), then why aren't you begging for even more controls/inputs for just that? How about knobs for the so-called synth? What about "synth" players? You didn't think this quite through, huh?
@antimarxism Hammond-Suzuki could have easily incorporated pitch/mod wheels in the upper left corner, as most compact boards do. Not to mention their other drawbar organs. The SK1 has ONE good drawbar organ, plus hundreds of 'other' sounds. Being a seasoned player, I could easily make do with the 'other' sounds in a typical live performance. But Hammond-Suzuki was dead-wrong for not incorporating expression wheels for 'real' players. Maybe one day, you'll graduate from your Casio SK-1.
@antimarxism I'm a clown, unqualified to discuss anything music related, I need a job, I can't afford an instrument except for garbage, I don't think things through, I play polkas and crappy solos for imaginary audiences, at nursing homes, "for the door", and the SK1 will be purchased solely for its B-3 emulation. All that, because Hammond was stupid for leaving out their pitch/mod wheels. Very impressive! You're much too intelligent and talented for my blood! Feel free to get in the last word.
Yes, ONE (9) drawbar organ, and hundreds of other instrument sounds. The organ would be only 1% of the sounds on the SK1, if there were ONLY 99 'other' sounds. The SK1 has hundreds of 'other' sounds, plus an authentic drawbar organ. Just because you can't comprehend expressive controllers, doesn't mean that REAL keyboardists don't. Get back to me when (if) you ever get beyond John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano: First Grade Book.
@johnaka999 "The organ would be only 1% of the sounds on the SK1, if there were ONLY 99 'other' sounds. "
LOL!!! You are a clown. 1 PERCENT? ONE "drawbar organ" sound?
"you can't comprehend expressive controllers"
It's rocket science.....LOL! I have no idea what all those knobby thingies do on the 13 keyboards I'm looking at right now in-person in my studio. "Expression"? That's sooo deep.
You should get a Fantom G or some other jack-of-all-trades garbage.
@johnaka999 I've fallen in love with this eyecandy after viewing like 2 videos. The absence of the pitch&mod wheels are definitely the only real bad thing about the SK1. I actually had to check out if NE3 had wheels (since I've never had a chance to personally abuse one) and it doesn't. What the hell is wrong with this world?! It's not like NE is trying to visually ressemble the B3 since it notoriously has no drawbars, but considering SK1 Hammond didn't really think outside the box this time.
@johnaka999 Hopefully in 40 yrs you already have a solid synth (with pitch/mod) for producing wind/brass/synth, etc... This ORGAN isn't it, and doesn't claim to be. And why would anyone want it to be?
Anyone paying $2000 for an ORGAN, will be using it live as an ORGAN in their keyboard rig. At home or in the studio, there would be zero need for the accessory "other" sounds, seeing as though any serious musician wouldn't be using them except for random song writing and such.
@antimarxism Leaving the pitch/mod wheels off this board, is (almost) as stupid as leaving the drawbars off the organ section. Why put the other sounds in there if you can't use them the way you can on any other board? Some goofball decided that NOT having the expression of pitch/mod wheels was okay? The idea was to have one lightweight board, for all your bread & butter sounds, along with a good organ. Why do you think this video concentrates on the "other" sounds?
@antimarxism You are going to pitch bend piano sounds? That will sound wonderful.
Didn't you say that the ONLY people that would drop $2k for this board, would use it ONLY for the organ sound? Put it this way, ... If anyone wanted to do a rare pitch bend using a piano preset on the SK1, ... Could they? Grow up, dude.
@johnaka999 Ohhhh yes! There is nothing more intelligent than increasing size/weight for that RARE piano pitch bend, on an organ that is marketed as small and light.
Like I said, YOU want to do rare pitch bends, other players want real-time dedicated control knobs for other various manipulations, etc..., etc...,etc... The rest of us, ORGAN players, buying an ORGAN, don't want that shit cluttering up the limited real estate. We have other keyboards for that.
@johnaka999 You think it's 1% organ. That alone disqualifies you from even discussing anything related to music. Now go work on your piano pitch bends.
@antimarxism All your witty insults have not gone unnoticed. You're (obviously) incapable of intelligent conversation. Please continue to enjoy whatever equipment you can talk mommy & daddy in to. One day, when/if you grow up (if you're even a keyboard player), you may be able to appreciate the convenience of a single keyboard that incorporates a good drawbar organ, and enough 'other' sounds to get through a gig. Save your corny wisecracks for your playmates.
I had to have at least 2 in my 1st pro gigs at age 15. I've never played with less than 3, plus rack modules. Used to carry an 80pd 88 key controller around for years. Still today I can only skim it down to less than 3 in most any band, minus the rack modules/processing.
A 15 pd ORGAN? Exactly what I need. But I don't need 1000 knobs.
Get a job and buy some boards/controllers
Maybe you are playing polka in nursing homes. That explains it.
I'm laughing so hard cuz the church organ voice name is "Testify!"
runnerup109 1 month ago 2
I traded my Nord Electro 3 in for one of these babies and IMHO it takes the Nord downtown and smacks it around. The SK-1's B3 is much more ballsy, gritty, and realistic than the Nord. For the real organists the SK-1, unlike the Nord, has real drawbars. The SK-1's AP's and EP's are every bit as good as Nord's and like the Nord one can donwload new samples from the Hammond website. The SK-1's user interface and the midi capability leave the Nord in the dust.
TxBluesDude 1 month ago
@TxBluesDude Have you heard the HOAX Hammond? It's built on an FPGA board- I started a thread on the Organ Forum. Some guy in Germany builds them for about $400 and can be installed in anything really. You can use 9 contacts per key. If you follow the link to the site on the youtube posts for the Hammond HOAX you can listen to the MP3's. Personally I'm blown away by it's sound, but the real test for me comes with how any organ reacts to a real Leslie, or at least tube amp.
paulj0557 1 month ago
Wonderful playing, drenched in blue notes. It makes a strong case for the SK-1. It goes to show (again and again) that the instrument is often secondary to the performer/performance. No one's going to say the SK-1 is the new Clavia top piano/organ or a direct B3-replacement. Still prefer Bill Evans or Herbie Hancock on a bad piano to Alicia Keys on a Bosendorfer Grand! With all due respect to Alicia, a wonderful musician in her own right...
DeDzjang 2 months ago
I still think the Nord sounds better! Anyone else?
ledzurso 2 months ago
I like the name for the organ sound! LOL
SneedTV 2 months ago
great playing! =)
Pianodrum95 3 months ago
I would've like to have seen some action with the drawbars on the organ portion at the end. All in all. This looks like something I would like to own.
Supadave7 3 months ago
state of the art new HAMMOND portable, great sounds, pro keyboard, drawbars like on B3, and a full keyboard computer with incredible sounds. At the end, NOT expensive for these performances really pro.
organeu 4 months ago
good piano-excellent gospel playing
keynoteorgans 4 months ago
There must be a Boss pitch shifting pedal that would do for those that want that effect.
patmm97 7 months ago
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johnaka999 6 months ago
@patmm97 Kind of defeats the purpose of having a lightweight, plug & play, all-in-one keyboard to cart to gigs.
johnaka999 6 months ago
Hurry to get your own SK1!We are getting in the first ones Now!!
Tonewheeldude 7 months ago
I think Hammond should use this concept in making a new Hammond XE-1 series keyboard. A new XE-1 series would compete with the Yamaha Tyros 4 organ keyboard, Korg PA3x, and Roland products.
Royalorgans 8 months ago
importante che abbia le uscite separate per piano e organo
MrSilviosassari 8 months ago
Fantastic!!!
haduroboros 8 months ago
Thanks for the thoughtful demo. We will have to see how this new offering shakes-out.
tonewheeler1 8 months ago
Clavier trop polyvalent à mon avis! Hammond Suzuki a voulu , défier les autres concurrents maîtres dans la matière !
Créer un clavier arrangeur, n'est pas du tout dans son esprix ! C'est à but pûrement commercial !
85rodeno 8 months ago
Gotta also say that the sustain on the acoustic piano seems pretty quick and a tad uneven, but some of that could be youtube.
Jazzooo 8 months ago
Put me down as another pro who would have loved pitch bend at least. I do understand it isn't traditional to bend a Rhodes, but that doesn't mean it can't sound incredibly cool in the right hands. Not enough room? Bet they could have found it if they'd imagined it would have helped sell the Sk1. Still looking forward to playing one, but I'm a little disappointed in this particular compromise so far.
Jazzooo 8 months ago
nice playing .... and sounds very good especially piano and organ...is this a new model? nice and light.. cost??
resultant64 8 months ago
great keyboard!
psm121 9 months ago
how much?
VeronicaDeVore 9 months ago
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johnaka999 9 months ago
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@VeronicaDeVore $2k - SK1 / $2.9k - SK2 @ Sweetwater
johnaka999 9 months ago
I've been gigging for over 40 years, and FINALLY, one light weight board that does it all, ... Almost. WTF was Hammond thinking? Where's the pitch/mod wheels they've put on their other portable organs?!? I would buy this in a heartbeat, if I could control the expressiveness of the 'other' sounds. BIG mistake! I am truly disappointed. I NEED my expressions as much as I need my Hammond/Leslie sounds. No pitch/mod wheels on the SK1, is totally ridiculous!
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 What "other" sounds *on this board* need pitch/mod???
JoeStoneZone 9 months ago
@JoeStoneZone Hello JSZ ... You're kidding me, right? I set my (portable) Hammond's at +/-12 semitones to mimic turning off a real B-3. Not used frequently, but it's there when I want it. As for "other" sounds, I frequently use the pitch/mod wheels, because I play the "other" sounds (flutes, horns, synth leads, etc.) with taste, feeling, and emotion, that cannot be achieved without the wheels. I'll assume you don't cover any "other" instruments besides piano & organ. No offense.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 "does it all"
No, it is 99% organ.
It obviously isn't worth wasting space (that isn't available anyway) for pitch/mod wheels for a few crappy wind instrument solos.
The "other sounds" are just a novelty, and won't be used by most real musicians buying this model anyway (with a few exceptions). The wind instruments will probably be only passable, and I doubt your imaginary audience will want to be subjected to you bending crappy flute sounds.
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism Just because you don't know how to tastefully apply pitch or modulation to add realism to your sounds, doesn't mean that others (like me) sound crappy when they use them. Of course the pitch & mod wheels will make for crappy sounds when a novice tries to use them.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 Did you happen to notice that there is no SPACE for that shit? They tossed in a few extra sounds and YOU happen to want space made for controls for them. Why stop at pitchbend/mod? If you are going to grace everyone with your wind instrument skills (obsessively on this ORGAN for some strange reason), then why aren't you begging for even more controls/inputs for just that? How about knobs for the so-called synth? What about "synth" players? You didn't think this quite through, huh?
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism Hammond-Suzuki could have easily incorporated pitch/mod wheels in the upper left corner, as most compact boards do. Not to mention their other drawbar organs. The SK1 has ONE good drawbar organ, plus hundreds of 'other' sounds. Being a seasoned player, I could easily make do with the 'other' sounds in a typical live performance. But Hammond-Suzuki was dead-wrong for not incorporating expression wheels for 'real' players. Maybe one day, you'll graduate from your Casio SK-1.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 "a seasoned player"
You must be seasoned playing "for the door" since you can't afford but one keyboard.
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism I'm a clown, unqualified to discuss anything music related, I need a job, I can't afford an instrument except for garbage, I don't think things through, I play polkas and crappy solos for imaginary audiences, at nursing homes, "for the door", and the SK1 will be purchased solely for its B-3 emulation. All that, because Hammond was stupid for leaving out their pitch/mod wheels. Very impressive! You're much too intelligent and talented for my blood! Feel free to get in the last word.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 Drama queen victim mentality.
Your narcissism clouds reality..
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism "No, it is 99% organ."
It's got hundreds of 'gig ready' sounds (minus the pitch/mod wheels), and one drawbar organ. Is your Casio calculator watch broken?
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 "One" drawbar organ......LOL!
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism "One" drawbar organ......LOL!
Yes, ONE (9) drawbar organ, and hundreds of other instrument sounds. The organ would be only 1% of the sounds on the SK1, if there were ONLY 99 'other' sounds. The SK1 has hundreds of 'other' sounds, plus an authentic drawbar organ. Just because you can't comprehend expressive controllers, doesn't mean that REAL keyboardists don't. Get back to me when (if) you ever get beyond John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano: First Grade Book.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 "The organ would be only 1% of the sounds on the SK1, if there were ONLY 99 'other' sounds. "
LOL!!! You are a clown. 1 PERCENT? ONE "drawbar organ" sound?
"you can't comprehend expressive controllers"
It's rocket science.....LOL! I have no idea what all those knobby thingies do on the 13 keyboards I'm looking at right now in-person in my studio. "Expression"? That's sooo deep.
You should get a Fantom G or some other jack-of-all-trades garbage.
antimarxism 9 months ago
@johnaka999 I've fallen in love with this eyecandy after viewing like 2 videos. The absence of the pitch&mod wheels are definitely the only real bad thing about the SK1. I actually had to check out if NE3 had wheels (since I've never had a chance to personally abuse one) and it doesn't. What the hell is wrong with this world?! It's not like NE is trying to visually ressemble the B3 since it notoriously has no drawbars, but considering SK1 Hammond didn't really think outside the box this time.
iPiano 9 months ago
@johnaka999 Hopefully in 40 yrs you already have a solid synth (with pitch/mod) for producing wind/brass/synth, etc... This ORGAN isn't it, and doesn't claim to be. And why would anyone want it to be?
Anyone paying $2000 for an ORGAN, will be using it live as an ORGAN in their keyboard rig. At home or in the studio, there would be zero need for the accessory "other" sounds, seeing as though any serious musician wouldn't be using them except for random song writing and such.
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism Leaving the pitch/mod wheels off this board, is (almost) as stupid as leaving the drawbars off the organ section. Why put the other sounds in there if you can't use them the way you can on any other board? Some goofball decided that NOT having the expression of pitch/mod wheels was okay? The idea was to have one lightweight board, for all your bread & butter sounds, along with a good organ. Why do you think this video concentrates on the "other" sounds?
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 You are going to pitch bend piano sounds? That will sound wonderful.
antimarxism 9 months ago
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@antimarxism You are going to pitch bend piano sounds? That will sound wonderful.
Didn't you say that the ONLY people that would drop $2k for this board, would use it ONLY for the organ sound? Put it this way, ... If anyone wanted to do a rare pitch bend using a piano preset on the SK1, ... Could they? Grow up, dude.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 Ohhhh yes! There is nothing more intelligent than increasing size/weight for that RARE piano pitch bend, on an organ that is marketed as small and light.
Like I said, YOU want to do rare pitch bends, other players want real-time dedicated control knobs for other various manipulations, etc..., etc...,etc... The rest of us, ORGAN players, buying an ORGAN, don't want that shit cluttering up the limited real estate. We have other keyboards for that.
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism
Dude, ... Here's a little advice: Never start a battle of wits with no ammunition.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 You think it's 1% organ. That alone disqualifies you from even discussing anything related to music. Now go work on your piano pitch bends.
antimarxism 9 months ago
@antimarxism All your witty insults have not gone unnoticed. You're (obviously) incapable of intelligent conversation. Please continue to enjoy whatever equipment you can talk mommy & daddy in to. One day, when/if you grow up (if you're even a keyboard player), you may be able to appreciate the convenience of a single keyboard that incorporates a good drawbar organ, and enough 'other' sounds to get through a gig. Save your corny wisecracks for your playmates.
johnaka999 9 months ago
@johnaka999 You only use ONE keyboard? Sad.
I had to have at least 2 in my 1st pro gigs at age 15. I've never played with less than 3, plus rack modules. Used to carry an 80pd 88 key controller around for years. Still today I can only skim it down to less than 3 in most any band, minus the rack modules/processing.
A 15 pd ORGAN? Exactly what I need. But I don't need 1000 knobs.
Get a job and buy some boards/controllers
Maybe you are playing polka in nursing homes. That explains it.
antimarxism 9 months ago
souns cool!!!
gcpezzi 9 months ago
looks cool!
MyLifeChanger 9 months ago