The Reface YC emulates five different organ models: Yamaha is now taking it to the bank with the current full-sized CP and YC keyboards. Wisely, Yamaha reacted to the warm user reception and reaction caused by the YC and its popular pal, the Reface CP. Yamaha simply repackaged and revoiced the basic AWM2 DNA in a wonderfully accessible form. I roll my eyes a bit whenever anyone posts about how they “wish the Motif XF (Montage, MODX) had the Reface YC technology inside.” News flash, the Reface YC shares much of its technology with Motif XF, Montage and MODX already. Reface YC Typical Vox and Farfisa settings (Source: Yamaha) That said, here are some detailed observations (positive and negative). I have really worked the Reface YC as a rehearsal instrument and as a gig instrument in church. Yamaha Reface YC promises tonewheel and combo organ sounds on the cheap. I give Nord’s orchestral samples and library the edge over Hammond. Pipe organ (Nord and Hammond) is a big plus for a church player. Both provide excellent combo organ sounds. (Grrr.) However, I have played the Nord Electro 6D and Hammond Sk1. Thanks to the frapping pandemic, I have yet to play a YC61. Gotta wonder if we can port the F1, F2 and F3 FM organs to Montage and MODX? The YC61 drawbars bring in the usual drawbar footages with the exception of the 1′ drawbar which is disabled in all FM models (F1, F2, and F3). The YC61 also provides a sine wave “combo” model (F1). Vox (YC61 organ model F2) and Farfisa (model F3) sounds are produced using frequency modulation (FM) synthesis. The YC61 synthesizes tonewheel tones through Virtual Circuit Modeling (VCM) that emulates the sound of analog tonewheels and associated circuitry. Yamaha have taken their own approach to combo organ emulation with the YC61. The Nord voice set covers the Combo Compact Deluxe model. The Combo Compact Deluxe replaced the Piccolo 4′ voice with a bright 2 2/3′ overtone tab, adding a bit of Hammond-like whistle. The Hammond voice set is the same as the Farfisa Combo Compact. Hammond employ a similar Vox drawbar assignment in the Sk1/Sk2 series.ĭiscrete voice (tab) stops pose a minor problem: How to provide discrete On/Off control with sliders (drawbars)? In the case of Farfisa emulation, Nord and Hammond assign each Farfisa tab to a drawbar: Drawbar Farfisa (Nord) Farfisa (Hammond) The III and IV mixtures add the Hammond-like overtones missing from the original Continental. The mixtures consist of the following ranks: Nord’s emulation kicks the basics up to dual-manual, Continental II territory by adding a 2′ footage and two overtone mixtures, II and III. The 16′, 8′, 4′, IV and sine are basic Continental tones. Nord Electro 6, for example, offers 16′, 8′, 4′, 2′, II, III, IV and sine. Nord and Hammond throw in pipe organ, piano, EP and instrument emulations, too, making for full all-rounders.ĭrawbar control abounds! In the case of Vox, each physical Nord drawbar corresponds to a Vox Continental drawbar footage (with possible extensions). All offer two vintage flavors: Vox and Farfisa. Organ-focused keyboards from Nord, Hammond, Yamaha and others have combo organ emulations in addition to tonewheel synthesis. Today’s post will (almost) ignore the B-3… Checking out organ-related threads in the music forums, combo organs get short shrift while most folks focus on the Hammond B-3 tonewheel sounds.
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