The VK-8 Combo Organ is a discontinued electronic

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introduced in 2002, which simulates the sound of an electromechanical tonewheel-based

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

. The VK-8 is both an improvement and successor to both the

VK-7 The Roland VK-7 is an electronic keyboard introduced in 1997 which simulates the sound of an electromechanical Hammond organ. Like other electronic musical instruments that emulate (or "clone") the sound of the electromechanical tonewheel-based org ...

and VK-77. The VK-8 itself was succeeded by the VK-88.

Description

The VK-8 harbors a sleek "waterfall" design The main control panel of the VK-8 includes a master volume control, the expected six-position chorus/vibrato, a

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, Leslie speaker controls, traditional percussion controls, rotary speaker modeling based on COSM technology, voice selectors for the 64 patch memories, tonewheel, amplifier and overdrive controls. However the keyboard lacks a screen feature. Along with the familiar Hammond organ sounds, the synthesizer carries quality electric/acoustic pianos, strings, bass, and choir sounds, and even jazz scat voices and synths.

References

External links

Roland website
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VK-8 The VK-8 Combo Organ is a discontinued electronic keyboard introduced in 2002, which simulates the sound of an electromechanical tonewheel-based Hammond organ. The VK-8 is both an improvement and successor to both the VK-7 and VK-77. The VK-8 its ...

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