Pre-release thoughts on the SV-1?

What do you think of it now?

Some people say it sounds a million, others say it sucks donkey. What's your thoughts?

Do you think the tube pre puts ahead of, say, a Nord Electro?

Do you like the simplicity of the front panel or wish there was more?

All thoughts appreciated. I'll give mine after a while.

What, we need yet another SV-1 thread?

I think it's GAS-worthy. I like the display-less panel, I'm "meh" about the tube, I (personally) think it looks cool, and the sounds I've heard so far are .

I think it's great. It looks awesome and I really like the demos. The tube is a nice feature, I liked the one in the triton extreme when I had one. I love the hands on approach like the nords have them, makes it easy to edit on the fly. Basically, a great looking, probably great sounding instrument.

I'm still not sure if I'll get one, or if I get and M50 and a hammond XK-1. Right now I'm leaning towards the SV1 and a neo instruments ventilator to improve the KB3 sounds of my Kurz. Oh, and trade my PC3x for a PC3.

I wouldn't buy one because I think weighted keys for organ is meh. I think tube is and I think a front panel tube is :facepalm:

I also think it sounds good, and ElectricPuppyMan should def buy it!

I'm wondering it I should dump the Motif Rack for funds towards this, since I use the Motif almost exclusively for pianos.

I think this is an awesome keyboard in every way. Some things could've been let out, i.e. the organs (as Clav very well points out, it's totally useless due to the keys, and I imagine them not exactly sounding amazingly). However, the pianos sound great, and the rhodes in particular astonish me. We haven't heard from Nord in a little while, so I hope they're just trying to match these new and totally fabulous samples. Furthermore, it's gorgeous and relatively lightweight, and even though the tube is placed a little oddly, just having it is way cool and awesome and I wish there were similar tubes in Nords and other vintage keyboards.

I wish I needed the SV-1, then I'd buy it in a heartbeat! SV-1 + Electro 3 would be a gorgeous rig.

It is not as organ oriented as the Nords. It is a piano for piano players with a few bonus sounds.

Everything else is speculation, including the donkey balls quotient, until you are actually in the same room with it. Playing it.

Well, they could be useful for someone who doesn't need a lot of organ sounds and doesn't want to bring a second board to gigs or rehearsal.

But anyway, you can replace the organ slots with other sounds, so I guess it's not a big deal...

This! +111111111111

Whoa.... what other sounds? Didn't see anything about that on the spec sheet...

They mean you can add more presets using the inbuilt sample ROM.

It's not possible to ADD new sample data to the SV-1.

Ooooh...

I'm pretty sure the 73 will still be mine.

Personally, I like the sound. The only thing IMO that puts it over a Nord Electro is the "right-there-no-menus-attatched-or-complicated-anything" front panel. So easy to edit on the fly.

Beautiful Hammond sounds, but hammer action keys? Nononononono. If I was going to get this only for organs, I would rather go for the Electro or XK-3c with a tube pre.

Of course, however, this is all speculation. I'm really excited to play this thing, as I've never played a good Rhodes emulation with hammer action keys, so it should be interesting.

I think its very cool. I always loved the electro but being a piano player first I couldn't stand the action or piano sound. This seems like the piano players electro. Personally I can live without drawbars, good presets with an effective sim do the trick for me. The e pianos sound fantastic, and I think Korg has really been upping their game in the acoustic piano department.

This isnt a Nord, fact is its a preset box with a premium price tag...and its gone too far the other way with the lack of tweakability. The nords are just right in that department from where im standing. They are so easy to use.The Nord Electro is a a fully featured organ with drawbars, it has a waterfall keyboard which is far better to play clavs and organs with than a weighted board such as this, (and the waterfall keys actually feel great for piano and rhodes playing too) the Nord has the proper clav eq/pickup selectors, sample playback. Honestly i dont understand why anyone would want an sv1...For a rhodes and piano sound perhaps? But thats one expensive Rhodes and Piano sound!! From what ive heard the velocity switching on the rhodes sound isnt smooth and the wurlies sound plastic, and ive yet to hear the straight clav sound without it being smothered in fx...

Jurys out on this for me until i try it next week but its gonna have to be really special to put even a small dent in nords dominance of this area especially and with the organ being an after thought, only weighted keys and such limited abilities to sculpt sounds i think its one expensive stunted rompler..im open to change my mind once ive tried it in person though...