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Sujet de la discussion Que vaut cette merveille?
QUESTION URGENTE!!!!
je vais peut-etre faire l'acquisition de ce Viscount kb-200 d(occaz à 50 euros), je voulais savoir si c'était une bonne affaire ou l'escrocquerie du siecle?
De plus, je suis surtout curieux de savoir à quoi ressemblent les sons de cet engin? Viscount fabrique des orgues depuis longtemps mais est-ce que celui-là produit des sons de Hammond? de Farfisa? d'orgue d'église? ou des bons vieux sons de synthé des années 80 (genre nappes planates à la Vangelis)?
Merci pour vos réponses et que STEVIE WONDER soit avec vous!!!!

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Waou! ça calme :mdr:
Ce n'est pas le doute qui rend fou mais la certitude
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salut,

je viens de l acheter en brock pour une somme dérisoire et franchement les sons sont exploitables,
effectivement c est cheap mais propre
il ne souffle et bourdonne pas.
voici la liste des sons:

organ1    violon
organ2    trombonne
piano      clarinette
spinet     oboe
banjo      flute

pour la b.a.r:

swing      shuffle
polka      waltz
tango      beguine
bossa      samba
16beat    disco
rock        s.rock

il dispose également d une section d accompagnement

c est un clavier 5 octaves avec 2 prises midi: in et out

certe se n est pas l orgue du siecle mais y a de quoi faire...

aller, je retourne écouter mon vieux cd de BS2000...


[ Dernière édition du message le 13/05/2010 à 18:14:52 ]

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I have a Viscount KB 200. It has decent sounds overall. The 2 organ sounds remind me of Philip Glass or Terry Riley (not a "combo organ" explicitly but they are in that general tone/class of sounds). The piano/harpsichord sounds are very analog sounding which is very surprising considering this came from the late 1980's or 1990's. According to Syntaur.com, the KB 200 and the Roland E-12 both use the same keys. Google says the Roland E-12 came out in 1985, so I'm guessing the Viscount KB 200 came out in 1985 as well. The Roland E-12 keyboard was also made in Italy so it kind of makes sense that they share the same keys. Interesting note: Siel (many many forgotten but good synthesizers) in Italy closed, was reopened/bought out by Norlin (who owned Gibson/Oberheim/Moog/others-at-various-times) and returned as Keytek (CTS-2000, CTS-5000, etc), and later reopened as Roland Italy (E-12 & E-20 keyboards, C-80/C-90/C-200/etc digital church organs etc). Roland (of Japan) decided to cut their losses and close/sell the Italian factory. A group of the Roland Italy workers/designers/engineers/programmers/etc opened up as Dexibell (Vivo pianos/clonewheels, Classico L3 organ, etc). Siel ("Societa Industrie Elettroniche") also made the Suzuki Keyman PK-37/PK-49/PK-61e/PK-61ex, the Suzuki RPM-40 drum machine, and the Lowrey V-50). Brass sounds are also "analog sounding" ...along the lines of brass sounds heard on keyboards like on Technics (SX K200, SX K250, SX K450) Lowrey keyboards (V-120, V-100, Genius G-80, and other V-series). String sounds are also decent / analog-ish. All of these sounds are quite unlike Casio PCM keyboards of the 1990's and 2000's (like CTK, some CT-series, etc). These string sounds are all have some character to them. Vibrato is very surprising and good sounding. The rate / depth / etc is all "set in stone" so no changing it, but it sounds great. Other "cheapkeys" sometimes have vibrato that is too fast in it's rate or not deep enough or overtakes the sound too much ...some even have bad/ugly waveforms/oscillators doing the vibrato. The KB 200 vibrato is a fun variation to the sounds. Oh ...send this KB 200 through a phaser, play some string sounds, and you will have the "Arp Solina" feels for sure. I put it through a Moog MF-103 phaser ...will definitely have to record it! Drum sounds are fun to play around with. Chording options are fun as well. There's one setting to get a mildly deep bass sound (there's really only one bass sound, so that's it). But it's a good to have the option. The Auto-Chord type features on this keyboard let you make some house style one-finger fun for a half a minute (if you're into house, I'm not so much into that). MIDI in and out! Surprising! Viscount KB 200 ....made in Italy. Keys are nothing to write home about, pretty okay. Better than modern home Casio and Yamaha keyboards (PSR, CTK, etc etc) but not synthesizer quality for sure. RCA connection could be iffy, it's not a strong 1/4" connection at all. I will have to write some music with the Viscount KB 200 and post here (& YouTube, etc etc). Someone demo'd their Viscount KB 200 (the camera audio is peaking and distorting but it's a good representation): Viscount KB 200 on YouTube I also did some Google sleuthing and found that the Viscount KB 880 (KB 200, KB 300, KB 880, any other Viscount KB's?) had some stolen sounds from some GEM keyboard of a similar era (unknown exactly what GEM keyboard it was). These screenshots came from "Clear and Convincing Evidence: My Career in Intellectual Property Law" by George Gerstman. They are hosted on Imgur: Viscount KB 880 stolen sounds

I've also found a short summary / brief about the Viscount KB 200 and Viscount KB 880 in Advanced Computer Entertainment (ie “ACE”) magazine, issue January 1988, PDF page 46 and page 47 (which can be found on archive.org) backing up that the Viscount KB 200 is partially analog and that the Viscount KB 880 is likely entirely digital. It seems like the Viscount KB 200 and Viscount KB 880 came out in 1987 (since the ACE issue is January 1988).

Here's the snippet of the ACE issue uploaded on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/viscount-kb-series-ace-04-jan-88

…but note that archive.org user “pedgarcia” has the full issue uploaded.

[ Dernière édition du message le 25/07/2024 à 04:54:32 ]

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Thanks a lot.

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