The brand-new STUDIOLOGIC NUMA Organ 2 produces a high-quality, full organ sound via the Physical Modelling Synthesis. Three Tone Wheel Organ models, three Vintage Analog models and an exceptional Classic Organ sound are at your disposal. Worth mentioning is the separately controllable percussion section.
Further Developed Effects
The STUDIOLOGIC NUMA Organ 2 features great effects: Chorus, Vibrato, Reverb, Drive, Key Click, Leakage, an EQ and a new Leslie simulation. It is also equipped with a new Rotary speaker effect with stereo post-processing, via the 11-pin socket an external Rotary loudspeaker ca be connected.
User Friendly Operation
The STUDIOLOGIC NUMA Organ 2 features 11 memory slots for storing programmable presets that can later be played back with the push of button. This is accomplished via the first twelve keys of the keyboard, and the various organ models can also be setup this way.
Original Design
Horizontally orientated pitch bend and modulation wheels and centrally positioned drawbars, a knob and an illuminated buttons make the STUDIOLOGIC NUMA Organ 2 a great looking as well as a fun playing experience. !!! 3 Years Music Store Warranty !!!
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It was almost impulse purchase, a good hammond clone for less then 1000EUR.
The board itself feels and looks solid (although less solid then wooden-finished clonewheels), stylish, serious device. Controls are good, not loose and not too tight. Exceptions are pitch-mod wheels, they are quite thin and loose, and looks toyish.
Soundwise, Numa considered to be one of the best Hammond clones. I have nothing to add to that, Hammonds are great, with three hammond models emulation. Despite Hammond sounds, Numa Organ 2 includes Transistor organ sounds of epoch (Vox, Farfisa) which can be used for 60s/70s music fans. Also classical organ sounds are included, which are also great, and allows to make quite untipical sounds (i.e. classical organ passed via Leslie and Overdrive) which could be usefull for prog fans. I also dont know if drawbar control is closer to stops of real organ.
Controls are limited, no LCD screen, on the other side everything is done by knobs and presets.
Strange things:
Looks like it is impossible to split keyboard and assign part for MIDI
For some reason if to split keys with assigning left side to pedal, lower manual with pedal sounds is layered on a left side. One have to withdraw all drawbars for lower KB to get clean pedal sound.
So it became impossible to fast switch between split for upper/lower and split for upper/pedal.
Also it would be better to have overdrive knob on left side, dont know how it was on real hammonds.
After lots of switching between presets, splits/disable splits, etc, some software bugs can be found. Switch off/on helps. But I couldnt found repeating conditions. May be in case performance required lots of switches, reload between sets could be good idea. But again, in normal playing conditions I havent seen problems, only at the beginning when lots of experiments, just to see how this or that works were done. Actually it is hard to do so many switches in two hours exersize set.
Conclusion: Excellent board for "those sounds" fans. Not much features, but very accurate emulation of famous Hammod models.