I also have bought, reface is great! Sounds close enough. Taking it on a plane, not carrying the compact for rehearsals... 😉 Just wish I could tweek the vibrato, a bit too fast for me. And you can get a cool fender rhodes ish, if you use percussion only and distortion all the way up, into an amp. Cool video man! Farfisa power! 🤘
Thanks for the comparison. Is the Reface being played through its internal speakers? I ask as the tones between the two sound close but the Reface sounds further away and thinner.
You're welcome. No if you look closely at the top of the screen you can see the reface has a cable plugged in it's mono out. Both organs are being played through the same mixer and monitors. It just sounds that thin. The Farfisa does have tone controls but the way I have it set the bass is almost all rolled off and the treble almost maxed.
so the farfisa has the analog sizzle of the filter , so all you gotta do is get a nice sizzly analog filter and you are pretty much doing the same sound ,in a mix with all the other instruments layered the end result is pretty much the same so yeah the farfisa is lovely but so the reface, fin
@@phlattgetit been messing around with gsi deluxe ipad app and yea, it is a lot of fun and sounds very good and as close to the farfisa as best as i can tell. i read that the crumar mojo 61 uses the gsi app for the farfisa. do u know if all the parameters of the app are usable on the mojo 61? i see 9 drawbars that function as on/off but i am wondering if the all tone and multi boosters are accessible?
I've not found a single hardware instrument that replicates the mellow sound of the Farfisa with the green boost section on, but the all-boost off. When I owned a Compact Duo, that was a sound I used a lot. Also the vibrato is never right - it's always too much. The Arturia Farfisa V is great, but I'd like that in an actual portable keyboard. I had an Ace Tone Top 5 too, which this is supposed to emulate, but again, its a much more raspy, brassy sound than I got from that too.
The Korg Vox Continental does, or did, I'm not sure if they make it still. The reface sounds all made it into the CK61 and I've had success using its onboard cutoff filter to replicate the knee leveler with a pedal
@@TheWhiteCatIncidentBand I since found that switching the Reface's vibrato off and running it through a vibrato pedal results in a much more authentic sound. Also, I can get much closer to those green tab Farfisa sounds by using the Y mode.
@@phlattgetit also, I a/b tested all the modes against an original Ace Tone Top 5 and found that you can get extremely close to its all-tabs on sound by using the Y mode with the 16 and 8 drawbars fully out and the 4 drawbar about halfway plus the distortion at about 25%.
@@moxie96 Not down on the reface (although I did send the piano one back) . They're a great little keyboard for what they are. If I was playing out I'd use one with a full size controller.
I think its just that the volume is lower and using the tiny little built in speakers is not the best sound. Going stereo into an amp or DAW and It is definitely not a toy!
