Elka X-605 – For Sale
Well, as you may have seen earlier this year, I acquired an Elka X-605 Combo Organ. After much deliberation, I have decided to sell it on. I have two main reasons for this. Firstly, It is a rather large and hefty beast whose functions and sounds I already have in bucket loads in other, more convenient instruments, such as my Alesis Fusion and Akai samplers. Whilst some might argue on the side of authenticity, I would counter that with the fact that the Elka isn’t quite a Hammond or other such organ classic and therefore is much easier to replicate digitally.
Secondly, I need the funds as I plan to purchase a new camera, something I have been trying to do for some time.
As this is surplus to requirements I am putting it on eBay UK and hoping she goes for a reasonable price. If you are interested, this item is in Suffolk, UK. I will not be offering shipping of any kind due to the immense weight of it. It will be collection only. The starting price will be £99.99. The only “problem” with it is that it does not have the legs nor the swell pedal. It does, however, come with the service schematics. Other than that, it is in perfect working order.
Interested parties should contact me via the eBay auction or via email.
See this post for more pictures.
Here is a video demonstrating it’s perfect working order.
And those words you wrote, come haunting back: “deep down, we all still know that the hardware is the more respectable and reliable medium”.
Now you know why soft-synths are so popular 🙂
Well, yes & no. I must admit that I have gotten into soft synths more than ever before but only where they substitute hardware I am yet to acquire or could never conceivably own at this moment in time (e.g. CS80, Wavestation, M1, etc).
As for this, I have so many excellent organ patches and samples on pretty much every synth I own, as organs are one of the most abundant and simple to create sounds. I simply can't justify keeping such a fine example of a real organ here doing nothing but gather dust. Rather someone makes proper use of it and I get a few bob for my new digital SLR ;o)