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Hammond M-Solo Portable Organ - Burgundy

49-key Combo Organ with 4 Organ Models, String and Voice Ensembles, Dual-oscillator Polyphonic Synth, 9 Drawbars, and Digital Leslie Simulation - Burgundy
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The Lightest, Most Portable Hammond Ever

Made for organists on the go, the Hammond M-Solo is the most compact, travel-friendly Hammond ever made. This pint-sized, 49-key powerhouse may have a small footprint, but it boasts a great big sound that organists will love! The M-Solo covers the bases of classic organs with a knockout B-3 tonewheel organ, three transistor organs, and nine drawbars. It includes a ’70s-style string machine and a dual-oscillator polyphonic synth to give you even more flexibility onstage and in the studio. A digital Leslie speaker simulation and onboard effects, including delay, reverb, overdrive, and chorus, round out the M-Solo’s impressive sonic package. A perfect complement to your current keyboard rig or just a fun travel-sized solution, the Hammond M-Solo is a mighty mini organ with a mega tone!

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The ideal on-the-go organ

Weighing less than eight pounds, the Hammond M-Solo is the perfect go-anywhere organ. Toss it in a gig bag for pickup shows, add it to your keyboard rig, or set it on top of your piano to access a rich collection of organ sounds and more in a space-saving format. Despite its compact form factor, you’ll find the M-Solo is a fully featured digital organ with velocity-sensitive keys, an expression pedal input, a “Lesile Fast” jack, MIDI I/O, USB, and even an auxiliary input for piping in external sounds, like backing tracks or your digital piano.

Rich selection of organ tones and more

In addition to the M-Solo’s incredible-sounding B-3 tonewheel organ emulation, you can access three of the most historically significant and popular transistor organs (Vx, Farf, and Ace). A ’70s-style string and voice ensemble is included for lush pad-like accompaniments, and a dual-oscillator polyphonic synth with four selectable waveforms, an envelope generator, pulse-width modulation, and a 4-pole filter!

Customize your sounds in real time

The M-Solo offers an impeccable balance of customization and ease of use! Like the drawbar organs of yesteryear, all the M-Solo’s buttons and drawbars are primarily “what you see is what you get.” For ease of use during performances, you can store up to three patches for instant recall. But the real fun of the M-Solo lies in the physical controls to dial in your organ, ensemble, and synth sounds in real time. Organ players at Sweetwater attest that the hands-on interaction is an excellent way to spark creativity and elicit engaging, expressive performances!

Hammond M-Solo Portable Organ Features:

  • The most lightweight and portable Hammond ever!
  • Virtual Multi-Contact Keyboard with 49 velocity-sensitive keys has a responsive feel
  • B-3 emulation delivers a classic tonewheel organ sound
  • 3 additional transistor organ emulations (Vx, Farf, Ace) expand your palette of organ tones
  • ’70s-style string machine and dual-oscillator polyphonic synth are great for adding textural pads
  • 9 multifunction drawbars let you dial in your ideal tone with ease
  • Ornament your sound with onboard effects, including a digital Leslie simulation, delay, reverb, chorus/vibrato, and overdrive
  • 3 preset slots for quickly accessing sounds during performances
  • Connect to your rig or DAW via 5-pin DIN MIDI I/O and USB

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Tech Specs

  • Type: Combo Organ
  • Sound Engine: 4 x Organ Types (B-3, Vx, Farf, Ace)
  • Analog/Digital: Hybrid
  • Number of Keys: 49
  • Type of Keys: Classic B-3 Feel
  • Velocity Sensitive: Yes
  • Other Controllers: Pitchbend
  • Drawbars: 9 x Pitches
  • Polyphony: 261-voice total
  • Oscillators: 1 x VCO (triangle, sawtooth, square, pulse), 1 x Sub-oscillator
  • LFO: 1 x LF0 (delay virbrato, wah-wah/PWM)
  • Envelope Generator: 1 x EG (filter, amplitude)
  • Effects: Delay, Reverb
  • Sampling: Transistor Organs (vx, Farf, Ace), String/Vocal Ensemble
  • Audio Inputs: 1 x 1/8" (aux)
  • Audio Outputs: 2 x 1/4" (L/mono, R)
  • Headphones: 1 x 1/4" TRS
  • USB: 1 x Type B
  • MIDI I/O: In/Out/USB
  • Pedal Inputs: 1 x 1/4" (expression), 1 x 1/4" (leslie fast)
  • Features: Burgundy Finish
  • Power Source: AC Adapter (included)
  • Height: 3.34"
  • Width: 28.77"
  • Depth: 10.78"
  • Weight: 7.93 lbs
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 002-M-Solo-BUR

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tiny, red, and plastic, but great!

I've been playing the organ professionally since 1967, and I love playing the organ. I was intrigued by the Msolo and had to see what it could do. It's tiny and light and plastic and deep red. I have a some great organs, and I decided to put the Msolo up against my favorite, the Hammond XK5. I was especially interested since the Msolo uses the new XK4 model (albeit in a stripped down version). The Msolo does sound remarkably like the XK5 – my XK5 does sound better to my ears, but I've spent hours editing the XK5's more esoteric parameters (like transformer hysteresis) that can make a big difference in the sound; unfortunately, the Msolo gives you no access to these parameters. That said, the Msolo is a great sounding organ with a great Leslie sim (again that can't be edited in any way) – it probably sounds like the XK4 out of the box without being edited. The combo organ models (same as on the SkPro) are also great. I love combo organs, and the only complaint I have is that, like on the SkPro, the vibrato is more of a tremolo effect that the actual pitch modulation that's so important to the classic combo organ sounds. There's also a string and vocal ensemble model… let's just say don't sell your Mellotron yet. You can get some interesting trashy sounds out of it, but I can't imagine anyone will use it much. Finally, it has a polyphonic synthesizer, but, again, hold on to your Prophet 5… I was hoping for a polyphonic version of the SkPro's cool monosynth, but this is more like a cheap, cheesy but fun late '70's keyboard. Anyways, the Hammond/Leslie model is great. I love all these new organs, and the Msolo is a welcome addition. I travel a lot and this will be great to haul around for quick jobs or jams where I wouldn't be able to haul something like the unusual digital organ. The Msolo's organ is awesome and the Leslie sim is certainly good enough to plug into the sound system and sound great.
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Amazing full-size sound! Awesome virtual multi-contact keybed!

The Hammond M-Solo sounds incredible right out-of-the box. It uses Hammond's latest MTW2 (Modeled Tone Wheel 2) sound engine that's also in the newest Hammond XK-4. It has a pristine warm sound, to a distorted rock organ sound, to that in-between perfect replication of the warm-to-overdriven organ on Kansas "Carry On My Wayward Son". I set my leakage value to max and it is so lush in the middle C octave and below!

The tone curve is adjustable, but out-of-the-box it is medium bright so everything makes an even PA cut in a live band.

The vintage M100 series and L100 series had the diving board keys - hence the "M" in M-Solo for a smaller size in honor of the M100/L100's! The keybed is simulated multi-contact like playing a real 1950's B3. The spring pressure is progressive as if you are pressing down through 9 electrical contact switches. The pressure going down and the spring response coming quickly back has a wonderful feel for fast keyboard scales. Playing a song like Boston's Smokin' on this keyboard feels so much better than doing in on a regular synth-action keybed. You'll appreciate the difference! You can play faster when then keys are coming back at you quickly and responsively.

This isn't a standard MIDI controller keybed … Hammond-Suzuki seems to have an extra MIDI-like even before the MIDI note-on event. You can tell that if you slightly press down on a key you hear the high tonewheels and a bit lower you hear all the tonewheels (which actually fires the MIDI note-on event). Kinda like a MIDI pre-note-on and then an actual MIDI note-on. This is perfect for the MTW2 tone engine's "virtual multi-contact" behavior. It is sensing the pre-note-on and note-on events and the velocity all to make the MTW2 sound engine ultra realistic. No aftertouch but you wouldn't expect that.

Settings that would be in a menu are chosen from pressing the system button, then another button, then one of the bottom notes for the value. This doesn't have all the customization options as the XK4 or SKX Pro but it still has good options. The manual is not big ... browse the MIDI settings such as leakage, etc. for their defaults and adjustments.

I put 1" neoprene rubber self-adhesive strips along the bottom that is 1/8" thick. The four little 3/4" rubber feet didn't work for me on an X-stand or a Spider Pro column stand. But with a $10 roll of real rubber strips it's very solid. I even put strips on the side if it ever gets dropped or set on its side. It looks great, never slides, doesn't wobble, and feels like it's on a solid table. It doesn't feel plastic anymore but yeah for plastic allowing it to weigh 7.5 pounds.

Hammond did a great job on this one!
by James Carlburg from Jenks, OK on

Great lightweight synth-action drawbar organ

This is a pretty cool piece for what it is. It's just over seven pounds, lighter than a Les Paul. And as you'd expect from Hammond, it has all the necessary real-time organ controls right there on the front panel - nine drawbars, Leslie fast/slow/brake, the four percussion tablets, and a digital pushbutton simulation of the chorus/vibrato knob. The sound is every bit as good as its higher-cost Hammond and Nord brethren, no problem there. The Leslie sim is excellent. It has emulations of pretty much every electric organ you need (Farfisa, Vox Continental, and Ace Tone as well as B3) and even boasts a programmable Solina-style vintage string machine and a very early-Roland-esq polysynth. The poly synth is limited but also a very nice addition and I had no trouble getting a classic "Jump" tone and a couple of lead tones out of it within a few minutes of playing around with it.

And did I mention it's only seven pounds? I'm planning on installing strap pins onto it the moment my warranty is over :) Hammond, you really should do that! The only keytar in the world with authentic Hammond sound and controls.

Of course there are a couple of known drawbacks: the keyboard is only four octaves instead of five, and of course it has NO other onboard sounds whatsoever - no piano, electric piano, strings, horns etc. So if you need onboard sounds, you're better off looking at another clonewheel, or hook it up to your favorite ROMpler or MIDI module - although only the first three patches are able to be selected directly from the M-Solo's front panel, so if you go that route make sure you use a module that can select patches directly from its front panel or you won't be able to access everything.

The biggest downside, and the reason I'm only giving four stars, is because of the keyboard feel. The four octave keyboard size is actually a nice tradeoff, making the unit smaller, lighter, and more compact. However, calling it "Classic B-3 Feel" is frankly a bald-faced lie - it's actually a very standard (dare I say "mediocre") synth action - better than the worst I've tried but not as good as some of the better synths I've played. For example, two keyboards I've owned, the Sequential Take 5 and the Novation X-Station, both have much better keyboard feel than the M-Solo at roughly the same price point or below.

And to be perfectly honest, when I first received my M-Solo, I found the keyboard to be pretty disappointing especially after all the hype about it ("Virtual Multi-Contact Keyboard ... has a responsive feel", "Classic B-3 Feel", etc.), and originally considered returning it for that reason. I would have gladly traded a few extra pounds of weight and a slightly higher price point for a keyboard feel as good as the Sequential or Novation ones I mentioned (and even better if the white keys had the "waterfall" shape). C'mon, Hammond, you can do better.
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