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Post by kpr on Feb 17, 2010 15:38:15 GMT
Hi piano sound lovers and pianists, recently I had the chance to review the new Roland V-Piano. I had it for a few weeks and today the article is available online here www.amazona.de/index.php?page=26&file=2&article_id=2745There are several audio tracks inside, but you need to register at amazona to get access. The V-Piano does not use the typical sampling technology but it is physical modelling. It sounds incredibly good especially because the dynamic range and the "virtual" resonances. Before someone is asking: No, I didn't sample the V-Piano. It doesn't make sense in my eyes, the combination of tone, keyboard action, resonances, etc. are way too important for the result and this can't be sampled. Yes, that's the truth. Hopefully I will get the chance to review the new Yamaha CP1 and Korg SV1 too, both are great too! ebony and ivory rules :-) Klaus  P.S.: George Duke checked it too, here is his statement: Check youtube related videos for the 2 other GD clips playing and talking about his own piano history. He is so great! |
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Post by jpvideo on Feb 17, 2010 23:29:39 GMT
George Duke was in Frank Zappa's 200 MOTELS playing keyboards and Trombone...
BTW- My Kurzweil/ Young Chang Mark XII is still the best 'Digital" piano on ALL levels.
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Post by markone on Feb 18, 2010 9:41:58 GMT
I still can't believe they didn't put a music stand on that thing!
Everything I've read about it suggests that it is capable of an incredible re-creation of a big concert grand piano, it would be an ideal piano cost-wise for music schools, provincial theatres, small classical venues, musical theatre, etc. And yet in pretty much all these applications you're going to need somewhere to perch your music.
Conversely if you're hammering out triads in a rock'n'roll band, the piano on the Fusion is probably quite adequate given the acoustics/pa/crowd noise, and a £5K instrument is going to be wasted.
Just seems like a strange omission.
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Post by kpr on Feb 18, 2010 14:42:57 GMT
I would prefer this one:   |
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Post by trentonresident on Feb 18, 2010 14:59:11 GMT
I would prefer this one: Lyre. |
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Post by kpr on Feb 18, 2010 18:39:04 GMT
Yeah, great thing, isn't it? I love this since I was a piano scholar. There was even a girl who did lyra badges for me, the template for her creation was this score:  It is from 1913. |
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Post by psionic11 on Feb 19, 2010 1:21:50 GMT
Actually, I'm having a very frustrating time trying to keep sheet music from falling while I'm trying to learn new songs on my Fusion8HD.
Right now I have a 3-tier rack setup, and I can lean the sheet music on the 2nd keyboard using something thin and stiff to kind of hold the music up. The problem is, every couple minutes, the papers slip and fall, and I have to re-balance everything again. Very frustrating.
That lyre looks something of a solution. I tried googling "sheet music stand", and haven't got very many good links. Where could I look at that lyre sheet-music holder, and does anyone have any other links that would help?
Thanks.
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Post by Jesse on Feb 19, 2010 23:40:44 GMT
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Post by psionic11 on Feb 20, 2010 5:09:14 GMT
Thanks, jesse. The first link is for sheet music holders that outdoor marching band instruments would use... note that it can only hold one sheet of music at a time via the 'lyre clip', and in marching band you usually have a small booklet with clear pages that flip, so you're looking at one tiny or condensed score at a time.
The second link is closer to what's needed for a piano situation. I guess I can do more searching on ebay using keywords. Thanks again for the tip ;D
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Post by kpr on Feb 20, 2010 11:06:23 GMT
Music Stand is so 80s :-) I don't think that you find something appropriate like this on ebay, psionic:  :-) |
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Post by psionic11 on Feb 23, 2010 0:30:53 GMT
Music Stand is so 80s :-) I don't think that you find something appropriate like this on ebay, psionic: :-) She can hold my music anytime. Or whatever she wants. Maybe I could just have her lay across my Fusion while I read the music off of her.... nah, don't think I'd be playing music then, lol... I ended up buying a music stand at Sam Ash music store. But I'm going to return it unopened. Any music stand on a 3-tier will just get in the way. And so, I've thought about it, and instead have the simplest but most effective and cheapest solution: a patch cable. Simply lay the patch cable across the keys of the middle keyboard, in front of the black keys, insert a stiffer paper to prop up the sheet music, and boom, all done. It holds down 4 sheets of music, even with wind from the fan blowing on them! And it stores neatly too. No muss, no fuss. I'm such a genius sometimes  |
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Post by jpvideo on Feb 23, 2010 4:50:37 GMT
Music Stand is so 80s :-) I don't think that you find something appropriate like this on ebay, psionic: :-) She can hold my music anytime. Or whatever she wants. Maybe I could just have her lay across my Fusion while I read the music off of her.... nah, don't think I'd be playing music then, lol... I ended up buying a music stand at Sam Ash music store. But I'm going to return it unopened. Any music stand on a 3-tier will just get in the way. And so, I've thought about it, and instead have the simplest but most effective and cheapest solution: a patch cable. Simply lay the patch cable across the keys of the middle keyboard, in front of the black keys, insert a stiffer paper to prop up the sheet music, and boom, all done. It holds down 4 sheets of music, even with wind from the fan blowing on them! And it stores neatly too. No muss, no fuss. I'm such a genius sometimes |
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