It's hard to play the full scale of a piano having to reach all the way to the right to press the octave transpose buttons.
Solution: Create three voice registrations: 1) Piano 1 octave down, 2) Piano not transposed, 3) Piano 1 octave up. Now you can just reach in front of you to go up and down octaves. You can press registration #1 and let a low chord ring out and then press registration #3 and play high notes over it.
I have a Roland FP-90 digital grand piano that has Roland's top-of-the-line key bed. And I have Pianoteq 8 which reviewers tend to say is the best Piano VST out there. I'm listening through really great headphones. Played with quality weighted keys, the Yamaha CFXGrand and S.A. ConcertGrand sound absolutely lovely. Comparing it to a Steinway on Pianoteq - the Pianoteq Steinway is woodier, and the Yamaha grands are more translucent. They're both gorgeous. With sympathetic resonance, key resonance, and state of the art modeling, nothing beats Pianoteq, but you can get heavenly sounds out of the SX920 grands.
I think a lot of the impressions that people get of the Yamaha SX920 piano sounds is the negative placebo effect of playing spongy plastic keys. Because I can say that when playing the sounds through great headphones on a progressive weighted keyboard, it sounds wonderful.
Solution: Create three voice registrations: 1) Piano 1 octave down, 2) Piano not transposed, 3) Piano 1 octave up. Now you can just reach in front of you to go up and down octaves. You can press registration #1 and let a low chord ring out and then press registration #3 and play high notes over it.
I have a Roland FP-90 digital grand piano that has Roland's top-of-the-line key bed. And I have Pianoteq 8 which reviewers tend to say is the best Piano VST out there. I'm listening through really great headphones. Played with quality weighted keys, the Yamaha CFXGrand and S.A. ConcertGrand sound absolutely lovely. Comparing it to a Steinway on Pianoteq - the Pianoteq Steinway is woodier, and the Yamaha grands are more translucent. They're both gorgeous. With sympathetic resonance, key resonance, and state of the art modeling, nothing beats Pianoteq, but you can get heavenly sounds out of the SX920 grands.
I think a lot of the impressions that people get of the Yamaha SX920 piano sounds is the negative placebo effect of playing spongy plastic keys. Because I can say that when playing the sounds through great headphones on a progressive weighted keyboard, it sounds wonderful.
Statistics: Posted by beakybird2 — Mon Oct 21, 2024 5:02 am