21 Oct
2008
21 Oct
'08
10:18 a.m.
Hi,
I;ve an fatar sl 880 and I'm searching now for a piano soundmodule so I
don't have to use my Linux box for playing piano always.
What are good soundmodules with a acceptable piano sound?
Thanks in advance,
21 Oct
21 Oct
10:28 a.m.
As always, there are probably dozens of answers to such a question.
From my experience: Yamaha have the best standard piano sounds I came
across. Take a look at there motif or mo modules. Careful: There are keybaord
versions and rack versions.
Roland's XV series is very handsome. I played them a couple of times and was
never disappointed.
From my experience Korg lacks te piano quality of the former two.
Besides that, there might be componies specialising in piano sounds. With a
Yamaha or Roland you would of course get much more than piano.
Regarding Yamaha though: They have a good e-piano series called CP, perhaps
they also have simple sound-modules without keyboards attahced in that series.
Thiswould acutally suite your needs pretty accurately, because they just offer
grandpiano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, 2-3 organs (hammond and church),
strings, choir, guitar and bass.
HTH.
Kindest regards
Julien
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22 Oct
22 Oct
10:58 a.m.
Julien Claassen wrote:
As always, there are probably dozens of answers to
such a question.
From my experience: Yamaha have the best standard piano sounds I
came across. Take a look at there motif or mo modules. Careful: There
are keybaord versions and rack versions.
Roland's XV series is very handsome. I played them a couple of times
and was never disappointed.
From my experience Korg lacks te piano quality of the former two.
Besides that, there might be componies specialising in piano sounds.
With a Yamaha or Roland you would of course get much more than piano.
Regarding Yamaha though: They have a good e-piano series called CP,
perhaps they also have simple sound-modules without keyboards attahced
in that series. Thiswould acutally suite your needs pretty accurately,
because they just offer grandpiano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer, Rhodes,
2-3 organs (hammond and church), strings, choir, guitar and bass.
And about Yamaha, which ones are good. Ok the CP series, but what more?
In The Netherlands we use markplaats.nl for shopping the second hand market:
Here is a list with the offered Roland and Yamaha stuff. Maybe you can
see which ones are good and worth a try, if you want:
Roland:
http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/muzie…
Yamaha:
http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/muzie…
I think I my budget is max. 150 euro's, but till 200 is interesting..
Regards,
11:04 a.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Julien Claassen wrote:
I think you have to change Roland into Yamaha in the last weblink... ;)
As always, there are probably dozens of answers
to such a question.
From my experience: Yamaha have the best standard piano sounds I
came across. Take a look at there motif or mo modules. Careful: There
are keybaord versions and rack versions.
Roland's XV series is very handsome. I played them a couple of times
and was never disappointed.
From my experience Korg lacks te piano quality of the former two.
Besides that, there might be componies specialising in piano sounds.
With a Yamaha or Roland you would of course get much more than piano.
Regarding Yamaha though: They have a good e-piano series called CP,
perhaps they also have simple sound-modules without keyboards attahced
in that series. Thiswould acutally suite your needs pretty accurately,
because they just offer grandpiano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer, Rhodes,
2-3 organs (hammond and church), strings, choir, guitar and bass.
And about Yamaha, which ones are good. Ok the CP series, but what more?
In The Netherlands we use markplaats.nl for shopping the second hand market:
Here is a list with the offered Roland and Yamaha stuff. Maybe you can
see which ones are good and worth a try, if you want:
Roland:
http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/muzie…
Yamaha:
http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//kopen.marktplaats.nl/muzie…
5 Nov
5 Nov
10:19 a.m.
New subject: soundmodule for my fatar (kurzweil)
Julien Claassen wrote:
As always, there are probably dozens of answers to
such a question.
From my experience: Yamaha have the best standard piano sounds I
came across. Take a look at there motif or mo modules. Careful: There
are keybaord versions and rack versions.
Roland's XV series is very handsome. I played them a couple of times
and was never disappointed.
From my experience Korg lacks te piano quality of the former two.
Besides that, there might be componies specialising in piano sounds.
With a Yamaha or Roland you would of course get much more than piano.
Regarding Yamaha though: They have a good e-piano series called CP,
perhaps they also have simple sound-modules without keyboards attahced
in that series. Thiswould acutally suite your needs pretty accurately,
because they just offer grandpiano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer, Rhodes,
2-3 organs (hammond and church), strings, choir, guitar and bass.
HTH.
Kindest regards
Julien
I think I'll go for the Kurzweil Micro piano or ensemble.
Anyone here in the 'neighborhood' of The Netherlands who wants to sell
his Kurzweil micro piano?
Regards,
11 Nov
11 Nov
9:32 a.m.
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Julien Claassen wrote:
I decided to buy a GEM rp-x
I must say I'm very happy to be able to play guitar, bass and now piano
without the need of an computer!
It is to much distracting for me... the noise of the computer and all
the temptations you have with it (endless checking email,
non-fruitful discussion on the internet forums etc. )
...but I'm happy to be able to use the (linux) computer if I want!
When you are an instrumentalist, Linux is what you need!
Thanks guys!
As always, there are probably dozens of answers
to such a question.
From my experience: Yamaha have the best standard piano sounds I
came across. Take a look at there motif or mo modules. Careful: There
are keybaord versions and rack versions.
Roland's XV series is very handsome. I played them a couple of times
and was never disappointed.
From my experience Korg lacks te piano quality of the former two.
Besides that, there might be componies specialising in piano sounds.
With a Yamaha or Roland you would of course get much more than piano.
Regarding Yamaha though: They have a good e-piano series called CP,
perhaps they also have simple sound-modules without keyboards attahced
in that series. Thiswould acutally suite your needs pretty accurately,
because they just offer grandpiano, harpsichord, Wurlitzer, Rhodes,
2-3 organs (hammond and church), strings, choir, guitar and bass.
HTH.
Kindest regards
Julien
I think I'll go for the Kurzweil Micro piano or ensemble.
Anyone here in the 'neighborhood' of The Netherlands who wants to sell
his Kurzweil micro piano?
Regards,
_______________________________________________
21 Oct
21 Oct
11:42 a.m.
Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2008 schrieb Grammostola Rosea:
I;ve an fatar sl 880 and I'm searching now for a
piano soundmodule so I
don't have to use my Linux box for playing piano always.
What are good soundmodules with a acceptable piano sound?
Sometimes I think about buying an Alesis nanoPiano. Don't know if it is really
good, but I know at least one guy who was using it. And as a backup it can't
hurt.
On the other hand I still have a Roland JV-880 that I got together with my
Fatar sl-760. ;-)
I think it actually depends on your usecase and your financial abilities.
If you need it only as a backup when you don't have your laptop due to
technical problems or laziness, then maybe a "cheap" device from ebay is
right.
If you really want to use it and have the money, you should take your best and
favorite headphones[*] and go into a store to test and play different
modules.
Hope that helps,
Arnold
[*] Take your own headphones you are used to, because otherwise either the
headphone will be crap and make all the synths sound bad, or you get a
headphone/speaker you don't know and which you can't use to judge sounds.
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11:54 a.m.
Arnold Krille wrote:
Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2008 schrieb Grammostola
Rosea:
I think I am searching for a cheap and second hand piano sound. Of
course I like to have it as good as possible, but simply don't have the
money to get the best....
Maybe you guys can name some modules which are worth to search for on ebay?
I;ve an fatar sl 880 and I'm searching now
for a piano soundmodule so I
don't have to use my Linux box for playing piano always.
What are good soundmodules with a acceptable piano sound?
Sometimes I think about buying an Alesis nanoPiano. Don't know if it is really
good, but I know at least one guy who was using it. And as a backup it can't
hurt.
On the other hand I still have a Roland JV-880 that I got together with my
Fatar sl-760. ;-)
I think it actually depends on your usecase and your financial abilities.
If you need it only as a backup when you don't have your laptop due to
technical problems or laziness, then maybe a "cheap" device from ebay is
right.
If you really want to use it and have the money, you should take your best and
favorite headphones[*] and go into a store to test and play different
modules.
Hope that helps,
Arnold
[*] Take your own headphones you are used to, because otherwise either the
headphone will be crap and make all the synths sound bad, or you get a
headphone/speaker you don't know and which you can't use to judge sounds.
12:18 p.m.
I still say Roland everything, that starts with XV (xv5080 xv20?) or the older
jv generation (jv1010 VERY small). Also with the jv1010 you get a session
expansion board (built-in), which offers far better piano-sound. Besides that
at a laterdate you can put another expansion board in. The expansion board
strategy also applies to the XV modules.
Kindest regards
Julien
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======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ========
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======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
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22 Oct
22 Oct
9:57 a.m.
Julien Claassen wrote:
I still say Roland everything, that starts with XV
(xv5080 xv20?) or
the older jv generation (jv1010 VERY small). Also with the jv1010 you
get a session expansion board (built-in), which offers far better
piano-sound. Besides that at a laterdate you can put another expansion
board in. The expansion board strategy also applies to the XV modules.
I think the xv series are to expensive, but the jv1010 looks
interesting. Are there other similar models which are worth it? Jv 1080,
jv 880, jv 2080 for example?
And how does it works? Fatar > soundmodule > amp?
And can I use the module without keyboard but with my Linux box?
Thanks in advance,
10:21 a.m.
Hi!
The JV1010 is definitely the smallest of them all. The JV1080 or JV2080 are
the only other ones I came across, but I suppose the rest of them is fine too.
The JV1080/2080 have more controllers for direct programming as I remember.
For the JV1010 you'll need some computer editor if you want to use the synth
power of it (changing sounds, making your own patches.
The JV1010 has you typical midi in/out/thru. so no problem: take your fatar
or your Linuxbox. I only used the headphones out, but I'm pretty sure there
also was a line-out pair (6.3 INCH). It's easy to take and easy to set up. You
can use any MIDI-input device Keybaord, sequencer, etc. and any output
audio-gear. The line-out has a built-in preamp, like with any odd synth. There
are four turning knobs: volume, MIDI-channel (for playing in multi-timbral
mode, sound/patch choice and bank choice. You can press on one of them to hear
a small demo of the sound currently chosen. Thus youcan check if you've got
the correct sound, when only a sequencer is attached. Very convenient.
But for the really nice stuff: choosing by sound-category, editing patches
or system setup, you'lll need a computer editor software. The JV1010 comes
with emagic sound-diver, which is unfortunitely windows, but SHOULD work in
wine.
As I said the JV1080/2080 just host more card (1080 two cards of your
choosing, no card built-in. Not too different from the 1010, which ahs
session-board built-in and one free slot. The 2080 can host up to four
expansion boards, no board/card bult=in. they both can do more work without
the editor. I think you can have full access with the module only. They should
also have the preview feature.
General note: 512 sounds (if I remember correctly) in the built-in banks and
each card offers up to 256 new sounds + drums (sometimes). The session board,
defintely keeps the 256, so should both orchestral boards (I have them) and
the techno collection. Besides that you'll have to look. You can find material
on each board somewhere on the net, complete listings of patches (the sounds
you hear when simply scimming through) and waveforms (the basic parts of a
sound. A sound is made up of up to four waveforms. that goes for all the JV
modules.
If you have any more specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
Kindest regards
Julien
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======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ========
http://ltsb.sourceforge.net
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======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: =======
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10:30 a.m.
Julien Claassen wrote:
Hi!
The JV1010 is definitely the smallest of them all. The JV1080 or
JV2080 are the only other ones I came across, but I suppose the rest
of them is fine too. The JV1080/2080 have more controllers for direct
programming as I remember. For the JV1010 you'll need some computer
editor if you want to use the synth power of it (changing sounds,
making your own patches.
The JV1010 has you typical midi in/out/thru. so no problem: take
your fatar or your Linuxbox. I only used the headphones out, but I'm
pretty sure there also was a line-out pair (6.3 INCH). It's easy to
take and easy to set up. You can use any MIDI-input device Keybaord,
sequencer, etc. and any output audio-gear. The line-out has a built-in
preamp, like with any odd synth. There are four turning knobs: volume,
MIDI-channel (for playing in multi-timbral mode, sound/patch choice
and bank choice. You can press on one of them to hear a small demo of
the sound currently chosen. Thus youcan check if you've got the
correct sound, when only a sequencer is attached. Very convenient.
But for the really nice stuff: choosing by sound-category, editing
patches or system setup, you'lll need a computer editor software. The
JV1010 comes with emagic sound-diver, which is unfortunitely windows,
but SHOULD work in wine.
As I said the JV1080/2080 just host more card (1080 two cards of
your choosing, no card built-in. Not too different from the 1010,
which ahs session-board built-in and one free slot. The 2080 can host
up to four expansion boards, no board/card bult=in. they both can do
more work without the editor. I think you can have full access with
the module only. They should also have the preview feature.
General note: 512 sounds (if I remember correctly) in the built-in
banks and each card offers up to 256 new sounds + drums (sometimes).
The session board, defintely keeps the 256, so should both orchestral
boards (I have them) and the techno collection. Besides that you'll
have to look. You can find material on each board somewhere on the
net, complete listings of patches (the sounds you hear when simply
scimming through) and waveforms (the basic parts of a sound. A sound
is made up of up to four waveforms. that goes for all the JV modules.
If you have any more specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
Kindest regards
Julien
I really appreciate your answers!
Aren't there good modules with just one (piano) or a few sounds
(piano, rhodes, organ)?
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