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How is that better at streaming Apple Music, Spotify, etc. than the iPhone/Android you already have in your pocket?

A German Hydrasynth?

If it was a purely acoustic instrument such as a piano where you can’t cheat and how it sounds is how it sounds, then the high price would be warranted. But it’s a Rhodes after all, a wonderful keyboard instrument indeed, but it’s about electronics, amps, effects and speakers to make it sounding like a Rhodes. In an era where every stage piano, workstation and VST can offer you the full variety of the Rhodes history, I find it ridiculous to pay as much as they ask for, except for prestige. Each to their own.

Thanks, I was stuck between this and a CP73 but you kind of solved my dilemma 👍🏻

The Hydrasynth can do all of them. I love it.

Oh yes, don't forget to include headache of making all the sounds easily available and playable, plus a mixer and a whole lot of cables, power supplies, and an extra shelf to store it all... There's no right and wrong and it depends on the personal preferences. Yes, it's a bit of a headache to have to connect multiple keyboards, mix them and stuff. OTOH, it's much easier for me to have one hammer-action keyboard which has piano and Rhodes switchable, one synth with strings, pads (organs) switchable and one small mini-key keyboard with various mono-leads switchable, rather than having to remember what multi/combo/performance had what exact combination of those three categories, where's the split point, etc. Mind you, I've always been bad with memory and quick thinking ð But having three separate keyboards, each with 5-6 basic sounds that I select from directly, makes it much easier to me, rather than having to program and remember the hundreds of possible combinations when using a single workstation for all of those.

I"ve never been impressed with Nord Piano, Nord Stage and Nord Electro HP when used with piano samples. Something is severely lacking in terms of touch to sound connection and changing velocity curves doesn"t help. I"m not sure the guys are really into acoustic pianos and know how to recreate one well, which has not been their goal anyway. And I doubt with using a regular Kawai digital piano action they would suddenly improve upon that considerably. That being said, I appreciate the appeal of their instruments as gigging boards for live music since their immediacy and ease of use is unparalleled so far.

Indeed, there are now B-stock models at Thomann just a week after they became available and have had arrived at the first customer. This is worrying.

I"ve been researching the YC61 and found the following video that has awesome sounds unlike any other demo I"ve seen. Maybe it"s a creative use of the effects along with the FM-organ synth (it"s like an additive stuff as far as I understand) but it shows how advanced and lush this board can be. It would also apply to YC88. You may need to scroll a bit to find the more esoteric sounds but even the basic piano and Rhodes demos are good.

I owned a MP6 and it was excellent stage piano although not lightweight. I still have my old ES7 (not in my house though) and I love its light and nimble action for non-classical work. However I still think RH-equipped Kawai pianos are rather heavy as total weight. The ES920 is listed as 17kg. I'm after 11kg boards. Wondering how the Medeli actions such as in the Kurzweil PC4 compare to the rest in terms of feel.

I'm wondering if it is inevitable for such a lightweight action (in terms of total weight) to have heavy feeling keys. I mean if it comes from the design. Because the TP100 family of actions seems to be used in keyboards that are not explicitly targeted at hardcore acoustic piano aficionados but are mostly used in multi-purpose keyboards with pianos, Rhodes, organ and synths (Nord Electro for example) and most player would agree that a hammer-action with as light feeling keys as possible is desirable.

Exactly what I've described a few posts earlier, which I described as "high back-pressure pushing against my fingers all the time". I'm not a native English speaker but it's apparent we describe exactly the same issue. If TP110 is at least a partial improvement upon that, then I will be interested in a Numa X 73/88.

This is why I continue to often gig with an old Casio 88. The ones that pre-date the PX-130/PX-330 which introduced the triple sensor but became more sluggish feeling. The later ones got better than those, but still never as good as the earlier ones, IMO. I used to have a Casio CDP-100 (if I'm not mistaken about the exact model) which at the time was not only the cheapest possible digital piano with hammer action but also the lightest one (as total board weight). And yes, I remember having it for a while together with my RD-700SX (whose action IMO had the perfect weighted feel for all type of sounds between pianos, Rhodes and synths but the entire board was ridiculously heavy) and the action in that cheap Casio was not very different feeling than the Roland. The sounds were total cr*p though but they worked for non-pretentious gigs and later on I switched to VST-s.

I"ve never tried a Kurzweil (Medeli sourced) action but they sound like another alternative for creating a very lightweight board. GHS and PHA-4S are also worth mentioning. In the last few weeks I"ve been considering Numa X Piano 73, RD88, CP73 and PC4 but I"ve only tried the CP73 (and liked it), others are not available for testing where I live. My main consideration is double-light, meaning a lightweight board with very light feeling (but still hammer) action. I"ll wait for more reviews of the Numa.

I had a SL73 with the TP100 action and that action was so heavy to play I couldn't get used to it and sold it. It was heavy, sluggish and with a very high back-pressure pushing against my fingers all the time. It was very difficult to play piano and Rhodes stuff on it. The keys felt much heavier and sluggish compared to the grand piano action in my N1X for example and that action isn't known to be very light either. I almost ordered the Numa Piano X 73 a few weeks ago but I was worried the TP110 wouldn't be an improvement, so I put the order on hold. I'd be interested if there has been any improvement though. I asked Studiologic on their Facebook page but they didn't answer and I'm not sure whether they don't want to answer (because nothing changed in terms of weight distribution) or just don't bother replying on Facebook, although they seem to reply to other people.

A Hydrasynth is better. At 1/100 the price ð

I lost interest in those analog synths when I bought Diva and Repro. Yeah, yeah, real knobs and some elusive real warm analog sound, not some cheap VST, whatever ð

Rhodes was killed by the DX7 that didn"t sound like a Rhodes at all. And now we have excellent digital keyboards that are compact, light and affordable and recreate the real Rhodes sound perfectly. What are these guys thinking with this new Rhodes? Who would buy it besides a few die-hard Rhodes aficionados with deep pockets.

The octave buttons don"t affect the notes that have been held prior to pressing the buttons. That"s how it works on most synths.

Now available on the streaming platforms. What a wonderful music! 13 minutes of pure Lyle"s essence â¤ï¸

Call me greedy but I can hardly remember when I last played a chord with less than 6 notes 𤣠I"m so much used to the Herbie Hancock style m7/9/11 such as: A E B C G D And I often even play another A and B in the right hand, between the G and D, to fully thicken it on my Hydrasynth. 5-note polyphony totally breaks the deal for me. Why not Take-6 or even better Take 8 ð

I'm wondering, those guys that complain about "suitable for funk", what music do they play on a purely analog synth then? There are way too many (around 1 million and 1 billion) demos on YouTube that will demonstrate filter opening and closing with resonance on an oscilloscope and call it a day.

The demos sound great and the price is unbelievable. What"s the catch? Why is this cheaper than the Prophet 5? BTW I thought it was made in China in order to be cheap but on a picture from Thomann it says 'assembled in USA'.

I"ve also watched some of Herbie Hancock recent videos where he plays the Kronos. IMHO it sounds rather cheesy and tasteless. Well, who am I to criticize Herbie Hancock, but he"s been my favorite jazz pianist for all my life (along with Chick Corea) and I think I know what a terrific Herbie is. Well, not this one. It"s a no match for his young years when he had multiple real synths, keyboards and effects on stage. I"ve read somewhere on this board that workstations mostly appeal to older folks and as humorous it is, it seems to be true even for the big legends

When and how much? Sorry, couldn"t resist.