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Thanks mate for your thoughts and mini review on it. Its weight had my attention from its announcement. Its here in Oz apparently as my friend told me tonight he's seen they're already dropping the price. He suggested heres my chance. Maybe but for the fact of no midi dins, no proper outs etc its less interesting. Ive just started pulling out my keys after years of storage and i have a plethora of space "taker upperers" so any additions need to be carefully assessed. This friday im taking my Numa Cocal 2x to duo practise for its first run at how it'd feel at a practise or gig. It may be just too powerful and good to want a Lliano Im going to try and see if i can try out one of the Llianos at a shop if i can find one (shops are hard to find near me let a lone stocking Casio). Im just a sucker for physically lightweight keyboards that feel ok to play Need to see if it in the flesh.

Cant resist this offer to make the title more interesting. ...Ohhh thats an easy one by just switching around the words Yamaha Triple Pedals becomes Yamaha Pedals Tribbles Helps if you're a Trekkie. The trouble with Tribbles is they dont sell well so it would take a lot of pedalling on Yamaha's part

Ahh i see its upgraded internally rather than buying expansion boards (i didnt know that) and had switched over to card slot Yes i can see at the time it must have been happily embraced although why then they never made a 76 noter amazes me

Yes the dreaded XP80 red goo or glue fiasco. No good in Australia's temperatures where you simply freak thinking about leaving any gear in your car during in the daytime heat. I got both mine with that goo problem maybe 15 years ago with intention of remedying them. Aussie hot Sydney weather probably affected the glue to form the runny goo. Of coarse midi allowed me to play them without its keyboard but life got in the way of degooing them and i had the XP50 that was working but it was put in storage 9 years ago but having just pulled it out of storage Ive found no sound at all. I figure caps need doing. So i should have my XP80s out of 9 year storage soon and hoping one at least may be responsive. Now in my new house Im hoping to have a dedicated synth workshop to restore some of my board hoard. Or should i not worry and just reduce hoard hee hee probably So tell me these XP30s what did they have that bettered the XP50 that made them get such a good rep that the XP50 didnt get.

I still have 2 XP80s and an XP50 luckily we dont have pennies in Australia anymore. I never visited an XP30 and didn't they come out way after the other XPs. I could never understand the Eurphoria for them that Ive read over the years as I guess i figured they were a very cut down XP50 without a sequencer. Obviously I was wrong. Like to hear more as to how good they were

Thanks mate i will follow this thread with great interest. Always love your findings. The Liano has always interested me since its premature announcement due purely to its low physical weight.

I thought jazzpano88 was giving a reasonable alternative scenario considering he wouldnt know how well zipped the roadbag was. My first thought was same. Possibly caused by a hint of food particles/juices on the keys the rat gnored on. Not saying this happened but its a possibility. Reason i thought the same was that i stored my modernish sportscar in a garage with classic Cars and parts. Always kept this car closed and it was air tight in the passenger area but there was a period when the battery died that i left the electric window open and roof down to be able to open the car mechanically as it had a retractable solid roof in that short period I found the knob on the wiper stalk had been gnored in a very similar manner. The rest of the car untouched. I figured the rat 🐀 had smelt the remnants/particles of a kebab i had devoured previously on the knob on the wiper stalk. Perhaps kebab juices were left behind in my car after a kebab shop extravaganza. Lesson: Beware leaving out your knob on a stalk overnight But the only reason i knew there was a rat in that garage as I never saw any was the rat left behind teeth marks similar to what we see here. It only took one night to happen. But being Aussie maybe it was a Bilby not a rat This probably didnt happen as i think you mentioned you always wipe the keys down and its happened on a few of your boards but i have seen gnore marks similar to those marks and I think it was a fair call for someone to make. I've been so curious what you figure out as it is a strange one. Hope you figure it out for your future keyboards

Yes we are the arse end of the world thats why many strange things occur here. We are the Southern Hemisphere's version of Bizaro world.

Ive often wondered about doing something similar. What is this 6 inch cube you speak of?

Far out I never seen anything like that. Are we are looking at the key actually physically gouged or acid gouged to a fairly deep depth I have 2 alesis synths one a QS6.1 i used a year ago and has nothing like that. The other an early Quadrasynth plus and although i havent seen it in years it never had anything like that. Its coming out of storage very soon ill have a look. I dont think its an alesis trait

Ahhh finally a use for all those excess Robot Groupies they seemed to have invented for the "lonely ones"

Eventually with the millions of users as they are suggesting, you are going to end up with a lot of people sueing each other over the fact user B's AI music device seems to have copied user A's AI music device and well be back to where we started. Copywrite infringement. With millions of users using AI to design a song the chance of there being similar songs is high i reckon. The way people get sued now for some seemingly vague likeness is going to give the lawyers more money than to the AI inventers. The world is fcked and "frankly my dear, I dont give a damn"

Yes agree. Thats roughly the 1200 aussie price i mentioned. All the software exists in precedding models so no expensive software 4 (or more) actual zones not splits. if you want simple splits the zoning handles that. Plenty of sound options from preceeding models. That quality is as good as it gets already for a stage piano. Its all been paid for Mid dins and proper line outs not headphone outs of some pianos. Wheels above keys to keep it portable. Really they could do this so cheaply using past software only needing new tooling for case. But im guessing a gigging muso is only a drop in the bucket sales wise so they waste money on bells and whistles for the DAW market that a gig keyboard really doesnt need assuming the player just wants a gig keyboard music manufacturers used to be proud of their gigging insruments and cater to the gigger. Now the shareholders have the say on what should be marketed. Theres not a big maket now in gigging players. Not enough to pay the shares.

Isnt this a Tesla way of upgrading or adding functionabilty? Would you like to buy the simulated disk brake option. Or the simulated power steering option? Its in the "cloud" Note: im not having a go at Tesla just getting a handle on the marketing used here

Yes i think all hammer type action will be deep as per my old casio and this. I think the modern casio is slim top but still thickish underneath. i liked a Roland action on one of their budget pianos a few years ago. I find them crisp in a good way. So i understand the depth. Looks like Niacin has found some of its differences that make the RD88 better for live gigging and a better buy at aussie prices Are they going to delete the RD88 for this. But if so why?