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OrpheusNY

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  1. I recall that Boston also put “no synthesizers, no computers” on their records, which was probably due to many of the same reasons Queen did, as Brian May and Tom Scholz were both mad scientists of guitar tone. Given the amount of effort and know-how they both demonstrated, it doesn’t bother me at all. Mad scientists of guitar deserve their due.
  2. Long prep time, if it is indeed coming! What do we think, CP88/73 owners, are there going to be any more OS updates, or was 1.5 the last one? Coming up on two years now since an update.
  3. Notably the file size of the XL version is more than triple their previous largest EP sample (over 100mb).
  4. While Nords are expensive keyboards, one might count one’s blessings that one is not a professional violinist. in violin world a just a quality bow can easily cost the same as a Stage 4. Then there’s the fiddle. I think Nords should be awarded points for their durability and longevity, which means you can amortize the cost over a decade or longer. Look at all the folks on this thread still using Stage 2s. What Nords and violins do have in common is they both tend to hold their value pretty well. but man, good violins are expensive. signed, father of a violinist
  5. This one is more of a character actor than a leading player, but it sounds nice to me in the demos. Looking forward to trying it out. https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libraries/nord-piano-library/pearl-upright
  6. Another intriguing option would be EV’s new Everse 8, which has two XLR/TRS combo jacks, a 3.5 mm stereo input, and Bluetooth. There’s a little 4 channel digital mixer with FX you can run from your phone on their app. It also can run for several hours on battery. And it sounds great and is lightweight at 16.8 lb.
  7. Those numbers surprise me. Guess I should look into it. Thanks.
  8. Opinions sought- I need to clean out my deep storage, and I have some old 20th Century rack synth modules- A Roland JV 2080 with a bunch of expansion cards, a Yamaha EX5R and I believe a Kurzweil Micro Piano that I haven’t touched in a decade at least. My sense is that ROMplers of that era are not of particular value these days and are unlikely to be revered or sought after in the future (maybe somebody doing a retro 90’s project could use them?) Assuming the dollar value is quite low, I thought of trying to find some kids to donate them to, but given that they’re kind of a technological dead end at this point maybe that would just be child abuse. Are they electronics recycling material at this point? If you were going to sell or donate them, where? Right now they’re about 2 hours north of NYC. No desire to pack them up and ship them anywhere.
  9. Yamaha has an in-house app called Soundmondo. Users share patches with other users for free; it"s not monetized. The UI is a little klunky, but there are a decent number of programs there for the CP-88, including some from the Yamaha product specialists.
  10. Just as an aside, one of the best samples in the Nord Piano Library, IMO (Amber Upright) is a G-S 132mm upright.
  11. Only 9 months between OS 1.3 and 1.4. Nord, on the other hand, hasn"t had a significant sample release since the White Grand in June 2019 (unless I missed something) which doesn"t make the existing library any less useful, of course, but they were on a roll there for a while with upgrades to their existing instruments.
  12. So, I"ve had a CP-88 for about six months and have been really enjoying it. I"ve also done all the OS updates, which has added substantially to the onboard sound palette. The original spec had 57 sounds: 10 piano, 14 e-piano and 33 sub (all others). As of OS 1.4 there are 106 sounds onboard- 14 piano, 19 e-piano, and 73 sub. Nearly double the raw number, although I imagine the sub samples take less memory than the pianos and e-pianos, so the storage demand hasn"t anywhere near doubled. Does anybody know, or care to guess, whether Yamaha originally shipped this board with a significant chunk of the onboard memory capacity just empty? Is there any chance that the existing samples are -or may at some point be- getting compressed to make room for the new blood when the OS is updated? I"m used to the Nord model where the user has more control over which sounds get what chunk of memory devoted to them and updating is mostly not an all-or-nothing proposition. My ears aren"t telling me anything"s being sacrificed sonically to add new sounds, but I also don"t really understand how there will continue to be memory left for new sounds much longer. Maybe they will just stop the updates when they run out? It"s a mystery. Not complaining, just wondering.
  13. I"d scour the local for sale for an old used Yamaha Clavinova or the like. The old ones are heavy and the sound engine is dated but the actions are nice.
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