SoWhatChord

Pianoteq. I have a theory that listeners prefer sample-based pianos, because they will always sound more natural. This is why sample-based pianos are popular among music producers working in a DAW. But physical modelling pianos (e.g. Pianoteq) will always be more natural to play because they respond exactly how you play, they don't have audible stepping between samples, they don't have round-robin (literally, playing different sounds even though you played exactly the same way). These advantages are not really audible to the audience but they make the piano more responsive and more enjoyable to play.

Look at it from the manufacturers' perspective. If someone wants a short keyboard they probably have a bassist, so they don't need the bass. But if they do need the bass, and still want a short keyboard, the logical choice is low E, because it matches the range of the four-string bass and lets them cover bass parts. But if they still really want all of the bass notes of an 88-key piano, they are probably a pianist playing classical music or solo jazz, in which case they probably want the rest of the 88 notes as well.

Not to mention that reverb and looper delay, both of them stereo effects, sit after the Leslie in the signal path and can be applied to all three sections at once. So you would have to either give them up, or introduce a whole separate bus with its own reverb and looper. Which may require more processing power than the YC is capable of.

If it's on both the CP4 and the Reface CP, I imagine the CP73-88 and YC61-88 series also use the same sample?

Yes. For internal sounds, there's only one split point, but each of the three sound sections can use it independently in different ways. So for your first example: Organ: R Keys A (piano): R Keys B (bass): L Your second example doesn't need the split point, instead it would use the External Keyboard setting, which is also specified separately for each section: Organ: External Keyboard = Off Keys A (piano): External Keyboard = Off Keys B (bass): External Keyboard = ExtOnly (the four zones are something different - they are for using the YC61 keyboard to control external devices, not the other way around.)

Some people in this thread have expressed reservations about how the YC61 collapses to mono, so here's a bit of Brahms played in mono via L/mono, L only (by also inserting a dummy adapter into the R jack), and R only. Not in that order. The three recordings use the same MIDI file (also recorded on the YC61), so they are identical note for note. The sound is CFX piano with damper resonance and reverb. I have attempted to normalize the volume, but the recordings still don't quite sound equally loud, so try to ignore pure volume differences. You can try to guess the order of the recordings. Here's the answer: Link to recording: https://vocaroo.com/1nATtSfoNXDz Unfortunately I couldn't include it as attachment because of some permission error. Hosting the file on Vocaroo may have degraded the recording, but it shouldn't affect any phasing issues.

Hi all, my first post on this forum. I've had the YC61 for two months and I'm very happy with it (but I'm mainly a pianist, not an organ player). But I agree that an external Leslie or sim is being used in the video. - No, it isn't possible for the rotary section to affect the organ if a different LED is lit. It can only be applied to one section at a time. - While it is true that you can turn on the rotary by pressing the button on the left side of the keyboard, it doesn't matter because the rotary in the video is already on! It's just being applied to the keys section (which is itself turned off and not producing any sound) and not the organ section, as shown by the LED. - The YC61 looper is limited to phrases of 1.5 seconds long. It's not being used in this video.