5/1/2023 0 Comments Keytouch tankThe default Roland piano sound is very "alive", and PHA II (and I suppose III as well) has exquisite expressive capabilities - what I mean by that is that yes, there's a huge range between barely a whisper to chest-pounding rage and fury. I especially loathed not being able to go real quiet on fingers alone. Everything became duller, as was mentioned further down the thread. The ability to play quietly without the soft pedal went away. I tried it a few times - what it did, in my opinion, was make it behave more like a mediocre piano, or a poorly regulated one. Setting the touch to heavier narrows the dynamic range. But I bet the wilder one, the harder to control one, once mastered, will bring out your emotions better. Or one can throw in the towel, call the tech in, and have them make it suit you better. It takes practice, practice, practice and more practice to control such a beast. Little change in key pressure brings around huge tonal and volume change. I have met real pianos that are even more difficult to control than Roland. always had modelling in it, only now the modelling is much more extensive, and in the VPiano, total. Roland never quite was a 100% sampled piano. This series used a highly evolved version of what Roland called "SA - Advanced Synthesis". It only affects a few notes and Roland should design it out because to my ears it is a clear fault with the SN voices.Īpologies for the long post - this is something of interest to me, and I feel strongly about it.Ĭan't speak to the SN Rolands, but I have one of their near-ancestors, the HP 201 from 2007. I still think the basic problem is this jarring timbral change at medium and above playing velocities. I used to use a medium + value I think but stopped short of going to a heavy - value. Making the touch heavier is a compromise - an acceptable one if you don't go too far. But the downside is that within normal playing velocities there can be a limited tonal change (on a heavier touch setting) which to my ears can make the piano sound quite dull and undynamic (I know that word does not exist!) across the entire keyboard. Making the touch slightly heavier postpones the point at which that happens, which is good because the twanging is quite a jarring sound. One of the problems with Roland SN is that for a couple of clusters of notes in the midrange that change is not particularly linear you get a lot of tonal change (to a very metallic twanging) within just a few velocity steps. Well, you want a piano to exhibit a good, linear degree of tonal change according to velocity.
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