Modartt user forum - OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-29T17:09:54Z

Thanks...fun to do... video and audio all on a Zoom 3HD... photos on a Sony Cybershot DSXC-XX9V... I got Fazioli's grandson to take my pics on the 19 yr old used $80,000 one,, nice kid for sure and cool accent

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-29T02:43:16Z

Great fidelity Kramster - what did you use to record the audio?

Greg.

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-28T02:31:18Z

I was just at NAMM and got to play those great pianos..and guitars.. and things... took many photos and did a YouTube about it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUsW2h-CoA
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Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-27T12:10:55Z

thanks for the insight Joe!

Hans

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-27T09:01:02Z

creart wrote:

Is there really already a silent piano?? apart from all digital ones obviously..

The Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV (and possibly some earlier Mark models) does have a silent function that mechanically decouples the hammers from striking the strings when the key notes are depressed by a live pianist. One of the uses of this feature in a Disklavier is to allow the piano to "play" sampled sounds via its equipped CPU, audio amplifiers and speakers physically mounted to the wooden frame braces located beneath the soundboard. For all intents and purposes, this would constitute a silent piano, because a pianist could play the instrument with zero electronic voices engaged.

As far as I know, this is not true of PianoDisc- or similarly equipped player pianos, because these latter playing mechanisms are aftermarket add-ons, whereas Yamaha grands destined to become Disklaviers are built as Disklaviers from the ground up (with beefed up keybeds and modified actions, amongst other things, to handle the potentially heavier wear from extended playing) -- not as an afterthought.

Cheers,

Joe

P.S. I attend the NAMM only every 4 or 5 years, because there are not enough new releases of hardware and/or software that peak my interest -- and to be candid, that justify the cost of flying to southern California and endure a crowded four-night hotel stay at higher convention-rate prices. The last two times I attended the NAMM were in 2009 and 2005. Still, it is always a pleasure to play all of the world's finest 9' acoustic pianos that are (usually) expertly tuned and regulated for the show: Bluethner, Steinway, Fazioli, Bosendorfer, S. Kawai, Yamaha CFIII, Bechstein, Schimmel, Grotrien, etc. etc.

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-27T08:42:31Z

Is there really already a silent piano?? apart from all digital ones obviously..

That counts for drums as well..
there are so called 'mesh heads' - but when you use those you'd have to have a drum module for sounds to be triggered and then they can got to PA, like my own drumkit on the photo....

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-26T23:20:47Z

Hey, Wait a minute... There is a silent piano already there. I think they should start developing "Silent drums". This is would be a great gift for all of us. Think about all the nuances that you can have with your piano when drummer next to you is not all the disturbing you and forcing you to play louder and louder (and when you put more volume he starts to play even more louder etc.)

Seriously, sometimes I've been thinking why there isn't "half acoustic" drums which do not sound that much acoustically but which you can amplify with mics and PA-system...?

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-26T11:28:24Z

Nope - wrong guys....
they're working on the A-coustic.... A silent piano.... a piano that can hardly be heard - it will have strings to sound just a bit but you'll need good ears...
Benefit of the silent piano is you play it everywhere without disturbing the neighbors - also it won't have to have any distinct sound like Steinway or such as you can hardly notice it anyway..
Furthermore it will be 'foldable' - designed to fit in a 30 x 30 cm cube - and draggable since it's too heavy for comfort, still having wooden keys and such...

Hans

Re: OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-26T03:04:53Z

Yes, like Arturia, Modartt is secretly developing a real acoustic piano. It will be inexpensive and light and portable, but to control costs it will be monophonic. While it will have 105 keys, and a full harp with real strings, it will strangely only be able to sound one pitch at a time.

OT: nothing interesting from NAMM 2012?

2012-01-20T19:41:36Z

Hi all,

Have you been checking what's out there?

I was hoping to see some new interesting things but to be honest I haven't found any new product to make me fascinated. For example, I am a Nord Piano owner but to me the new Nord Piano 2 is just useless update.

From digital piano world we see new Roland Supernatural pianos, but for me they just seem to be same (old) product in different package. Ivory (II) is maybe the most interesting here: they released a new "American Steinway D"

http://www.synthogy.com/news/announceme...0119a.html

Still I would think twice before purchasing it: I had Ivory II some time ago and it was completely useless for me. I never felt playing a real piano with it; it felt like triggering samples.

Another software modeling company from France, Arturia, gave us a surprise: they revealed a 100% pure analog synthesizer.

Maybe Modartt does the same and give us a new real acoustic piano