Topic by Hymnsinyourhome

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Topic: Pianos you play back into native speakers

I would like to use a digital piano that I can use with Pianoteq on a Mac and then feed back into the native speakers of the digital piano.  Could anyone share a set-up that you are using?

I would like the experience to be with hardly noticeable latency and no noticeable buzz, yet with minimal muddiness. 

I would just be playing in a room, no stage performance.  I love the piano sound I hear from Pianoteq and would like to upgrade my instrument choices to that.

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Re: Pianos you play back into native speakers

Hymnsinyourhome wrote:

I would like to use a digital piano that I can use with Pianoteq on a Mac and then feed back into the native speakers of the digital piano.  Could anyone share a set-up that you are using?

I would like the experience to be with hardly noticeable latency and no noticeable buzz, yet with minimal muddiness. 

I would just be playing in a room, no stage performance.  I love the piano sound I hear from Pianoteq and would like to upgrade my instrument choices to that.

I use a Roland FP90X in that way and I love it. The Roland has a built in usb audio interface that works with either a Mac or Windows computer. It also has a very pianistic key action, a three stage equalizer, and a full sounding stereo 4 speaker array. It also has stereo line outs, in case you ever wish to connect it to external speakers.

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Re: Pianos you play back into native speakers

While I love the speakers in my Novus NV10S, its biggest drawback is that the audio input is analogue, with a meagre 96k ADC sitting behind a 3.5mm line jack. In your search, I'd be sure to check for digital inputs (usb etc) over analogue audio - such as larrycalame's suggestion. I managed to make it work for myself but it was quite a faff.

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Re: Pianos you play back into native speakers

I'm using a Yamaha clp685, it has "USB audio" feature so the piano is recognized as a soundcard, which can do both input and output.

i started with directly using it with PC(windows/mac), and now switched to using a dedicated linux box attached to the piano. latency is minimal and no buzz or anything since it's all digital between pianoteq and the piano.