hello, im about to buy either a Casio px-780 or a px-850.
i've run into a problem tho, if i get the 850 like i want to and get synthesia to play from my computer to my keyboard would i be able to hear audio? on the specs of the px-850 it says it dosen't have a audio input so would i have to listen though my computer speakers? or would i still be able to hear it from the keyboard somehow?
I am sorry, but wouldn't the Synthesia forums be the better place to ask this? These are the Pianoteq forums, which has nothing to do whatsoever with Synthesia. You can use a Privia piano to control Pianoteq, of course.
From what I understand, Synthesia is more or less just a MIDI player. That is, it plays a MIDI file at a selectable speed, apparently using the computer's audio system (although I may be wrong about that). Besides just playing the song, it also produces a scrolling vertical piano roll display (the 'falling notes' thingy) and a virtual keyboard on screen, so you see what keys are pressed and when.
When you connect a MIDI keyboard or piano the the computer, Synthesia seems to use this mainly as controller input. That is, the actual audio is always coming from the computer. Makes sense, since quite a lot of MIDI controllers don't have audio capabilities at all.
That said, the Privia pianos do have built-in speakers. In other words, you will hear sound from the speakers when you press the keys, even when connected to the computer and Synthesia. However, you will hear the Privia's (quite nice) piano from its own speakers, and the (quite awfull) GM piano sound made by Synthesia from the computer speakers.
Hope that helps.
hello, im about to buy either a Casio px-780 or a px-850.
i've run into a problem tho, if i get the 850 like i want to and get synthesia to play from my computer to my keyboard would i be able to hear audio? on the specs of the px-850 it says it dosen't have a audio input so would i have to listen though my computer speakers? or would i still be able to hear it from the keyboard somehow?
Get the PX 150 - same exact keybed.
The way this works is that the piano sends midi data to the pc over usb, which then uses pianoteq or whatever software you choose to create sounds that are sent out from the pc to your headphones/speakers - completely bypassing the built in sounds/speakers of the piano. (this makes the extra expense of the 850 completely unnecessary - unless of course you do want to use it standalone)
The PX-150 and PX-850 both indeed have the same keyboard. The 150 is more or less a stage or compact piano, and it also has built-in speakers (albeit weaker ones). The 150, 350, 750, 850 are more or less identical in terms of audio quality, with the differences being mainly more voices and percussion functions (PX-350), a fixed stand (PX-750, 850) and/or more powerful speakers (850). The 850 has a recording function and a more sophisticated resonance simulation, but for beginning with piano playing, the Privias are all more than sufficient in audio quality, and they all have the same (quite good) tri-sensor keyboard.
For Synthesia, under linux it works great using wine, and i can easily route the midi data to pianoteq (optionally including the data from my keyboard) and have it playing, either in pianoteq standalone or as a VST in renoise. I've never tried it under windowz though, but i'd presume you can do something similar.