aWc wrote:I would like to hear from anybody who has experience with such a setup. I am interested in purchasing an acoustic piano, probably an upright (for space reasons, at least), and of course it should be equipped with a sensor/midi system to allow connection to a computer and Pianoteq. In theory, the Yamaha "silent piano 2" system should work, because it has a midi out connector.
I think Kawai has a similar system? Alternatively, there are systems that can be retrofitted to a normal acoustic piano, but I suspect that a good installation could be tricky. Any info appreciated!
Kawai does have a similar system, IIRC it's called ATX. AFAIK, both Kawai and Yamaha use key sensors for their acoustic-silent. The choice of key sensors has some drawbacks, because hammers and keys are not completely linked to each other (that's the whole point of the escapement) and so "guessing" the hammer velocity from the key velocity is just that: a guess, even though it could be good enough for most purposes. For example, see the well documented "loud note" problem and this discussion about its fix causing other gripes: https://pianoclack.com/forum/d/179-yama...er-problem (even though that discussion is about the NU1x, I think the Yamaha acoustic silents use a very similar if not identical hw/sw). So before you shell out the money, make sure you very accurately test that the instrument responds in a way that's satisfactory to you. FWIW, I have an NU1 (without the firmware fix mentioned in the above thread), and it works very well for me, on its own and especially with Pianoteq -- however I am using it less than I used to and so it's now for sale.
Alternatively, if you have time/stamina, you can embark in a project like this one: https://pianoclack.com/forum/d/163-buil...the-action which I am also working on (with a grand action, this time, as you can see in the follow-up thread linked toward the end of this one). This circles us back to the initial discussion about hammer vs keyboard sensors. Since acoustic pianos have strings, hammer sensors are a bit more tricky (but not impossible) to install, whereas for hybrids is just a design choice. These DIY hybrid always use both hammer and key sensors, since the best approach is to have both and it's not a big deal to do so in such a project.
HTH
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