New Studiologic Numa X Piano GT with new keybed

Lots of empty space on the top of the unit and a tiny LCD display.  It could be twice the size and still be relatively small compared to the top of the unit.

Shouldn't need to break out the reading glasses for something like this in 2021 IMHO.

Thank you for taking the time to feed us back on your experience.

It would be cool I guess if Studiologic released an SL88 Grand "2" provided with the TP400W, that would be a "good" competitor to anything that Kawai may come up with as a successor to the VPC1

BTW did you happen to compare the TP400W vs other keybeds like Kawai, Yamaha or Roland's ones? Any thoughts that you want to share?

happy birthday just in case=)

If I don't just bite the bullet and buy a console digital piano (almost certainly a Kawai CA99) then the Numa X GT might me my next stage piano when my Kawai MP11SE bites the dust. I'm assuming that Kawai is never going to make another MP model stage piano or a VPC2.

hey john,

I only had it for such a short time! my impression is that the touch is pretty close to the SL88 but improved of course! the keys are better weighted and what can I say: It felt better to me but I'm also very satisfied with my "old" one...
repetition works better on the new one: it feels a bit better in value if that makes sense=)

a thought: this would have been great: french-italian connection: pianoteq software plus fatar keyboard - the sound of the numa pianos I find awful compared to PTQ or NI !!!

english is of course not my mother tongue, so it's hard for me to describe: I think the difference is marginal but It is still a difference and as soon as the tp400 is in a fitting instrument for me I guess I will get it=)

so. I have to go back to practicing=). greetings

I have had my Numa X Piano GT for 10 days now.

I have been playing piano for 64 years, on many, many different pianos, but the majority of the time on a variety of Steinway grands, plus one Bösendorfer.

I have also had several MIDI keyboards over the past 20 years, none of them more than "weighted" in a token way, none of them much good. I always felt they were just triggers in the form of a piano keyboard -- ok for producing a sound somewhere, but not even remotely like being inside the circle of awareness between mind, ears, fingers, and sound, that a real piano delivers.

Until the Numa. I am ecstatic. I can finally just play. And be in the music.

Of course, it's still not a piano. It's something else. But something really nice.

I feel that the Numa X GT eliminates one of the three problems with digital pianos: the linkage between my mind and the production of sounds. (The second problem is the tones themselves, and you all know the capabilities of Pianoteq in that regard; the third problem is the sound propagation medium, i. e. the playback system and room -- and that can never be anything like a physical piano -- that's just a reality of the game.)

As an interface to Pianoteq, I can't recommend the Numa X GT highly enough.

Happy new ears to you all.

Yes. One of the things I like very much with the TP-400 Wood action is the ability to send very low MIDI volume values. Easily < 17; <3 is possible.

The Numa X GT builtin sounds respond well to those low values. Pianoteq does too, but you will want to calibrate the keyboard to get anything at very low volume values (that is totally fine -- you may not want any sound with that low of a MIDI volume value).

About the "hot topic" topic: One reason this piano may not be a hot topic yet is the COVID and supply chain problems that set its availability back. I waited 4 months before ordering mine after launch, then another 9 (!) months for delivery (I got it in November 2022). My retailer offered several times to give me back my deposit, and to sell me something else. So I think it has suffered in popularity simply because not that many people have had one.

This is a Pianoteq forum, and this keyboard is excellent paired with that software. Still people talk about the internal Numa sounds with some hesitations. My tips: turn the volume on the presets up to 127 -- they default to 100 or 110 and I do find them muffled. Then, play them with a strong attack, unless you want that softened tone. On the whole, they are a bit "felted" and distant, which I attribute to the taste of the sampling engineers (as well as that questionable preset volume of 100).

I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, but I uploaded my Numa Piano X GT Velocity Curve in the shared files, here:

https://forum.modartt.com/uploads.php?f...%20GT.mfxp

See this post in the velocity curves forum:

https://forum.modartt.com/viewtopic.php...06#p986106

It's not a matter of playing Pianoteq through the Numa. It's a matter of having the Numa keyboard trigger Pianoteq, giving you the same sonic result that you already get when triggering it using the built-in Pianoteq screen keyboard.

So first you have to connect your Numa via MIDI to your computer (there are many videos about how to do that depending on your operating system and MIDI interface). Second, once your Numa is a valid MIDI device on your computer, you have to tell Pianoteq to use it (Options | Devices). This assumes you are using Pianoteq stand-alone. If you are going through a DAW, it will have some way to do the same thing.