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That Schumann's From a Foreign Land demands a singing tone to be played well to connect the melody notes should not be a controversial point.

Sustain for a singing tone has to do with what happens in the first second or two of the tone. You do not have to be an international concert artist to have had sufficient training at touch and tone to identify instruments that are limiting factors for playing with a singing tone. The point is to co...

I have ABSOLUTELY ZERO financial interest in the promotion or sales of any brand or model of piano, digital, VST, or acoustic. Period. I am referring to a very specific technique of playing piano, which is the sustain sufficient to play a melody with a singing tone. Many pianos, including acoustic o...

SuperNATURAL sounds are not processed trough V-Piano engine which is not what I claimed. what I said was: The FP-90 has Supernatural samples that are post-processed with V-piano modeling techniques Roland says as much. I have no opinion about whether it is implemented independently from the v-piano...

Geez, I have ZERO interest in the sales or production of any type of piano or musical instrument. Moreover, I currently own a Roland Jupiter-50, and have owned other Roland keyboards and midi modules in the past, so I'm hardly biased against Roland. I did not mean to ruffle any feathers. Were there ...

cost aside, a Steinway or Bosendorfer is not portable. sufficient sustain of tone in the upper end of the keyboard separates good pianos from less good ones, whether acoustic or digital. some pianos do not have sufficient sustain of tone to project a singing melody over the accompaniment, but you do...

By unusable, I don’t mean unusable for all music. But there is a moderate amount of material in my repertoire that I could not play properly on an RD-2000. If I cannot use a piano for any piano music I am able to play, the piano is uninteresting to me.

I tried all the pianos in the Concert Piano and Studio Piano categories. Many could be dismissed by just playing the first measure of the piece in question a few times, lacking the sustain to connect the notes of the original theme (a well known 5-note melody) in an even, singing manner. I played th...

Possibly. I tested a lot of them. I could not find a piano on the RD-2000 with enough sustain to be usable for classical repertoire. I think the instrument is optimized for different applications. If you want a piano for playing solo piano, I consider the FP-90 to be superior to an RD-2000. The RD-2...

I had a chance to compare the RD-2000 to the FP-90 and a Yamaha CP88 in one session of trying out instruments. I played Schumann’s From a Foreign Land in the Scene’s from Childhood on all three to see which, if any have the ability to project a singing melody above accompaniment. This is a stiff tes...

The keyboard is likely working fine. The problem is that the default setting for a simulated overdrive effect of the simulated Leslie speaker tube amp is too high. The default setting is 100. The simulated distortion across 4 or more keys played in unison will lead to anti-aliasing from the aggregat...

Other contenders would include the Crumar Seven stage piano, and the Nord Piano 3.

I think that the importance of having aftertouch depends on the sounds you are using, the musical style, etc., and not on the keyboard. Agreed. The types of sounds for which aftertouch would be useful, however, are more amenable to organ technique, which is facilitated with a semi weighted keyboard...

Not all USB thumb drives will work. They have to provide enough bandwidth and low enough latency to avoid hiccups at the bitrate corresponding to 16x44.1kHz ~ 723 kbps. That’s why Roland sells one known to work, but cost is ridiculous. The following is older content for an older product, but may hav...

My view is that aftertouch is more compatible with organ technique than piano technique, and thus is more useful on a keyboard with a semi-weighted waterfall or organ-style action. The Jupiter-80 has aftertouch.