Considering RD-800, some specific questions
Posted: 14:37, 27 September 2015
Dear all,
I plan aquiring a digital piano as a replacement for an old accoustic I have today. After doing some basic research on top level DPs from some different brands, I thought of getting a Roland v-piano, which theoretically is the Roland's current top model, has lots of configurable parameters and would give me some portability.
However, upon researching a bit more, it appears that v-piano is already superceded in some aspects by recent models. In particular, there have been good reports on the recent LX/HP models (HP 605 for example) concerning the quality of the keys action and tones' autenticity. One advantage of it would be the built-in speaker system, which would offer a sensation closer to an AP when compared to external monitors. In any case, although I don't plan playing outside my home regularly, I may want to carry my instrument once in a while, as well as using it as a MIDI controller for home studio recording, so an HP wouldn't be quite good.
Then recently I was paying some attention to RD-800, which also appears to be able to reasonably emulate most of pianos characteristics and has good midi controller capabilities, but has less configurable parameters compared to v-piano.
I've had an opportunity to play a v-piano when I went to another city, and apreciated it a lot. Unfortunately I'm not being able to locate an RD-800 near me to try it out, but I guess it's not that different (?) In any case, could you give general opinions on how good it would be when combined with good external speakers (lets say the Yamaha HS8), also in conjunction with the Roland RPU-3 tripple pedal, for someone who has some background in classical piano? Also being more specific, upon reading the manual I notice it hasn't some parameters like decay time, stretch tuning, unison tuning, etc. Do you know if the piano tones have a good decay time and whether its octaves are stretched like in a real piano?
That's it for now, thanks much for any advice, greetings.
Cleverson
I plan aquiring a digital piano as a replacement for an old accoustic I have today. After doing some basic research on top level DPs from some different brands, I thought of getting a Roland v-piano, which theoretically is the Roland's current top model, has lots of configurable parameters and would give me some portability.
However, upon researching a bit more, it appears that v-piano is already superceded in some aspects by recent models. In particular, there have been good reports on the recent LX/HP models (HP 605 for example) concerning the quality of the keys action and tones' autenticity. One advantage of it would be the built-in speaker system, which would offer a sensation closer to an AP when compared to external monitors. In any case, although I don't plan playing outside my home regularly, I may want to carry my instrument once in a while, as well as using it as a MIDI controller for home studio recording, so an HP wouldn't be quite good.
Then recently I was paying some attention to RD-800, which also appears to be able to reasonably emulate most of pianos characteristics and has good midi controller capabilities, but has less configurable parameters compared to v-piano.
I've had an opportunity to play a v-piano when I went to another city, and apreciated it a lot. Unfortunately I'm not being able to locate an RD-800 near me to try it out, but I guess it's not that different (?) In any case, could you give general opinions on how good it would be when combined with good external speakers (lets say the Yamaha HS8), also in conjunction with the Roland RPU-3 tripple pedal, for someone who has some background in classical piano? Also being more specific, upon reading the manual I notice it hasn't some parameters like decay time, stretch tuning, unison tuning, etc. Do you know if the piano tones have a good decay time and whether its octaves are stretched like in a real piano?
That's it for now, thanks much for any advice, greetings.
Cleverson