McMick

I just had to upload another sample. This is for @Jokeyman123. I kept it under 200kb this time, though! This is one of the stock Rhodes sounds! This is a straight-to-PC recording, no tweaks, just the default stage setting with some vibrato added. RidersSample1.mp3

This is so weird -- A# 6 is acting up for ME now. Sometimes I hit it and it sounds normal at first but then releases even though I didn't let up on the key. I hope that metallic paper thing works -- and that I don't break the piano when I open it up! I know there are instructions on the forum here about how to do it. I'll report what happens when I get around to doing it. I just find it incredibly strange that it's all A#s in various locations. I've never really studied the interior, so does anyone see a connection to them all?

Whoops wrong forum sorry

Actually the Wurli Cruzr2 stage setting from Mike Martin worked a treat. It's really amazing how close you can get to the real thing! I guess I'll get into editing hex layers another day But thanks for the great replies, especially to Brad for reminding me of stuff I should already know. And thanks to Mike for making my Tramp a little more Super! Update: I just LOVE jamming to this stage setting! And the best part is, I don't have to worry about snapping any reeds! I'm playing this sound more than anything lately. It just makes everything sound awesome. Wurly EP sounds are some of the best keyboard sounds ever made for sure. I could kick myself for selling my 200a, but this goes a long way toward making up for that!

I have to give a note of high praise to the PX-5s and its electric / electronic / "E. Piano" sounds. I would be totally astounded if someone could show me a better sounding keyboard for such things at anywhere near the price. I used to own a 200a and I still own a Rhodes 73 stage piano. I just learned to play the Bloody Well Right intro more or less properly and I have to say, with the '60s E. Piano 2 sound and the right EQ this things sounds better than any of the covers I see up on You Tube right now, with the likes of Korg, Yamaha, Roland, Kurzweil and Nord, and there are many, including one or two played on an actual 200a! I would like to play around with changing a couple of things, though. Namely I'd like to give it a little bit more bell-like sound, and the "bark" sound (which sounds like a separate sound that is only played when I strike the key hard enough, am I right about that?) to come in with a slightly lighter touch, and a bit less loudly above the quieter key strikes. But I don't know how to do any of that. I'm not looking for a step-by-step guide or anything (I know how to navigate the controls and save a stage setting or tone, etc.) but could someone tell me at least the specific settings I need to play with to change these things, especially that last bit? Thanks in advance. P.S. I uploaded an mp3 sample of my practice run (I hope that's OK, it's under 1MB). It's not perfect yet (I miss some harmonic notes in one spot and make a few slight mistakes) but I still think it sounds pretty awesome! I didn't use a metronome or play along with the song or anything, so it might not be 100 percent accurate on speed. Bloody3bmono.mp3

Is there a way to make it sound like my digital piano is being recorded through a microphone? More specifically, I am not trying to alter the sound as such, but rather which keys sound like they were picked up louder than others, as if, for example, the microphone were placed somewhere in the middle of the "soundboard" and picks up the middle notes stronger than the low or high notes. Or if I so chose, the high notes louder and everything else quieter, as if I moved the microphone to the right. Hopefully you understand me. On a related subject, is there an easy way to make specific notes pick up louder than others (short of banging on the key really hard)? I'm using a PX-5S but this seemed like a more generalized question, so I put it in here. Thanks for any replies.

Lol this thread is going out of scope, but just to add, then maybe it's my amplification or something? I just can't seem to play as quietly on a digital piano (I also own an older Yamaha) as I can on a real one. In theory shouldn't I have *more* range on a digital?

The reason I asked about MIDI 2.0 is I heard it has more than 128 levels of resolution or whatever you want to call it, and I've noticed that digital pianos distinctly lack in the fineness of control for things like how loudly I play the note -- in other words, the loudest loud and the softest soft that I can attain on a digital piano doesn't come close to matching the control a real piano gives me. MIDI 2.0 is supposed to give a resolution of millions. Incidentally, it's supposed to be fully backward-compatible with MIDI 1.0 devices. Obviously, if you try to run 2.0 stuff through 1.0 you wouldn't see any benefit, but if you ran 1.0 stuff through 2.0 you might. Does that make sense? I'm challenged in the technical jargon aspect of things here.

MIDI 2.0 PLEASE!!! Thank you :)

I haven't learned enough about this keyboard yet to really have a valid opinion on the more advanced stuff, but one thing for sure I'd like is one-touch recording and playback. As it is, the current method is rather complicated for a novice, in my opinion. But maybe that's not the demographic this model tries to reach. Also, updated PC software with a scalable interface would be highly desirable. The current one is a bit difficult for me to read on my screen, and if I resize it not much changes.

You know guys, in the back of my mind I keep thinking of starting a foundation to rescue all the old model pianos that people are tossing out on a daily basis and warehousing them all somewhere until they could be repaired to good working order and digitally sampled for all time. I find it minor tragedy that all of the great varieties of pianos that were manufactured in the last 125 years are going bye-bye, and a lot of people have never even heard some of them. They should ALL be digitized at some point, especially those rare and notable ones from smaller manufacturers who got swallowed up or went out of business in the pre-digital era.

Pretty much since I've owned this keyboard I've had a problem like a few others in that the action feels great at first, but if I play for a good amount of time, it's too heavy. In response to this, I just went ahead and set the velocity in general settings to light. That way I could hopefully hit the keys a little more lightly and still get full sound. But lately, I've found that I prefer the heavy setting for one reason: expressiveness. In the light mode, it's much more difficult to exert control over the *loudness* of each note, whereas in the heavy setting you get a lot more room to work with, and can make very delicate notes along with very hard ones. So if you're like me and the action on this piano is a too heavy, try putting in the practice and exercises to get your hand strength up (assuming you don't have any conditions preventing you from doing so), and try the heavy setting. I think it works better even than normal for giving that little bit of extra room for more expressiveness.

I've tried a few but nowhere near all. Honestly it's partially due to the fact that my eyesight isn't what it used to be and poring over the display and buttons on this keyboard isn't fun for me. I have the software on my laptop but the interface doesn't scale up, so that's sort of difficult to read as well. In general this is why I haven't bothered yet to buckle down and learn how to do all of the stuff this keyboard is capable of. The other night I was literally thinking about hiring an expert who knows this keyboard to come and train me just to make things easier. I'm not very experienced on digital musical instruments.