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17-01-11 / 00:18 : Roland RD-300NX announced (cjed)
Following the recent FP-7F (best keyboard action and piano sound among all other digital pianos and master keyboards), Roland presented the RD-300NX. Contrary to the FP-7F it includes a SuperNatural electric piano sound, the Sound Focus features, is lighter (17,5 kg), provides a pitch bend controller and is multitimbral. The keyboard however is of Ivory Feel G technology, that will probably not provide the same precise and responsive action as FP-7F's Ivory Feel S PHA III one.
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meilleur... parmi les claviers portables! Dans le + lourd on trouve aussi des choses super (v-piano ; yahama CP300, CP1 pour les plus récents) on peut noter aussi la sortie du clavier korg kronos, qui a l'air bien sympa.
(submitted at 01-18-11, 22:04 by )
I forgot to report these recent informations : CP5's electric piano sounds better in the demos, however the acoustic piano doesn't sound as good, and someone stated this in a forum :
The Roland SN AP sound is light years ahead of anything any other DP manufacturer has, including Yamaha Avant Grand. The CP1 CF voice is audibly stretched and looped, and the velocity layers aren't completely blended. Looping is my main bugbear, and the CF loops are overprocessed IMO so there isn't much realistic "wobble" going on. The CP1 S6 voice has all of these issues and also has poor timbre matching between the attack and loop samples.

Moreover CP5 keys action does not seem to use 3 velocity sensors (found in V-Piano's PHA III Ivory Feel and likely in RD-700NX's PHA III Ivory Feel and FP-7F's PHA III Ivory Feel-S) , and it is priced more than FP7-F (2259 euros vs 1777 euros). The CP5 also features wooden keys, that don't seem to provide as good feeling as Roland's Ivory feel.

The new Korg Kronos's piano really doesn't sound great in the demos, and many Oasys's users are feeling there are left by Korg, that had said before that the Oasys was an upgradable/future proof solution (see comments here). They think that Kronos's acoustic piano and electric piano modules could have been added to the Oasys, and that the Kronos does not provide so much new material (most of sounds are the same as in the Oasys). It seems more like a more affordable/mass market workstation.
(submitted at 01-22-11, 19:13 by cjed)
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