Have you any experience of the V-Piano? If so, please compare tone/touch and dynamics etc between Physis Piano and V-Piano. Is the stand seen with the Physis Piano supplied with it? It looks very stable and it appears to be branded Physis Piano. I hope this helps! Feel free to reply and I'll share whatever information I can. The piano will be on the market sometime this Fall, and early reports for pricing have it under the V-Piano from Roland. I believe they're considering a software editor that will allow a professional user to modify all of the parameters. I mention in the video that there are 100 different parameters in the Physis piano - but only 15 of these parameters can be modified by the user (the other 85 are used by the engineers). The ability to change the physical characteristics of the piano to your taste is the biggest advantage of physical modeling technology. It's difficult to hear the modifications I made to the piano characteristics in the Youtube video, but much easier to hear live. I noticed during the show that there was so much ambient noise (mostly from nearby exhibitors), that even with a decent set of closed-ear headphones it was difficult to hear the subtle details like sympathetic resonance of the strings, or the irregular decay of a sustained chord, the resonance of the dampers, etc. You definitely want to reference the sound in person - and preferably through a decent pair of headphones. There are also 32 user locations where you can modify and store your own physical model pianos - and even download all parameters through USB memory stick (or share/download them with friends on the user forum!).ģ. Although not written specifically on the piano (probably due to licensing or trademarks?), the preset models reference Steinway, Bosendorfer, Bechstein, Fazioli, Yamaha, Kawai and others. That being said, there are 32 "preset" physical models in the Physis piano that include European, American and Asian concert models. Physical Modeling is a much different technology than sampling so the 'type' of reference piano is not as critical as in sampling. Feedback from most musicians was very favorable.Ģ. I found the ivory-sense key tops very nice, and the response of the keys quite precise. It's based on the graded-hammer WOOD key action of the TP-40, with 3 sensors per note instead of 2. Yes, the action is made by Fatar, but it's an exclusive design for this piano model. I hope I can answer some of your questions:ġ. Hi All - I'm the one who did the presentation at the Frankfurt MusikMesse. We await price and more detail about the action (like others I assume the Fatar graded wood action). The sound is a personal taste thing but the connection and sense of expression is where it ought to excel - and to match or better the V-Piano in this respect it will have to be out of this world. All the research for that was done at Padua.īut any new thing is welcome. Which was a sampled base with modelled elements computed in real time I believe. I wonder if it's a development of the GEM stuff of a few years back - the DRAKE technology. The first thing to go will be that trick screen - 12 months tops! And I'm very sorry to say that means it will break. On the face of it a nice specification.īut my two concerns are that despite the tweaking he did the piano sound remained exactly the same in character (metallic, no woody warmth at all, like the other modelled pianos) and secondly, it is Italian. So, what acoustic do they (i.e., Viscount) emulate?Īlso, does anyone have a price tag for it? The demo pianist does not inform us (or, give any indication) as to exactly which acoustic piano has been modeled in the Physis Piano, although Roland tells us that they model the Steinway D and Bosendorfer grands in the V-Piano. Perhaps the Fatar actions have been improved somewhat, in the newer generation of pianos? The Physis Piano also uses modeling like the V-Piano, although the responsiveness of the Fatar action would have to be taken into account for it to rival the V, or, the Yamaha CP-1. Fatar needs to make better (or, improve upon their) actions. The company that makes it is Viscount, and, therefore I would assume that it also contains the Italian "Fatar" action (which I didn't particularly take a liking to in my previously owned Kurzweil Mark Pro 3i), as it had a somewhat sluggish feeling response in my opinion.
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