The full piano mode concept would make sense, but it doesn't work. Unless you play super simple stuff and/or help the keyboard to recognize the harmonic content, the result is hardly musical. It's really not a problem for me, as I hardly use the arranger features for live performances. I record the chord progression alone, or just loop it and only then I'm able to play what I want without getting conflicting notes.
There's absolutely no way for any of these keyboards to be able to fully understand the relationship between notes in a phrase and cluster....and then add the sustained notes to the mix.
On Korg forums many have disagreed with me on this over the years, so I have challenged them to show a demo. Either I got a ding dong "Piano" track...they got offended and said they don't need to show anything to prove....or they're too busy and simply disappeared!
Until I see a real person doing this in real time, the FULL piano mode is only ok bordering on useless. I don't blame the keyboards for this at all. Music is much more than a simple math. Harmonic content is not only decided by what is being played already, but also by what comes next. Any given note can be a passing note, or a chord tone depending on the next move and that's just a basic issue. No keyboard can guess that. The human element associated with all this is too complex but that's music.
Hi Sam, I’ve seen it done , the guy was brilliant at it.
One thing he did make quite clear, the chord recognition on some brands is not quite up to scratch in full pianist mode. Showed me the difference between the technics and the Yamaha and rolands. The technics handled the chord changes perfectly, the other 2, not as well.
P.s. I’m going back approx 15 to 20 years ago. He also wrote piano tuition books, wish he’d written one on how to play arrangers in pianist mode, or at least written some arrangements .
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