I've heard the Piano card (SRJV-03) and love it. However, many say that the Session has the best piano. It does sound nice, but doesn't the SRJV3 have more ROM dedicated to Piano sounds? Tell me, which one do you think is better?

The rumor is that the Roland SC880 has the Piano right off of the Session card. It does sound good, but what do you think?

The Infamous EPU.

Det SRX-02 ConcertPiano is the greatest piano-sound I've ever tried....

In my opinion, the XP-60's MIDIed Grand isn't a completely bad piano either. Whereas the House Piano to me sounds strange...

If anyone wanted to know...

I guess I'm not the only one that's partial to the MIDI'ed Grand on the XPs. I love it but would have been afraid to admit it unless someone else did first.

RJ

Okay guys, but what about the Piano Board vs. the Session Board? The MIDIed Grand sound is pretty damn good too.

You guys should join the "Who has better sounds?" thread in the GENERAL DISCUSSION room here.

The Infamous EPU.

EPU- Personally, I think that the acoustic piano in the session board is better than the one in the piano board. This is one of the best sampled/synthe piano sounds I've heard. However, the piano in the piano board sin't half bad either. Between the time the piano and session boards were released, time marched on and obviously Rolands engineers were able to get a better sounding piano using less waveform ROM! Thats just IMHO obviously.

However, the best piano's are to be found in the SRX board- but you need an XV synthe for that one obviously!

Cheers.

Thanks Korgasm. I was wondering this becuase everyone seems to talk so bad about the Piano boad. Then I think to myself, the Piano board was released just for Piano right?

The session board is good, but then there is Rolands RD600. It is the piano sounds on the piano board from which the RD sounds were derived.

I must check out the Session board one more time.

The Infamous EPU.

So far, the best piano sound and the cheapest made by Roland is the one from VE-RD1. If you have a controller like A70/90 this is the best buy. Since most of the keyboard players use more than one keyboard, the piano is always there and it should always be dedicated to a controller.

guys,
the best piano sound I have every heard in my hole life was in the Ensoniq ZR-76.the sound of the piano was so real and realy gives you a perfect feelings for any thing .Roland is not bad in pianos but I feel like ther piano sounds are just ther to make every one know that they make a sound called piano(doesn't make me feel anything when I play it but I have no choice but to play my E-500OR piano becasue it's better than my "KORG TRITON", you hear that korg?!?!?).

sorry to talk about korg or ensoniq in Rolands topic :-}

No need to apologize Vic83. As an acoustic piano player turned keyboardist,I have been searching for years for the ultimate grand piano sound.The search has ended.For sheer inspiration and realism the Ensoniq ZR-76 is the creme de la creme.

The ultimate piano sound is from a real piano. anyone who tries to find an "authentic" accoustic piano sound on some "card" is in for a big dissapointment.


If you must, don't even bother with synths. Get a full size keyboard that does only piano's or a sampler. Everything else is just a joke.

You are very condescending in the tone of your reply arvon45. The topic at hand is best piano sound in an electronic keyboard not acoustic.Of course you cannot beat the sound of an acoustic grand.I know ,I have been playing acoustic grands most of my musical life.Have you tried the ZR-76,it is a superb instrument.

Arvon,
I've played WAY more bad acoustic pianos than bad synths in my 30 year carreer.

I agree with uncle dave

"Arvon,
I've played WAY more bad acoustic pianos than bad synths in my 30 year carreer."


What does this have to do with anything?

Of course there are bad pianos, and there are bad synths. But the worst accoustic piano will sound better than the best synth emulating a piano.

I would stop wasting time and either get:

a. a real piano
b. a sampler
c. a 5k$ electric piano with 6 sounds.


Synth's just don't do a good job of emulating real instruments. If you want to mimmick real instruments, get a sampler.

Anybody knows where I can buy or get the 30 MB sample of piano sound that Yamaha used in their midigrand? I noticed that what ever expensive synth there is in the market a lot of well known musicians are still using midigrand in their concert.

I don't think anyone here is talking about emulating piano sounds via synthesizing a piano-ish sound from traditional waveforms; the piano sounds on most of the "synths" discussed here are (multi)samples of "acoustic" pianos (though I don't know anything about the ZR-76). The question (that has evolved from this discussion) is, "who has the best piano sample on their 'board"?

I vehemently diagree with Arvon 45s assertion that everything else is a joke.Yes it is true that five years ago synth piano sounds were less than acceptable but it is rather different now.The Roland xv 64 mb piano,the Kurzweils,the Ensoniq ZR-76,all have pristine piano sounds.My question is again.Have you played the ZR-76?

except korg nowhereman,ther piano sounds are realy very bad , you know what, my E-40OR's piano (which is "piano1" on the E-36,38,56,70,...etc) beats TRITON's piano so that's kinda imbarsing:}!.

I think the concert piano card for the XV's are wonderful . . . I can hear the differences between that and the pianos on the session board. Unfortunately I own a JV2080 and the concert piano card is not compatible. Nevertheless, I'm a big fan of my Kurzweil Micro Piano . . . It a little guy but it stands strong in my arsenal of synths!

But the worst accoustic piano will sound better than the best synth emulating a piano.

nope, comparing my XP-50 and my acoustic piano, the synth wins **every** time

Al

cat among the pigeons