Yes Ian the NP V80... only one is peter baartman explaining what it is & features, but NO actual playing of the keyboard anywhere as of yet why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vCDYQXh720

I honestly don't know Donny.

Ian

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....seems Yamaha is being very secretive on this one in the USA? 72 posts and No one has even heard it yet



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Possibly the two instruments on display in the video weren't production models, so they weren't likely to be officially demoed.

A home product such as the NP-V80 piano is designed for students, or people who need to move the instrument often...the big promotional push is usually a month or so before school/college goes back.

That's my guess anyway.

Ian

Ok I'll be watching for it ....just curios on its features and sound.

It is lacking one feature that I would have to have, if I was to use it for my gigs, and that is the ON BASS or bass inversion option in the fingering...also, the styles only have two variations...similar to DGX pianos.

The piano sound is the same Live! Grand in the NP-30 and P-85 pianos (and the PSR-S910), which is a nice AWM stereo sampled piano, that I really like a lot.

It says it has "dynamically responsive accompaniment" which I suppose, is much like on the PSR-S910, whereby you play the chord harder and the background gets louder, and it has 8 Sweet!, 5 Cool! And 3 Live! Voices.

For the price, it has quite a lot of features, including the USB to device storage of recorded songs.

I don't see pros using one, but you never know...I have a few buddies using NP-30's for casual gigs...12 lbs is pretty easy to carry...one guy uses his on batteries, with a battery powered amp; great for busking.

Ian

There's a bit of a demo here...it's about the arpeggiator.

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CNTID=5122655&CTID=205900

I'm sure we'll see more stuff in the very near future.

Ian

Thanx Ian kool stuff.....great find. Looks like Arpeggiator is really making a comeback in many of the newer units....will be interesting to see how it develops.

Perhaps we'll see even more sophisticated arpeggiators on the Tyros4, and the following S-series.

Arpeggiators are cool...I love the one on my Jupiter 8.

The one on Yammie's PSR-E423 is a hoot...very nice, and sweepable with the filter control.

Ian

Isnt it bad enough us arranger players are already lumped into the "FAKING PLAYERS CLUB" and held in low esteem by so called "REAL" musicians because of the automated styles and now instead of going away from that arpeggiators are just another form of multi-pads and other camoflauge smoke screen tricks to use to make the audience THINK we're really playing all this stuff when in realty we aren't, although many still fantasize that they are when using styles, smf, etc, etc, and every other automated gadget ...
I guess it's just par for the course in the Hi-Tech World we live in......maybe it was better years ago in the pre computer age when musicians REALLY played instruments without all this computer crap.......?

Ahhhhh whats the use?



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