After two months, I will probably bid farewell to my Roland BK-9 again.

These are several BK-9 demos I made, sorted according to era of composition from Baroque (Händel) and Romanticism (Chopin) to modern tunes.
First Händel, Chopin and a James Bond song from the 60s.

And to be continued with:
- a famous alpine "Krainer" folk tune
- the Jackson Five.

What happened why the abrupt departure from the bk9...and or what is next for you?

Sounds good, nice playing. What Donny said why the departure from the BK9. seem to do the job for you.

The main reason is that I only want to take ony full-size keyboard to a showing, so it will always be the hard choice whether to take the BK-9 or the Yamaha MoXF. Yesterday, for the first time in 8 weeks, I played on my MoXF again and realized that even if the keybed is less weighted than the BK-9 one's, it responds better to dynamics from pianissimo to fortissimo, which is important for classical piano tunes like the Chopin.
In addition, my arms don't bear the operation with the click wheel pressing very well. I still have my BK-7m, so I've come to the conclusion that for the time being, MoXF plus BK-7m is the better way to go, with the additional option to think about buying Varranger, as I already own a Microsoft Surface Pro 3.

And I forgot this one, for gipsy guitar sounds:

Do you play the MOFX8? One time, I had a 76 key arranger by Roland, but I wasn't not used to the 76 key and lighter keyboard action. Now with vArranger I can connect my 88 key controller or small controllers when I am traveling.

No, MoXF 6. As I said,the keys are less weighted than BK-9, but BK-9 is more problematic when trying to play very soft.
As I am about to reactivate some of the very demanding piano pieces I played 25 years ago after 12 years of piano lessons, also for gigs, I need a lightweight board that is able to address the whole dynamic range,and to my surprise MoXF 6 is more apt for that than BK-9.

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Thanx & good luck Rosetree hope it all works out for your music the way you need it to.

I hear you. As a piano player, I just can't stand the piano sound in my Roland accordion or when driving a piano sound in an external sound source from the Roland accordion. It lead me to believe that they keyboard action(the velocity response and all that) is the source of the problem.

Just wondering if you tried changing the velocity curve.
That might help.

I remember having tried the Roland Fantom-G, and the velocity levels of the sounds were not smooth. Maybe, the BK-9 suffers from the same thing? When I tried the Integra-7 briefly, it seemed to be exhibiting the same "problem". Have you noticed this?

Finally, how does the sound quality of the BK-7m compare to the BK-9?

Thanks.

I recorded two relatively demanding pieces by Brahms and Chopin on it - you can bet I tried everything about the velocity curves to play these as dynamically as possible. The outcome is ok, but I never managed to get piano much less pianissimo, at some point I felt the keys switch from mezzopiano to zero sound abruptly. Playing the CP1 piano on the MoXF yesterday, I managed to differentiate dynamics from piano up to fortissimo quite easily at once.

Sounds like you want an RD800 .... 88 keys granpiano action.. there is so much finesse in that keybed.. it does not have 128 vellocity steps but 128*128=32k..

And it makes a great masterkeyboard as well..

What about the actual sound quality of the BK-9 vs the BK-7m? How do they compare? Is the BK-9 noticeably better? Thanks.

Most of the demos I posted here feature highlights of the BK-9 that are not found in the BK-7m.
- the SN-A piano you can hear in the Chopin Mazurka
- the SN-A trumpet, pipe organ and symphonic strings you can hear in the Händel piece
- the strings again you hear in the 'You only live twice' song (same as in SRX 04)
- the SN-A steel guitars that make the Gipsy Kings tune quite authentical.

The BK-7m pianos are good, too, but the differences with respect to strings, acoustic steel guitar, pipe organs (soft and full) and trumpet are substantial.

Personally I think the Gipsy Kings tune and the Alpine Folk tune 'Trumpet echo' are quite outstanding and sound as realistic as the BK-9 or any current arranger keyboard can get.
Yet, I can achieve roughly the same results if I midi a BK-7m to my Integra and edit thing accordingly.

rosetree ... excellent sounds and excellent playing ... thank you ...

Thanks for your comparison, Rosetree, and your very well-done demos. I always look forward to hearing new ones.

Thanks, Tony & Mike.

I should add that many other sounds like electric guitars, saxophones, ethnic sounds etc. are overall on a comparable level in BK-9 and BK-7m. The only real weaknesses I see in the BK-7m are strings and acoustic guitars. The BK-9 offers some highlights, but of course, these don't go beyond what I already had with the Integra.
The overall package of the BK-9 is really quite appealing, in my case the crucial point to try to sell it (only for a good price) is that I prefer the MoXF to some extent soundwise (and for the better keybed dynamics) and simply don't want to transport two full-size keyboards.