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[De fursaK NE5]

Hi,
I've tested something.

Take the same piano sample, install it on 2 different machine.
Let's say, Nord Piano 3 and Electro 5. You can naturaly recognize it's caracter and sound but something is different. I don't know what but samples I did not use on a machine, has an interest on the second one, and some samples I used has not such character.

Did someone notice that ?

For example, I like veeery much the grand Lady D on the Electro and on a Piano 3 ... not that much.
Other example, studio grand 2 on the Electro was not my cup of tea, and on a Nord Piano 3 ... wow, sounds increadible !!!

Exactly Same Speakers and configuration.

Your opinion or test on that would interest me.

Thanks

Cheers

De fursaK

[Berretje]

Correct: the (piano) sounds have more body on my Nord Stage 2 then on my Nord Electro 4.
Maybe because of the different amplification inside the keyboard?

[De fursaK NE5]

Hi',

Did you ear that on Every piano or did you just prefer other models of samples depending the machine like me ?

Cheers

De fursaK

[kaljo]

Are you sure that it hasn't anything to do with the different keyaction? If you had the waterfall action on the electro maybe it was easier to reach a higher velocity and therefore you think it sounds different? I remember that when I used my older Yamaha S30 for piano with unweighted keys that it sounded different when I connected a weighted midikeyboard to it.

[De fursaK NE5]

Hi,
I thought about that but the keybed on the electro was HP.
And the Nord P3 is something else but still with heavy keybed ...
Strange ...

[GeeDeWee]

Maybe a good way to rule out the difference in key bed is to connect both the Nords to the same midi controller.
Or play the Electro 'remotely' by the NP3.
I wonder if you still hear the difference...

Can't do that test myself unfortunately. I just own one (awesome) Nord.

[maurus]

I am pretty sure this impression is a result of the action-sound connection. Playing my E5 from its SW action or from the VPC1 feels like two different instruments. Actually, just changing the touch curve inside the VPC has a similar (smaller) effect. Of course there may also be impedance issues in the audio chain, requiring subtle EQ changes. Another experience with headphones is that even a minuscule change in EQ can indeed change the overall feeling of a Piano sound, especially the balance over the range, if you are sensitive to nuances.

[De fursaK NE5]

Hi,
Mmmm.... maybe you are wright ....
I cannot plug in midi those 2 Nord so if someone can test for us, just to know.

Cheers
De fursaK

[MoBroCN]

I upgraded from electro 4 to 5 half year ago. I 've been driving the nords with my Roland digital piano, so the action is the same and I keep switching velocity curves on the nords to get the best control. To my ear, Grand lady has more "meat" on the 4, or the different samples have more distinct characters on the 4. There 's a similarness between piano samples on the 5. It's pretty obvious to me. But now I think I'm used to how the e5 sounds and I'm happy again. A friend of mine who plays big tv shows insisted the e5 sounds 'plasticky' compared with the stage 2.

[Mr_-G-]

To make a fair comparison, this needs to be done with a blind test, side by side, triggered from the same controller with no processing. Otherwise it seems to me that there are too many variables at play: different, rooms, keybeds, velocity curves, settings, amps, etc.