Waldorf Zarenbourg

[Ecaroh]

Hi,

I was at the Messe Frankfurt 2012 and had a chance to test Zarenbourg for a little moment and I must say I was quite impressed. Unfortunately I could not check it more deeply.

Now, what is strange, there are no good quality sound (or any) demos on Waldorf's site:
http://www.waldorf-music.info/en/zarenbourg.html

Also, when I re-think about it, there are few questions puzzling my mind:

1. E-pianos felt great, but what about its acoustic piano? EPs are modeled and AP is sampled btw. Somehow I get a feeling that people on the Youtube clips seem to avoid this issue. Perhaps AP isn't that good. Or maybe it is. Better demos needed for sure.

2. Speakers. Do they provide enough power on stage to hear yourself without extra monitors. If they do, then this would justify its big size and heavy weight?

3. How does it perform as a MIDI controller?

If anybody have had a chance to check it lately, please give us few lines (concerning these 3 questions or anything about it). Basically what we have here, might be a real challenger for our Nords, or what do you think?

P

[Mr_-G-]

When the sounds and the key feeling are everything you wanted, then other things start becoming important.
I do not think that at that size this is something I would want to be carrying around for a gig. How heavy is it?

From the website:
Only 7 preset sounds and 21 user sounds? Is that right??
I like the 6 Op FM engine.
The site says it was launched in 2006? I've never seen one...

[Ecaroh]

Zarenboroug is 33.9kg which is lot weight and in fact twice as heavy as NS2ha76. But, as I questioned, If you don't need one or two monitors it's kind of justified. BTW I know two guys carrying even 4kg heavier V-piano (and that one needs monitors too...).

Also, with Zarenbourg you don't need extra stand solution for second keyboard (this is something which I like with its big appearance).

But anyone having been with close encounter with it?