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Cliff-at-Bose
Moderator
posted Mon March 08 2004 08:27 AM


My recommendation for the serious piano player (especially the ensemble player) that wants everyone to hear what they hear: get a piano that sums to or plays in mono and sounds great. Then use the PAS. With this system, put fabulous in and fabulous comes out, everywhere and at whatever level you need."

Too bad many of Yamaha's Digital Pianos don't have mono Piano samples. There are a few though. I think most of the Keyboard companies, ie., Korg, Roland, Kurzweil, etc., have mono sampled Pianos in them. From what I understand all the Yamaha P-Series Digital Pianos don't. I think the S90 does and also the Motif does.

As Cliff pointed out the simple solution is to buy a Digital Piano/Keyboard with mono Grand Piano patches on it and get one PAS system. But you still miss out on the added benefit that a Stereo signal gives not to mention Pan and other effects you get with Stereo too. Of course many Piano/Keyboard players don't give a hoot about Stereo or Panning or the other added benefits it provides as long as the sound is satisfactory to them and the people keep showing up for their Gigs their satisfied. But OMB's that use Auto-accompaniment would sure benefit sound wise from a Stereo setup. We need all the help we can get as OMB's to impress an audience and to use all the tools at our disposal to do so. And one of those tools is Stereo sound. We are the "Band" and Stereo gives a more convincing impression to the audience of that; - ie., "a real live Band sound".

Best regards,
Mike