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artaher15@yahoo.es
Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:49 PM
To:yamaha-psr-styles@yahoogroups.com
Is PSR2000 demo made on PSR2000 itself?
>
> Hi,yesterday I played PSR2000 at a store. First of all, I listened
> the demo, and I liked very much the beautiful piano sound.
> Afterwards, when demo is finished, I played piano... but... What a
> difference!!! Demo's piano voice was a lot better.
>
> It seemeed to me another piano sound at all, and I don't understand.
> Why demo's piano sound is so better?? Perhaps demo is not made on
> PSR2000? Perhaps on a 9000pro?
>
> Artaher


Hi,

About the best piano sound discussion, if PSR 2000 has or not a good piano
sound, I also made some investigations. First, the PSR 2000 has two demos
for piano sound: one is from the demo button, choosing the live! strings
demo, where the introduction is played by the piano voice; another is the
small demo that PSR 2000 has for all voices - when choosing a voice, press
the 8th button below the display. Surely we all agree that the piano sound
that come from these two demos are so real that we think it's a real grand
piano playing. When we try to play the piano voice we will be disappointed
because we are disable to get the same real piano sound ??!!
First, it is necessary to say that, for absolutely sure, the piano
that demos play is exactly the GrandPiano voice (first voice) of PSR 2000.
But, as Simon Williams said, it was played by a professional
pianist, or using their technics how to play correctly a piano - the touch,
the velocity and pressure of the fingers, the correct way to play chords in
a piano, the arpeggiato technics, etc, etc, even using lightweight keys
(like 2000 has), we need to play as they were weighted.
Other detail of great importance is the correct DSPs and EQ
settings. I verified that Michael Bedesem had followed a good way to improve
the piano sound. As Michael found on him Registration 8 file, at the mixing
console display, increasing the DSP Stage2 to 40 or 42, to set the EQ Low
and High to near of 100, may be changing the filter Harmonics to near of 80
(I prefer to maintain the original 64), I think we get a sound very close to
the piano sound we hear from a pianist CD recorder through the home Hi Fi
sound system.
To arrive to this conclusion, I first went to hear some CD(s) with
classical pianists playing. Not comparing with other keyboards piano sound,
as this may change deeply our feeling of the real thing.

Regards
Carlos Rodrigues