I’m looking for some piano players feedback ! I mean, people who are not that much into keyboards and sound design, but got interested in Zynthian anyway.
Anyone using it on a regular basis ? What’s your opinion on using Zynthian compared to using your digital piano built-in sound engine ?
The crucial point is obviously sound delay. Is there any actually ?
Is it handy / pleasant to use Zynthian with a digital piano (ie : a device with very few buttons, no knobs etc.) ?
What other features are useful and what other future feature are you be looking forward to ?
Is there any additional feature you use, apart from rendering the piano sounds ? My digital piano already has amazing piano sounds but is very limited otherwise.
To be honest, I’m more than happy if I’m making something better than just noise… What I mean is I’m a totally noob musician. For sure other guys in the forum will help you about what to expect or what can be done with the zynthian box.
I am developing for Zynthian using my Kawai-MP5 digital piano via MIDI (and sometimes USB-MIDI). I don’t use the MIDI controllers - even the MP5 has some. For playing with zynaddsubfx/mda-epiano/setbfree it works very nice (for me). We will use Zynthian for our band for some gigs the next months (I hope!).
No - not for my ears. The calculated audio-latency is about 5.3ms at 48kHz and 256 sample-buffers - but I think it is more, perhaps 10ms… I have no problems.
The question is: What do you want to play? For a piano sound, you won’t use any effects or change parameters while playing? For a hammond (setBfree or setBfreak) you perhaps want to control the leslie speed and/or the drawbars…
So: you don’t need them - but sometimes you have much more fun when you have controllers - just in my opinion.
My experience is low because I just finished the construction.
My piano teacher have your same Kawai. I like very much the feel and sounds are ok. I prefer others but this is not the question.
Rhodes sounds from Zynthian are ok for me. Electronics Piano such DX, also OK. I hope that in the near future we could play acoustic pianos from XXI century. May be thru the Zynthian sampler?
Salamander Grand Piano is included in the Gorgona image. You could find it in the LinuxSampler engine. It’s a 1GB piano and i think it sounds quite well. Perhaps i didn’t explain it well.
Exactly, what kind of knowledge do you want to gain?
What I mean is I’m a totally noob musician. For sure other guys in the forum will help you about what to expect or what can be done with the zynthian box.