Wish for Roland ARX Expansion

[SilverBeast]

Roland unveiled the V-Piano during the recent NAMM Show. It's something never found in a hardware keyboard. Let's hope Roland will turn it into an ARX expansion for the Fantom G which I'm sure will be a hit.

Some links on V-Piano demo:
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/01/23/wnamm09-roland-v-piano-behind-closed-doors/
http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=978

Anyone knows which softsynth offers such similar technology?

I won't be surprised if the future of hardware synths would advance from emulating instruments sounds by wave sampling to the integrating of characteristics that make up an instrument...V-guitar, V-sax, V-woodwinds, etc?

 

[SilverBeast]

Anyone knows which softsynth offers such similar technology?

Seems like Pianoteq is offering this kind of technology too!

 

[Cheez]

Pianoteq uses similar modelling technology. It's not bad, but compared to top piano libraries, it's still a little away. The best thing about it is the small memory footprint.

I don't think it's possible to make V-piano into ARX. The modelling technology does not exist in the Roland Fantom. It will require hardware changes.

However, although the V-piano is really an interesting and exciting development, in real life, I doubt many will want to fiddle too much with the type of strings in the piano, the type of hammers in the piano etc. We'll probably have about 5 favorite settings that will be used again and again.

 

[kongwee]

Actually, I like physical modeling too. Properly, I do pop or modern music, so don't care too much about authentic piano sound.