Yamaha buys Bösendorf

Bosendorfer has not been doing well at all for a number of years. As for Bosendorfer sounds in Yamaha synths, that will never happen. Yamaha's sampling technology is years behind others. They can't even provide their C3 in their synths. As it is, their digital piano sounds remains thin and a far cry compared to the the real deal.
 
Cheez said:
Yamaha's sampling technology is years behind others. They can't even provide their C3 in their synths.
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I thought Yamaha did include their award wining C3 in the PLG150-AP card ?

But the their hardware plug-in boards are crap, I bought a AP card and now it's not
working ? *sigh*

PLG150-AP_Box_Main.jpg

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA...,,CNTID%253D36946%2526CTID%253D206800,00.html

PLG150AP
The Ultimate Yamaha Piano.
Acoustic Piano voice expansion board.

The ultimate piano expansion board for any Yamaha product that supports
Yamaha modular synthesis plug-in system.

The entire wave ROM (over 29 MB) is used to realistically capture all the
nuances of Yamaha's award-winning CFIIIS concert grand piano.The piano
was tuned and voiced by a master concert technician to deliver the finest piano
sounds ever available for a synthesizer.

This new long-looped, three-layer stereo piano sample offers an extremely
wide dynamic range, from elegant pianissimo to a powerful fortissmo. This
range of tonal colors allows you complete expressive freedom, no matter what
type of music you play. The 32 preset piano voices cover a wide variety of
musical styles.

Adds 64 notes of polyphony to the host system dedicated just to these new
piano sounds.

Dedicated on-board effects processing includes EQ, reverb, chours, and
variation effects completely independent of the host systems effects.
 
good news for yamaha piano aficionados, bad news for Bosenforfer pianists/purists...

The way it has been, Yamaha since the dawn of time has been trying to decipher how the Germans, and especially Steinway Hamburg, make their pianos, and as good as their CFIIIS concert grand is, they're never going to come close to what a Steinway, Bosendorfer or even a Fazioli is...

The aquisition of Bosendorfer is one such advance towards this domination by Yamaha...and lets just hope that they don't tamper with the traditional way Bosendorfers are made and sound, because there really isn't anything like it on this world...
 
Oh....looks like Yamaha did have C3 on their PLG boards. Are they still supporting PLG in their later keyboards?

As for Bosendorfer, the problem is not their pianos. I believe the problem is their marketing.
 
Cheez said:
Oh....looks like Yamaha did have C3 on their PLG boards. Are they still supporting PLG in their later keyboards?.
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PLG cards not supported in the new line of Motif XS.
If anyone has tested the Motif XS,
the screen display is totally changed from previous
Motif ES and the classic, this may be the main reason
why it is not supported.
However, the Motif XS supports 1GB of sampling
capacity. You can load any piano samples size up to 1GB.

Cheez said:
As for Bosendorfer, the problem is not their pianos. I believe the problem is their marketing.
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oh yes, this is true. Japs are better at marketing and sales.
 
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