Casio Grand Hybrid Pianos with Simon Tedeschi
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- One of Australia's most renowned pianists Simon Tedeschi presents the Casio Grand Hybrid Piano, developed in collaboration with C. Bechstein ... has to be seen to be believed!
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Sounds beautiful
Amazing invention
and a very fine interpretation! would I have liked to hear more!!
Have a look at the Casio AP700, currently around $AUD2,500. I'm a mug player in comparison to this guy, but I've just bought the AP700 and looooooooovvvvvveee it. Has the same 3 grand piano sounds as the one being demonstrated here.
The difference is in the keyboard mechanism.
@@filipequ yep that makes sense. Try the pipe organ in French cathedral mode. Staggering.
I currently have AP460, and tried it, but our teacher at children music school force us to buy GP500 just because of its keyboard.
Awesome :)
My doubt before buying it is: does the Casio GP510 faster speed repetition than acoustic grand pianos, make it more difficult to play advanced classical music, especially with difficult very fast passages, on acoustic grand pianos if you practice mainly or only on the Casio GP510?
The speed repetition of the Casio is definetly faster than on acoustic grand pianos. It's simplified and it's easier to play that type of music on the Casio. So, I'm asking if it's more difficult to perform it on acoustic if you mainly practice on the Casio 510
Hi.
This is fantastic.
I’d love to know the recording process, as I’m considering this Piano.
I’m assuming the GP500 has been Miccd up and the natural hall has been incorporated using room mics. Or is just the line out sound? Thanks.
Hi, and thanks for your insightful query!
We recorded the audio for this using the L+R line-outputs of the GP500BP. There was also a very low level of audio recorded through the mic on one of the cameras (a good quality condenser mic),.
The vast majority of the ambience and resonance you hear (we assume you've listened through headphones or reasonable quality speakers) is the on-board DSP setting "Hall 1". Hall 1 is the default DSP setting when the piano is powered On.
We experimented with various levels but found the default DSP level most effective.
Other resonance/ambience aspects of the "Berlin Grand" piano tone (a 9' concert acoustic grand piano by C.Bechstein, their flagship model D262) such as key-on / key-off noise level, pedal-on / pedal-off noise level, sympathetic string resonance, aliquot string resonance, etc., were all left at default levels (after experimentation).
Casio and C.Bechstein's engineers used 24 different mics (and mic positions) in recording the samples for each of the 3 main 9' concert acoustic grand piano tones. This helped isolate all the various resonance and mechanical sounds associated with grand pianos, allowing owners to tailor each individually to taste on the Grand Hybrid.
That we left all levels at default for this recording is testament to the expertise of our engineers!
We hope this answers your query, just let us know if we can assist further.
@@CasioAustralia Very nice to have such a good answer. I just ordered mine.
It would be helpful to the listener to know WHICH Casio GP is being demonstrated? Is it the GP500? And WHICH grand piano setting is being demonstrated? Is it the Hamburg, Berlin, or Vienna?
DivineNewAge Thx for your query, & good point!
Simon is playing the GP500BP (the only model with Black Polish finish in the range), and chose the Berlin piano (a C.Bechstein, 9').
Simon chooses the Berlin most often, he tells us.
Excuse this reply from my personal account, having trouble logging in as Casio Aust.
Hi Damon! A quick follow-up to DivineNewAge's question. Do you happen to know what (if any) adjustments were made to the settings for this demo, particularly the Acoustic Simulator and the Hall Simulator? I own a GP500 and love it's sound, however I found the sound in this video to be even more authentic than what I've been able to achieve with my various custom scenes, especially when using the Berlin Grand. Any input or advice is appreciated! Thanks!
Mi dite per favore attraverso quali speakers suona? Dal vivo è così?
Hi can someone tell me the settings for this performance? I've got a GP 400 for 2 weeks and still trying to learn how to use it
Hi Charles, Simon used the “Berlin” piano for this performance (Bechstein’s 9’ D282 model concert grand piano). DSP was standard (Hall). Line-outs directly from the GP500BP were provided to the mixer, and into a laptop from there.
@@CasioAustralia I have owned the GP300 for 3 years now. I love everything about the piano when I'm in the Berlin tone. To my ears, the Hamburg and Vienna tones don't compare in natural acoustic quality as the Berlin tone. Browsing performances on UA-cam featuring the Grand Hybrid, it also appears that the Berlin is the preferred tone. I have been assuming that Casio-C. Bechstein put more labor and love into the Berlin tone since the Berlin tone is representative of the C. Bechstein grand, which the second half of the coproduction. I'd like to know Casio's reply to this. However, I confess that I play pretty much exclusively Impressionists pieces and can't go beyond a level 6 difficulty. That might be part of the reason, but I don't think it's everything, yet maybe it is.
@@robertbailey3024 One of the best questions I've heard., thanks on behalf of the Casio EMI team. Please excuse this reply from my personal YT address (I work for Casio in Australia) - working remotely presents a few challenges. We're going to ask Casio Japan's R&D team for some deeper information on this . No guarantees we'll get it, and please allow some time, as Japan is also in its own form of lockdown at present.
@@robertbailey3024 Hi Robert, thank you for using our GP-300. To your comments, we would like to say that it is true that the Berlin is one of our favourite piano sounds that we strived to reproduce in collaboration with C.Bechstein. However the Hamburg and Vienna sounds have also been reproduced with our high precision digital technology with the same level of attention to Berlin which we proudly recommend to all level of piano players. There are individual differences in preferred sounds and how they are perceived. We are confident that all three piano tones in our Grand Hybrid are at the highest level of all digital pianos in the market today. Thank you again for your support!
Anyone know how this compares to the Yamaha NU1X?
Tried both. NU1/NU1X is upright action which is less pleasant to the touch imo. The distance the key travels is low. The grand hybrid keys have a more pleasant texture and are more satisfying to press down. Furthermore, key weight is even across the front and back of the key on the Casio. Yamaha NU1X action doesn't have that same characteristic and feels less pleasant.
CASIO win
How would this compare to a Kawaii CA 98 or CS 11?
Hi Glenn,
The Grand Hybrid is a true hybrid piano. Most of the pianos from other brands are not hybrid pianos - they do not have an acoustic grand piano action, and do not respond as one. Kawai’s CA98 and CA11 are examples.
Grand Hybrid’s action is developed jointly by Casio and Bechstein, from the ground up. The materials are exactly as per Bechstein’s acoustic grand pianos, including Austrian Spruce for the key-beds and the keys (100%), acrylic and phenol is used for the key surfaces, all as used and specified exactly by Bechstein.
The action is the exact size, weight and uses the exact physical paths of movement as Bechstein’s acoustic grand piano actions.
There are also several other differences in relation to sound sampling, DSP effects and acoustic simulation which makes the Grand Hybrid a truly unique instrument which gives the most authentic acoustic grand piano playing experience.
@@CasioAustralia Thank you for your detailed explanation!
runed out of polifony?
256-note polyphony, and no, not once did he run out of polyphony!
No
Maybe in that 1:56 passage when the sound suddenly became mono.
This is not the original Casio sound