Had one for years. Recently I've just been using one of the bass sounds for left hand bass with a Nord Electro 3 for the right hand. Sounds like but better than Hammond pedals.
Yes, it does. Mine, already lost the HDD (the board blew), using the flash for the external samples. I will replace it with the Kurzweil 2700 after 15 years with me. 15 years. 5 records. Almost 6....
I used to have one. The sound itself is good but the dynamic properties of its piano sounds are almost zero! Additionally, it is really tricky to adjust the oversensitive velocity curve while trying to play pianosimmo... EP section is not bad, but again the same story, there is no dynamics... There are a lot of unrelated sounds in the module blurring the picture... They name it as Nanopiano and actually there is no real patch to act like a proper piano to hammer around. The designers should have put 20-30 real AP and Ep sounds along with few voxpad/string patches in it instead of 300 sounds including weird UFO, Alien sounds, because it is not supposed to mimic an all round synthesizer. They had already produced Nanosynth for that mission... I somehow miss it, however, do not pay and expect a lot for this cute module, just saying... :)
Thanks for your great deep dive into this module. I had one and ended up gifting it to a piano playing friend with little music equipment. I just saw this video and started to reconsider that choice, till I heard your list of shortcomings.
@@b.j.surfdog3724 No worries. Actually I bought my nanopiano after watching this video as well at that time :) But as I said, although the base sounds are good, tbere is little dynamic on them thanks to very low memory, short and undetailed samples... I think the best piano module I have ever tried is GEM RPX. Still have it... Cheers!
@@b.j.surfdog3724 They're only shortcomings if you need what it doesn't do, nothing wrong really with it especially as can pick these up for £40> Try and buy a GEM RPX for that LOL, no comparison, it is what it is.
@@thecurechivas It is. Because you can use MIDI cables with synthesizers from other companies. And yes, the SC-880 is a General MIDI/General Standard (GS) synthesizer.
Basically the same except the NanoPiano had the 8 MB piano samples that was in the QS7, samples that the original QS6 didn't have, which was what the NanoSynth really was.
+radagast brown (Just found this video, so forgive such a late comment.) I own two NanoPianos, and was surprised myself at the large variety of sounds on it, sine it's marketed as a "piano" module. The NanoPiano does, indeed have all those synth sounds in there as well.
+jarcdday (Just found this video, so forgive such a late comment.) I own two of these units. Believe it or not, this is the real sound. Obviously, if you run your signal from the stereo outputs it sounds much better (as I suspect he did in this video.) It has the same effects processors as some of the Alesis effects units, so reverbs and such are great. One "effect" knob controls the amount of a pre-programmed effect on each sound. Typically this is the amount of reverb on the sound, but other sounds may have vibrato or the Leslie rotating speaker effect. With 256 built-in sounds, there's quite a lot despite it's unassuming size at only 1/3 rack space wide.
+Leo Pap Hi there. (Just found this video, so forgive such a late comment.) The NanoPiano doesn't have any transpose features. It's just a MIDI module to be controlled with an external keyboard or sequencer. You can, however, transpose on the keyboard if it has that feature, and the NanoPiano will follow it.
I was AN INCH from buying this baby back in the 2010... Damm it still sounds amazing today
Sounds great! Love the 80's vibes!
This sounds straight 90's to me
this little booger sounds great
Had one for years. Recently I've just been using one of the bass sounds for left hand bass with a Nord Electro 3 for the right hand. Sounds like but better than Hammond pedals.
I have this little thing and I must say it sounds really good!
Yes, it does. Mine, already lost the HDD (the board blew), using the flash for the external samples. I will replace it with the Kurzweil 2700 after 15 years with me. 15 years. 5 records. Almost 6....
I used to have one. The sound itself is good but the dynamic properties of its piano sounds are almost zero! Additionally, it is really tricky to adjust the oversensitive velocity curve while trying to play pianosimmo... EP section is not bad, but again the same story, there is no dynamics...
There are a lot of unrelated sounds in the module blurring the picture... They name it as Nanopiano and actually there is no real patch to act like a proper piano to hammer around.
The designers should have put 20-30 real AP and Ep sounds along with few voxpad/string patches in it instead of 300 sounds including weird UFO, Alien sounds, because it is not supposed to mimic an all round synthesizer. They had already produced Nanosynth for that mission...
I somehow miss it, however, do not pay and expect a lot for this cute module, just saying... :)
Thanks for your great deep dive into this module. I had one and ended up gifting it to a piano playing friend with little music equipment. I just saw this video and started to reconsider that choice, till I heard your list of shortcomings.
@@b.j.surfdog3724 No worries. Actually I bought my nanopiano after watching this video as well at that time :) But as I said, although the base sounds are good, tbere is little dynamic on them thanks to very low memory, short and undetailed samples... I think the best piano module I have ever tried is GEM RPX. Still have it... Cheers!
@@b.j.surfdog3724 They're only shortcomings if you need what it doesn't do, nothing wrong really with it especially as can pick these up for £40> Try and buy a GEM RPX for that LOL, no comparison, it is what it is.
I might get this or a QSR for Christmas.
With a Roland SC-880.
@@thecurechivas It is. Because you can use MIDI cables with synthesizers from other companies. And yes, the SC-880 is a General MIDI/General Standard (GS) synthesizer.
Damn. 2:48 sounds awesome
Ça envoie du paté!
I hear many sounds that were not included in the Nanopiano.
3:54 this thing has no business having pad that sounds this good 😂
Well done - thanks!
Hello! Wich are the differences between this and the Nanosynth? Could I edit the parameters somehow? Thanks for sharing!
Basically the same except the NanoPiano had the 8 MB piano samples that was in the QS7, samples that the original QS6 didn't have, which was what the NanoSynth really was.
Es multitimbrico, de cuantas partes?
where did the leslie for the organ come from? other 'effects" ? How is yours set up? Wiring diagram?
Yamaha Clavinova > Alesis Nanopiano
(sustain pedal > leslie on/off)
Does it works with the guitar plugged in?, thanks
There is a lot of synthesizer sounds on this. Are you sure this isn't the Nano Synth?
+radagast brown (Just found this video, so forgive such a late comment.) I own two NanoPianos, and was surprised myself at the large variety of sounds on it, sine it's marketed as a "piano" module. The NanoPiano does, indeed have all those synth sounds in there as well.
If you think about selling it, please let me know. I'd be interested..
podrias decirme donde lo puedo comprar p alguna pagina donde lo vendan??
sorry for the question, but that is the real sound of the device??
Depends of your speakers and cables quality too.
+jarcdday (Just found this video, so forgive such a late comment.) I own two of these units. Believe it or not, this is the real sound. Obviously, if you run your signal from the stereo outputs it sounds much better (as I suspect he did in this video.) It has the same effects processors as some of the Alesis effects units, so reverbs and such are great. One "effect" knob controls the amount of a pre-programmed effect on each sound. Typically this is the amount of reverb on the sound, but other sounds may have vibrato or the Leslie rotating speaker effect. With 256 built-in sounds, there's quite a lot despite it's unassuming size at only 1/3 rack space wide.
yes amazing little synth I still use it despite having many plugins and 3 analog synths
Does this module have key transpose?
+Leo Pap Hi there. (Just found this video, so forgive such a late comment.) The NanoPiano doesn't have any transpose features. It's just a MIDI module to be controlled with an external keyboard or sequencer. You can, however, transpose on the keyboard if it has that feature, and the NanoPiano will follow it.
How can you set up nanobass to amp?
Yes. Run out of the mono channel directly into your amp.
What preset is being played at 0:24-0:30?
Don't remember :(
nunca se sabe se é verdadeiro...ou outra fonte