The Future of Digital Pianos?

[Synthaholic]

Very interesting, if you are interested.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCzvwFbWxk]Demo PHYSIS PIANO Francoforte 8/2012.mp4 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Big Black Dog]

I'm wishing and a hoping that somebody will soon invent a digital Jew's Harp.

 

[Ariux]

Sorry, not impressed. Seems to be just a trivial improvement over keyboards for the last decades.

 

[Synthaholic]

Where today, digital pianos use sampling technology, this uses physical modeling. My Alesis Fusion has some physical modeling, but it is limited to a few sounds like flute, and isn't nearly this advanced.

I haven't been able to find a price yet, since it was just introduced at MusikMesse 2012 in Frankfurt this past weekend, but I'll bet it is at least $4,000.

PHYSIS PIANO: physical modelling digital piano

 

[Synthaholic]

Sorry, not impressed. Seems to be just a trivial improvement over keyboards for the last decades.

Not even close. The ability to change the size of the piano, the characteristics of the hammers, the strings, etc. is HUGE!

Edit to add: 6 CPU's in Parallel running 24 Billion CPU cycles a second.