They don't evoke the instruments that they are supposed to sound like. They sound thin and boxy at the same time. I honestly can't figure out why they are so bad or how, but they don't stand up to scrutiny at all, and doubly-so for classical music. The Roland RD-2000 that my father uses also sounds better. The Yamaha Motif XS workstation that I bought thirteen years ago sounds better than this with a fraction of the compute resources. None of them constitute a serviceable acoustic piano simulation when played through headphones. The VPC-1 is great.but the Nord was a huge disappointment.įirst, the piano sounds suck. So I ordered the Nord Stage 3 compact and a Kawai VPC-1.īy this weekend, everything had arrived, and I put it together. I could eventually explore the synth and tonewheel sections and have some fun / broaden horizons. I figured that Nord has a great reputation for sound when it comes to both of these instruments, and could be paired with headphones for quiet play. The action is slow and clunky, the voicing isn't so even, even when these things are "perfect", and it wants to be coupled with a guitar amp and driven kind of hard, which makes it loud.Īs a consequence of having high-end instruments already, and the fact that I work with sound/audio for a living, I'm probably a bit more snobbish about the sound quality and authenticity than most. Playing one of these is an exercise in historical re-enactment. I also have a Rhodes MkI, and it's fun to play, but not to practice on. I have a very nice grand piano, but it lights up the whole house-great when I am playing nice sounding music but less great when I am playing scales, or the same measure twenty times, or it's midnight. Use the VPC-1 for keys and the Nord for sounds. I thought I had a good (read: expensive) solution: stack a Nord Stage 3 Compact on top of a Kawai VPC-1. My goal was to produce a silent practice station with headphones for acoustic piano (Jazz + Classical) and Rhodes (Jazz). I would always play them in music stores and have fun with the knobs and sounds. I've lusted after these beautiful red instruments for over a decade.
(technically, I returned it because it incurred some damage during shipping, so this is really why I am getting my money back instead of a replacement).
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