Comments on: Digital Piano

By: Erik Luper

Erik Luper — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:15:28 +0000

Maybe I can help here. We’re Receptor endorsers at my church, we’re in the Silicon Valley and are 20 minutes from Muse and 50 minutes from Digi, gives us alot of opportunity to be involved at ground level.

The new Receptor Pro Max is a beast. The nice thing about the Muse software is that it assigns MIDI program change numbers to ALL of the presets of ANY VST instrument that you install. Through various multis you can build an entire worship set and recall those sets by sending a single program change command. You can assign separate MIDI channels to each of the 16 available instrument “channels” and you can add up to three FX (VST based, not internal) to each instrument channel.

On mine I’ve got Ivory, Atmosphere, Trilogy, Kontakt 2, and Mr. Ray all in one Snapshot Multi, and use program change commands to bring up the various channels and layers as needed.

If you guys need info or assistance, you can hit me at my email address, or I can forward you to Jack Ortolani or Rick at Muse. They are really interested in the Worship market, and the Vice President Bryan Lanser is a believer.

Blessings,

Erik Luper
Family Community Church

By: timcorder

timcorder — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:30:13 +0000

Hi Christopher…

I’m really not that much of a MIDI expert so I don’t know how much I can help. Our use of the Receptor is VERY tame compared to what I’m sure a true keys player could do. The Receptor is capable of recalling presets based on MIDI commands and lots of real-time editing. The CP33 seems quite capable of driving the MIDI side of things, I just haven’t dove into many of those options because we strictly use our Receptor for Ivory and don’t give our artists access to all of its settings. The video demos on the Receptor site are probably the best resource for you if you haven’t already found them. I’ve also had good luck talking to the Receptor support team with questions. Sorry I can’t help more!

By: Christopher S

Christopher S — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:24:38 +0000

Hi Tim: sounds great. I have been researching options to upgrade my live (portable setup) and considering the CP33 (because I like the piano pretty good) and a receptor loaded with Komplete etc. Are you able to access the other sounds easily using the CP33 as a controller or do you somehow set that up on the receptor in advance. I am not sure how that works exactly.
Sold my S90ES which allowed me to set up performances but have only used self contained keyboards.

Have a 20% off coupon for today and tomorrow if you happen to recommend quickly. Thank you so much

By: Digital Piano - check this out!! | Chris From Canada

Digital Piano - check this out!! | Chris From Canada — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:49:07 +0000

[...] Tim Corder leads the audio team at Kensington Community Church outside Detroit and posts amazing stuff on his blog. He posted today about their new all-digital grand piano setup, included a bunch of info on how they did it and also posted a video with a live mix of the piano in action. You have to hear this to believe it! [...]

By: Tim Corder

Tim Corder — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:05:27 +0000

Under $10,000 as you see it there. Basically 50/50 between the cost of the shell and the electronics. Our acoustic piano cost us $60,000 used and is still worth $25,000 today. We’re selling it and replacing it with two of these systems for two different rooms.

By: Jason Cole

Jason Cole — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:51:09 +0000

WOW… I mean big time. That is without doubt the best sounding piano I’ve heard live. If you hadn’t said it was digital I would have been begging to know how you mic’d it to get that great tone. What does a setup like that cost?