🛒 Get the Roland LX-9 HERE ▸[ Ссылка ]
🛒 See More Roland Digital Pianos▸ [ Ссылка ]
💕 Subscribe to Merriam Pianos HERE ▸ [ Ссылка ]
🔔 Click the 🔔 bell to be notified of all videos! ▸ [ Ссылка ]
#roland#rolandlx9#rolanddigitalpiano
Introduction
Without a doubt, Roland’s brand-new LX-9 is the most technologically advanced digital piano available. For those already familiar with Roland’s past models, there are some meaningful differences and upgrades between this model and the LX-708.
Today we’ll look at these differences and get an overall impression of the instrument.
Often, our digital piano reviews come out differently than our acoustic piano reviews because acoustic pianos are less about specs and features and more about the musical effect the piano has.
LX-9 Differences
Keys
The LX-9 utilizes the same Grand Hybrid action as the LX-708 except with the addition of haptic key vibration, which gives you control over the level of vibrational feedback you feel through the keys while playing. This can be shut off if unwanted.
Sound
The Piano Reality Modeling engine is not just a renamed version of the Pure Acoustic Modeling engine. It is still modelling, a synthesized piano sound versus a sampled piano sound, but if nuanced and complex enough, it will be able to replicate a wider combination of harmonic intricacies and allow for a level of editability that will let you create a piano tone of your own.
The new Piano Reality Modeling outputs multi-channel audio instead of stereo as well as a digital signal instead of analog so the signal does not get converted to analog until it is amplified at the speakers. Every effect, EQ, and any other DSP that is active in the audio chain remains completely digital right to the point where you hear it. This creates a cleaner, higher-fidelity tone when compared to the LX-708.
Speakers
Not only has the type and quality of the speakers improved on the LX-9, but the configuration has changed as well, most notably with the centre channel speakers which are now right behind the music desk. The top lid plays an active role in controlling the level of high-end detail and mechanical artifacts, and the total amplification power exceeds 160 watts.
No room is too big for this instrument to fill.
Control Interface
The LX-9 has been upgraded to a buttonless touchscreen display. In standard mode, the touchscreen buttons are all visible making it easy to navigate through the tone selection, transport control, menu navigation, and settings functions. Double-tapping the power button turns off the touchscreen while leaving the instrument on. With another single tap, the control panel turns back on.
Piano Editing Fun
The LX-9 comes with a standard set of onboard tones, including electric piano, organ, strings, and pads. As with the Pure Acoustic engine, the real fun is in customizing the piano tone.
Large spaces can make it difficult to draw out detail so the stage piano is an attractive choice with its more prominent upper end to the tone. Having chosen a starting point, you can dive into editing the seemingly endless options; such as ambience, damper pedal, soundboard type, cabinet resonance, full string resonance, duplex scale, ambient noise, key-off noise, and lid position.
Stu’s Thoughts
The LX-9 is producing a true layering of dynamics all at the same time, something which very few other digital pianos are capable of. Usually, you can pick out layers of specific detail, artifacts of tone, attacks, and various articulations, while dynamic layers tend to be blended together, but with multi-channel output and intelligent speaker placement, very distinct layers of volume and nuance can be detected from different parts of the instrument. This creates a “magical stew” that you get to stir with this instrument.
With the myriad of editing options, there are limitless possibilities with the LX-9.
Anyone who experiences this instrument will want to get in and edit, not because the stock sounds are unsatisfying, but because the possibilities are so wide, and it’s fun. If you are an audiophile who loves the tech part of this and who doesn’t have an instrument in this category, you’ve entered the market at a magical time. The technology being deployed on these machines was unaffordable on an instrument like this ten years ago.
When sitting down to play the LX-9, you will treat it and play it as if it were an acoustic piano. The first impulse isn’t to go in and start playing with settings, but to play the piano. There really is no higher compliment to pay to a digital piano than that.
Connect with Merriam Music:
● Website ▸ [ Ссылка ]
● Contact Us ▸ [ Ссылка ]
● Instagram ▸ [ Ссылка ]
● Facebook ▸ [ Ссылка ]
● Twitter ▸ [ Ссылка ]
