uhh, have y'all ever heard a drone hovering? not exactly the kind of thing you want anywhere near a musical instrument LOL
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#32>>> As of now, the drones’ propellers are still somewhat noisy. But as quiet drone technology becomes available, they’ll be able to add it to the existing framework. So really everything you would expect from hanging a speaker from a drone, noisy and power hungry.
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#33Over the last several weeks I have been deep in research for a new digital piano, spending a lot of time looking at Roland, Kawai, and Yamaha models, and seeing this made me giggle. I doubt I would ever buy even one of the less traditional-looking production models (like the Kiyola), but I am glad they have fun with creating wild concepts like this.
Looked at those exact brands about a month ago. Went with the Yamaha N1x hybrid. (Which means it has a conventional acoustic action with hammers and everything) so far pretty happy with it. I suggest going over to the piano world forums and doing a dive. The threads on these models are long. Also above all go see them in real life if you can.
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#34Wouldn't latency be horrible, if e.g. the drones are connected through wifi or bluetooth? My understanding is that that's why until now no serious electric piano has ever proposed bluetooth audio connectivity for the player. [Edit]: they use an other tech with zero latency, as described in the article. Thanks for the replying comments.
It is almost certainly using FM as it’s cheap and zero latency.
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#35Over the last several weeks I have been deep in research for a new digital piano, spending a lot of time looking at Roland, Kawai, and Yamaha models, and seeing this made me giggle. I doubt I would ever buy even one of the less traditional-looking production models (like the Kiyola), but I am glad they have fun with creating wild concepts like this.
Got the kids a $2k Roland FP 90x for Christmas to replace a $1k Casio. I don't play but they liked the Roland action when we tried their models in stores over Yamaha, Casio, and some others. Now that we have it- incredible instrument, well worth the upgrade, good match for their skills. It is a really, really good sound producer, better than most analog pianos I've heard, though I can easily tell the difference between it and their teacher's Steinway grand. The sounds emitted by the Roland are very fine, but still digital. It feels like a $10k digital would get much closer to being able to trick a listener into thinking it was a fine analog.
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#36Over the last several weeks I have been deep in research for a new digital piano, spending a lot of time looking at Roland, Kawai, and Yamaha models, and seeing this made me giggle. I doubt I would ever buy even one of the less traditional-looking production models (like the Kiyola), but I am glad they have fun with creating wild concepts like this.
The higher-end Kawai models have an Android-driven touch screen. It would be great if someone would manage to jailbreak those.
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#37Over the last several weeks I have been deep in research for a new digital piano, spending a lot of time looking at Roland, Kawai, and Yamaha models, and seeing this made me giggle. I doubt I would ever buy even one of the less traditional-looking production models (like the Kiyola), but I am glad they have fun with creating wild concepts like this.
Got the kids a $2k Roland FP 90x for Christmas to replace a $1k Casio. I don't play but they liked the Roland action when we tried their models in stores over Yamaha, Casio, and some others. Now that we have it- incredible instrument, well worth the upgrade, good match for their skills. It is a really, really good sound producer, better than most analog pianos I've heard, though I can easily tell the difference betwe…
It's a matter of taste I guess. I had a Yamaha and switched to Roland and much prefer the chunkier key action and the slightly brighter/compressed piano tone. Definitely important to try it in store.
My absolute favourite is the Nord Grand, but it's a little too expensive.
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#38I wonder if you could do some sort of noise cancelling of the prop noise?
Compose a piece that actually uses the prop noise, and have them vary the speed of the motors during the piece in order to alter the noise.
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#39uhh, have y'all ever heard a drone hovering? not exactly the kind of thing you want anywhere near a musical instrument LOL
I can think of a few genres of music where drone sounds would not feel out of place. Unfortunately, they're genres of music which aren't suited to a piano either.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
DJI has made a shocking amount of progress at making its drones quieter over the past few years. What used to sound like a loud swarm of bees 20 feet overhead is now almost imperceptible.
The volume of air moved remains a limitation of physics. One thing the news release didn’t cover was whether there were attempts to integrate sound production into the coils of the motors.
It’s not just the volume of air but also the speed that it’s moved at. Large slow propellers are quieter and more efficient than small fast propellers. (But less maneuverable.) In the limit, I could see this being done by big, spidery drones with huge props relative to their weight, like a scale model of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AeroVelo_Atlas.