Blake and everyone, so awesome. I fall in love with the YC more and more esp as you have added features like this. Excellent job Yamaha! Played the felt piano for hours last night layering an organ and it was so sweet.
Nice to finally hear a piano that isn't ear-splittingly bright lol. Bright pianos certainly have their place, but a darker piano for solo playing is very nice to have. I'm saving up for a YC right now and this update is great to see.
It is such a gas listening to fellow musicians TOTALLY appreciate each other's playing. Man...that is what being a musician is all about. It is truly a universal language that crosses ALL divides. Regarding the Hamburg grand: egads fellow keyboardists: if you haven't played this particular grand piano preset on the CP88, YC88, or Montage M8X, you need to go get your hands on it. It has ZERO bad habits, it is crystal clear from the lowest A to the topmost C and IT JUST SINGS. Git yerself one of these boards...you will not be disappointed. Oh...and the triple-sensor keybed on the CP88 and YC88 are also to die for. They allow super fast repetitive notes and they thus faithfully reproduce what your brain wants. Finally: the "hands-to-brain" immersiveness of the CP88 (and probably the YC88 since they have same keybed and mostly same grand pianos) is phenomenal. No other keyboard I have EVER OWNED (except for maybe the Motif XF8) has this mystical connection. It truly allows you to "sing" and "emote" as a keyboard player. Keep up the great work Yamaha, we love ya!
Love my YC61 but doubt I will ever use ideascale again as most of the requests were ignored. My biggest hope for the YC series was to make the organ more playable like the Hammonds they are trying to emulate by moving the trigger point of the organ to the top of the keystroke… didnt happen in either 1.2 and 1.3…..NOTHING from Yamaha about it…
i hoped also for some news on the Montage . i dont need to merge 8 DX sounds . Just want some usefull new functions and sounds . Yamaha is not very Communicative . but i think, patience is gold
Count me as one of those who bought the YC-88 early on and have been pretty happy with it. I also happen to own a vintage (1972) YC-45D combo organ that I LOVE and was hoping this new version would incorporate the 45D’s Marimba effect-which it appears to now have! Question… Can the Marimba tone be layered onto the Organ patches? It is a very unique sound that I’ve never heard replicated by any synth or other type of keyboard.
I love my YC for organ and Rhodes sounds but the new Hamburg and Felt pianos are the first pianos that are not ear piercing bright. But without the help of an EQ they still sounding thin without guts. Is there a rule that Yamaha engineers sampling all pianos with a HP filter of 80Hz? ... And HaPe your sound was mono, but thanks for trying the Pan settings.
The Pianos sound fine to me but I am glad you realize the EQ can change the sound tremendously. Thank you for pointing out the mono sound in the panning segment. At least he showed us how to hard pan even if we cannot hear it LOL
My only comment here would be this: I actually WANT a "flat" EQ because that lets me adjust things to suit my taste (rather than the piano being EQd to death and being too bright or too bassey or whatever). I found for solo piano on the CP88 with the Hamburg preset, that within Logic Pro X, I use a 1db increase in bass (75Hz) and a -1db decrease in mids (975Hz) and it actually helps bring it out of its "flat"-ness. I could probably be more drastic (2 or 3db) but for now I like how this sounds. See the following graphic for how I treat the raw .wav of a CP88 Hamburg inside Logic Pro X (note, I don't use the CP88's onboard reverb even though it's pretty darn good...instead I use an inexpensive $29 Relab Essentials plugin which is simply gorgeous!): kevinselby.com/wp-content/uploads/AcousticHymnsVol4_LogicScreenshot.png
I don't like that when you turn a section OFF, it's display goes blank too, making it impossible to prepare the desired effect on the fly first before switching it on. The ON/OFF button has an LED to show if it's working or not; that should be enough.
It is part of the mechanics if you know about organs you should realize that it is meant to sound this way. Its not the sound of the keys but the actual samples.
..............................................................................What's up with the the terrible, blurry, low resolution? ...........at about 10 minutes in I got a headache, had to go :(
