ALBERTO MACEDO Thank you!

@@benallen5967 Hello Ben. Today, very influenced by your video, I finally bought the RD 2000..!! I wonder if it would it be possible that you share to me some of the adjusments of EQ or other parameters that you present in this video? I can definitely hear the subtle but beautiful change in tone when you apply your parameters. I will apreciate so much your help, if possible, at least for the three main pianos you improved. Thank you in advance! My mail: algermus@hotmail.com

Steve B glad you found it so helpful! I know you'll love the RD-2000!

Jeff Weiser much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks Dave ))))

Achoo Choo please see this video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLxmdaVky8ebYac.html

What is your budget?

These are the following stands. www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MS9045rd--ultimate-support-ms-90-45r-45-inch-monitor-stands-red-finish

Reza Nia thanks for the compliments! I was not playing anything specific there, it was pure improvisation.

Leonardo Ferreira everyone will have to EQ their keyboard to taste. This is really true of any setup and any keyboard. The only one I have found doesn’t need additional EQ, is Nord.

Richie, thank you for your question. I try to stress this in my videos, but you will almost NEVER hear the actual speakers when you are listening to my recorded sound. I record direct line in, straight from the instrument into an interface, and into the computer. You are not ever hearing the speakers themselves, except on the odd occasion that I may use an iPhone to record my voice. The speakers you see here are Focal CMS 65s. These have been discontinued, and I have replaced them with even better speakers. The Focal Shape 65.

pinestyankee I actually did so here. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLxmdaVky8ebYac.html

except kawai. and nord.

Nord's piano actions are truly, truly awful: Fatar SL's from the 90's are better than Nord.

Derek Chapman no contest with kawai though.

kawai is a bit lame

Matthew Akers how so?

Paul Farnell good question! Those are questions about which Roland has been tight lipped, so my honest answer is, I simply don't know. The MKS sounds here are modeled, not sampled, but the methods they are using and the specific technology involved, I am not sure about those. The V-Piano sounds are generated by a separate chip, to the degree that you cannot even assign a V-Piano sound to any zone but the first one. Hope that helps!

This is what I am using. www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/CMS65v2. I'm not sure how helpful it would be to record a video of the audio from the speakers, since that is just going to be an example of the iPhone mics, or the Sennheiser e-935 I have, so not a true idea of what the Focals sound like that way. For live use, I use QSC K12 speakers. Hope this helps!

It was a small room at the time, and this looked better on camera, as well as sounded better to me. Thanks for your question, and I like PG tips tea!

Thanks for your question. I try to stress this in my videos, but you will almost NEVER hear the actual speakers when you are listening to my recorded sound. I record direct line in, straight from the instrument into an interface, and into the computer. You are not ever hearing the speakers themselves, except on the odd occasion that I may use an iPhone to record my voice. The speakers you see here are Focal CMS 65s. These have been discontinued, and I have replaced them with even better speakers. The Focal Shape 65.

Yotam Cohen The Montage is definitely more suited for home/studio use, obviously. But as far as which has better sounds is totally up to your liking. Yamaha pianos are great but they're tired to me since I've been playing them for years. The RD just has that more acoustic/woody realism the Yamaha lacks as far as piano sounds go. Electric pianos are all the same to me, lol.

Dadee3 Interesting that you say that. Well I myself have not been inundated with the piano sounds of any one company, and I’m just not tired of any of their sounds, I could see that one would get tired of any current generation multi sampled keyboard sound, where I would imagine that the physical modeling way of doing it would movie never gets tiring or at least less tiring. For what it is worth I do like the modern Yamaha sound whether it is for piano electric pianos or general sounds

I didn't have a video of me opening the box and having key action issues, but I have had some issues with two RD-2000s I purchased. You might want to take a look at the RD-2000 threads over on the Piano Forums website at piano world. I no longer have my RD-2000, either of them. I replaced them with a Nord Piano 3. I have a Korg Grandstage on preorder as well.

What problems did you experience? And what made you change to Nord?

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Hi Ben, really interested to know why you'd change to Nord piano 3. I have one and love the sounds but hate the action, it's terrible. I felt it was heavy when I was trying it out but felt, being a heavy player I would surely adapt. Unfortunately not, the action fatigues my hands just after an hour or so of playing. Not only that, I've had it six months and it's been back back to the factory in Sweden twice. I've made up my mind to sell it and was convinced after watching your video that the Rd2000 was the answer. Then I read you've changed it for the Nord piano 3.. damn... :) I had a Roland fp 5 for 15 years prior and nothing but love for it. Just want a piano I can love again. Any thoughts anyone. How do you feel about the NP3 now. Would really appreciate your feedback. Cheers

Also, what issues did you have with the Rd 2000?

Station 2Station yes, very easily. Choose your program, hold down write and then press One Touch Piano. That is it!

Geez thank you. I looked high and low :).

awesome! I own it as of last Thursday. LOVE IT

gman4674 the speakers you see here are Focal CMS 65s.

Garnet F no, but you can layer a supernatural piano or other sound with a v piano

BoBo LaDouche A reviewer said the knobs and sliders are smallish and not very sturdy and he is concerned they might break under the strain of grabbing one and sliding it as an organ drawbar. So I wonder why Roland focuses only on the sound and the keybed, but the rest of the user interface is cheap/cheesy.

Warren Postma that was an oversight I didn’t have time to fix later.

irimia timotei These are Focal CMS 65s. They have been replaced with Focal Shape monitors. I also very much like the JBL 7 series.

Skinny Bob yes that is true I'm currently shopping for a stage piano love the rd 800 for the pha 4. I played the new rd 2000 the new pha50 hybrid TO ME feels terrible and light. If the rd 800 is fully discontinued ill probably go with the korg grandstage if nothing new drops at namm this week.

feel is adjustable. I prefer it slightly lighter, but will go very heavy if you want it to be. Default its havyer than the stage 3 or the Korg Grandstage.

Antony Mapplethorpe you saying the action is adjustable, as in a dealer may have a technician who tweaks the lever mechanism ?

Hey man. Email me Ben_Allen@sweetwater.com, I'll gladly explain the differences for you.

Ben Allen Thank you. I guess you are pretty busy to check you mail inbox. I wrote you the same day a week ago and still waiting for your answer.

@@stratiastratiev The FP line, have speakers. The RD line don’t. They did make the RD88 that was the first with speakers. RD stands for (Roland Digital) I don’t know why (FP), stands for. Hope this helps.

@@Jacob_Shouse1984 thanks for your reply! Very clearly explained.

impromptu it isn't the same as the actual V-Piano. Not nearly as many options to edit.

Hi Ben, I am a little bit confused now. I want to buy new DP stricktly for Piano Play. Which one of these would you recommend: Roland V-piano(+ original stand) -> used for 2000 EUR (new set 6000 EUR), Kawai MP11SE -> new for 2200 EUR, Roland RD-2000 -> new for 2500 EUR, Yamaha CP1 -> used for 2500 EUR, Yamaha CP5 -> used for 1500 EUR. Thanks.

Tomas Kubinec Well the Kawai MP11SE has the best key action in the world for a slab piano atm

Ben Allen What extra options are there?

Kennedy Muzyamba I actually thought the same thing until I started using it. The Motif and Kronos, and the Montage for that matter, are all quite confusing and cramped with all the information that has been crammed into the UI. Roland has a very streamlined and well thought out system here, and while I too wish the screen were a bit bigger, especially coming from an RD-800, I'm finding the RD-2000 LCD to be surprisingly adequate.

Its a stage piano.

It’s a Stage/Performance Piano? All the more reason to have a bigger, higher resolution display. A studio/composer/arranger would be expected to be connected to a DAW and a large monitor. The less is better explanation doesn’t fly with me. For the price, a large touch-sensitive screen would be ideal for performance control. I appreciate the liberal number of dials and sliders (for example-nine sliders to present tonewheel organ drawbars). But trying to figure out what the current meaning of the dials and sliders is with a quick glance is more difficult IMHO. They could at least put little OLED displays below/above each assignable Control so that you know at a glance what that control is currently set for. I have a Midas M32R Mixer that has little displays below each fader to show me at a glance what is on that channel. The M32R is roughly in the same price range, and arguably has just as complex if not more of electronics inside.

Well, I have a different opinion. To me a digital piano should have as little visible controls as possible. Reason? Aesthetics. This type of instrument is mostly likely to lean towards classical/jazz use than say, EDM. In terms of aesthetics and build quality, the RD-1000 is to me the highest point in stage pianos. The RD-1000 has very long wooden keys to deliver its unique action, and the front panel is an exercise in restraint and aesthetics. I greatly despise oversized touchscreens. To me, these look like a perfectly good instrument with an iPad slapped on it. Which is a shame to have a dedicated musical device (or instrument) with a mass produced, generic, consumer electronics part slapped onto it. So, going back to RD-2000, I give it a high thumbs up with the LCD screen selection. Next, I would prefer NOT to have the Nord Lead 3 style encoders. I mean, I love Christmas Trees, and I like how the TX816 lights up. But I don't like AIRA vodka bar style lighting. To put it simple, a musical instrument is not just the sound. It's also, look, feel, build quality, and yes: form factor. So, Roland went ahead with the blinking lights on the RD-2000 to please the millennials, and did the right side for people like me. The result is that it sells rather well. I'd personally get rid of the left side altogether, but I am not a businessman.

Kennedy Muzyamba It's a stage/synth with most of the controls on the keyboard itself already, fool.

Turn on your left speaker.

What do you ears tell you?

Amir Amran It is a superior engine so to speak but sometimes samples give you that texture to the sustain that the physical modeling doesn’t

Wilderness Music, thanks for your comment! I actually did my voice in mono intentionally. Yes, the studio monitors are off, and I am wearing Westone W60 IEMs. The recording equipment is as follows. RD-2000>Focusrite Clarett 8 Pre>Logic Pro X. No Adjustments, No Added Effects. Any changes to the sound of the RD-2000 are made inside the RD parameters, not Logic. The mic is a Sennheiser E935 and that is also going to the Focusrite Clarett 8 Pre, and has no effects or adjustments made in Logic. I panned the voice this way because I wanted to hear it that way in my IEMs. Let me know if you have any other questions!

Skinny Bob not strictly true. Roland has already released (and has more) expansion options.

Please explain? So, are you saying you can dump the default pianos and load new ones, like say a Yamaha S7000, a Steinway, a Bosedorfer etc like you can with the Nord? Not SRX cards surely?

No, not SRX cards, but the RD-2000 is expandable in the sense that Roland has created and will continue to create expansions for it, in the form of downloadable banks found here. Axial expansions. axial.roland.com See the RD-2000 section.

Interesting. I shall try out this keyboard. For me, Its all about the intonation between what you play and what you hear then. I give it a go. Thanks.

Ben Allen so I've tried the RD2000 and it is a beautifully expressive instrument to play, but here's the thing. Roland could be onto a winner here if they dumped the Organs ( who needs them in an 88 note weighted keyboard) and went down the open architecture Road like Nord. The available sounds via Axis are just 'dabbling' in this arena. C'mon Roland get your finger out.

Aug24th I do wish it looked less 90s and if I bought it I would probably cover up the logo no offense to them though I would do the same for most brands