So yesterday I tested how the N1 would behave with VST's using the internal speakers. I didn't have very much time but the results so far are horrible.

I tried with Alicia's Keys and Pianoteq. Both sounded terribly hollow and undefined, almost like the big smear you hear when the sustain pedal is never released. Getting a good velocity curve will probably be hard too as I couldn't get anything close to feeling right.

Another strange thing was that the sound was coming from all speakers, but when using a headphone connected to the N1 output I heard a signal on one ear only.

Will try with Ivory II this evening hopefully and get to sort out some of these issues. I doubt the internal speakers will give any kind of satisfactory result when used in this way though.

Interesting. Let us know how it goes with Ivory.

Good luck,

Steve

That's interesting indeed. The other person I know who has tried this did it using an N2 and didn't think the speakers sounded that bad.

The one downside of the AG speakers is that the line-in apparently has a noise gate, that silences it if the volume is below a certain level. So if you play a note and let it decay all the way, at the end it will flutter in and out.

Unfortunately since you have the best action and the best sounds available, you are probably not going to be satisfied using onboard speakers.