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Any chance it will hold a Jupiter 80? Yeah, I expect so. But good luck getting any playing done. Cheers, James x LOL. Ok. Double tier it is.
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Man, that Jupiter 80 is a beast!
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James,
do you know if it will be sold on Brazil as well? And, can you tell us the price range we may find the VPC? Thank you.
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Hello Pedro,
I'm hopeful that this new board will be available in Brazil, however such decisions are typically made by the distributor - they will only import items that they believe will sell.
Regarding pricing, I'm afraid I cannot comment before the official unveiling at NAMM, however it's fair to assume that this new board will have a lower price than the MP10.
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Second teaser online, by the way...[cough]
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It's a great idea.... I'm going to be really interested in how it fares. One thing I do know is that it's a predominetly home user product. The number of people screaming for a no frills controller with a state of the art action has been huge .... Now it's time for them to put up or shut up. The Roland a-88 is a similar idea but has control surfaces that pros and live players will appreciate but the action won't compete with the VPC. It "should" sell well "if" Kawai can market it correctly AND manage to supply it through their various channels. They need to get it into the web stores and chains at a decent price in good quantities and market it carefully. We shall see what happens I guess.
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I am wondering if this Kawai VPC would have a hollow space wide enough to fully accomodate a Nord Piano inside So, you store your NP into the Kawai VPC at home and get it out for gigging only It could as well be marketed as a "hard case for your Nord NP with a proper hammer action embedded"
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Wondering if the VPC will be available here... and how much will cost. :X But if comes on the right price, maybe I'll get one after a year or so. :\
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One thing I do know is that it's a predominetly home user product. Too bad it isn't built into a flight case. I can't say I like the slightly rounded and somewhat angled top, it seems like the style-over-substance group was given too much control (as usual, when will the madness end?). I wonder if it has a music rest? A 3 pedal unit? A custom stand? 5 pin DIN MIDI connector? I'm not a Kawai key mechanism expert, does this have their best keys?
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By the way, this must be 1/2 the price of MP10, otherwise I don't see much sense in buying a huge wooden box with no internal sounds and only slightly cheaper than MP10... We'll wait and see.
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I'm not a Kawai key mechanism expert, does this have their best keys? Unfortunately I haven't seen what action it will use anywhere. Could be a plastic action, could be a wood action. Could be one of the latest generation (GF and RH2) or it could be an older action. Two sensor, three sensor. As far as I've seen there is no information on these questions. Will NAMM never arrive and kill the tension around here?
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Will NAMM never arrive and kill the tension around here? I think everyone here is counting for NAMM's arrival. :P And I'm seriously thinking when Kawai will launch the substitutes for MP6 and MP10. Do you have any clue, James?
"But its got a crap keyboard action Dave ... no amount of great sounds help that." Dr. Popper
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Second teaser online, by the way...[cough] Where?
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The picture at http://www.kawaivpc.com/ has been updated so the focus is now on the laptop. Anyone recognize the software it's running?
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Actually it looks to me like it might be software to edit the controller itself. The curve looks like its adjusting the velocity response. Since I don't see any knobs, display or menus on the controller itself, then it either hides them or uses software.
update: Looking closer maybe a DAW program like reaper, it allows you to change the look using themes.
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And I'm seriously thinking when Kawai will launch the substitutes for MP6 and MP10. Do you have any clue, James? Nope.
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And I'm seriously thinking when Kawai will launch the substitutes for MP6 and MP10. Do you have any clue, James? Nope. Come on... not a little one? Ok, I believe in you. But anyway, how much time Kawai substitutes their Digital Pianos? (That you can tell!)
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It depends on the product range. However, other factors such as sales figures are also taken into account. If an instrument is selling well, there is less urgency to replace it with a new model.
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Thank you James... Yeah, it seems like I really have to wait, and not try to figure when it will happen. But anyway, another stupid question LOL: Will Kawai return to the Workstation/Synths market? It's a question that many here on Brazil ask a lot of times on a Brazilian Keyboard Forum.
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