Toddy, Torhu, Dewster...many thanks to all you guys.

Went to the music store yesterday but was not able to try it...sad..
But I think I will buy this board on monday.

thanks guys.


edit:
I finally bought it.
I am happy with it though the sound is muffled to me and the timbre change is not that clear to hear.
but after some time of playing and listening, I think it does sound good. I think I am getting used to it.

Not like Kawai and Yamaha, since they have their manufacturing plant here, the price in Indonesia is just same like in US for Roland.
It still has OS v 1.4 or 1.6 I forgot.

Feb 2013 now, and NX was released Sep 2010. Any rumblings of new hardware?

I wouldn't mind being privy to that info myself. I certainly like the 700NX and have often considered getting it for something different to my Nord or CP5, when I owned that. But that horrible metallic noise, when accented, on the Ab & A the +5 and 6th above middle C, kills it for me. Yes I know it's not on the Studio Grand piano but still....

Maybe in the fall after the 700NX has been out a full 3 years I'm guessing.

Hmm, looking at the Roland page, it's now listed as "RD-700NX Version 2", and I am guessing that is referring to the software update in Aug/Sep 2012, so maybe that was the refresh ...

Spot on. This just RUINS all Roland SN pianos - every single SN sound does it on every single SN Roland DP other than (it would appear) the Studio Grand on the RD-700NX. I really wish they'd fix this issue then it wouldn't take much to persuade me back into the Roland fold.

If you have a NX its no issue ...because you have the studio grand

I had a deal to buy the NX from a guy, but he backed out last minute. I really want this piano but can't afford the full store price, bumming out on that.

Could possibly help with that...pm me if interested.

I saw a forum reference about "Stretch Tuning -50-0-+50" for the RD-700NX, but it's not mentioned in the manual (or at least the PDF I found). Was this added with an update possibly? (I saw the very-manual-looking-process fine tuning control.)

get a tuner and he will stretch it up.

So with the discontinuation of the FP-7F, I wonder if the RD-700NX will be far behind ...

It's no issue for me anyway. I can't hear any such problem and nor can anyone else I talk to. All notes are completely even in tone to me. Nobody has ever complained about the piano tones, in fact quite the opposite. All the comments I have had have been admiration for the sound of the piano.

My RD 700NX was bought in August 2011 and has had both software updates applied.

Got home tonight to find that UPS left a sizable present with the family today. I was a little worried because the box was breached, but all is well. It's very nice! I can hear that little metallic twang in Concert that rises a little at certain mid velocities -- that's called character! This is a slight step up from my PX-330, one might say. And dang that thing is heavy. I do miss the on-board midi recording of the Casio (bust out the laptop, eh.) Anyways, back to grinding through the manual.

Congrats xorbe! The box to ours looked like it was kicked in, luckily the NX was fine.

You won't spend much time in the manual, the UI is quite intuitive. There are a couple of undocumented things (IIRC) which are quite handy that have to do with pressing and holding a button. The main preset buttons work this way, pick whatever voice you want and edit it, then press and hold the button and it will be stored as the default for that button.

For the SN APs, turn the reverb off and turn the sympathetic resonance up to at least 80.

I second Dewster's suggestion regarding the sym res. I've had a 300NX since it came out and even though I'm having a love/hate relationship with the board, I'm finding it rather pleasent to play after I turned up the sym res and set the key touch to 'super heavy'. The metallic noise is pretty much absent with this setting for the concert grand.

The best acoustic bass would be acoustic bass 3, it is pre-programmed in the layering, but suffers from that dreadful "click" that renders it unplayable.

Harpsichord 1 has the same click and so do a few of the tone wheel organs plus various other voices.

At 5:11 you can clearly here it on this video of an RD 300NX.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aexJrb1w55Y

Doesn't sound too bad as a "one-off" but when you play with no pedal the noise accompanies every note change and is terrible.

Acoustic Bass 1 and 2 don't suffer from it.

Time Roland fixed it.

The USB *.wav recording function uses ADC, not digital direct? I see minor random noise during silence when I pull up the data in Audacity! As in, approx 3.2 bits of noise (-9 to 9). I am going to try analog recording tonight for comparison, just for fun. [Clarification, just in case: I'm not saying this is a problem, it's just an observation!]