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Damaged coda virtual piano4/17/2024 I just received a catalog from Sweetwater that listed all the weights of their digital pianos. With my back, the weight of instruments and amps is really, really important. The biggest selling point for me is weight, or, more specifically, lack of weight, and I know Sweetwater can verify this info for me before they ship it out. I may be the only one on the pre-order list at Sweetwater for this, but here is why I am pre-ordering this piano. We're all beta testers in the tech world. You could say the same about Kawai, Korg, Roland, Yamaha and the rest of them. On the other hand, with the way things have been in recent years. However, I wouldn't recommend being a first adopter only because we also know from past experience that they rarely get their firmware and features complete right out of the gate. I think most here will agree that Alesis has historically been able to bring decent products to market at a reasonable price point. My guess is they went with SoniVox for their electro-mechanical keyboard sounds. If you're a ProTools user you'll be familiar with AIR's MiniGrand and xPand!2 sample player, the sounds are good and definitely usable. On the Fusion they licensed their piano sound from Q Up Arts Holy Grail and in this latest Coda line they are licensing the piano sound from AIR Music Technology and SoniVox. The 8 also had weighted action and I'm going to assume after touch (since they never seem to offer much info in their tech specs about where they get their actions from, best guess is its Fatar, but who knows). Or more recently they had the Fusion (6 and 8). The 8 had a hammer weighted action with velocity, release velocity, and after touch. Alesis has been in the keyboard game before.
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