12. ELECTRIC PIANO
Push the TYPE button n. 22 to activate the piano and start playing a little bit before
going on with the reading of this manual.
You will probably notice that playing the electric pianos of the Mojo 61 has a
particular vibe. These are not the usual samples that you've always found in all digital
keyboards since the early 80's, instead, this is a real-time synthesizer that instantly
reconstructs the sound of the electric piano while you play it, and you'll feel that it is
alive, it breathes, reacts to your playing, and behaves just like the real thing.
There are a few things that you can test to prove that we are right. First, the dynamic
response. Sampled instruments have a predetermined number of velocity layers.
Here the dynamic is practically infinite, you will hardly hear twice the same attacks.
The polyphony. The so-called
ROMplers
usually have a predetermined number of
voices that are cyclically assigned to the playing notes, and these are usually more
than the playing notes. The electric pianos in the Mojo 61 don't need to allocate
extra voices because they behave just like the real thing, there's one moving element
per key, so 88 playing keys = 88 voices (or 64 for the reed piano).
If you haven't connected a sustain pedal to your Mojo 61 we invite you do to so now.
Now put your foot on the sustain pedal and keep it depressed, then play a
ribattuto
(keep playing the same note). You will notice some timbral changes due to the fact
that an element is vibrating (a tine or a reed) and the hammer continues to put it into
vibration, but sometimes the hammer happens to accelerate the vibration, other
times it happens to dampen it. Also the attack sound changes every time, because
you're virtually stimulating something that is already moving.
Resonances. An electric piano, just like an acoustic piano, has an harp and a
soundboard where metallic elements are put into vibration and, in turn, transmit
their vibration to the other elements. This is called “sympathetic” resonance. Try this:
play a note in the treble register (for example the last D), now push the sustain pedal
and keep playing that note. You will notice that all other tines (or reeds) are put into
vibration.
There is more, but we are confident that now you get the picture. Now back to the
boring technical stuff. Won't you miss the effects?
Switching between the “Tine” and the “Reed” piano is done from the Editor web-app
but can also be done using a button shortcut explained later in this manual.
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