Hi everyone, Been srewing with tascams piano for a couple of days. First I must admit my gear meets the MINIMUM requirements for this cpu hog. It installed easily enough and the standalone is working, BUT- only if close the fancy "mic" section down. I noticed and then discovered through some research that it actually uses 2 samples for each note activated. (something to do with the sustain pedal positions).You can change the polyphony to up to 256 in the setup panel as well as your audio devices. but still run into the same problem mentioned in the earlier post above. after a very short sprint on a relativly easy passage the notes start "cascading" behind your playing and trickle down untill they are done.. (probably works nicely on a 3 gig cpu). I also noticed a "puffing" or "thumping" type noise, like having a live mic setting on your keyboard while your playing is my best description. again,it might be a lack of horsepower on my system, athelon 1.8 gig, 2megs memory, but it says it will work with that. So I'm wondering if it is related to thier attempt to emulate the movement of the actual moving parts (pedals) of the instrumnet (?) It's a shame, really, because the actual sound is very realistic. The vst portion also works, but unless you have a VERY powerful system to run it on, you could not possibly use it in conjuction with a complete song and vst setup in any normal manner. The best I could do with shutting most portions of the instruments features down is 25% cpu load AT IDLE. play more than 8 notes and your tripping it out. with the module at normal settings, it runs at 48% cpu load AT IDLE. doesn't leave much room for anything else. Not knocking it, just putting in my findings so far. Would appreciate any other info and testing from anyone.
