Yeah, I had a small production issue with mine (some misaligned knobs), so when I wrote to them about that, they mentioned the firmware update.
I also mentioned that if they ever made a Pianophonic+ with more CV inputs, I’d be an automatic presale.
I’ve mostly been using it to make quasi-acoustic string sounds using the piano wavetables, stretched out.
Have you used the Waveslicer ?
Yeah increasing the CV interface makes a lot of sense in general.
Not yet. I kind of bought it for the sounds they already put in it – the piano samples sound good; I do a lot with piano already; this is easier for a lot of applications than routing my digital piano into the rack – so the Waveslicer is more of a perk than a reason for me. Probably at some point I’ll throw a vocal sample into it to see what happens, but I’m not in a rush.
Still not using Waveslicer, but I thought you might appreciate an example of the Pianophonic. This example uses one of the piano presets. I am sequencing it through a ZOIA patch, and the output is going into another granular effect ZOIA patch (this ZOIA is bypassed for the first minute or so). Throughout, I am adjusting different parameters, but primarily the “attack” knob, which transitions between more percussive, piano sounds, and swelling “string” sounds.