KORG NAUTILUS DEMO - All New Pianos Explored

[@jgh548]

SGX-2 is a great piano engine. You can really craft a beautiful and authentic piano sound. I've spent a long time with it on my Kronos and I love it. Very accessible. Hours of fun for tweakers.

[@burningbusch]

Yes, the German D, Japanese, Austrian are optional libraries and not included in the base Nautilus. You can demo the string resonance by playing a C chord (middle C) as lightly as possible and hold that (you want it to be silent). Now forcefully strike a low C. The C chord should now resonante.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi, thanks for stopping by and for the info!

[@ace1usmc]

Just wanted to say thank you for all the Nautilus videos you've taken such great care and time to make. Your videos are the primary reason why I just pulled the trigger on getting a Nautilus 88. It just arrived today (3/2/2022), and I can't wait to start playing it. I've been using my Triton Studio 88's for 20 years now. It was time to step up to a new 'board.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

you're welcome. wow! you'll be having some fun then, congrats!

[@Culture_of_Ghosts]

So many great all-in-one instruments currently available, seriously considering having a synth sale and going down this route

[@bblas5199]

Very much appreciating these Nautilus videos, helps me to decide about getting one of these excellent keyboards. Thanks, Woody

[@WoodyPianoShack]

that's what i'm here for :p

[@edjones3390]

No intention of buying a piano - just enjoying your playing :)

[@Moigle1]

Thank you. The HD1 piano sample is also quite good, and hidden away. I prefer it to the German D. The Italian is stellar.

[@ringodingo6945]

Great showcasing of this great set of keys. I was particularly pulled in by the Italian grand. Also love it's colourful display.

[@PaulLeBlanc4u]

I have to say, I love the sounds, not a one of them made me wince. Clear, lots of resonance, and lots of programming variety it seems. Great video Woody. Well done.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

wince!? lol, probably my bum notes :)

[@davidmartin123]

Good exploration of the various piano sounds and settings on the Nautilus. I owned a 6'1" grand piano for many years, and to me the Damper effect is one of the most important to include to create a realistic piano sound. Many of the programs appear to be variations of the same sound samples with different envelopes, settings, effects, and EQ. This is actually a good thing because the color of the sound can change significantly with different effects chained together. Optimizing the volume and effect levels, parameters, and EQ is required, else you can end up with a sound that overloads the available headroom in the internal signal path (especially when layering with other sounds) resulting in unwanted artifacts like buzzing, ringing, noise. So it's good to have many variations provided up-front as presets with appropriate settings implemented by Korg sound designers.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thanks for you insight david! :)

[@truthmanifestingtruth]

Yes, Woody ! Thanks, Buddy for “Back in the high life!” 👍🏾😁

[@WoodyPianoShack]

You bet!

[@jithinjoseph1057]

Good playing Woody🔥. Sounds are mind blowing 🎉

[@stevehofer3482]

A variety of nice pianos. Nice playing, Woody. I liked the Italian best.

[@mh22xv]

Hej Woody! Thanks for the great vids on the Nauti. I bought the 73. Love it. But man the font is small in the menus... wish there was a way to up the font size or just have some zoom steps on every page, not just in the set list. All the best ! MH

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi MH! Cool that others are receiving their nauts now, congrats to you! was playing mine today, and yes, I know what you mean. those japanese engineers have good eyes. i always need a magnifying glass close to hand, that's all you can do. the UI is disastrous for people with less than perfect eyesight, similar issue on my MODX.

[@yiannischartzoulakis]

How does feel the keybad of 66 and 73- key version of Nautilus? has exactly the same keybad with Krome ex, or at Nautilus is better? I have a 61-key Triton Studio and i love its keybad, but i hate the keybad at Krome..

[@Nik.leonard]

There is a chance of a Tubular Bells showdown between the Nautilus and the ModX like in the old times?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

great minds think alike but i can't my my midi files, man, nearly 5 years ago!

[@thatlovejones]

Sounds great, may I ask what you are playing through, going straight to computer, monitors....? Thanks. ..

[@WoodyPianoShack]

hi, thanks, going straight into PC audio interface, I'm monitoring the interface with headphones

[@prebsi8603]

Thanks for the Oldfield music ❤️

[@WoodyPianoShack]

happened to watch a documentary recently!

[@ChrisP3000x]

Pianos sound good.

[@jz6461]

Thanks for the video. If you have the time could you do a detailed demo of the other EXs libraries onboard the Nautilus. KORG’s Voice Name list shows how for instance the guitars are deeply sampled so I am very curious how they sound. Thank you.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

ok, i will look into that, personally I'm never interested in non-keyboard acoustic sounds.

[@arcanics1971]

The Japanese Small Basic sound really grabbed me- which is a surprise as I tend to prefer the deeper, darker ones normally. Of course, the grands are fantastic- the Italian one was beautiful - again I tend towards the "German" sound in my normal taste but this grabbed me, as did its studio version. Very nice indeed. But the uprights are my faves usually, I wish you'd played more but I enjoyed what we got non the less.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

so glad you enjoyed it, any more of 20 minutes piano demo is pushing my repertoire and the patience of most viewers :D

[@arcanics1971]

@@WoodyPianoShack Fair enough. Feel free to do more on Patreon! ;)

[@ageshero]

The dynamic range seems to be very different than the nords- I’d love to see a deep comparison between the pianos here vs Nord

[@cresshead]

excellent idea

[@garzoroberto7623]

Excellent demonstration Woody of the PIANO sounds of the new KORG Nautilus, thank you -- can you let me know please, once you're aware when KORG will be updating the Nautilus with the anticipated additional sampled Pianos, as I would then consider buying the 76 note model. Have a happy and safe Xmas-New Year Season with family and friends. Cheers, Garzo

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i will probably do a video when any new sampled pianos are released!

[@ian757]

Thanks for a very interesting and useful video Woody. I hope you hadn’t had a row with the Mrs before you started this recording judgment by your Madness noodling! 😃

[@WoodyPianoShack]

actually no, but glad you spotted the reference! one of the first pop songs i remember learning from the sheet music back then, when buying sheet music was a major event! those good old days :D

[@eaglechildkeys]

Great pianos Woody. About the Electric Ones....If you have to choose between the MODX EPS or NAUTILUS, which do you like the most? Hope I have the chance to play the Nautilus soon in music store :)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

for onboard e-piano, i think the naut takes it, on sheer sample size and realism, all the little details, key off etc are there. there are however some fantastic expansion e-piano for the modx 1gb flash memory, but again, the naut with it's 60gb disk has potential to be better.

[@JamesDory]

It's depending on your style of music mate. I do love MODX EPS because personally the AWM2 engine is better than EP-1 (Korg). It's personality usage. No offense.

[@eaglechildkeys]

Ok! Thanks for the feedback guys! ;-))

[@tonylancer7367]

The EPs on the recent Korgs are fantastic, I wish the EPs sounded so creamy like the way they on the Korg on the Yamaha.

[@xp50player]

I like the new early Rhodes in the Nautuls, but the other Kronos- derived EP-1 sounds don’t do it for me. Not enough low end fart, or bell tone. I prefer the Purgatory Creek samples for the HD-1 engine, which use 16 velocity layers.

[@hhderuijter]

Thank you Woody. There a some gorgeous acoustic piano samples in the Nautilus. I also like the way they are presented in the interface. That gives you more “connection” with the instrument. The Italian Grand is by far my favorite too. Very nice playing by the way ;-). Have you considered connecting your 88 key weighted midi keyboard to the Naultilus? I know your first priority is to discover and demonstrate the keyboard as it is, but I think it would also be interesting to compare the differences when playing the acoustic and electric pianos. Thanks again and keep them coming!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

the only weighted I have is my p121, which lacks midi out, totally sucks! maybe the nautilus is clever enough to detect it on it's usb device port...

[@hhderuijter]

@@WoodyPianoShackI see, so that Roland A88 had to be returned. That's too bad!

[@AliaksejKa]

You can simply plug any keyboard to usb port of kronos/nautilus​@@WoodyPianoShack

[@barbodboloukat9782]

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[@WoodyPianoShack]

so you like the new nautilus then? :p ;)

[@verysynthesizer5972]

Great Demo ... and great sound. What do you think about the 7" touch screen ? it seems slow in response ?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

response time not an issue, but you do need good eyesight if you want to do any parameter editing, which I don't have, so it's challenging.

[@MaxThompsonMusic]

I kind of get the impression that the Nautilus Grand is intended to have really good mono-compatibility. Definitely not my favorite in stereo, but it will probably be nice in a live band in mono. It seems the close-mic is in mono or very narrow.

[@burningbusch]

Yes, when you look at the multi-samples in the Voice Name List they do not show as you would expect for a stereo sample with both -L and -R samples. So my impression is the main German2 (Nautilus) is mono with the FAR samples providing stereo when added in to the mix.

[@MaxThompsonMusic]

@@burningbusch An interesting decision. It isn't clear from the Voice Name List, but does the Nautilus still have the original German D grand (my understanding is that this Nautilus grand/German D 2 is a re-recording of the same piano)? If so, it would actually be nice to have a solid mono variant of that piano as I know from my Krome that it isn't the best in mono.

[@burningbusch]

​@@MaxThompsonMusic The Nautilus does not have the German D samples found in the Kronos. It shows this as an option that will be available at some point. I don't know if the Nautilus German and the Kronos German are the same physical piano, just recorded differently.

[@SuperSy99]

Mono is good specialy when the stupid technician gives me mono monitor but keep insisting to connect in stereo output with mono monitor.live band always conflict with tech specialy when a tech was a former waiter in the bar

[@MaxThompsonMusic]

@@burningbusch Okay, thanks.

[@ageshero]

I wonder if korg could implement even more detailed pianos into the nautilus? It seems nord still has a leg up

[@WoodyPianoShack]

there are some extra pianos you can purchase from korg store and install, maybe those are more detailed...

[@drtolgaege]

How about boot time?? Long as kronos?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

yes

[@robertmichalscheck3072]

@@WoodyPianoShack how long is boot time?

[@andreasilvestri1696]

hello woody, I always follow your videos with pleasure, always very clear and exhaustive .. I have an opinion to ask you: I play in an amateur way and since I'm 55 I am passionate about 80s music but I do not disdain the 70s .. I have a CP70, a NE4HP and a NS2ex compact .. now I would like a synth and I can't decide between Prologue 16, Rev 2 or the previous Prophet 08 .. in your opinion which one could fit better in my instruments? Thanks and best wishes

[@Denvermorgan2000]

Nice Pianos.

[@PaulLeBlanc4u]

How is the keybed?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

quite nice

[@davidpearson8378]

Does it support all three piano pedals?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

no idea, check manual?

[@ludovicBerquin]

The berlin, austrian grands are libraries already available for the korg kronos (korg shopping). There you have gigabytes of samples available for the kronos, some of them are free (Bolder sound, kapro EXS18 and 19) . Berlin, Austrian libraries are fantastic sounding pianos. My preferred being the Berlin grand. The italian grand is also really realistic. Coming to the resonnance: it’s real sympathetic resonnance, only works if you play harmonics,... you play a C2 and the hit briefly a C4, G4,B4, (try many),...then you will hear on a real piano C (and relatives ) harmonics and subharmonics sparkeled by the C2 strings,... it works the same on the kronos. And I guess,..the nautilus. Hope this helps.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

are those paid expansion libraries you mean? thanks for clearing up some of the resonance confusion, it's a bit fuzzy for me. (understatement).

[@xp50player]

The spec sheet for the Nautilus says that references to the earlier Kronos pianos are in the Nautilus, but the sample sets (EXs files) are not. They will be an option in the future. I’m sure this was done to save usage of the limited amount of supported RAM , the biggest limitation of this architecture.

[@ludovicBerquin]

@@xp50player I don't know how the nautilus will deal with memory. But the kronos use streaming to load a huge amout ouf 35 gigabytes of samples in one shot. This is achieved in my kronos with only 2 gig of free sample RAM. From what I read the nautilus has the same sample streaming technology. Also, audio track are streamed straight away from the hard drive. This capabilities are unique to the kronos and now the nautilus.

[@ludovicBerquin]

@@WoodyPianoShack yes, correct, those are paid and sometimes offered EXs sample libraries. Depending on the kronos version you buy, korg created new sample libraries with specific piano preloaded and then made available for other kronos user (even kronos 1 user from early 2010 can still load them) of course you need to buy them. They made the limited Edition Red kronos SE, with the italian grand,...

[@xp50player]

@@ludovicBerquin - the Nautilus is streaming as well, but they added a lot of new content, and if they kept all the old pianos, there wouldn’t be much preload RAM left for user or optional libraries.

[@Benqo]

The Italian piano is nice. But the Nautilus Grand is soooo muddy. Hey, Mr. Woody, what about demoing/reviewing Kurzweil PC4? 😉

[@jameskerr9509]

I though it was just me that thought so

[@MacXpert74]

I agree. It's kind of strange that Nord can get their piano's to sound much better despite using way less memory space for it.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

maybe you're not liking the room ambience mix? it can be dialled back. Kurz not really a popular or common brand here in europe.

[@Benqo]

@@WoodyPianoShack I thought the basic non eq-ed sound. Too much bass frequencies imho. I know some Korg users and they say the pianos are good, but unusable when playing with a band, they don´t cut through the mix well. But to be honest, I like the color of Korg´s pianos. Btw. as a Kurzweil player I have to say, that Kurzweils cut through the mix without problems. I am a member of several Kurz´s groups and there are many users form the Europe (incliding me ;) ). Maybe the people don´t know Kurzweils because their workstations (now I am not talking about their digital pianos that are most popular in Asia) were used by professional musicians. Mr. Woody, you are a cool guy, it would be nice if you put your fingers on Kurzweil Forte or PC4, or even on PC4-7, that should be available in January ;) Btw. thank you for the reviews :)

[@jameskerr9509]

@@WoodyPianoShack Kurz seems to have faded into the background because once they were the bomb and where Nord is now. I have Korg X50 and need to update. Not sure I should go for a great piano or a great synth with a decent piano.

[@corneliusmulhollandmusic3570]

How his the keybed in regard to the hinge point? ie How long are the keys? We should have a campaign for long keys and go protest at the NAMM show.... 😁😁

[@WoodyPianoShack]

not as long as kronos, but acceptable. not premium, just standard.

[@ronelgogoi]

Hey woody I follow your videos so much. I got a Nautilus. Could you plz make a video on connecting it to a Window pc. Else kindly write the steps here to connect to FL STUDIO please..... Like the steps

[@WoodyPianoShack]

what are you trying to do, midi or audio recording? for both you can use the built-in usb audio/midi interface, just connect synth to pc with usb, after installing drivers.

[@ronelgogoi]

@@WoodyPianoShack I want to record the sounds of the nautilus in pc..i have installed the nautilus driver. Is there any option we need to turn it on / off in Nautilus global mode . Like if we want inbuilt sound to rec in Daw and sometimes Daw software sounds played using Nautilus as controller.. I am using fl studio.

[@celtickendall]

Really, a Top Gear closing? Haha! Gotta admit some of these piano samples are nice, though! That Fazioli in particular. I'd speculate that the Austrian will be a Bösendorfer, and the Berlin is either a C Bechstein or (more likely) a Bluthner. Whichever they sampled for their SV2 and Grandstage keyboards.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

yep, you probably nailed it!

[@xp50player]

The Berlin came with the Kronos 2, and the Austrian has been an option since the 1st Kronos came out. All are in the GrandStage, along with the Italian and presumably this Japanese Upright in the Nautilus.

[@jonathanc.r2474]

hello... is it true that the nautilus has the same keys as the kronos?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

not true, completely different, and for example kronos has aftertouch, and even nicer quality.

[@jonathanc.r2474]

@@WoodyPianoShack Regardless of the aftertouch, I mean the feel, to the touch, how does it feel compared to Kronos? I had kronos 61 and sold it. I need to know how the nautilus feels so I can decide to buy it

[@WoodyPianoShack]

@@jonathanc.r2474 sorry, I don't have much experience of kronos, and anyway, can't really describe action in words, except to say Naut is cheaper action and likely inferior to a flagship model.

[@jonathanc.r2474]

@@WoodyPianoShack Thank's Woody

[@Jacob_Shouse1984]

Can I ask a Q why does the piano look like it’s barely an inch thick? I saw other ppl play it and it looked thicker sitting on a stand? I’m confused!

[@WoodyPianoShack]

i have no clue it is about 4 inches i would guess

[@cresshead]

japanese modelled after a yamaha or a kawai?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

safe to assume yamaha, the small grand has "C" in the name, the upright has "U", plus korg have been known to collaborate with yamaha.

[@amrsbadawi]

Hello, does it have a sequencer?

[@darrickkeels6387]

Yes it does

[@daeone1514]

Fasho. Program, combi, sequence

[@tonylancer7367]

19:45 Weren't you supposed to play the song by Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You? 😅

[@WoodyPianoShack]

never heard of it, more proof that i'm an old fart.

[@tonylancer7367]

@@WoodyPianoShack Well then, let's listen to it and play it in the next video! It's a really good song.

[@xp50player]

Heard some Heart “These Dreams” in there.😋

[@SergioCeccherini]

Nice demo, but the pianos tend to sound as though the keys are being struck hard. I've seen a video somewhere where the velocity curve is dialed back and (to my ears anyway) the pianos have much more variety of tone. Love your videos!

[@arcanics1971]

As with all top end boards, you can alter the velocity. There's 12 layers and you can also increase and decrease each level by increments (although it's unlikely you would need to as the 12 levels cover a wide spectrum and the average concert pianist only uses 5 or 6 different velocities.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

this is where the dynamics knob comes in really handy, i did start dialing it back towards the end of my experimentations, works an absolute treat!

[@SergioCeccherini]

@@WoodyPianoShack Thanks for the reply Woody. The dynamics control is in fact what I must have seen, and it does make a difference. I'm presuming it's some sort of velocity control?

[@mrdali67]

About the String ressonance / Sympathetic ressonance. When you Press a key on a real piano and hold it down / use the damper pedal you lift the filt from the string so it can ressonance. So you press eg a C0 and C1 with left hand, hold it down and now play a melody line with the right hand. these 2 bass strings will now ressonance together with the ones you play with the right hand and vice versa, and will keep ressonancing even the sound has died out. Thats what the graphics is showing in the didplay. it shows wich strings are triggered indirectly from the strings you play. About the Half Damper pedal, you need a special damper pedal that is made with a potmeter instead of a switch to trigger half damper mode. If its switched on it will work if you use a half damper pedal. The instrument will auto detect wether you use one or the other. Try play a really short two handed chord and hit the damper pedal just after you release the key. it will trigger the ressonance just like a real Piano as all the strings should now pick up the ressonance from the sound board and you should also see the graphics for the ressonance. This is how it works on the Kronos so it should be the same with the Nautilus.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thanks for the explanation! the thing that puzzled me here is that the graphic only showed resonating notes when I was *not* pressing the damper pedal! i do have a continuous damper pedal btw

[@finnyboy82]

Plus you had the dial for it at 12 which is really low

[@beetleworx]

Hell, what does 3:42 - 3:56 remind me of ?!

[@xp50player]

Tubular Bells

[@juranirmagaiver4116]

Boa tarde você acha o piano dele mesma coisa do zero um bar ww que eu acho que parece um cadinho 01 para w da cog

[@csl4159]

Madness - My Girl?! I hear it

[@cresshead]

"piano madness" :)

[@WoodyPianoShack]

a couple of you picking up on this! next time, our house and driving in my car, although those have some pretty complex chord progressions, those nutty boys had some chops!

[@jonathandossantossilva2683]

Esses sons estão iguais a samples kontakt

[@equinoxpete]

Check out the piano on the Korg I3. You may not have as much control with them, but to my ears they sound better than the ones he's playing in this video. Don't get me wrong, I love to tweak. but if I have to spend tons of time to get a very good piano sound in this day and age is not for me. Who's got all that time.

[@lqr824]

Excellent walk-through, thanks! (Also nice playing!) Two questions: 1) does it have poorly-maintained pianos, possibly including honky-tonk? 2) I heard there was a special titanium edition with one extra grand, I thought it was the Faz but if the standard has the Faz, then the Titanium has I guess a Bosendorfer? Is there a way to load that into the regular model?

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thank you, there's a honky tonk in there but nothing to write home about, no "living room" style pianos that are typically slightly out of tune, there is an upright that I probably demonstrated here. I showed all the pianos that are currently available, the titanium I have not seen in the voice list and no way to download and load that i am aware of.

[@cremersalex]

Mike Oldfield!

[@PeterWalkerHP16c]

The Korg does sound nice (as far as it can over YT) but $4,500 for another synth? The key bed seems not as good as the Fatar TP/40WOOD and anyway it's probably a nightmare for B3 organ grinders and percussion work or Wurli birds. I still hold to Pianoteq and the SL88 Grand combination as state of the art. A length and a half to XLN Addictive Keys for second place.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

4500 in which currency?

[@PeterWalkerHP16c]

@@WoodyPianoShack AUDwww.bettermusic.com.au/korg-nautilus-88

[@harkerroland9750]

Well this thing is out of my league... i prefer buy software vst piano than buy this kronos alike.. btw nice skill playing sir

[@WoodyPianoShack]

thank you, yeah for pianos, the software libraries are a fantastic alternative, I love mine too. for giggers, you can't beat a hardware workstation, imho.

[@mercesletifer1707]

hoping that other sound libaties are free for download, besides this is sn expensive board

[@sidylima1984]

sound mono?

[@a.h.2858]

Bad earphones?

[@sidylima1984]

@@a.h.2858 No

[@Moigle1]

Stereo here.

[@masterpatric07]

Korg always had way better painois than Yamaha

[@kelvinperez8845]

hi woody, i would love a video showing the combination mode. In my opinion the pianos that you showed in this video I honestly did not like, they sound very high-pitched and annoy the ear, I am listening through headphones and they sound horrible.

[@WoodyPianoShack]

ouch! ok, i have plenty of combi demos coming.

[@kelvinperez8845]

@@WoodyPianoShack Woody you play incredible about that there is no doubt, I speak about the korg, that I feel that the korg does not sound like modx when it comes to pianos, I am eager to hear the combinations because, I am super interested in the korg but the pianos left me with a bitter taste, the combi may save my purchase haha.

[@a.h.2858]

Bad earphones? This was one of the best synth Pianos i've ever heard. Kicks all the asses out there...yamaha, Nord, espacially roland😅

[@rubenluna621]

I have ll of that on a cheap laptop,vst and a great yamaha controller.....ll never spend thousands on a hardwrae keyboard ever again

[@aquaticborealis4877]

Too expensive for me.

[@dirkkeersmaekers4343]

I still prefer the piano's of the PC4

[@korgpamadrid]

Muy feo el modelo,parece un barco ,el único que tiene bonito es la pantalla, ojalá si se escucha como el kronos Soy muy curioso verlo un video demostrando si es como el kronos

[@mehranmokhtarzadeh2770]

Kronos 2 piano is richer