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It's really cool to have a stagepiano (Kawai Mp9000) in a rack format that goes to another Digital piano (Yamaha GT20) I guess Chris liked the hammer touch and look of the GT20. You can hear that the sound has being a little processed over the years if you compare The Scientist live from Montreal 2002 and The Scientist Live from the Mylo Xyloto tour. With my new Kawai EX Pro sample library I finally got the sound that reminds most of the sound from Live 2003 concert (A Rush Of Blod To The Head Tour) When I play Politik, The Scientist and Life Is For Living It Sounds kind of exact ;) I think this have to do with the fact that Kawai Mp9000 is sampled from a Kawai EX Concert Grand and my new plugin player is also sampled from that same concert grand. I just decreased keynoises, pedal noises to make it sound cleaner. Then I increased the tone, sustain, compression and added some exciter and a small concert hall reverb. I did some EQ as well, but very little to keep the whole 88 keys really balanced :) I can upload a video when I use this sound in short. I have a youtubechannel, just search for "moonchild89" I have som Coldplay covers there. One has an original sampled Fix You organ and an explanation on how I did it, so you dont have to buy an old Korg Triton Rack ;) The piano I use is a Yamaha CP300, like the one Chris Martin used on absolute radio. Cheers! Patrik

Im so glad that this was popular thread :) jaik, I think there is a couple way of doing this. Kawai Mp9000s concert grand sound is sampled from a Kawai EX concert grand piano, so you can of course sample the sounds digital from the keyboard. Coldplay's Mp9000 piano has been auction out to the fans or something I think, but if they had a couple of them they maybe took the electronics from the keyboard and made a custom rack for it (like a compact keyboard without keys in a rack format if you know what I mean) or otherwise they just sampled it and inserted it into the rack with a computer written stripe where it stands Mp9000rac just to mark it ;). http://www.kawai.de/mp9000_en.htm Here is the way I did it: When I saw that the sound is based of a Kawai EX Concert Grand I searched for the best sample library for that instead of buy an ancient keyboard (but if I get my hands on one I probably buy it ;)) This is what i find http://acousticsamples.net/keys/kawai-ex-pro I bought this plug in and player (it requires an iLok) and a started to tweak the sounds and now it sounds identical (depends on the various EQ setting Coldplay has on the liveshow) I added some ambience, Exciter, EQ and Compression. So I now play my Coldplay songs with this sound Live on a sport bar once a week :)

That rack module is probably custom made and very old, but I think I know where his piano sound is coming from. Chris's acoustic live piano sound is probably coming from a Kawai Mp9000 Stagepiano, thats probably why it stands Mp9000 rac on that strange thing. This Kawai stagepianos has a couple of concert grand piano sounds. Miller said that Martin's piano sound came from an old keyboard he used and thats the Kawai I guess. You can also hear him play this keyboard in 2000 right before they released Parachutes just search on youtube when they play Trouble. The only thing that is different today when they got this sound transfered into the rack so he could play it on the Yamaha GT20s is that it is a little bit more compressed and has more sustain & reverb but as you probably can hear it's the same sound. Maybe you can get this sound on a Mp6or Mp10 as well. Hope this will help! Cheers! Patrik