Which digital pianos

Yamaha, Kawai will use their own instruments to record samples for their digital pianos. Other manufacturers e. It may be Steinway, Yamaha, Kawai, or something else.

I doubt Steinway in particular will let anyone sample their grands seeing as how they are super big on protecting the brand. Every piano must have steinway parts installed by a steinway technician at a steinway factory and be maintained by Steinway.

I mean, they really drive the point home. Just from that outsider knowledge on their business model, I doubt they let anyone sample it. Anyway, This article was great. I recently bought an FP30 and I love the feel of the keys but the sound does feel a bit muffled. Or should I return it and go for a different digital piano? Any you would recommend? This is something that most entry-level and even some mid-range digital pianos are guilty of. Headphones are obviously cheaper and easier to set up, but depending on your needs, monitor speakers or even PA speakers might be your preferred choice.

I am being offered 2 option for a console piano. The AP celviano and the PX Which one should i get? What you could suggest me? Both are good options for a beginner. What do you think? Thank you in advance. Of course, it depends on which acoustic piano you have and which silent system you want to install.

I am an intermediate piano player. I have had regular upright piano before, so this would be my first digital piano. Hi, there are a few improvements in the new CLP-7xx series, including the slightly tweaked key action mechanisms, and the new improved sound engine with binaural samples available for the Bosendorfer tone. Apart from that, they are very similar as far as piano playing goes. Of course, the CSP comes with many more styles, songs and sounds than the CLP but the question is whether you need all of that.

Also, note that the CSP requires a smart device to be connected to use most of its features. Hi, thank you for your kind reply! I had an opportunity to test these pianos, and I decided to go for Kawai CA59 instead. The feeling and touch with the CA59 was much better for me if compared to Yamaha.

Yamaha was also really nice but for me the Kawai felt more realistic. It reminds me the touch I have get used to while playing real acoustic piano. The sound with headphones was also richer, and I probably will play most of my time with headphones.

You are also right, I might not need all of those fancy sounds since I like most the genuine sound of a grand piano or an upright piano. Hi Lucas. I hope you can help me. I had a hard time understanding which of these, if any, offered that as a feature.

Yes, as John pointed out, pretty much every modern digital piano comes with a headphone jack, sometimes even more than one. We both miss it very much and want to get back into playing. A keyboard that can be folded up, cased, and slid into a closet for storage between use. We really want that weighted keyboard feeling of a regular piano I saw a Steinway add on or plugin mentioned 3.

Her birthday is Feb 7 so I have a little time. Like in half? The the closest to that are hybrid digital pianos but even then an experienced pianist will notice the difference. Most of the noise-canceling headphones that I saw are wireless, which is less than ideal because even if you manage to connect them to your digital piano, latency will be a deal-breaker. Thank you so much for this list!! Glad to hear you found the article helpful! Hey Nada, these are very old digital pianos that were in production in the early s.

Hey Lucas. I hope you are well. Thank You Regard. Have you had a chance to review the Nord Grand piano? If so, was there a reason not to include in this review? With the wood stand, I feel this combination could compete in sound, be an attractive piece to keep in the home, and still be less expensive than virtually all new acoustic pianos.

By far the most most most important thing to me is the weighted feel, to make the keyboard feel as much like an acoustic piano as possible. I have looked through many reviews though it seems the 61 key digital keyboards all seem to lack this feature in exchange for others. Is this true? What would be your recommendation for a 61 key digital piano or keyboard that feels the most like an acoustic piano? Thank you for this great list!

I am a college student looking to buy a good digital keyboard to continue to practice in my dorm. I have played for years and have grown up playing grand pianos, so would this be a good option for me, or do you think the action of the digital keyboard would be too noticeably different from a grand piano? Are there other options in this mid-range that might be good choices? Or you could rely on headphones. ES plus some VST software would definitely run you a lot less than the Nord, and you get the decent speakers and whatever piano samples you like.

Sounds like a pretty good choice to me! I did forget to mention that Dexibell is the other player in this space with really excellent piano tones, IMO. It would be nice of you if you rank them from best to least Thanks. I wonder if you got to try the Roland F and how it feels compared to models such as the Korg G1 which seems to be discontinued or something or YDP54 from Yamaha… three of them very appealing regarding design by the way. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail.

As you can see, there are plenty of good places where you can buy this item. My personal favorite is Sweetwater. Many of my fellow musicians share the same opinion and regard Sweetwater as their go-to music store.

Sweetwater Guitar Center Amazon. Full Top List. Sweetwater Amazon. Guitar Center Amazon. Sweetwater Guitar Center. Which one would you suggest? Lucas Welter February 21, Hi Ken, What are you buying an instrument for? Phil Price February 12, Michael E Topel April 21, Lucas Welter April 24, Frank November 11, May April 22, Hi Lucas I recently bought an FP30 and I love the feel of the keys but the sound does feel a bit muffled.

Hi May, This is something that most entry-level and even some mid-range digital pianos are guilty of. Ziad August 4, Roger October 29, Lucas Welter November 12, Roger November 13, Thank you Lucas. Finally I chose B2. Lucas Welter November 20, Lucas Welter November 19, Lucas Welter November 21, Lucas Welter December 3, Chris December 9, John December 26, Almost all of these offer the ability to use a headphone.

Lucas Welter December 30, Casio introduced this new action with the S line a couple of years ago. In contrast to the tri-hammer scaled hammer action on the PX, the CDP-S has only two sensors for each key likely due to the slim design , which together give it slightly less control and response. We also wish that the CDP-S as well as other keyboards in this price range came with left and right quarter-inch audio outputs so that it would be more useful with external amplifiers. The CDP-S has only a single 3.

The action is some of the best you can find for the price and includes escapement, which on an acoustic piano is when the hammer drops away from the string after hitting it; the moment it happens is something you can feel on an acoustic piano, and Roland simulates the effect here.

The sound engine, which comes with 15 built-in sounds, also replicates all the noises a piano creates when you play it—not just the notes produced by the hammers hitting the strings. These noises include the string vibrations that happen as the player depresses the damper pedal and the damper moves away from the strings.

Unfortunately, the physical controls for the FP leave much to be desired Brent disliked them quite a bit. Like the Casio, this Roland model lacks a digital display, but making adjustments manually is less intuitive on this piano. It displays volume via a series of lights that slowly get brighter and fill up as you press the button to make the volume louder, which is considerably less accurate and slower than turning the knob on the Casio.

It connects to the keyboard via Bluetooth no need for an extra cable as on the Casio piano , and through it you can easily adjust every parameter, including sound selection, volume, and metronome settings. And at just under 28 pounds, the Roland is still relatively light, albeit a few pounds heavier than the Casio.

The main problem with the Roland FP is its lack of availability. In the meantime, if you happen to come across this piano online or in a local store, I recommend picking it up over the Casio CDP-S The Alesis Recital Pro is by far the easiest to use of the digital pianos we tested, which may be especially important for beginners. You handle all instrument selection with six buttons on the console two sounds per button.

In our tests, the piano sound was pretty good, but it was missing the depth and character that we got from the more expensive options. It never sounded particularly full, and the note decay how long a note takes to diminish to nothing while the player depresses the sustain pedal was much faster than that of an acoustic piano.

The sound effects, on the other hand, are great, and the Recital Pro has a lot of them: eight different reverbs, eight choruses, and three modulation effects tremolo, vibrato, and rotary speaker. The keyboard keeps your effect settings for each of the 12 sounds in memory, so it restores them when you choose that sound again or turn the keyboard off and then on. These effects are likely to be less important and useful for a beginner than basic sounds, though they might appeal to someone looking for an inexpensive performance piano.

Unlike our other picks, the Alesis Recital Pro does not come with a sustain pedal of any sort. Alesis offers no companion app for the Recital Pro.

The music desk is a wire-style stand. Brent commented that the simplistic piano sound lacked detail. The Artesia PAH is a decent keyboard, but nothing about it stood out enough for us to put it above any of our picks.

Before the pandemic I tried a Korg B2 at a local music store and found that it offered a small improvement over the previously tested and now discontinued B1. But although this Roland model has nice-sounding samples, it lacks weighted keys, which are important for beginners to learn on so that the transition to an acoustic piano is easier.

The Amazon-exclusive P71 is reportedly the same piano as the P, so we did not test it. Some are excellent, but a huge number of its sound effects are more of a novelty laughter, a roller coaster, a machine gun. Our pick. Roland FP Great, if you can find it The FP offers the best playability and piano sounds for the price, but its availability has ranged from limited to nonexistent.

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