The acoustic piano has a good attack and if you are playing along with a band, especially with horns and bass then the lack of "fullness" especially in the lower tones, which is one way of describing the sound of the Electro's "real" pianos, won't be so problematic. The Electro 2 can fit in with a swing band. I'll ask it this way: Have you ever walked around a corner and been surprised that the sound was from an amplified electric keyboard, not from an upright or baby grand? Old school Louis Jordan, Eddie Heywood new school J.D. I'll ask it this way: Have you ever walked around a corner and been surprised that the sound was from an amplified electric keyboard, not from an upright or a baby grand? The weight of a piano weighs increasingly heavily on the situation, though Yes, partly for the finger feel of piano keys, genuine weighted-ness, In an imaginary scenario - between those two, for an imaginary gig for imaginary swing dancers this Saturday, I would choose the spinet with the microphone wedged-in. The keys are decently weighted, but, you know, not like a piano. Has a floppy disc slot It's fun to play string bass l.h.
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Have an old Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-500. Almost No-fi.įorget what we plugged it into, but it brought the piano up to equality in a sax, trumpet, electric bass, drums, electric guitar group. and the 73-key weighs only 22lbs.Ĥ5 years ago we kids stuck a primitive, wedge-shaped mic from a cheap reel-to-reel tape recorder into a gap between the sounding board and the wood columns of a spinet piano. Googled some and the Nord Electro 2 is within the budget. $500 dollars gets really good but as you pay more, you fall into the law of diminishing returns.Ī weighted key may not sound better than a high end synth action keyboard but may add to the piano experience that some players like more.Įven the shape and look of the instrument can have an effect but it’s nice to hear premium piano sounds side by side.
You almost can’t lose for nice digital piano sounds once you’re spending over $300 dollars. I have a great digital sound engine in my affordable Casio AiX which has eight times the processing power as the longtime Casio AHL engine, and I get some great Prophet 5 sounds coming out of that Casio’s new AiX engine. Realize also that from upper mid level like an $800 Yamaha MX and up can give you vintage enough sounding analog sounds, too as well as great piano tones from the once industry leading Yamaha MOTIF sound engibe. While I dont have that money I could see an $800 Yamaha MX as a piano sound and $1300 Moog DFAM and Morher-32 as an ambient analog dream machine replicating the concept of a Zen-like Buchla. My dream rig would be a $6,000 dollar Yamaha Genos or Montage for digital piano sounds and a giant $15,000 dollar Buchla for analog. Anyone considering VST piano libraries should check out Pianoteq.
I'm VERY pleased with the sounds and portability of my new rig. BOOM! Killer sound in about a 100MB instead of 14GB! Pianoteq is a modeller not a sampled piano so it doesn't have the giant sample library. Then I bought Pianoteq Stage 6 and a used Launchkey 61 midi controller. I solved my issues by selling the piano to someone who didn't care about USB. Then one day I accidentally broke the USB port on the piano. They just weren't quite as spectacular as the Casio. I could get serviceable tones out of AIR Mini Grand, Waves Grand Rhapsody, or Soundmagic Neo Piano 1. While this is effective for improving the performance, the sound of the cheap VST piano libraries I was using just wasn't quite as good as the Casio. I record midi instead of audio so I can fix the bad notes. It sounded and played GREAT! I'd buy one again if I wanted hardware.
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