But what having more levels gives you is the randomness of an acoustic. While you can't repetitively hit volume 35.3 over and over and over again, it does mean it won't continually play at 33/33/33/33 when only a precision assembly-line robot could repeat the keys in that manner.
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I'm not sure if Pianoteq is capable of receiving high resolution MIDI, but this is the thing of the future. 16,256 velocity values instead of 127.
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Yes, Pianoteq receives the "high-resolution" MIDI velocity values -- they show as "35.84", etc.
Whether _any_ pianist can reliably control his touch to more than 127 (low-resolution) values -- I suspect not. So the "feature" may have no effect on how well the music comes out.
. Charles
]]>lenuam wrote:Those are definitely some striking arguments in favor of the Casio...hmmm, guess I'll have to save a little more, haha.
You said your budget was $400-500. The street price for the PX-150 is $499, and I'm sure you can find new ones cheaper and used ones for even less.
The PX-150 is a good choice is you are using it as a controller for Pianoteq. If you are not using it as a controller, it has a few minuses. No dedicated audio outs, just two headphone outputs. To perform a lot of functions like transpose and operating the metronome, you have to use a combination of buttons and keys.
True, it's just that it appears to be a bit more expensive here in Germany. But the extra charge in comparison to the Yamaha or the Korg isn't huge by any means and seems to be more than justified by all the features you guys mentioned.
Yeah I suppose I'd really use it mainly as a controller, I guess none of the digital/stage pianos in this price range are perfect on their own. I guess I would only use it on its own when I don't feel like using all the gear tech required to run Pianoteq.
]]>Those are definitely some striking arguments in favor of the Casio...hmmm, guess I'll have to save a little more, haha.
You said your budget was $400-500. The street price for the PX-150 is $499, and I'm sure you can find new ones cheaper and used ones for even less.
The PX-150 is a good choice is you are using it as a controller for Pianoteq. If you are not using it as a controller, it has a few minuses. No dedicated audio outs, just two headphone outputs. To perform a lot of functions like transpose and operating the metronome, you have to use a combination of buttons and keys.
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Joe
]]>I have the Casio PX-350. I'd like to buy the Kawai VPC-1, but it's not in my budget.
]]>Another vote for Casio !
I know the CDP200 from Casio, it's a good keyboard but if you can buy a Studiologic Numanano it's really, really better.
The price is most expensive in new but in bargain it's possible to find this keyboard in your budget.
I did not really think of Casio before, thank you very much for mentioning the PX-150. It does seem like a very good choice indeed. Moreover, I think I would also prefer a harder action which resembles an actual piano a bit more. However, here in Germany, the PX-150 exceeds my desired budget quite little bit...the cheapest price I could find was 566€/780$.
What do you think about the Korg SP-170? Just happened to see that one while doing some further research.
The Studiologic SL-990 Pro seems to have lost the race already for me since I read it doesn't offer any half-pedaling...
So the choice is between Yamaha P-35/Casio PX-150 and possibly the Korg SP-170.
I think I'll really just take my laptop, audio interface and a midi cable with me to the store and try these models extensively...it's just kind of embarrassing because my playing skills are so limited.
If you use it, you should set the "MIDI dialect" in Pianoteq to "High-Resolution". The PX-150 (and PX-350, and probably others in the line) have two-byte MIDI velocity, rather than one byte.
. Charles
PS -- bias -- I own a PX-350. IMHO, its action is more "piano-like" than the Yamaha GHS action of the P105 (and lower-end models).
]]>If you live in a city with a good store with sereval digital pianos for sale, you could get a leptop (with pianoteq instaled )with you and a MIDI cable, and try to play the pianos models yourself.
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