Which Keyboard would you suggest?

rgjmce · 07-01-2011 3:05pm #1

Okay firstly, I want a keyboard which sounds as close to a piano as possible and also has fairly realistic sounding instrument sounds too, it has to be touch sensitive thats the most important thing. I play guitar mostly and at the moment only have an old casio keyboard which isn't really cutting it for me.

I'm looking to pay about 300 for it and honestly have no idea where to start lol cause their is so much choice. any thoughts?

Malice · 08-01-2011 1:53pm

rgjmce wrote: »

it has to be touch sensitive thats the most important thing.

Do you mean "velocity-sensitive"? As in like with a real piano, the harder you press the key, the louder the note will sound?

rgjmce · 09-01-2011 12:48am

Malice_ wrote: »

Do you mean "velocity-sensitive"? As in like with a real piano, the harder you press the key, the louder the note will sound?

yes exactly

Malice · 09-01-2011 1:10am

Cool, I just wanted to make sure you weren't looking for some odd Jean Michel Jarre synth or something

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I don't have any recommendations myself as I don't play the piano. Have you looked at the Digital Pianos and the Compact Digital Pianos on Thomann?

rgjmce · 11-01-2011 3:19pm

yeah and i have seen a couple of casios that have caught my eye but would have to try them out first

odonopenmic · 18-01-2011 4:34pm

Hmm, I have a Roland and Kawai and personally, I don't like the Roland piano sound at all (but others swear by it). really depends what you need it for / your level (obviously with any instrument, the stronger your playing, the more you're going to be picky)

What I would say is that I think your budget is low. For a proper touch-sensitive, where you can actually get a good dynamic, I'd say you're looking at 500+. There are ways around - you could get an M-Audio keyboard - I quite like the action on them, and you could always get a patch for the sound. The downside is that the low-end ones do not have speakers (if at all, I'm not sure).

If you want a digital piano, you'd have more luck price-wise and some do have a nice action but I'd say they are only portable if-you-want-to-move-house portable! I wouldn't be dragging it to gigs with me.

The best I'm ever found is what I have now - A Kawai MP9000. It's unreal
http://www.sweetwater.com/publications/sweetnotes/sn-earlywinter98/page08.html

And expensive!

rgjmce · 18-01-2011 7:24pm

Well being honest I play guitar mostly and it would be for more recording purposes then anything else and at that just to do overdubs and stuff. I don't really play keyboard that much so as you say i probably won't be picky about what sounds nice to me. I will try out whatever is in my price range and if i don't like any of them then i'll just save up and get something better.

Enda08 · 23-01-2011 4:07am

For recording I'd say go the PC software route. A cheap motherboard on adverts.ie for 100 odd euro & something like the €100 EMU 0404 http://www.thomann.de/ie/emu_0404_pci_express.htm comes with loads of quality EMU Proteus piano sounds bundled in free. Assuming you have a PC or laptop €300 should more than cover what you need. Alternatively keyboards/synths with reasonably decent pianos include the Roland RS-5, Alesis QS7, Korg Triiton LE, etc. These k/boards are easy enough to find used and close enough to your budget. If you're stuck PM me, I know lots of people selling k/boards that'd do your job.

Which Keyboard would you suggest?

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