Re: looking for midi piano keyboard with "natural" piano touch

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On 12/08/2017 04:44 AM, Cedric Roux wrote:

Is there any regular piano player (say one hour per day)
using this kind of devices with a linux setup?
I'm looking for people playing classic music
(Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, this kind of things).

Yes ... I practice daily, revisiting Debussy Arabesque I now, to be exact.

If you fit, what do you think about midi master
keyboards? Do you use one of them to practice
your piano? And does it "feel" like the real
thing? Do you use it with joy, like "mmm, what to play
today? the piano or the midi keyboard?" Or is it more
like "oh, it's late, I can't play my piano, let me
switch to this inferior alternative for today,
hopefully tomorrow I'll come back from work earlier
and I'll have my full dose of fun with this horrible
prelude on the piano."

More like: "I can't afford a 9' Steinway and really have no place to put it if I could ..."

I currently have 3:

  1) Yamaha Clavinova CLP series (older 511 model)
  2) Yamaha S80
  3) Korg SP170

The Korg is mainly used for notation input if I'm transcribing or orchestrating something and sits close to my DAW but it has really nice weight, feel and hammer action and I find myself going off on tangents with it occasionally. Both the yamahas get extensive real-time play, from practicing and improvisation to mundane tracking. The clavinova has a usb-to-host connector that I never used, rather, I send all 3 MIDI in/out to a midisport-4x4 (Korg only has out). The Clavinova is my main instrument ... from the action and weight of the keys to its look and feel, stability and even the notation stand--but it just isn't comparable to an acoustic piano. I agree with Tim that there really is nothing like playing a real piano. Nevertheless, I have thoroughly enjoyed playing both yamahas for the last 15 (s80) - 20 years (clavinova).

My suggestion is to simply go to a few music stores and play, play, play ... Every chance I get I sit down at digital pianos in music stores to test the new technology but nothing ever impresses me enough, beyond what I already own, to lay out the cash.

Sorry for rambling ...

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