Cool digital pianos

Humberto

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The Kawai CA93 has a soundboard to amplify the sound of the speakers:

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Costing around US 17,000, the Yamaha AvantGrand N3 is widely regarded as the best digital piano of all:

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  • The N3 has four-channel audio.
  • The N3 uses recorded audio samples taken from four different microphone positions on a Yamaha CFIIIs (the top-of-the-range nine-foot Yamaha concert grand).
  • The N3 uses four sets of speakers, each set located at the position corresponding to the microphone position on the CFIIIs used for the audio sampling, and each of the four sets comprising a woofer, a mid-range speaker, and a tweeter.
  • The N3 has sixteen speakers in total: ten 22 W speakers, four 30 W speakers and two 80 W speakers.
  • The N3 has a real full-size action. The hammers do not hit strings however but motion sensors detect their speed to determine how loud to play the note.
  • The keys and pedals vibrate with the sound as on an acoustic grand piano.

They say the action and tone of the N3 are indistinguishable from those of a high quality acoustic grand piano.
 
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I can guaranteee you that for 90% of consumers, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a VSTi composite instrument designed to emulate an analogue sound, versus the real thing...
 
I can guaranteee you that for 90% of consumers, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a VSTi composite instrument designed to emulate an analogue sound, versus the real thing...

With the sampling technology we have today, I don't think most professionals would be able to tell the difference either.
 
Do you get digital harpsichords?

Most digital pianos have a harpsichord voice. Harpsichords are easy to simulate because harpsichords have no pedals or dynamic range. Their keys sound equally loudly no matter how hard you press them.
 
Most digital pianos have a harpsichord voice. Harpsichords are easy to simulate because harpsichords have no pedals or dynamic range. Their keys sound equally loudly no matter how hard you press them.

But don't they make the sound at a different time in the key press compared to a normal piano, recall reading something along those lines a while back.
 
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