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Mister Denis « Very nice »
Published on 10/09/12 at 08:39It's a digital piano with 88 weighted keys
The samples are from a Steinway and it is easily recognizable and appreciated by the ear. Forget about the other sounds.
UTILIZATION
It has some very useful controls, like brilliance, reverb, the weight of the keyboard (light/mid/hard), and transposition (to work with one or more vocals).
You can obviously use it as a master keyboard.
SOUNDS
This piano has been my faithful companion for 11 years.
Sounds are very realistic, they have shocked more than one. If you want to make yourself an idea, go to http://www.dogmazic.net/denisb
With hindsight, I am now able to understand where the defects of the sound lie. Sometimes it sounds a bit tight in the mids. But, to be honest, when I hear people say "the sound of the piano is not up to par"....Go play a $5000 upright piano, or a $13000 old Pleyel grand piano and then come back to the P50. The verdict won't surprise me. I'd understand that if you have $50,000 to buy a Yamaha C7 + the money to have it tuned twice a year + a room to go with it. Otherwise, it's only nitpicking! The P50 dwarfs lots of modern pianos and the only limit will be you and what you can do. The rest is called marketing or uneducated ears that have always played a piano on a synth. The "playability" of the P50 is excellent. I have tried to play it with VST piano sounds that are supposed to be marvelous, and there is simply no point of comparison. It's like a video game, it most be playable, and the P50 won't disappoint anybody at that: Velocity/sound/dynamics, keyboard...it's an excellent compromise, given its price.
OVERALL OPINION
I bought it in Los Angeles in 2001. It was the only one in the whole store that seduced my ear. I liked its slim design and accepted the fact that it had to be amplified. I played with headphones five years (worn-down Sennheiser HDP 25 that are 20 years old). I use it right now with active monitor speakers (Fostex PM), and it's very, very good.
What I miss the most is not being able to play synths, electric pianos and organs with decent sounds. That's the reason I changed it for a Nord (which is much more expensive). Even if at the end of the day many of us always come back to the grand piano sound, I think it's always positive to play alternatively piano and other instruments.
One last point: After ten years, it has no sign of fatigue, no feeble keys...no planned obsolescence??? Instead of selling it, I'll keep it!!
The samples are from a Steinway and it is easily recognizable and appreciated by the ear. Forget about the other sounds.
UTILIZATION
It has some very useful controls, like brilliance, reverb, the weight of the keyboard (light/mid/hard), and transposition (to work with one or more vocals).
You can obviously use it as a master keyboard.
SOUNDS
This piano has been my faithful companion for 11 years.
Sounds are very realistic, they have shocked more than one. If you want to make yourself an idea, go to http://www.dogmazic.net/denisb
With hindsight, I am now able to understand where the defects of the sound lie. Sometimes it sounds a bit tight in the mids. But, to be honest, when I hear people say "the sound of the piano is not up to par"....Go play a $5000 upright piano, or a $13000 old Pleyel grand piano and then come back to the P50. The verdict won't surprise me. I'd understand that if you have $50,000 to buy a Yamaha C7 + the money to have it tuned twice a year + a room to go with it. Otherwise, it's only nitpicking! The P50 dwarfs lots of modern pianos and the only limit will be you and what you can do. The rest is called marketing or uneducated ears that have always played a piano on a synth. The "playability" of the P50 is excellent. I have tried to play it with VST piano sounds that are supposed to be marvelous, and there is simply no point of comparison. It's like a video game, it most be playable, and the P50 won't disappoint anybody at that: Velocity/sound/dynamics, keyboard...it's an excellent compromise, given its price.
OVERALL OPINION
I bought it in Los Angeles in 2001. It was the only one in the whole store that seduced my ear. I liked its slim design and accepted the fact that it had to be amplified. I played with headphones five years (worn-down Sennheiser HDP 25 that are 20 years old). I use it right now with active monitor speakers (Fostex PM), and it's very, very good.
What I miss the most is not being able to play synths, electric pianos and organs with decent sounds. That's the reason I changed it for a Nord (which is much more expensive). Even if at the end of the day many of us always come back to the grand piano sound, I think it's always positive to play alternatively piano and other instruments.
One last point: After ten years, it has no sign of fatigue, no feeble keys...no planned obsolescence??? Instead of selling it, I'll keep it!!