Kawai has some digital piano's that have a real soundboard in there..

Digital Piano's like yamaha cvp have a specially created amp and speaker system that allows the. To come closer to a real piano sound then an arranger currently does...

Same goes for the montage... Their A/D conversion has parts that make a piano sound more naturall ..

And then there is the high end VSTs like pianoteq that are not sample based, but are a mathematicall model that calculates the sound

There have been done some tests where people where asked to tell the real piano's from the digital piano's and most musicians and most had a hard time doing so...

Yet still people have preferences in sound, i prefer a Steinway or Fazioli over a Yamaha sound grand... Current high end digital piano's are that good, that its a matter of prefference what sampled model to use...

Hi Mark,
not sure if what you have is all them.
Mine are favourites 1 to 15. Basically includes every factory style I came across that wasn't on my pa3x. Did you actually buy some of Jurgen's styles? If so I got the impression they were available for the regular korgs as well as the musikant versions,

I also play rhumba etc so maybe we can sort something out for you, maybe something could be converted if the musikants don't fit the bill.

You would have luved my piano's.
I had 5ft baby Yamaha grand .

Bachus........I've played just about every digital piano in the stores by now. I like the sound of all of them (except that cheapo Korg, I remember). But I was about to buy either a Privia or a Yamaha digital. They both sounded good, different but good. So there's no question the manufacturers got their act together and put out excellent sounding electric pianos.

BUT........the point I've been trying to make is NOT do they sound authentic....they all do! But not one of them will ever give you what a pianist feels in the keyboard when he feels/hears the hammer hitting the strings. And those digital keyboards are somewhat difficult to adjust to by touch.



Now you're talking. I've played on quite a few Steinway's and loved almost every one of them. Someone else mentioned a Fazioli, but I haven't been able to find one anywhere. They said it was probably better than a Steinway even. The acoustic Yamaha grands......lovely. I play one at this one location, and I can do a 90 minute set without ever making a mistake. That's how good the keyboard touch is on those. Not as silky smooth as a Steinway keyboard, but better than most.

Sometimes I regret taking up the piano. Most people think if you can work a piano, than an arranger should be a piece of cake. It's not. You have to re-learn how to lay down your left hand every time you switch back and forth.

I spent the evening watching PA3x and PA4x videos.......STYLES only. I would say that the PA4x IS a big improvement!!!

You would have luved my piano's.
I had 5ft baby Yamaha grand .