My Top 10 Favorite Digital Pianos! (2021) PSS-F30, CT-S200, DEP-20, ES110, P515, SV2, MP11SE &

welcome to milan recording studios my name is james pavel chakras and in today's video i wanted to do something that was really interesting and really fun. I wanted to do a sort of compilation of my 10

favorite

digital

pianos

at the moment. spring

2021

, the reason I specifically say the time I'm making this video is because two three four five years from now, as new models are released and old models go out of production, this list will be different in that time, but as of now this is my list of my top 10

favorite

digital

pianos

. They can currently be purchased new in Spring

2021

.

Now, some of these towards the back of the list will be amazing, reputable, genuinely high-quality digital pianos, and then Others, like the ones towards the front from the list, they are just really amazing for the price, like this little one sitting here, so we have a wide range of budgets available here on this list, we have a wide range of quality, a wide range. of tonal capabilities and all, it's practically the entire range of digital pianos and for each one sometimes there is only one, but usually many more, reasons why I like it, so let's give a very brief review and introduction of the 10 instruments now I have to be brief because if I do five minutes for each digital piano, that's equivalent to a 50 minute long video plus my intro and outro, so I have to be brief, which I'm not good at. in doing so, but if you are very interested in any of these instruments that I am reviewing, whether it be the yamaha pss f30 here or the kawaii

mp11se

, I will mention that at the end of this video there will be a full review and sometimes multiple reviews with comparisons and stuff about each of these instruments on my channel, so if you're interested in learning more about any of these instruments in today's video, there's a whole video that's probably almost as long as this video about that particular instrument.

If you are interested in any of these, please watch those videos after you have watched this video. Thank you very much and let's delve into the yamaha pss f30. So what is this? Basically, it's a fifty dollar Yamaha keyboard and I would do it. I don't expect it to be very good and I'm sure compared to other

mp11se

it's not very good, but for a fifty dollar instrument it's really amazing. Many instruments in that price category aren't very fun to play, they sound terrible, they don't have. Lots of features and just not very interesting, but not only would it be a great toy for a young child, it would even be a good introductory instrument for an adult if someone wanted to learn the notes of the piano and learn the very basics of how to play the piano. piano and they wanted to do it on an extreme budget and they wanted to have an instrument that had a lot of interesting sounds and a lot of interesting features, all for a really low price.

This is your option. guy and it's 50 bucks and I can't believe the amount of functionality and the decent amount of sounds and the decent quality that Yamaha has packed in there as well as having over 120 different sounds most of which sound pretty decent for 50 bucks , you also have quite a few different styles and songs to listen to and play, and hidden within the keys are a ton of functions like transposing the pitch, having a metronome, raising and lowering the volume of your songs, and mixing them. whatever voice you're playing on the keys, sync, start chord fingering, change the key on the smart cable and a few other little things too so you have a lot of control over this instrument for this price, which you don't.

I usually don't look at that price to give you a very basic idea of ​​what the instrument sounds like. This is being recorded coming out of the headphone jack with that red wire. um I'm just going to play a couple of chords on the default piano. sound, so of course your sounds will be pretty simple for fifty dollars, but the included key box, while simple and small, is surprisingly playable and you can have a lot of fun with this instrument, for example, let's queue sound here I think sound number eight is the one I want, let's try it, it wasn't, but they're actually cool sounds, I decided to play around with them, maybe it's seven, that's the one I wanted, number six, then we can go to the style of the song that we can choose, let's say beat 111 and then we can have a little fun, we can also transpose the auto chord function so that it's in the key of D major, which we can do right here, so now everything What I have to do is I press a single key and the left hand or the accompaniment will play a D major chord and then I can play it with my right hand, which is really cool, for someone who wants to learn maybe how to solo or what. the type of melodies work on what type of chord is a really cool thing and since it does a lot of the hard work of playing chords for you, it also makes simple arrangement easier.

There is also an option where you can manually play any chord you want. in the left hand too, which is also awesome, go for it, it's simple and fun, but it's a lot of fun and finding a genuinely playable instrument that's really fun to play even for someone who really knows how to play the piano, is pretty rare to find. . Instrument that, although it is aimed at a younger and simpler audience, is still fun to play even when you have more experience, it is incredible and being able to find it for 50 I think is quite rare, that is why I love the pss f30, it is great for the younger audience.

It's great for someone who just wants to have a simple instrument to learn to play the piano. It can run on batteries. You can power it using a micro USB cable. It has a headphone jack. The keyboard is very quiet, so if you're playing it with headphones, you're not going to bother anyone, really, and it's just fun, and that's why I like the pss f30. It's a lot of fun at a super low price, let's move on to the next instrument, the next instrument on the list is the Cassiotone cts-200 and it has some similarities to the previous instrument on the list.

One of those similarities is that, again, it is very affordable, although you would also think that our budget had to double or, in fact, double. be able to buy this instrument as it costs around 120 US dollars. That said, even though the budget has doubled, it's still incredibly affordable and typically the digital piano keyboard instruments on the new market at that price are usually pretty terrible and this is actually very, very fun, like the Yamaha that we have already seen. This instrument has many of the same features, the accompaniment features and many many tones. This instrument actually has more, it has 400 tones and although many of them are not as nice as those found on that Yamaha we just saw, there are more and they are still quite fun.

This is the default grand piano sound and you might notice something interesting and that is that this instrument supports the use of a damper pedal which is really cool and definitely sets it apart from the yamaha we just reviewed which does not have any pedal input shock absorber. You also have headphone jacks on this instrument. You have a USB port. You really have this. Convenient carrying handle making it extremely portable. It also has bigger keys and a wider range now, which is really cool, so this opens the doors to more music. The keys are not touch sensitive on the cts 200, but for a little more money you can get the Cts 300 which has two levels of touch sensitivity, this instrument also comes with a rest that fits nicely into the carrying handle and that makes me I love it, and the music stand itself is very sturdy, at least when it comes to back pressure.

It's as sturdy as a professional music desk although of course it's just there so it's quite loose, but the music desk is still very functional which is great. Let's have some fun with this instrument and demo some of the others. tones, as well as the accompaniment feature, which is kind of a big selling point for these lower cost instruments, let's use the octave piano tone which basically takes the default piano and octaves it and then we can activate the rhythm, um, we can set the tempo to be 116. I like the little wheel here, it makes navigating the menu very easy.

You also have a nice LCD screen here that's pretty easy to read and understand what's going on. We can start the rhythm and then we can start playing. and have fun, do it so you can also have fun with this instrument and you have quite a few tones at your disposal. You have two speakers. It now comes in fun colors and again for the price of US$120. Casio Tone CTS200 is pretty hard to beat in that market again, like the Yamaha we just reviewed, it would not only be a very good toy for a child but also for someone a little older who wants to learn to play the piano.

This instrument will introduce you to the basics and although the action is nothing like that of a real piano, it actually teaches you some of the correct elements of playing the piano, one of them being that it is very easy to turn the keys back on. notes by accident. So when you play this instrument you need to make sure your hands are definitely in the key when you play it, so if you play with a light touch you could accidentally trigger notes again and playing deep into the key is common in real acoustic pianos, so in some aspects this instrument teaches good habits to a certain extent, so in general, the casio tone cts 200 look what I mean, it is very easy to accidentally activate the casio tone cts-200 um .

It's a very fun instrument and in that light action aspect there are a lot of different organ tones on the instrument, so playing organ sounds on this instrument is very fun and very easy because the action is more like an organ action that joins the piano action, however, it is a very fun instrument to play, let's move on to the next instrument on the list; However, the Donner DEP20, as you can see, is very different from the instruments we just played. The DEP20 features 88 fully weighted keys and is fully capable. of doing touch sensitivity unlike the first two instruments we've looked at, so for those of you looking for a very affordable weighted digital piano, a weighted action digital piano, this is one of your options and there are a few other options available and this is one of the best next to the innovus i-88, which features many of the same sounds, many of the same features of the donner dep20 but has some advantages, the v20 donna looks like a 300 digital piano and some dollar close at 400, while the innovus i88 is the same price, but is more like a six to seven hundred dollar digital panel.

It's very, very attractive, the donner, the ep20, although again it's a great option for this price if you're looking for the more affordable full-weight 88. key digital piano that money can buy the dep20 donor and i88 interface are your strongest choice. Does the dep20 donor have normal sounds like that acoustic piano? You also have some really fun ones in here too, let me do a quick demo, possibly my favorite. sounds throughout the instrument so you have fun sounds like that that are genuinely good normal sounds that you can use for your daily practice and although the donnerdy ep20 lacks some of the more professional features that we will find in some of the instruments to come, it is still a very competitive instrument within this price range specifically for the fully weighted 88 key digital piano category.

Let's move on to the next instrument. We return to the small form factor of these toy pianos for this next instrument. the yamaha reface cp and while it may look like a toy piano it's really anything but I think this instrument is a professional level instrument in the format of a toy piano and it's super, super stylish and it's a wonderful idea if you have never heard of these. Basically what Yamaha has done with the Reface line is that they have taken professional sounds, professional features and professional sound quality and packed it all into an extremely portable little instrument.

In fact, I used this almost daily my last semester. my most recent semester in college and I would actually take it with me when I was, you know, I was in a music theory class via zoom and I could play and play with the theoretical ideas that we were talking about in class in the reef cp no matter where you are, it can run on batteries, it can run on power, it has a headphone jack, it supports a sustain pedal, what's also cool is that it also supports direct line outputs, which is how we're recording this instrument.

You can see these big, beefy cables here, so you've got proper stereo direct line outputs, you've got a midi din input, you've got a USB port, you've got all the pro features and a bunch of pro effects available whenyou want. I want to play them, it's amazing, I do, so the Yamaha Reface CP has a lot of fun potential but also a lot of potential. You can also use it seriously. I have used it extensively for my music education over the last few years. a few months if we practice music theory, if you practice simple things like that, but even you of course can play real music on it and I found it very useful for practicing jazz music because the jazz music I've been working on doesn't use much more record than this.

I've been able to practice the basics of some of the jazz pieces I've been working on, work on chord voicings and things like that on this instrument. With the privacy of headphones whenever and wherever I want, it doesn't come with this either, but in You can actually get a really cool soft top, which is awesome on the next instrument to return to the 88-key digital piano form factor. with weighted keys we now have the kawai

es110

and while it is excellent in its price category, it is also very comparable to other digital pianos that are much more expensive, surprisingly, both in terms of build quality and action performance, the

es110

actually rivals its cousins ​​the es520 and es920 in performance although you will notice a noticeable improvement in sound performance before uh with the kawaii s920 the es110 plays forever although it's definitely not bad at all, listen I really love the sound of default piano, not only is the default acoustic piano sounds great, but you also have some really fun electric pianos.

This is my personal favorite and features a stereo pair of direct line outputs as well as a headphone jack. The Kawaii s110 is suitable for both live and home playing. It's so lightweight and portable that it's super, super easy to use in practice and I'm exaggerating a little bit, but you can practically tuck it under your arm and take it with you anywhere. It's very, very portable, very, very thin, but still its action doesn't have any of the performance drawbacks that other slim body digital pianos tend to have - the sounds are really great, especially for the price and the build quality is very acceptable for the price, and even compared to higher level digital pianos, the user interface is very, very simplistic and very minimalist but it doesn't have many of the obstacles that other minimalist digital piano user interfaces have and is very intuitive and the overall experience with the kawai es110 is fantastic.

It also comes with a really phenomenal damper pedal unit, right out of the box it's great and it's just a wonderful digital piano and I love the kawaii s110. I'm going on a business trip soon and I want to take a digital piano with me so I can continue practicing when I'm traveling and this is the instrument I'm going to take with me for countless reasons. I love the es110. Let's move on to the next instrument. If the Kawaii Es110 was relatively light and portable, the Yamaha P515 is. anything less, however, the reason for this is partly because the build quality is much higher than on the es110, although we have a mainly plastic build, the quality of said plastic is very solid and feels very durable .

You have these cool, shiny plastics. end caps, a solid metal faceplate here and a very sturdy bottom made of plastic as well, so you've got a really solid build quality. The keys here have wood sides and action, although it takes a little getting used to once. you get used to it, it feels amazing and you can play pretty much anything on this instrument, from very simple music which i will play to more advanced classical music which i will also play in this little video clip, but first let's play a little bit about edward chute's caverns on piano sound default for cfx grand is cfx grand is a little too bright for you there is also the commercial sample piano which sounds absolutely lush and warm this instrument has a wide variety of electric piano sounds this the smooth ep is my personal favorite and here is something of Schubert to accompany it, although that piece is very tiring in the right hand and requires a lot of stamina, it was virtually effortless to play in this action, which is part of the reason I love the

p515

.

I also have some other really cool sounds here, here's a harpsichord and then I'll do some splits, sound changes and layers to create some interesting effects here with some scarlet. It's just amazing the things you can do. with the yamaha

p515

they are really great you have a wide variety of really good sounds and excellent action to play them with very powerful speakers and nice to play them and you also have a very detailed menu that you can access change many effects and functions on the piano itself , you can turn off the reverb, you can do all kinds of different things through the instrument menu, but what's really cool is that a lot of the things in the menu are not things that you'll probably need to access on a daily basis, so you don't You'll have to do a lot of menu browsing to access the main functions of the instrument, which I really love, the P515 is a really solid instrument and although no instrument is truly perfect, I really love the Yamaha P515.

The next three instruments in this video, the v2 main guys included, aren't really in any particular order, whereas so far in this video we've been increasing in quality as we go along. I've been reviewing the following three instruments, they are all interchangeable, but I can't pick a favorite because all three are very good at what they do. The instrument I have sitting in front of me here is the Korg SV2. uh, successor to the legendary korg sv1 that stayed on the market for over 10 years and the korg sv2 will probably do the same. It is an incredibly well built keyboard.

It's an incredibly good sounding keyboard and I like it even more than it. built-in sounds, there are a lot of them and almost all of them are really good, but not only do you have these really good sounds, you also have great control over them, for example, here is the default fender. Rhodes sound, you may have noticed that there was a little action noise, the noise of the mechanical action components moving and making noise, and on most digital pianos that is built into the sound and you can't do nothing about it, but deep down, I guess v2. you press the function button, your EQ section becomes a mixer and then you can turn off those little action noises and they're gone forever, so in that aspect alone you have a huge amount of control with the sounds, but you get so much more.

It has six different pre-effects, each of which can change the speed and intensity of them, compressor, treble boost, tremolo, etc. The wah is really amazing, it has six different amp effects that simulate old amps of different types and, although they don't really sound like To me, a vintage amp definitely colors the sound dramatically and they are really impressive. You also have six different modulation effects here, things like choruses, phasers, flangers, and a rotary speaker effect. Again, you can change the speed and intensity of these as well. have your ambient effects here, your reverbs and things like that, these effects can be applied to each and every tone of the instrument and you can drastically change the sound of these instruments, for example, let's say we take this wurlitzer tone as one of my favorites throughout the instrument, that little hiss there gives it this really cool lo-fi sound, for example, if we turned on the vauxhall, if we took the amp and turned it up to, say, around eight. then we get a completely different sound if you don't like that kind of sound which is totally understandable but I think it's super cool that you have that ability to create these incredibly wacky sounds with something seemingly so normal just by turning two different knobs.

The power of the Korg Sv2 is amazing and not only can you do a lot of cool things like that, but you also have a lot of interesting sounds to play with. You have six different sound categories, each with 12 different sounds in each bank. The bank is electric pianos, actually the first two banks are electric pianos, the next two banks are acoustic panels, then you have clavinets organs and other types of sounds, and I find all kinds of really cool tones in each bank on a lot of digital pianos . I usually find that I like one or two of the sounds and not everything else.

I don't like one or two of the sounds and I like everything else, which is not that common to find. I love almost all the sounds in the main guest v2. you have acoustic pianos and that pedal noise can be eliminated just like you could eliminate rhodes fender action noise. you have a second piano category which has some very interesting things, your clavier section has some clavinet type sounds and it also has some organ sounds, almost all of which are really fantastic, you have the leslie rotary speaker effect with the push of a button here and you also have some splendid pipe organ sounds, there are so many things I'm skipping, except for the As a matter of time, I'm going through this very, very quickly, if you like what you're seeing, check out my full review of the Core Guest v2.

It's a wonderful keyboard and it continues to grow on me more and more. The more I use it, the more I like it. The Other category has a lot of really cool stuff, like a super expressive uh string pad and if you liked the scarletti played on the yamaha p515 with the harpsichord and pipe organ. You're really going to love this scarletty, check this out and the orchestral sounds keep coming in like I'm going over my five minute time limit here because the korg sv2 is just there's a lot to talk about it's great but I think for the sake of for brevity, we need to move on to the next keyboard on the list, as you can see the sv2 quark is simply amazing and I haven't even talked about half of the other things I wanted in this segment, five minutes is just not enough time to express.

How cool is this. A definite downside to the Korg Sv2 is that it is very heavy, especially the speaker variant I reviewed just a second ago. This is partly a good thing, it means it's very, very well built, but so is this instrument, if I count it. legend 70s and viking legend 70s partly because it doesn't have speakers and partly because vikon has put a lot of attention to detail in all the right places, legend 70s still has very high build quality but also very light weight, believe me. i moved them both uh so if you're looking for an instrument that's really ideal for playing the sv2 will certainly work but the legend 70s would also be a great choice as well as the korg sv2 the vi count legend 70s is intended for emulate your The main goal is to emulate vintage stage pianos from the 1970s, hence the name Legend 70s, so when you first start it up your default sound is a fender rhodes, if you thought it sounded good but a little dry, that's because no effects were added. that at all and the effects are where the 70s vite count legend goes crazy for all the good reasons, for example here in the effects menu you have eight different types of effects tremolo chorus flanger phasor amp delay and others and within each category you have 10 up to 12 different variants of each effect, yes you also have six different types of reverb and again within each category you have two to three, sometimes four different types of each reverb.

You can then customize the amount and dry/wet balance of the reverb with this. knob here you can toggle these effects with these buttons right here you can even have two different effects from the same category of effects running at the same time you can also route each effect to a separate place and each of these sections is actually a separate Module section that you can remove and not have installed on the instrument if you wish or you can simply rotate them and put them in a different order, that is one of the main selling points of the Legend 70s.

It's modular, so for example you can take the tremolo. effect and direct it to the electric piano section and then take the wah effect and direct it to the clavinet section and do it all with the click of a few buttons. It is incredibly intuitive but at the same time goes deep. of effect combinations and layers unlike any instrument you've seen before, layering sounds together is as simple as turning on two modules at the same time, boom, consider it done, the amount of control you have with the tone and the quality of the tones which are found on the vicar legend 70s is amazing, absolutely crazy, so let me give you a little demo here of some of these preset sounds, they have a bunch of presets that are amazing, uh, layered here, here's the real sound default road tone with a tremolo with an amp simulation with an effectlooks like one of the other effects and some reverb here here it's all arranged there are so many wonderful features of the 70's viking legend that I'm just going to have to skip this video for reasons of time, the video I made of the legend of The 70s lasted over an hour because there was simply too much to talk about.

In the electric piano category, you have eight different types of electric pianos. five different swirl paths are two different swirls and an electric grand piano in the sound collection module, kind of like effects, you have eight different types of sound pads, strings, choruses, etc., but within each section you have 14 to 15 different variants of each one. sound for the clavinet section, you only have two, but you have intense control over the tone of the clavinet and you also have some acoustic pianos here at the end. Viking Legend 70s is an intense instrument but at the same time it is easy.

Using the build quality is incredible, the action feels great to play and the sounds are wonderful to hear all that combined, it makes the Viking Legend 70s a truly phenomenal instrument and that's why I really can't put this down. the kumar seven that comes next or the korg sv2 are all together, they are all one and they combine very well with each other, they all do things, some do some things better than others, but all three are phenomenal instruments. I can't really say that one of them These three instruments may be better than the next, but the Crewmar7 has some truly incredible features that not even the incredible bike counting legend from the 70s could dream of doing.

Let's see the Kumar 7. A lot. Like the Vike Count Legend of the 70s and the Korg SV2, the Crewmark 7 is another one of these digital pianos that aims to emulate vintage keyboards from the 60s, 70s and 80s, however Krumar has taken a slightly different approach. with the instrument. Unlike the Fight Count, which has a wide variety of sounds, and the SV2, which also has a wide variety of sounds, Kumar has stripped it down to just the essentials: The Fender Rhodes Willitzer sounds like an electric grand like a Yamaha CP. 80, the clavinet, the yamaha. dx type sound, they also added a roland mks ep, then they also have a vibraphone and grand piano sound, so those are the only sounds you'll get on the crewmar7, however, most of them are really incredibly good, esp defender rhodes take the sound.

Boot first. Another way Kumar has tried to emulate the vintage feel is with action that doesn't replicate an acoustic piano but instead emulates the feel of rogue roads and I think he does a pretty decent job of achieving that. Clumsy, thick feel that is really satisfying to dig into and play, also like the 70's Viking legend. Kumar has really paid a lot of attention to detail, not only with the tones here, which you will hear, but also with the quality of construction that focuses on maintaining. be as lightweight as possible, it may be even lighter than vi count.

I'm not entirely sure, but it retains a good solid build quality with metal and wood components. Let's listen to the default rhodestone fender without effects on the chrome r7, as you can hear despite the fact that it has no effects it sounds really very good, the base growls, the mid tone is really good and the sound of the fender rhodes is one of The biggest strengths of the Crewmark Seven, but another really strong point of this instrument is the effects like the sv2 and the vi count, you have a fairly wide variety of effects, although not as intense as with the vi count, that instrument is in a completely different level.

On the Kumar Seven you have four different effects in one tremolo category. ottawa and petalwa and in the second category you have your chorus, your phasor, your flanger and your delay. You can have both categories activated, but you cannot have two effects from one category at the same time, unlike vi count and these effects. they're really good, let's listen to the auto pan here and I'll play around with the controls a little bit and I'm not really going to talk too much about all the effects on the instrument but we'll talk about my favorite effect is the reverb now while the vike count and the sv2 have reverb.

I think the reverb on the creamer sv2, the kumar sv2, the kumar 7 is by far the best, it sounds so ethereal and amazing and you have a huge amount of control. About all your effects, as you can see, to get this knob into the red zone, which is its maximum effect, you have to turn it quite a bit, which is both a blessing and a curse, but the positive side of that means that you have a huge amount of control and you can dial these effects exactly where you want them to be. I have selected a preset with the dx type sound with so much reverb and even some delay.

I put the maximum amount possible here. It can really show you how beautiful this instrument can be. Find me another digital piano that can do that. I'll wait. I don't think you can do it unless it's a Crewmark 7. uh, it's just. It's amazing how many things this instrument can do and how good it sounds doing it. I normally don't like the sound of a Yamaha CP-80, but I really love it on the Crewmark 7. Check this out, it sounds great. put together even the lower registers, usually this kind of sound doesn't sound so good in the bass, but even this instrument sounds very good in the lower notes of the instrument and the whole sound of the cp-80 is amazing, uh, the clavinet sound.

It sounds like it's a payoff for a Bill Withers album. Is incredible. I'm not actually going to play any Bill Withers or anything copyrighted, but it sounds great and the attention to detail that Kumar has put into it means none of the instruments. They will extend beyond their original range so the Wurlitzer sound won't go down, I think it's low so Krumar put a lot of attention to detail into these tones, another one I really love. I already showed you the dx type sound. I'm usually not a big fan of that kind of sound either. I feel like it's usually so over the top that my brain just says enough, but it's so beautiful on the Crewmark Seven that it's really beautiful.

The mks they put here sound really great. and the vibraphones and grand piano are really cool too, so the crewmar7 is again another of my favorite instruments. It lacks some of the amazing features that the vikal legend 70 and even the corgas v2 have, except the quality of its core tones. and their core effects are incredibly good and the amount of detail that the attention to detail krumar has put into some of these sounds is just unreal on the roadstone fender when you step on the pedal you hear the sound of the pedals lifting off the um of the teeth like the ones you would get on a real thunder and it's not overdone it's not too loud it's just perfect in the low bass notes you can hear all kinds of different imperfections that are absolutely perfect when you play octaves in the low bass You're slightly out of tune which is really cool .

If you play notes percussively, you will hear the sound of the entire action mechanism falling back into place and it is a slightly different sound for each note, as is the amount of attention to it. detail that krumar has put into this, especially that road sound is just amazing and i love the kumar seven again it's another great option for playing it's super lightweight super portable comes with a protective wooden case comes with its own legs that stand up you can save inside the in case the playing experience is great, the listening experience is fantastic, kumar did an amazing job with all seven and that's why I can't say that one of these instruments is better than the other, the kumar seven, the viking legend of the 70s and the korg. sv2 are amazing at different things, but they are all really good, so I had to put all three of them in this video.

I just couldn't help it. Now it's time for the last digital piano on the list, my number one pick. The best stage piano of all time and where is it? The funny thing is that I don't actually have it here in the studio right now, but the number one pick for my favorite digital piano of all time is the kawai mp11se for a stage piano in my opinion, it's the best digital piano that you can get, the one that comes closest to replicating the things that a piano can do and more. The kawaii mp11se is built like a tank and yes it is heavy, that's a disadvantage but it goes. to be virtually indestructible it will probably last 10 or 15 years if you take good care of it and its action is absolutely incredible and the tones it produces are also truly amazing plus the acoustic piano sound that you will find in the koi mp11 sc is absolutely top notch and iconic, it's just awesome, awesome to listen to and a lot of the other sounds on the instrument are really good too, it's got electric pianos, it's got other different variants of acoustic piano, it's got all kinds of stuff. is happening and you have a lot of control and customization over the tone, like you do with the instruments we've already seen, like the sv2 and the viking legend 70s, not that level of control, but you can go in there and change a lot of aspects. of the acoustic piano and even the tones and qualities of electric pianos and things about them, um, but the first thing I really love about the mp11sc is that action, the great kawhi action feel on a stage piano or a stage piano. slab, it's basically like the closest you're going to get to a real acoustic piano for a digital piano anyway and Kawhi has put a lot of effort into making that action feel like a piano, hence the name Grand Feel, it's Modeled after a grand piano and I think they have done a very, very good job with it, the keys are very, very long, so when you play the back of the key, the weight is the same as when you play the front of the key and only the total.

The feel, the weight, the response and the substance of the action is just perfect, it's absolutely perfect. I love playing the koi mp11se and even the old mp11, which doesn't sound as good, still uses the same action for much of your playing experience. It will be quite similar between the mp11 and the mp11se, the new one sounds much better, so why don't I have one? Well actually I used to have an old mp11 and I loved it. I played it every day and practiced a lot of my piano repertoire on that instrument and after a while I decided I wanted to try an mp11se, so I sold my old mp11 to someone who wanted it a little more than I currently wanted it. and I never bought an mp11se, which is really funny, instead I decided to buy stuff for other video reviews, um, but I actually got an mp11se on loan for myself from the amazing benjamin kim of ken's kim's pianos in california, so that is the instrument you will see in the video I made.

I have one on loan for me, so let's play a clip of some beautiful piano music yours truly plays on the kawaii mp11se and hear how beautiful it is. I really hope you all enjoyed this video of my top 10 favorite digital pianos, this video has actually been a lot of fun to make, it's been a really strange challenge trying to condense everything there is to say about a really cool digital piano into five minutes or less and I admit that I failed the equipment brand video that What I made for this video was over 10 minutes long, but for some of these instruments it's hard to express how much I love them even in less than 10 minutes because they are so amazing and everything i think in this video is very very simple and very fun pss f30 to the top product of the crop mp11se everything in this video i think it really shines in its own right the pss f30 is a lot of fun for 50 and for that price in the new market, you won't find anything as good.

I don't think the Casio Tone CDS200 is also in a similar market. For a hundred dollars you will have a lot of fun. You will be able to learn the basics of playing the piano. For just a hundred bucks on something that is truly portable and has an incredible form factor, the donner dep20 is again great for learning to play the piano, and if you're on a really tight budget but want something with 88 keys, either the donnerdy eb20 o The innovus i88 will be a very good option for you. I think next I had the reface cp, which was a small professional quality instrument shaped like a toy piano.

I love the idea. I use it a lot and it's just a It's a lot of fun to play, like toy pianos, except on a professional scale, the Kawaii es110 not only holds its own against instruments on the market but also against more expensive instruments and it's a blast to come back to. to play the Yamaha P515. A similar story very competitive in its price range, but is also on par with more expensive instruments. I think after the p515 we had the korg sv2, the viking legend 70s and the crewmare seven. I'm not going to talk too much about them here because I've already said a lot.

I talked about them before but all three are fantastic and finally at the end of the video the mp11se is the king of the crop, absolutely incredible, built like a tank, an incredibly high quality digital piano that feels premium and is premium, so those are my top 10. 2021 picks for my favorite digital pianos in all price ranges, from very, very cheap tothe very very expensive ones so I really hope you enjoyed this video it was a blast for me to make it I thought it was really fun and I hope you all found it fun to watch too.

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