Glarry GDP-103 digital piano review

You can get this digital piano at: bit.ly/2KrFIRv
00:00 Introduction
00:34 What's in the box
01:09 Assembling the piano
01:53 Features
04:35 Piano
05:18 Honky Tonk
05:46 Electric Piano
06:25 Harpsichord
06:52 Glockenspiel
07:18 Vibraphone
07:37 Marimba
07:50 Xylophone
08:06 Electric Organ
08:25 Percussive Organ
08:47 Church Organ
09:11 Harmonica
09:21 Jazz Guitar
09:45 String Ensemble
10:17 Choir
10:30 Syn Voice
10:59 Trumpet
11:09 Brass Section
11:21 Tenor Sax
11:36 Lead Synth
11:49 Syn Pad
12:15 Zhang
12:35 Drum function
13:27 Metronome function
14:02 Touch function
14:37 Chord function
14:57 '50s Pop accompaniment
15:21 Fill In function
15:42 Record function
16:23 '80s Pop accompaniment
17:24 Latin accompaniment
18:13 Samba accompaniment
19:02 Electronic accompaniment
19:39 Blues accompaniment
20:40 Conclusion

[@kuglepen64]

Those are the nastiest samples I’ve heard since the early ’90s.

[@durhamlesa509]

Thank you for this review. I just got a Glarry. A different model and nowhere in the instructions do they show you where to connect the sustain pedal. By watching your video, I was able to see where you put it and checked underneath mine and sure enough, there is a connection slot!

[@nyguezz]

OMG, Riders On The Storm at 05:50

[@MrLeoMadrid]

My sampled Casio SK5’s piano sound was more convincing... Now seriously, you get what you pay

[@DarylWiseJr]

Wow. They literally used the General MIDI sounds verbatim. Not bad under your fingertips though!

[@Pianet]

Per the mma "General MIDI's most recognized feature is the defined list of sounds (or "patches"). However, General MIDI does not actually define the way the sound will be reproduced, only the name of that sound." Is this statement untrue and there are actual sound samples? If so please link to them if you don't mind.

[@CoolDudeClem]

Sorry to say that I'm not very impressed. I've found free VSTs that sound better. This sounds like PC midi sounds. Even the piano sound itself sounds very thin.

[@russellzauner]

Glarry? THE f- Okay, sure. I had no idea they made so many different instruments. Thanks for reviewing it.

[@Eeme7]

No te mueras nunca, Paolo!

[@m.k.spaulding5117]

Great review, thank you.

[@SynthManiaDotCom]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mCKENIC]

Nice playing SynthMania!

[@jtremix3703]

John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life🥰❤

[@EuroDJ]

Paolo, what fx better sounds (your preference) - Yamaha SPX90 or Roland DEP-5 ?

[@ischmidt]

Is this direct-out or miced from the internal speakers? There's a consistent distortion on almost every sound that I'd normally think was crappy speakers, but if it's direct I don't know what to say. I do think for the price that this isn't the worst thing in the world for kids, assuming the weighted action is decent. If they get good enough, you can always mute the internal sounds and MIDI it to a better-sounding module or VST.

[@ABisopht]

How did you connect your Glarry to a VST or DAW? I am having some difficulty getting the MIDI settings to work on my PC

[@mtiphotography]

For budget it’s not horrible for the average user. I still prefer my digital baby grand Yamaha Clavinova CLP-465GP and my real Kawai Baby Grand acoustic Snow White edition piano.

[@averyprice9422]

I bet you do... 😂😂😂

[@averyprice9422]

Those are really nice 👌

[@bradleyhove4177]

You sound great! The piano, not so much

[@leonthompson8988]

From the comments I suspect most of y'all were listening with your phone or through computer speakers. For the price, sub 400,it's pretty decent. The grand piano and the 70s moog sound were pretty good

[@fawcue5844]

How do u still feel about this piano?

[@dstringerj2]

The sounds are terrible, are the keys properly weighted at least?

[@SynthManiaDotCom]

0:24

[@christophergeee]

Hi Paolo, Will you please recreate Cynthia " Endless Night" and other latin freestyle songs in a future video? Thanks for your videos.

[@Mrav79]

Oh, Jesus the aliasing, my monitors are feeling it physically, in all honesty I've heard better general midi implementations on 90s sound cards. If it's really cheap in can be a nice learning tool for your kids, but probably not worth it.

[@michaelstone3463]

This piano seems to have a harsh tone that's especially loud, harsh, and shrill in the top register. I find it unpleasant to listen to, although you played it fine. It also seems to have a very unnatural decay on many of the sounds. Thanks for demoing the Glarry--I definitely won't be getting it.

[@5argetech56]

Nice! Great price too! would make a fantastic Synth controller!

[@fritsvanzanten3573]

With fully weighted keys the feel wouldn't be very 'synthy', I think.

[@rushmanphotos]

does anyone know if this keyboard has the feel of a hammer action piano?

[@SynthManiaDotCom]

0:24

[@beatlessteve1010]

They should have sampled a better grand piano or changed the amp speaker combo..

[@cromulence]

FYI, the actual "tone generator" in this is a Dream chip, which you can find for €35 as a fully assembled 'wave blaster compatible' module, or about €12 for the bare chip itself. It's perfect for old MS-DOS games, but for anything else? Just no. This thing is clearly built down to a cost; I expect that in parts it probably costs less than a tenth of what the retail price is. I totally appreciate that KZbin is a tough gig, and this was perhaps a paid promotion (although it doesn't say this anywhere), but this is a bit disconcerting. You seemed to skirt around the fact that the sound is crap, which is what you're all about! I admit that you didn't pass judgement on the audio per-se, but still... odd. I would say that perhaps for the money, the actual action of the piano is nice, but I wouldn't be so sure of that either frankly. The build looks tacky too. Surely for the money, you're better off investing in an older second hand keyboard with a brand name? With that being said however, *if* the action is genuinely good, this might make a good MIDI controller, but at the current price even that seems a stretch. I also can't leave without commenting on the brand... Garry? Larry? Why not both! I get that they are trying to make cheap affordable instruments for people, but they need to improve the quality.

The Dream chipset was used in the Maxistudio ISIS from 1999 I guess. This is a budget instrument, obviously not targeted for the regular audience of this channel but could be an option as an entry keyboard for a student kid.

[@shiru8bit]

Would be fine for the toy keyboard music genre.

[@marcosmartini5119]

Voices XP 80

[@User-mr3ti]

How much brother?

[@SynthManiaDotCom]

$379.99

[@ScrumpyJackification]

That sounds truely dreadful (playing is great though) I'll stick to my old Oberheim MC1000 MIDI'd up to Native Instruments piano VST's

[@chickenlickin3820]

oh no you sold out, more classic gear demos please instead of paid for promotions.

[@brainhamster]

i'm going to agree with the majority and say the sounds are horrendous.....(though, i did like a few of them) but for that price, sure... it's great for a student... i doubt this company is making this for professional musicians to use on tour. actually, i could see use for these sounds if i want to produce lo-fi stuff, and sometimes you just need these types of sounds to do it (vst's or proper synths i've come across so far, won't do.....i've tried, can't get that 'home keyboard' sound out of anything apart from a home keyboard) i will however, disagree with people who are bashing mr. synthmania for 'selling out' or unsubscribing to this channel. that's just stupid. the guy gets a piano sent to him to do a review.....wouldn't you take the same opportunity to do so?

[@bishnu-bf]

Girl 0:25

[@musictoyourears6867]

wow the piano itself looks nice but damn i lost my shiit when i heard the acoustic piano sound....like my midi controller sounds nicer than that

[@Stuart-AJC]

Maybe it was how you recorded it, but this sounds really nasty

[@jeffreytorres3888]

The piano sounds cheap for that price you can go with the yamaha dx or get a good casio privia

[@AndreBeckner]

Noup.

[@nathan_woodgate]

It sounds awful!

[@Frank55]

It might be cheap, but it sounds like nothing...

[@picardbs]

Suona veramente male.