Yamaha CP88 vs Concert Grand

[@ThePianoforever]

I knew when I made this series that there would be those that would say it was an unfair comparison and in a way they are right, but the reason that this series had to be made is that many people believe that many keyboards do sound as good as a piano. I hear sales people from coast to coast telling customers that the keyboards they are selling sound as good or better than a concert grand and that is just not true.

[@Alan_Chapman]

Digital pianos have pretty much reached parity with sounding indistinguishable to a recorded piano. Hearing them in person obviously no match for the real thing, especially in a setting with good acoustics.

[@Alan_Chapman]

Also, I don’t know about the new CP88, but the CP4 that precedes it allows you to customize the piano sound quite a bit. The damper resonance is an insertion effect and when you dial the dry

[@13benroberts]

Few digital pianos have full digital samples in them. They take up huge amounts of ROM and the best digitally sampled pianos are usually in the higher end digital pianos or are samples used with DAW's on a computer. I have a Bosendorfer digitally sampled piano on my computer which I access by connecting it to my Yamaha Genos. The digitally sampled Bosendorfer is vastly superior to the CFX sample in my Genos or to any other digital keyboard I have owned. I am richly inspired by this digitally sampled Bosendorfer over anything I have ever tried on any digital keyboard/piano. It makes a huge difference into what kind of speaker system you run your digitally sampled piano. I use only Bose systems. I wish you had described how you are connecting your CP88, and what microphone/s you are using to pick up your Steinway in this recording. Regardless, this was an extremely excellent comparison which I enjoyed immensely.

[@wrassmussen]

What is the title of the Erik Satie composition that you start playing at 11:54 in the video?

[@pierredelecto9385]

Never believe a salesman.

[@JoseVGavila]

Of course, it is not the same, but for most people (like myself) a real grand piano is just impossible to own so a CP88 or alike is one of the better options to have and enjoy. Thanks for your work!

[@EricLaermans]

Why spend 160.000€ or more on a grand piano if spending around 2.000€ on a stage piano can give you the exact sound of grand piano or even better. Over the years, which was mentioned in the video, some grand pianos start deteriorating. That is not gonna happen with your Yamaha CP, unless you spill some soda over it 😀.

[@julianpletl3061]

@@EricLaermans I'm playing both. I would never give away my acoustic piano. I only use my digital when I don't want to disturb everyone with the noise. The feeling with all the vibrations and Volume in the sound is not comparable to digital pianos.

[@ccanaves]

1 note on the "real" piano was enough. Not even close.

[@jacobbelcher3512]

I know. They both sound great, but the keyboard just isn't the same.

[@jacobbelcher3512]

Keyboards are fun for having different sounds, but I think that if you're wanting to have the piano sound you just oughta go with an actual piano.

[@Guidoqq]

It is, what a good copy is: A copy.

[@aftereffects00]

Keyboard just like a 'toy'

[@GertoHeupink]

Totally agree. But that said there are better electronic piano VST's than this Yamaha CP88

[@stebesplace]

*Moves into a studio apartment* Gosh, I need a grand piano because there's NO WAY I'm getting an electric that'll be as good. *Proceeds to live under said new piano*

[@davedeiler2072]

The keyboard does sound OK, nice even The piano sounds amazing so rich and full, perhaps even grand.

[@MFitz12]

Here's a fun experiment. Throw a Roland RD-1000 and Korg SG-1D from 1986 into the comparison just to see how far we have come with electronic piano sounds.

[@dvamateur]

I'll take the RD-1000 brand new. Where can I buy?

[@bol7]

I remember Elton John played RD-1000 at the stadium concert. Every note he played sounded like smashing glass. You know he is a extraordinarily pianist, it was so harsh and annoying digital machine.

[@sub-jec-tiv]

M1 Piano? 😂

[@Modeltnick]

I totally agree. Nothing beats the thunderous sounds of a concert grand! The electronic stuff does shave its place at home or in a smaller venue. It’s not easy to replicate the touch of a real piano with an electronic instrument. Great face off of two different yet similar instruments. Thanks!

[@CowboyStag]

The best thing about digital is ... the tuning doesn’t go poopy Most real pianos are not maintained. So digital in tune ... beats lack of real piano If I were playing classical concerts I would feel differently

[@mojobuddy22]

14:01 "it's not even close" face 😬

[@handznet]

"its actually pretty easy to tune your own piano" I am not sure If I agree - but would love to know how :)

[@Lalremruatacln]

The grand piano sounds like heaven

[@ArbitraryMind]

I love these comparisons between digital and acoustic

[@radiorexandy]

In the final analysis the "organic" piano, if I may say, is more soul-satisfying than the electronic keyboard. Like comparing the taste of sugar to saccharin. While saccharin may indeed taste sweet -- it's not quite there -- its taste is not quite 100% true to the original. I hope the analogy works for you.

[@deanroddey2881]

@@gcampagn Yeh, it's like the difference between an amplifier emulator and a real tube amp for guitarists. I'd never, ever use an emulator if I had the option to pick up a few nice tube amps and could crank them up. But, unfortunately, I'd get kicked out out my apartment within minutes if I did. So you do what you have to do.

[@EricLaermans]

Why spend over 100grand on saccharine.

[@thomaslewis8438]

First, I'm amazed at the breadth of your understanding, your talent, and your ability to express yourself. That is a dynamite combination, for sure. Very nicely done. I like that you seem very insightful and intelligent, yet without a single speck of ego. That is rare, James, and you should be proud of yourself. What I found most interesting in this video is that the Steinway D absolutely killed the Yamaha in the Satie/Debussy, classical stuff, but the pop chord progressions actually sounded better, to my ear, on the Yamaha. This could be because there is less sympathetic resonance. Classical things are written to take advantage of that, while pop stuff is not, in fact the dissonance from that detracts from the overall sound, probably because in that milieu, there are many instruments competing in the same sonic space. When you speak of 'soaring', (if we ignore the sympathetic resonation) I think what you are hearing is a large difference in timbre. The overtones on the D, for instance, are quite prominent. Not that it is 'trebly-er', as much as there are high overtones more prominent on the D (which is why I like the Steinways in general). But there is no question, at least in this comparison, that the D has a much more open, sweeter, beautiful sound, and the Yamaha has a somewhat muted, covered-up, claustrophobic feel by comparison. It is my experience, however, that there are digital pianos that are much, much, better than this one, at least in my opinion. This comparison is a little bit skewed because the Steinway is louder (on the recording) than the Yamaha, which favors the Steinway. Anyone who sold stereos in the 90's knows that A/B comparisons always favor the louder speaker rather than the more-accurate speaker, and they sold a lot of 'louder' speakers due to that phenomenon-we interpret louder as better, subconsciously.

[@CIRCADES]

Which stage piano would you recommend then as an alternative to the CP88?

[@davidmckinney6577]

I didn't know that you got your own recording studio.. I hope it all works out for you. You are a good man and gifted.

[@duanequam7709]

I guess that I would not even had known if I hadn't listened to your video. What a great comparison. Thanks for the lesson.

[@vickyburton2434]

I can’t play, but my ears work and I love the sound of a real acoustic piano. I understand the convenience of an electric keyboard, but it just can’t duplicate the gorgeous acoustic sounds! I learn so much from you!

[@getulioprates]

And actually, the acoustic suffered a little bit with the transportation, as he said early in the video. But the treble notes sustain are amazing, anyway, compared to the electronic copies, that are so bright, so clean that has no resonance. They are improving it. To simulate perfectly an acoustic piano you must have: the ideal speakers, (as someone said before), the correct default gain (volume), unprocessed sample, or only the eq correction to match the acoustic with the sound produced by the speaker in the default volume, as I said before, (actually vice-versa) to match the electronic with the natural sound)..

[@ChristofRoeyaert]

I used to own a Yamaha U1 upright acoustic back in the eighties. I now have a Kawai MP11SE which is a fabulous instrument and it sounds great, but it still can't beat the real thing. Fond memories of that U1...

[@dulistantarigan7979]

Digital Piano recorded one key at the time with different velocity. The sound result is too clean because it didn't capture the full resonance at the time of recording.

[@benjwgarner]

Some Yamaha digital pianos simulate sympathetic resonance, but they intentionally left that feature out of the CP88 to try to force musicians to buy both a CP88 and another model.

[@nicholaspham7773]

Well played and said. Excellent piano demonstation A++

[@lindalang3315]

The advantage of the keyboard...doesn't need expensive tuning like a reg ular piano.

[@thenateyoulove]

What is the somber piece of music you played at 14:04? it's beautiful

[@joeycuriel]

I enjoy these videos so much! I’m one of those guys who loves to get into the most microscopic details of instruments. The comparisons are like science experiments in tone. We all knew from the gate how the real piano would crush the CP88 but I just had to hear the differences in resonance, tone, blending, etc. I watched this twice and even headed down to my local Sam Ash to try a CP 88. Keep the videos coming. Sending kudos from Texas.

[@ThePianoforever]

Welcome to the channel.

[@bloemundude]

James, is there a reason that you never test/use a Yamaha Clavinova? Some of those CVP's have brilliant sound.

[@tomschaffner9704]

I have a cvp 409. Sounds amazing.🎹🎹

[@sonnyone220]

By the way. I think you have the absolute best unit comparisons on KZbin. You do not mince words. Great job, IMHO.

[@samiam9059]

Great video. Still miss my kurzweil that had excellent CP70 and CP80 samples.

[@AndrewMcKain]

Idk if you use VST’s but I would love to hear you do a comparison of Keyscape, Ravenscroft or Keysuite vs your Steinway

[@texacomann]

You still can't believe it!

[@katrinabryce]

One way to test sympathetic resonance is to press down a key, not hard enough for the note to sound, hold it, then play the note an octave higher. When you let go of the higher note and keep down the lower note, you should hear the higher note in the lower string. That will work on your Steinway. Does it work on your Yamaha?

[@tomintoledo372]

Some of the sounds on a keyboard are determined by the sound system you are using for reproducing the sounds. The system can make a huge difference in what you hear. I still like your demo. waiting for your next one.

[@jjgdenisrobert]

I would never claim the a premium digital piano is better than a concert grand, but they are definitely better than the vast majority of uprights. People who call digital pianos « keyboards » because they are different from concert grands shouldn’t turn around and call uprights, which function in a very different way, in very material ways, from a grand, a « piano ». If an upright is a piano, then a digital piano is a piano; the converse is also true.

[@benjaminsmith2287]

Uprights are definitely pianos, they are just vertical vs. horizontal. There's still the wooden case, the (usually) spruce soundboard, the dampers, the hammers, the strings, the action parts (in a different arrangement but still operating in a similar fashion). A digital piano uses modeled sounds or sampled sounds (recorded sounds) and simulates the various resonances that acoustic pianos have. But both grand and uprights are acoustic pianos.

[@ThePianoforever]

It's all about making educated choices.

[@LexanderStudio]

4:50, guys

[@davysuisse]

At 21:26 the song is called: One Last Time from Ariana Grande. I'd like to know the song you played though at 04:53

[@ThePianoforever]

It's a test piece that I wrote to test pianos and stay out of the way of the copyright people.

[@davysuisse]

@@ThePianoforeverthanks for the reply. Nice composition ! 👌 I love the format of your videos. I learn a lot from them.

[@dewdrops515]

How does the sound of Pianoteq compare to the sound of a real piano?

[@ColocasiaCorm]

My question is: was the digital piano sampled? If so, why didn't it pick up all those resonances that you found stood out?

[@johnanderson9494]

Sympathetic resonance occurs when many strings are ringing at the same time. How would you sample that?

[@thomasdecker2902]

I suspect that adding damper resonance and a bit of reverb to the digital keyboard would allow you to get closer to the acoustic. Also not mentioned here is the speaker/amplifier your are using. When comparing the keyboard to an acoustic instrument, the speaker has a huge impact, especially when you talk about how you "feel" the low end.

[@ThePianoforever]

Both were recorded in mono using the very same equipment I use for all my recordings.

[@gerardvila4685]

@@ThePianoforever I remember a high-end loudspeaker maker, Cabasse, claimed that people couldn't tell a real Cello (behind a screen) apart from a cello recording played through their speakers (behind the same screen). So maybe if you spent, say, the price of a good upright on your amps and speakers (perhaps 5000-7000 $), you might get a sound a bit closer to a concert grand? Not obvious because a piano is acoustically very complex, and anyway I don't have that kind of money to throw around, but what do you think?

[@13benroberts]

@@gerardvila4685 a good speaker system will only amply the inferior sound of the CP88 as it is not a full spectrum sample to begin with of a CFX or any other grand piano.

[@parsonw]

But you can not replace the physical feeling with elc. keyboard when you play the grand piano .

[@ERIKREID1]

Great video in showcasing live vs processed. A part of the sound difference is that the Steinway has a natural reverb with the air and the enclosure vs the straight tone of the CP88. However if you add a little reverb and chorus to the CP88, you can get closer sounding results. Still, nothing beats the real deal.

[@prof.m.ottozeeejcdecs9998]

yes, and I love Sati... the clean simplicity always amazes me! Your channel grows on me! Thank you! 🤭

[@cristiandone5749]

13:50 the day and the night

[@Jerry-rf8bn]

Thank you. I do enjoy your videos. Could you do a video that shows the manufacturing process for collecting the acoustic piano samples and incorporating them in the keyboard electronics? I would find that very interesting.

[@sunilmendes536]

I have a korg Japanese digital piano, bought it four months ago, when the volume is soft, it's amazing, but when it's volume increases, something terribly goes wrong. Notes are harsh and blunt. I now practice on it at soft volume and it's enjoyable to play it

[@zackeryhardy9504]

it has to do with the speaker diameter. your keyboard most likely has 2 or four 6 inch speakers. a piano has between a 4 foot and a 8 foot speaker. think about how mych distortion you get when you play earbuds loud vs a full sterio system. to come even close to a real piano in sound you will need a 4 or 6 foot speaker. the one other difference is the lack of overtones in a digital piano.

[@sunilmendes536]

I guess your right. Yesterday I played on my recently bought friends accoustic piano KAWAI and it's really great. I guess I'll invest in a moderately priced accoustic piano now

[@nikolasc4142]

Great videos man could you please text me what the name of the music you are playing at the beginning? Thank you in advance

[@markushutto4017]

A true grand can never be replicated on an electric keyboard. So far I can instantly tell on any song I hear. Can anyone else? Just compare with music you hear in the 70s.

[@fayebaker3043]

Interesting that you found that one key was too bright and punchy. I have a P125 using CXF Grand voicing and that same note has the same problem, so I guess it is a problem in the sampling. I just assumed it was my poor playing.

[@ramongalan7671]

What about the kurzweil?

[@souravsingh3975]

unpopular opinion- I actually prefer the Yamaha. I prefer the sharper cleaner sound of the yamaha but in no way am i saying that it is better than the grand, just that i prefer the brighter and lighter sound of the yamaha.

[@GSunNo]

Such a huge emotional difference for me. The piece on the CP didn't touch me, but on the D -wow.

[@peteroberts7637]

The piano is always going to win over any keyboard as a keyboard is a compromise but it would be nice if Yamaha was to upgrade the CFX sound sample they put in all their keyboard range to be just a little more closer to the real thing

[@musikone1780]

Check out Native Instruments NOIRE. It is a sample of Nils Frahm’s concert grand CFX.

[@DonswatchingtheTube]

Do the internal speakers on a digital keyboard compromise the sampled sound? If so would external ones help?

[@ThePianoforever]

The CP88 is a stage piano, meaning it has no internal speakers, but some lower end instruments have speakers that are less than ideal. I use the Roland KC-350 amplifiers here at the studio and have found them to be great for keyboards.

[@Emmanuel_Tuts-Schiemsky]

when will you review pianoteq?

[@ThePatrioticGuy]

Grand piano sound is amazing, it’s just difficult to record at most household. The digital piano is perfect for recording and portability. So the purposes are different between the two. Loves your KZbin videos, and mostly agree with all your comments. Keep it up and thanks for doing this. I hope you have Yamaha P515 with grand piano comparison. My be you did, I just haven’t found it yet.

[@sissy1234hhh]

One is a CPU/speaker sound and the other one is a live/air sound!

[@ralphrestubog5519]

Ever tried reviewing the Garritan Abbey Road CFX?

[@yasselpupo6688]

i would like to find out wish one is better roland rd 2000 o yamaha cp88? to record and play live

[@mariomalette4155]

Absolutely,nothing plays like the real acoustic piano!! Thank you again for the great videos.. You are such a fantastic player… ✌️👍Mario

[@t55a2]

Looking a bit Bowie 1977 with that jacket sir

[@ericlindal8008]

Great video. It will never be possible to fully duplicate with super high fidelity an acoustic piano with a digital system. The best way to compare would be to use spectrum analysis and look at power spectral densities of each instrument using FFT analysis. Here you would be able to see the frequency content and respective power in each frequency bin. I think it has more to do with the fact that the wood , strings, and the frame have a very complex spectra when they vibrate. A speaker will not resonate like a piece of wood or metal. The mechanical resonance of a piano sounds much nicer that a digitally reproduced response. This is why wood selection and other materials make each acoustic piano a little difference.

[@Dobj319]

I’ve noticed this with a Clavanova and a Kurzweil: when they are playing as pianos, the farther you are from them, the less they sound like acoustic pianos and more like tinty electronic instruments.

[@blackjack7761]

Hello..Can you make a review about the Dexibel Vivo S9 and make a comparison with the original piano sound ?

[@mcmu9202]

Do you have any more information available for the first test song on this video you composed?

[@farbodzandinia]

Hey this was a great comparison but I think you should redo this with the Yamaha CFX and the N3X. I think that would be the closest comparison between a "digital" and an acoustic piano.

[@s_s-g4d]

have you ever had a chance to test out pianoteq and compare it to an acoustic piano?

[@TheGlenn78]

Cp88 vs Korg Grandstage? Sound? Action?

[@74Interceptor]

Hi Pawel, which keyboard is better? The NWX on the P515 or the NW-GH on the CP88? World you say, That the P-515 is a professional Piano? Which piano is better in your opinion?

[@davidtyler357]

Great review James. I was listening on an iPad, but I could hear a much richer, full bodied sound from the Steinway, it also maybe because of the sympathetic resonance , sounded more colorful on the Steinway. I currently own a Yamaha Clavinova CVP 701, it has the CFX grand piano sample and a Bosendorfer grand sample, they are super articulated samples, I would be interested to hear it up against the CP 88:and an Acoustic grand. Thank you for another interesting video 😄

[@dwarfjay]

You are right. Yamaha CP is designed to be played with drums, guitars, vocals and lots of noises.

[@musikone1780]

James, it would be interesting to compare the CP88 with Native Instruments NOIRE. It is a sample of Nils Frahm’s concert grand, which is a YAMAHA CFX 9'. NOIRE has a regular sample as well as a sample of his piano with felt placed on the hammers.

[@zackeryhardy9504]

One of the first people outside of PTG who actually knows something about pianos

[@supremelc3667]

Can you compare piano of Casio sk1 with steinway? Thanks!

[@MogTheLynx]

I have a question: how close would something like an avant grand n3x or an n3 come to the sound of a concert grand?

[@nonsuch]

@ThePianoforever The best way to show sympathetic resonance is to: While standing up... hold the damper pedal, strike a key, then quickly mute the string(s) with your finger. You will then hear the sympathetic resonance on it's own. You will want to have your fingers an inch away from the string(s) that are being played before you strike the key so you can mute it as fast as possible.

[@bluto212]

How's the touch?

[@awienc]

What's the Satie's piece called?

[@NorthernBanshee]

Hey James, I hope you still read comments on older videos. I'll be moving to a small apartment soon and need to replace an old Steinway upright with a stage piano. I was pretty set on buying the P515 or the CP88, but after watching this video I'm not so sure anymore. You said there are other stage pianos who do better in terms of key action and string resonance than this one. Any recommendations for stage pianos in a similar price range? I'm looking for something that sounds and especially FEELS natural, sound wise I liked the CPX Grand and the Bösendorfer on the CP88 and the p515.

[@ThePianoforever]

My favorite in that price range is the P515.

[@anthotequila7092]

Nice video ! What's the piece you're playing at 4'52 ?

[@johnpeer8260]

I play pop/rock, and I prefer to record with my digital piano, because it sounds like me. If I record on a grand, (and I have), it sounds like someone let me record on their grand piano...and when I'm done, I'm politely shown the exit. It doesn't feel authentic to me. I know, it's odd.

[@addison_1661]

Sounds like you aren’t very good lol

[@jimbo92107]

Do you think it's possible to make a digital piano sound indistinguishable from a Steinway concert grand? Would it require special amps and speakers?

[@ThePianoforever]

Maybe in an alternate universe lol. 😋

[@RL82]

Jim, happens all the time when you ditch keyboards and jump into the world of virtual instrument plugins. A Kawai VPC1 controller and Synthogy's Ivory American Concert D and a pair of Genelec monitors would be heaven! We're talking about massive piano libraries over 50gb in size. Even the most modern keyboards can't even come close to the detail of the top tier libraries like Ivory, Keyscape, Ravenscroft 275. And this is coming from someone who would kill for a Nord Grand or Stage 3 right now!

[@Barrelhousekjell]

The Yamaha CP sounds more flat than the Steinway which on the other side sounds much more rich. However, Yamaha is a great digital alternative for gigs, great keyboard action with pretty good sound. I believe Nord has a more authentic character in their sounds though, but it depends what's important to you. I think you settled this debate for good! Great review :-)

[@EricLaermans]

Kjell Magne Lauritzen Nord comes with some loose knobs and sliders not functioning. If that is top of the market, my name is Santa 😊.

[@CIRCADES]

I don't like Nord Piano and Stage actions... CP88 feels very good

[@libertylizard_]

Subjective but yes, a great many Pianists (professional) don't like Nord. That however, is not the companies market. They make performance boards for Keyboardists and you'll find them commonly there. For now you have a superior action (with a lot of added weight) in the Mp11se. Or you have the very much lighter CP88 with a few missing features but also a great performer - in a much much easier to move package. P515 falls into the tier list but again, isn't quite as mobile. So if you are studio based entirely Kawai, if you are gigging CP. Nord....lol. Just don't bother.

[@ajcjcarvalho]

Resonance is very hard to reproduce in samples!

[@selfiemuse]

Song name please

[@stephenallen1149]

My first impression of the CP88 was, what a good tone; this sounds really nice. However, the Yamaha is, I would agree, superior; and demanding pianists will appreciate it.

[@srh3452]

Hi i bought this piano when i use headphone almost full volume sound ao low can please tell why this happened

[@ThePianoforever]

How many ohms are your headphones. If you have higher ohm headphones you will need a better sound card. We are presently using a Soundblaster setup with a 250 ohm Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro headphones.

[@louierubio]

Great vid. Would Love a CP88 vs CF3 comparison!!

[@jonmchang]

I’m using a Kawai VPC1 with VSL D-274 and CFX sample libraries. Trying to blur these lines a little bit.

[@donfulton4875]

Looking for a bit of advice. I've owned a Yamaha P-60 piano for at least 10 years. Recently, a few keys have begun sticking. I wonder is it better to replace the piano because of its age, or since only a few keys stick, have it fixed? Thanks. Don

[@ThePianoforever]

I had a P-80 for years and although it was very good in its day, I think you could look around and find a nice replacement. The new ones are pricey, but also come with a lot of nice features and an improved, quieter action.

[@donfulton4875]

@@ThePianoforever Thanks.

[@globaltrekkerexplorer]

What a beautiful instrument! Cool video. You look like the actor younger Stephen Goeffrey Miller!

[@simonolofsson7488]

Absolutely fantastic sound in the Grand. I have no space for one in my flat but man... hopefully one day I will both have the skills and a room in size worthy enough for one. This video made me apply for piano courses

[@MexlycanFilmico]

It's like comparing Real celluloid Film with Digital video.

[@orgelkraft]

I think the overtones and undertones are under the threshold to record them. The Yamaha is pretty, accurate not so much. You are right, the sustain with full rich resonance is just missing! The additive effect sound is off too. The problem I also have with digital organs.

[@johnmiles2070]

Give me a digital piano over an acoustic any day. I prefer to set my master tuning to 432 Hz---try doing that with the acoustic grand. A digital piano is always in tune, can play an incredible range of samples, and has adjustable master tuning. The acoustic grand piano is an extremely delicate instrument which is incredibly sensitive to humidity, very difficult to move, has significant room acoustic requirements for optimal sound, and can very easily damaged. You can vastly improve the sound of the electronic keyboard by using high quality powered monitor speakers run through a high quality USB or firewire interface. Sure, a $179,000.00 9 ft Yamaha CFX grand piano will sound better than a $2,500.00 Yamaha CP88 playing through its built-in speakers but I am willing to bet that the CP88 would give the grand a good run for the money when combined with a set of high-end, powered reference monitors, a RME Fireface UFX II, and a digital audio workstation loaded with Synthogy and Spectrasonics plugins. This setup would provide world-class sound for a small fraction of the cost and none of the headache(s) of owning a full-size grand piano.

[@tooakki]

I bought an older stage performance Yamaha S90es, I want to connect it to an Android device... do I have to update the USB driver on the keyboard you think?

[@parindeyproductions3453]

Pls make video of comparing it with digital piano ,because digital piano are not compact for live gig but is there any digital keyboards which have same weighted keys as digital piano

[@moldenburg909]

I agree with you that there is a major difference between the two of them. on the other end I never saw someone bringing in a keyboard in the music hall an played a classical piece on it. That is simply said not wisely. It doesn’t sounds but it is a great instrument for playing lots of other stuf and handy if you want to play some music ten high in your small room. Easier to bring up a keyboard there then a grand piano. 🙂 But I got your point.

[@Gangl10n]

But, if CP88 play sound with sub-woofer and powered speakers?

[@Greatdome99]

I think we have to consider an electric keyboard as a digital music source (e.g., music CD). However accurate or sensitive to key touch that may be, it is fed thru a common electronic amplifier and speakers. These overwhelm the final sound experience as any stereo buff can tell you. The argument then collapses to a 'stereo equipment' evaluation versus a live music experience--something that doesn't pass the smell test. Sorry, your Steinway doesn't sound all that great on my laptop tiny speakers. . .Nothing beats listening to the nuances of a fine piano in person.

[@rinyvanabel3467]

What is the brand of the loudspeaker for the Yamaha?

[@ThePianoforever]

Roland KC350

[@rinyvanabel3467]

Thank you.

[@markkens9]

Tell me about the CP88 keybed and the Steinway miking....please?

[@ThePianoforever]

Both were recorded with the same type of small recorders. I think you will find a good explanation of the CP88 keybed in the in depth review I did just on the CP88 in another video.

[@eugrus]

Would you make a comparison with The Eighty Eight Ensemble synth?

[@leftygeezer]

Your videos are excellent! Sound tests by an actual pianist is better than a salesman or mfg rep. Thanks for your work here.

[@doordedeur]

The real grand sounds richer, but on stage it will sound terrible, since it's very difficult to mike up. The difficult recordings are already done on the CP. So on stage the CP will sound much better than a real grand. I remember a concert of Guns 'n Roses where they used a real grand piano for November Rain. It sounded like a mono banjo. For amplificated performances a digital piano is way better. Experts like Billy Joel will agree.

[@ThePianoforever]

I'm sorry, but it's not true. It is true that if you have enough instruments the sound gets sort of muddy and is harder to notice the quality of a real piano.