Help on a Digital Piano

Hi!

What keyboard do you guys use?

I'm planning to buy Digital Piano that has the following features:

88 Keys (Graded hammer)

Suitable for Sibelius / Cubase / Nuendo

Suitable for piano/keyboard studies

Durable/reliable

Budget: around 1000Eur / 680

Yamaha or Roland are your best bets here. The sounds should be adequate - as close as you're likely to get to a decent piano. The P70 only has midi in/out. A couple of small speakers if you want to give the earphones a rest. Yamaha CP33 stage piano might be worth a look - has USB midi - no speakers though.

The Roland RD300x (?) has USB midi connections but comes in at about

Go with Yamaha or Rolland without question. (Korg if you have to).

Don't worry about USB interface. You can buy MIDI/USB adapters for cheap and they have virtually no delay, (that we as humans can detect). M-Audio makes a wonderful adapter. It's small, extremely easy to use and inexpensive. Best quality adapter I've seen, and I know my pianos. You can also use most AD/DA converters that are USB and Firewire compatable to convert MIDI to USB or Firewire, (but dely will start to be an issue).

Anywho, if you have more questions about the MIDI/USB thing please just ask. I'll hook you up. (I know my pianos).

Good Luck!

I'm going to hijack this topic.... sorry!

Has anyone here played any of the Yamaha CLP series? Specifically the CLP-280.

I'm planning on buying it... but any comments from Clavinova users would be much appreciated.

To the topic starter, Yamaha in general seem to be the best, so I would first think about buying one of their instruments.

I just need a piano which has

* MIDI IN/OUT capability (So I can use it with Sibelius / Cubase / Nuendo)

* 88 graded hammer keys with a good feel

* Something reliable that doesn't die on me (at least for the next 5 years or so)

* Good keyboard to practice and study with and also to a little bit of recording

Speakers, sounds, etc... That doesn't really matter, I have lots of VSTi's so I'll get good sounds from those. Of course it'll be a plus, but I don't want to pay extra for something I do not need.

Also, I need specific models... Can someone give me a hand here?