By Marine Taborda


If you have been in a music store lately while looking for a nice home keyboard, you have probably come across a term from time to time that maybe you have never really understood which is called the arranger keyboard.You might have wondered if there is any difference between an arranger keyboard from a regular home keyboard. What follows is a review of a colorfully called the Piaggero NP-V60 which is a Yamaha digital keyboard. This is described it as an arranger keyboard for those serious amateurs who would like to upgrade to something better than your everyday keyboard.

By endowing it with USB instead of MIDI, they make a great choice in this keyboard. In this way, you can connect easily to a computer when you want to edit your compositions and even load more music styles.All in all, for the asking price of about $330, the Piaggero makes for a great choice.

When you have a keyboard this big, it would really be such a shame when you do not play the piano with it, now wouldn't it? The Piaggero comes with a Portable Grand button that gives you instant access to a great piano sound as with some other models of the Yamaha digital keyboard. What actually would make this keyboard especially well-suited to the piano is the fact that it comes with a graded soft touch action. The keys on the lower end of the register, just as in a real piano, are designed to be stiffer to the touch than the ones on the higher end of the register. But you still do not get an actual weighted action with the Piaggero. After all; this keyboard is designed to be portable. How it weighs all of 14 pounds will surely be appreciated by travelling musicians.

With a wealth of preset styles, the home keyboards can be really entertaining to play. With dozens of styles one will be able to choose from though, for a given song, one might have a tough time picking the right one. This is actually where this music keyboard from Yamaha tries to bring in a little innovation. Predetermined combinations of styles, voices, tempos and effects for any song that you would like to perform are being offered by the keyboard's innovative music database. It helps you in the least possible amount of time make the right settings.

When the advertisements would refer to a keyboard as an arranger, what they actually mean is simply what you always thought was described by the term "home keyboard". You can pretty much whip up a whole band's worth of music at the touch of a few buttons as it comes equipped with all the styles you need along with intros, fills and variations Only a grander scale than you would be expecting, the Piaggero Yamaha digital keyboard does exactly this. To begin with, it comes with a 76 key keyboard rather than what you normally come across in our keyboard which has the 61 key keyboard. The Piaggero is pretty great with nearly 500 sounds, 160 styles, a six track sequencer or recorder to help you record complex arrangements, and powerful speakers when it comes to composing your own tunes or recording your own versions of existing ones.




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