A Yamaha Digital Keyboard That's Just a Little Larger Than Life - The Piaggero
Posted by Kay Stanford Jr Kastum at 4:45 AMWhile looking for a nice home keyboard, if you have been in a music store lately, you have probably come across a term from time to time that perhaps you've never really understood which is the so-called the arranger keyboard.You wonder, would an arranger keyboard be any different from a regular home keyboard. What follows is a review of a colorfully called the Piaggero NP-V60 which is a Yamaha digital keyboard. They define it as an arranger keyboard for those serious amateurs who would want to upgrade to something better than your everyday keyboard.
When a keyboard is being referred by the advertisements as an arranger, what they mean is simply what you always thought was described by the term "home keyboard". It comes equipped with all the styles you need along with intros, variations, and fills and you can pretty much whip up worth of music of a whole band at the touch of a few buttons. The Piaggero Yamaha digital keyboard does jus exactly this but it is only a grander scale than you would be expecting. 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.
Now would it not be such a shame when you have a keyboard this big and you not play the piano with it? As with some of the other models of the Yamaha digital keyboard, the Piaggero comes with a Portable Grand button which gives you instant access to a great piano sound. 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 then, you will still not be able to get an actual weighted action with the Piaggero. This keyboard after all has been designed to be portable. How it weighs all of 14 pounds will surely be appreciated by travelling musicians.
It can be really entertaining to play for the home keyboards with a wealth of preset styles. 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. That is where this Yamaha music keyboard is trying to bring in a little innovation. The keyboard's innovative music database is offering for any song which you would like to perform, predetermined combinations of styles, voices, tempos and effects. In the least possible amount of time, it helps you make the right settings.
They make a great choice in this keyboard through endowing it instead of MIDI, but with USB. When you want to edit your compositions and even load more music styles, this way, you can easily connect to a computer.All in all, for the asking price of about $330, the Piaggero makes for a great choice.
When a keyboard is being referred by the advertisements as an arranger, what they mean is simply what you always thought was described by the term "home keyboard". It comes equipped with all the styles you need along with intros, variations, and fills and you can pretty much whip up worth of music of a whole band at the touch of a few buttons. The Piaggero Yamaha digital keyboard does jus exactly this but it is only a grander scale than you would be expecting. 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.
Now would it not be such a shame when you have a keyboard this big and you not play the piano with it? As with some of the other models of the Yamaha digital keyboard, the Piaggero comes with a Portable Grand button which gives you instant access to a great piano sound. 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 then, you will still not be able to get an actual weighted action with the Piaggero. This keyboard after all has been designed to be portable. How it weighs all of 14 pounds will surely be appreciated by travelling musicians.
It can be really entertaining to play for the home keyboards with a wealth of preset styles. 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. That is where this Yamaha music keyboard is trying to bring in a little innovation. The keyboard's innovative music database is offering for any song which you would like to perform, predetermined combinations of styles, voices, tempos and effects. In the least possible amount of time, it helps you make the right settings.
They make a great choice in this keyboard through endowing it instead of MIDI, but with USB. When you want to edit your compositions and even load more music styles, this way, you can easily connect to a computer.All in all, for the asking price of about $330, the Piaggero makes for a great choice.
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